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'The Father Of The Web Is Selling The Source Code As An NFT' is the perfect sentence, sums up the last 30 years of tech crap

Flavia Dzodan – The Coloniality of the Algorithm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOgzQLnQcHI

Maintenance Research Fellow - Summer 2021
https://themaintainers.org/summer-fellow

The Dig: Our History Is the Future with Nick Estes https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/our-history-is-the-future-with-nick-estes-2/

The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining
Thea Riofrancos
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/14/electric-cost-lithium-mining-decarbonasation-salt-flats-chile

"In 2011, a year in which his wealth held roughly steady at $18 billion, Bezos filed a tax return reporting he lost money — his income that year was more than offset by investment losses. What’s more, because, according to the tax law, he made so little, he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children."
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

Cambridge Analytica on Steroids

https://keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/cambridge-analytica-on-steroids

No Palantir in Our NHS
https://nopalantir.org.uk/

The Society of Algorithms
Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-090820-020800

https://www.are.na/block/12159443

'Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.'
http://syntheticmessenger.labr.io/#about

The Access Doctrine
'Casting poverty as a technological problem has shaped decades of US policy and upended public institutions.'
https://logicmag.io/distribution/the-access-doctrine/

"reinforcing a narrative of corporate responsibility, obfuscating the need for greater state regulation, and empowering transnational corporations as global governors. These findings extend the theoretical understanding in the field of international political economy of the hidden dangers of relying on technology and corporate governance to resolve the deep unsustainability of the contemporary world order."
https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1814381

"At the same time, AI is accelerating natural resource extraction and the distancing of waste, casting dark shadows of harm across marginalized communities, fragile ecosystems, and future generations. The micro-level gains from AI, as this article exposes, are not going to add up to macro-level solutions for the negative environmental consequences of global supply chains, while portraying AI as a force of sustainability is legitimizing business as usual, "

Person, Human, Neither:The Dehumanization Potential of Automated Image Tagging
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d0fdbbd14ec31000174c179/t/60991649a2eb005244ff32f1/1620645478036/Barlas+et+al.+-+2021+-+Person%2C+Human%2C+Neither+The+Dehumanization+Potential+of+Automated+Image+Tagging+%28AUTHORS+COPY%29.pdf

How Uber Is SCAMMING You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjW6ZZuJ4w4

excellent CfP
Surveillance in Education
https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/