Josh Craig
@josh-charles-craig.bsky.social
MFA in writing from The Art Institute of Chicago
MLIS focused on information science
from University of Washington.
MLIS focused on information science
from University of Washington.
So, America is in the hands of a private equity firm named Doge?
January 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
So, America is in the hands of a private equity firm named Doge?
Happy New Year!!!
My 2025 resolution is to no longer use Meta products!
It’s time we move to a less predatory way of managing communication and data in the world.
My 2025 resolution is to no longer use Meta products!
It’s time we move to a less predatory way of managing communication and data in the world.
January 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Happy New Year!!!
My 2025 resolution is to no longer use Meta products!
It’s time we move to a less predatory way of managing communication and data in the world.
My 2025 resolution is to no longer use Meta products!
It’s time we move to a less predatory way of managing communication and data in the world.
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“We demand new elections”
Photo: Ezz Gaber
Photo: Ezz Gaber
December 28, 2024 at 12:56 PM
“We demand new elections”
Photo: Ezz Gaber
Photo: Ezz Gaber
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When just making money becomes the goal. Not the creation. Not the passion for the work. Not the message to humankind. Not the attempt to bring joy or beauty or thoughtfulness or advancement to people. Just the money. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.
find it genuinely delighting that people with enough money to never work again (and do literally anything they want anywhere in the world at any time) seemingly have nothing going on in their lives and are so miserable they are just spending the holidays frantically posting
December 28, 2024 at 4:42 AM
When just making money becomes the goal. Not the creation. Not the passion for the work. Not the message to humankind. Not the attempt to bring joy or beauty or thoughtfulness or advancement to people. Just the money. Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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“Upon not enrolling [in college], [Elon] Musk would have had to leave the country…He would not have been allowed to work.
While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:55 PM
“Upon not enrolling [in college], [Elon] Musk would have had to leave the country…He would not have been allowed to work.
While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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December 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Trying to enter the future rn
November 13, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Trying to enter the future rn
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHBADsh9t4 Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information
Sarah Lamdan discusses her book, Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, Nov. 2022), which suggests that several information vendors are behaving like informational cartels […]
Sarah Lamdan discusses her book, Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, Nov. 2022), which suggests that several information vendors are behaving like informational cartels […]
Original post on sigmoid.social
sigmoid.social
December 13, 2024 at 2:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHBADsh9t4 Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information
Sarah Lamdan discusses her book, Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, Nov. 2022), which suggests that several information vendors are behaving like informational cartels […]
Sarah Lamdan discusses her book, Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, Nov. 2022), which suggests that several information vendors are behaving like informational cartels […]
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Silicon Valley cartels are colluding with each other to protect their ad revenue streams. FOSS has failed to offer alternatives to the corporate internet to protect anonymity and privacy, but sooner or later cybersecurity specialists will not be only ones that will have had enough of data 'anarchy'.
My strategic privacy analysis. Is Google undoing a decade of progress on privacy? Their new policy allows invasive device fingerprinting for tracking user activity. Here’s my deep dive into what this means for privacy—and the future of AI. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...
Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s O...
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Silicon Valley cartels are colluding with each other to protect their ad revenue streams. FOSS has failed to offer alternatives to the corporate internet to protect anonymity and privacy, but sooner or later cybersecurity specialists will not be only ones that will have had enough of data 'anarchy'.
I’m ashamed. As a non-white person with a heavily white Christian nationalist family, I see clearly that America’s democratic freedom is simply an illusion. Freedom isn’t having 31 flavors to pick from. It is having a say in what happens with your life.
Only wealth grants you choices here.
Only wealth grants you choices here.
December 4, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I’m ashamed. As a non-white person with a heavily white Christian nationalist family, I see clearly that America’s democratic freedom is simply an illusion. Freedom isn’t having 31 flavors to pick from. It is having a say in what happens with your life.
Only wealth grants you choices here.
Only wealth grants you choices here.
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When companies collect your data, there’s no telling where it could end up. 🤗
Or it’s all fun and games until the fun and games become war machines? ✨
Or it’s all fun and games until the fun and games become war machines? ✨
Pokemon Go players have been training an AI model of the world for its parent company, Niantic. These models may be sold to the military, an exec said at a conference. Said it would be "an issue" if they were used in active war
www.404media.co/pokemon-go-d...
www.404media.co/pokemon-go-d...
Pokémon Go Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ Niantic Exec Says
A Niantic executive said he could see governments and militaries buying Niantic geospatial AI trained on player data, but the company said it’s still early days.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2024 at 4:30 PM
When companies collect your data, there’s no telling where it could end up. 🤗
Or it’s all fun and games until the fun and games become war machines? ✨
Or it’s all fun and games until the fun and games become war machines? ✨
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If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 28, 2024 at 10:00 PM
If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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If inflation comes up at the dinner table, don’t forget to draw attention to a deeper structural driver of high prices: corporate power.
Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.
Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.
November 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
If inflation comes up at the dinner table, don’t forget to draw attention to a deeper structural driver of high prices: corporate power.
Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.
Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.