The mere existence of deepfakes is eroding our sense of shared reality - even if we’ve never encountered one in the wild.
The need for deliberative digital spaces
Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020 - Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Guardian:
Facebook, Twitter and Google are designed to motivate people to do things like shop or vote. They undermine efforts to deliberate or think deeply about problems. Democracies need both motivation and deliberation.
Social media has become an almost deliberation-free space.
(Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the audience engagement mines.
Fascinating interview with a Mastadon founder.
A little glimpse of how the internet could have been if the social platforms had stuck to open web ideals.
There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on procrastination mode is not one of them.
Wow.
Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert.
I am happy to say I appear to have lost weight since then…
(This was all @tibz’s doing…)
This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is huge - and might well be part of a Chinese propaganda campaign.
Yikes.
It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody convinced that this is the most important post on my blog in ages - and that nearly nobody will read it…
Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I made the right choice to use Ghost for OM&HBg. It make construction of rich features so much more fluid. The WordPress version emphasises the block, the Ghost version the whole feature.
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