Matti Minkkinen @mmin@scholar.social

Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte - https://theintercept.com/2019/03/20/rodrigo-duterte-ibm-surveillance/ #rr

#politics #IT #privacy #eu #democracy

89% of EU Government sites contain ad tech trackers

https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/89-of-eu-government-sites-contain-ad-tech-trackers/

“Has the emergence of facial recognition technology proven that surveillance technology has finally gone too far? This conference @Northeastern@twitter.com will explore the encompassing regulatory, legal and human implications in facial recognition technology.” https://www.northeastern.edu/law/academics/institutes/clic/events/about-face/

"Initially designed for sharing and archiving research data, Dat is now used by a wide variety of communities." Dat is a peer-to-peer protocol. https://datproject.org #openscience #p2p

Puolueiden ilmastolupauksissa on suuria eroja – äänestäjä voi tarkistaa kunnianhimon tason muutamasta luvusta | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi - https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10693392

#ilmasto #vaalit #suomi

‘A toxic #culture of overwork’: Inside the #graduate #student mental health crisis | #academia #mentalhealth #overwork #stigmatization #suicide #therapy #work https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/03/13/a-toxic-culture-of-overwork-inside-the-graduate-student-mental-health-crisis/

Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/16/snack-attacks-the-toxic-truth-about-the-way-we-eat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tusky

"Some of these changes are happening so rapidly it’s almost impossible to keep track. Sales of fast food grew by 30% worldwide from 2011 to 2016 and sales of packaged food grew by 25%. Somewhere in the world, a new branch of Domino’s Pizza opened every seven hours in 2016."

Oh christ. In the age of finally attacking plastic use, it grew by 25%. Should I stop reading this shit? And obviously the food quality...

Book Review: The Politics of the Anthropocene by John S. Dryzek and Jonathan Pickering

Book Review: The Politics of the Anthropocene by John S. Dryzek and Jonathan Pickering https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2019/03/11/book-review-the-politics-of-the-anthropocene-by-john-s-dryzek-and-jonathan-pickering/

Investment capital tries to make digital platforms achieve "scale" as a #biomimicry of cancer, making small things grow forever at exponential rates. If we're going to mimic anything in the natural world, it ought to be the fungal mycelium that connects to the roots of all the plants in a forest, and exchanges resources between them. A mutually beneficial network, loosely joining many small things, which becomes more than the sum of its parts. In other words, #federation.

This is a regular reminder that there will always be more ideas than you know what to do with, and more often than not someone has already ran with the better ones, saving you a lot of trouble and effort in the process

Indeed.