“Mastodon’s conundrum is a microcosm of a much larger conflict online. The internet has given billions of people a way to amplify their voices, but the trade-offs have become tangible. Abolishing gatekeepers can allow misinformation and hate to flourish. Uncensored online forums can become co-opted by bigots and harassers, silencing their less powerful targets. And in the face of violent supremacist movements targeting real people, openness—once an uncontroversial pillar of internet culture—can seem like a hopelessly abstract principle.”
→From the Future Today Institute’s recent release.Jun 9, 2019highlights
We no longer have an expectation of total privacy. At least not like we've known it before. Companies that rely on our data have new challenges ahead: how to store the vast quantities of data we're generating, how to safeguard it, how to ensure new datasets aren't encoded with bias and best practices for anonymizing it before sharing with third parties. —
→We in Canada can learn a lot from these examples.Jan 25, 2019highlights
We in Canada can learn a lot from these examples. First, we can recognize the role that student unions play in what I call the “civil society” of universities: even if you don’t like the way they carry out their representative functions (and Lord knows there is a lot of performative nonsense there), their responsibility for student clubs and their infrastructure matter a lot and campus life to a certain extent dies in their absence, which impoverishes the student experience.
|||
