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Trying Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees to replace duckduckgo
technology weirds the world
My big thesis about technology is that “technology weirds the world” — instead of ruining or fixing it, it typically changes it in a bunch of unexpected ways, twisting the contours of human life into shapes never seen before.
Pickle cat is marvellous via simply. personal. Joe Jenett (@joejenett)
Find an artefact in the UK Science Museum digital archive which has 'never been viewed'. https://thesciencemuseum.github.io/never-been-seen/index.html
Much amusement, interest and pleasure.
Never Been Seen | Science Museum Group Collection is a lovely rabbit hole! A marvellous idea.
Winning the Internet is a data-driven newsletter of links in other newsletters. Currently sourcing from 85 awesome newsletters.
Interesting way of getting the big links.
and Creating New Environments in Reclaim Cloud – YouTube
Reclaim Cloud – Reclaim Your Adventure! looks interesting. Might poke around in the beta, but probably way over my head, needs and pay grade…
Listened: Open Source and Power with Matt Mullenweg
This was a fascinating podcast. Matt Mullenweg had spoken of an ambition to get WordPress to 80% of the web. Heinemeier Hansson took him to task on twitter and they ended up in a podcast.
An example of civil discussion and disagreement on the internet. Moving off twitter to a better medium.
Although they did not resolve the central concern they touched on many points around control and ownership on the web.
It gave me a little insight into the scale of the web. Left me feeling pretty naive.
A few mentions of capitalism had me wondering what a socialist web would look like?
I realised that what I had been doing was adding to a dataset for training the machine-learning software that guides self-driving cars – probably those designed and operated by Waymo, the autonomous vehicle project owned by Alphabet Inc (which also happens to own Google).
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