Reading your thoughts, as long as you write them down first
“Facebook’s most consequential impact may be in amplifying the universal tendency toward tribalism. Posts dividing the world into “us” and “them” rise naturally, tapping into users’ desire to belong.” http://
Douglas Adams on digital ID
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“It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant --- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.
Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.”
Mostly Harmless, 1992
some notes from #FutureSocialMedia today in Dublin, featuring @AudreyCrosbie @girlondon @marklittlenews @ApplaudEvents and @fussy_ai - unfortunately not the panel with @jennifermjones as I was talking too.
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“the Twitter system doesn’t recognize that it’s encouraging people to follow additional extremist accounts, and Facebook’s Groups engine doesn’t understand why directing conspiracy theorists to new conspiracy communities is possibly a bad idea.” https://
My photo got recognised by #scenesinmiddlesbrough https://
By replying on my site, I am using @schnarfed's service to collect tweeted responses, then both his service and my site have cached copies of the reply and the name photo and url of the responder. @ade_oshineye could do that with webmention.herokuapp.com on his static site too.
