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Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach: Technofeudalism, accountability porn and the new counterculture Alexander Beiner 12.14.2024
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La politique organise le jeu du commun au détriment de l’individu, le paradigme numérique, quant à lui, renverse la balance en alimentant le jeu de l’individu au détriment du commun. Les mailles du filet du prévisible se resserrent de manière à prendre jusqu’à la plus vagabonde et fuyante des proies.
Etienne Le Reun • S'Anomaliser: Démissionnez du monde (French Edition)

À dix-neuf ans, une de ses créations l’a rendu frêle millionnaire. À l’abri, il s’est méfié peu à peu de son seul pays, Internet. Il a tenté de nous alerter : derrière le miroir aux alouettes se joue une bataille de tranchées pour ce qu’il reste de la liberté, de notre capacité à penser. L’économie de marché a massacré relations, nature et air libr
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Mike Masnick • Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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The media can free itself from the forces that arouse its self-destructive impulses. Some of the tools are already in our hands—antitrust laws to break up tech monopolies. Other tools would change the structure of the game—for example, regulations to classify digital platforms as publishers, with the resulting responsibilities and liabilities. Tech
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

These apps and slick sites were not, as Bill Maher put it, gifts from “nerd gods building a better world.” They were, instead, designed to put slot machines in our pockets.