Notices by Mark Hurst (markhurst@mastodon.social)

New from me - my election thoughts.

A happy day for Big Tech: the guardrails are coming off.
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/a-happy-day-for-big-tech/

@joeo10 thanks for trying, anyway... what happened around the flagging? were there reasons given?

“I guess it’s like Steve Jobs always said: ‘We’re going to build a bicycle for the mind . . . and then we’re going to crush the bicycle in a 2-ton press, just flatten it right in front of you, so you can feel our destructive power. Take that, bicycle lovers. You all suck.’”

A new outraged column from me –

“Apple made a terrible mistake: it told the truth”:
https://creativegood.com/blog/24/apple-tells-the-truth.html

I did a https://techtonic.fm show on emergency alerts a few months back, after the Maui fires. Smartphone alerts are inferior to the old radio-frequency alerts because of range and resilience.. but fewer people listen to radio these days.

An interesting discussion, listen here:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/131761

@adam @aral I will be covering this story (and others) on Techtonic this Monday 26th Feb, on an episode I'm calling "Dystopia update."

https://techtonic.fm

To Big Tech, every crisis is an opportunity to sell more surveillance.

Big Tech takes away the things we take for granted – and then gives them back to us, one by one, as subscriptions.

@gerrymcgovern @aral See also my interview with Guillaume Pitron (and links on the playlist page) about the environmental costs of digital tech -
https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/111579822307440537

"The Luddites were right. The concentration of money and power is a perverting force. Google’s corruption exemplifies the problem. I’ll join Brian Merchant in saying: I’m a Luddite. You should be one, too."

My new column, "The Luddites warned us about Google" - featuring @brianmerchant and @pluralistic

https://creativegood.com/blog/23/luddites-warned-us-about-google.html