🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Yes. More useless machines, please. And I don't mean yet another software update or iPhone release.

The cat is out of the bag. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Check out "Data Hub Sessions: Responsible Artificial Intelligence" eventbrite.ca/e/data-hub-ses… Eventbrite

We need more digital rituals. Even in Texas.

Tristan Harris proclaims that technoculture is "philosophically impoverished." Wait until he discovers Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio. wired.com/story/artifici… via WIRED

Looking for UX designers available immediately in SF to help Center For Humane Technology collect, mock up and organize a "humane" design patterns library for solutions that re-align tech w/ our paleolithic instincts. Respond w/ links to your work… and meet each other too :)

How Tech Workers Became Activists, Leading a Resistance Movement That Is Shaking Up Silicon Valley by Fast Company link.medium.com/FPHPL3KIQT

Including a #UWaterloo researcher

Amazing to watch Tim Cook weighing in on shadowy data brokers. Let's see where he can take it: Fast Company link.medium.com/j1g6T6kUHT

Note the focus on "interdisciplinary" solutions, which include the humanities. I was expecting a hint of toxic e-waste and unsustainable mining here too...

Digital sins? Yep. Also this. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive by 1843 Magazine link.medium.com/1ilFPDKlmU

Good trend of thought here. “Natural infrastructure” deserves emergent usage as a term and idea to conjure with.

Incredible. Ontario to ban cellphones in classrooms next school year | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Smartphone use in class needs more research, says University of Waterloo prof therecord.com/news-story/923…

Calling out "the gods of Silicon Valley"? More please.

As with all big tech interventions in schools, “There has not been enough research” to justify the disruption.

Watch “CHT Presents Humane: A New Agenda for Tech” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/331897593

Recalling Jaron Lanier's guest talk in Waterloo, where he made fun of Canadians for letting Google walk in and take over. True. Sidewalk Labs’s Ambitious Smart City Plans Now Face a Legal Battle by Fast Company link.medium.com/T3BrNX77ZV

Hey Arcade Fire. I made you an art project. Sort of. facebook.com/marcel.ogorman…