The case for parliamentary cities
Social media, mainstream news, and an explosion of Substack newsletters often painted pictures of cities quelled and hibernating, in some ways diminished, and of urbanites either turned inward toward self-betterment, or outward, toward their local communities or country homes.
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
One final point must be discussed. The magic of a great city comes from the enormous specialization of human effort there. Only a city such as New York can support a restaurant where you can eat chocolate-covered ants, or buy three-hundred-year-old books of poems, or find a Caribbean steel band playing with American folk singers. By comparison, a c
... See moreChristopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
The challenge before us is to figure out the ground rules of privacy in Web 3, where the ‘contextual privacy’ that has shaped both user expectations and government regulation in Web 2 no longer hold at all; in fact, they’re utterly fipped.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • The right to never be forgotten
How does the use of this technology shape my vision of a good life?
Ezra Klein • 41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
130 years on, privacy is still largely conceived of as an individual thing, wherein we get to make solo decisions about when we want to be left alone and when we’re comfortable being trespassed upon. This principle undergirds the notice-and-consent model of data management, which you might also know as the pavlovian response to click “I agree” on a... See more
Jenny (Phire) Zhang • left alone, together
What risks will my use of this technology entail for others? Have they consented?