4 Matching Annotations
- Aug 2023
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www.pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org
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I’m going to start with the U.S.; technology in the U.S. is caught up in American late-stage (or financialized) capitalism where profitability isn’t the goal; perpetual return on investment is. Given this, the tools that we’re seeing developed by corporations reinforce capitalist agendas.
- for: corporate power, technology - capitalism, capitalism - exploitation, Danah Boyd, progress trap
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- technology in the U.S. is caught up in American late-stage (or financialized) capitalism
- where profitability isn’t the goal;
- perpetual return on investment is.
- Given this, the tools that we’re seeing developed by corporations
- reinforce capitalist agendas.
- Innovation will require pushing past this capitalist infrastructure to achieve the social benefits and civic innovation that will work in the United States.
- China is a whole other ball of wax.
- If you want to go there, follow up with me. But pay attention to Taobao centers.
- We haven’t hit peak awful yet.
- I have every confidence that social and civic innovation can be beneficial in the long run
- with a caveat that I think that climate change dynamics might ruin all of that
- but no matter what, I don’t think we’re going to see significant positive change by 2030.
- I think things are going to get much worse before they start to get better.
- I should also note that I don’t think that many players have taken responsibility for what’s unfolding.
-Yes, tech companies are starting to see that things might be a problem,
- but that’s only on the surface. -News media does not at all acknowledge its role in amplifying discord,
- or its financialized dynamics.
- The major financiers of this economy don’t take any responsibility for what’s unfolding. Etc.
- technology in the U.S. is caught up in American late-stage (or financialized) capitalism
- author: Dana Boyd
- principal researcher, Microsoft Research
- founder, Data & Society
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- Jul 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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if we want to end up with a world that is shaped by the best of us, rather than very often the worst of us, we have to think carefully, we have to engineer a system.
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- if we want to end up with a world that is shaped by the best of us, rather than very often the worst of us,
- we have to think carefully, we have to engineer a system.
- think of the worst person for the job position you are hiring for
- design the system to
- screen that person out
- if they do manage to get in, have oversight that can eliminate them from the post
- have a system in place that looks upwards to the top position to scrutinize them and hold them accountable
- if we want to end up with a world that is shaped by the best of us, rather than very often the worst of us,
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Lord Acton
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- power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
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- Lord Acton
- Context
- Lord Acton coined the term to whiitewash the brutality o Spanish Inquisition
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- Jun 2022
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teachingamericanhistory.org teachingamericanhistory.org
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O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all? You read of a riot act in a country which is called one of the freest in the world, where a few neighbors cannot assemble without the risk of being shot by a hired soldiery, the engines of despotism. We may see such an act in America.
Oh the ironies of this as he was talking about a small proportion of the population at the time, a large swath of which (namely enslaved persons with no power) had no arms to protect themselves against him.
His definition of "freemen" was painfully limiting for someone speaking about freedom in such lofty terms.
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