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Sorry to hear. I wonder how many stories out there, put people in very absurd positions. Online collaboration is great, but only when it is working. And when it is not, telling 10+ stakeholders you are presenting what happened is just embarrassing.

We are experiencing it too. As it is working hours, this is effecting the agency badly. These issues of course can happen, but always reminds me why an offline app is crucial. Even future is online, there will be always great work done offline.

I read this on Pitchfork [1] couple of days ago, their source was Music Business Worldwide [2] and with a provided US patent: Identification of taste attributes from an audio signal [3]

[1] https://pitchfork.com/news/new-spotify-patent-involves-monit...

[2] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotifys-latest-inven...

[3] https://patents.justia.com/patent/10891948

"We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know, we know they lie. They don’t care. We say we care, but we do nothing. And nothing ever changes. It’s normal. Welcome to the post-truth world."

HyperNormalisation; https://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/

edited my comment after yours, and removed the YT link. thank you.

+ his blog: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/

Same scenario here.

This is happening. First they get surprised that communication is possible beyond WA, even exactly the same. My mother's reaction was hilarious after sending me photos from Signal, free of charge. She was thinking only WA is free, every other app will charge her. I had to explain that calling, voice or video is also possible, without any payment.

Signal, for a long time. I see myself responsible for spreading the message, educating my inner circle, family and friends, helping them migrate if they are willing to. This became a duty for me, as I've been saved from FB products for a long-time ago, thanks to people enlighten me. And life is pretty much the same without them. Don't care what others say, I'm not old school, even I'm pretty old. I can message people one way or another, sms or Signal currently. But none of them matters, the psychological trap that they put us, life is hard, even not possible without any of the products they (we) are producing, is just absurd.

I never blamed technology or any algorithms, people was evil before and still the same. I'm so glad, the folks here that I find brilliant, is having this conversation. Just keep the dialogue going, it is working. Change happens in small steps, one people, one family, one neighbourhood at a time.

> Facebook didn’t invent it.

Didn't Google invent this model? [1]

>Surveillance capitalism was invented around 2001 as the solution to financial emergency in the teeth of the dotcom bust when the fledgling company faced the loss of investor confidence. As investor pressure mounted, Google’s leaders abandoned their declared antipathy toward advertising. Instead they decided to boost ad revenue by using their exclusive access to user data logs (once known as “data exhaust”) in combination with their already substantial analytical capabilities and computational power, to generate predictions of user click-through rates, taken as a signal of an ad’s relevance.

>Operationally this meant that Google would both repurpose its growing cache of behavioural data, now put to work as a behavioural data surplus, and develop methods to aggressively seek new sources of this surplus.

>The company developed new methods of secret surplus capture that could uncover data that users intentionally opted to keep private, as well as to infer extensive personal information that users did not or would not provide. And this surplus would then be analysed for hidden meanings that could predict click-through behaviour. The surplus data became the basis for new predictions markets called targeted advertising.

>Here was the origin of surveillance capitalism in an unprecedented and lucrative brew: behavioural surplus, data science, material infrastructure, computational power, algorithmic systems, and automated platforms. As click-through rates skyrocketed, advertising quickly became as important as search. Eventually it became the cornerstone of a new kind of commerce that depended upon online surveillance at scale.

>The success of these new mechanisms only became visible when Google went public in 2004. That’s when it finally revealed that between 2001 and its 2004 IPO, revenues increased by 3,590%.

>Surveillance capitalism is no more limited to advertising than mass production was limited to the fabrication of the Ford Model T. It quickly became the default model for capital accumulation in Silicon Valley, embraced by nearly every startup and app.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-...

OK I will try to explain really what's going on and how it feels to live in Turkey, and try my best to keep this as objective as possible, besides my personal opinions.

First of all, democracy is not happening, at all. If you have any opposite thoughts, yes thoughts, not actions, you can face real jail time. This can be a comment on Twitter, or even something you say in your neighbourhood, around friends, anything and anywhere. No cartoons, no essays, no personal blogs. You can have an pollice officer in your door knocking.

We have a big website called "eksisozluk" which motto was "sacred source of knowledge", and now is filled with entries, posts regulated and restricted with court orders, deleted accounts, and also imprisoned users.

Turkey blocked Youtube, Wikipedia and such websites for a very long time. Paypal is still not operating. Even they seem not related, everything is related. Journalists are in prison, some of them are in exile, or some even dead.

Sorry for not revealing news or links, because of time, but Google can do that for me in an instance. So go ahead and search.

They are doing everything in their power to succeed. And I believe this will go on for a long time.

It became irritating for me as well.. Yesterday one of the folks here shared a code for uBlock, working like a charm removing Pinterest from the search results.

  google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."])

  google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)

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Thank you that works, eliminated Pinterest results.

Thinking the same, for travel and all. After 30+ years of my humble existence in this universe, these are the times I want so badly to see a glimpse of the future, a scene from 10.000 years later. SO, SO curious. Thinking is leading me to nowhere with my limited capacity, dreaming with mostly unrelated fantasies and visions. A real one would be nice, even from the exact location I'm sitting now, the street, the sea nearby, everything around, how they evolved.

Mind-blowing universe, amazing planet, very little time sadly.

> We could not complete your purchase. > Craft can't be installed because macOS version 10.15 or later is required.

:/ I'm still on High Sierra, 10.13.6. Next time Craft, I'll keep using Dropbox Paper, Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and Airtable.

I watched "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki" [1] recently, besides knowing his stubborn character and artist life, and the work they do at Studio Ghibli is pretty outstanding, as terms of time, effort and dedication. There is also an indie movie, "Never Ending Man" [2] they shot after he suddenly announced his retirement at the age of 72, but later came back with his first CGI project. Years of hand-drawing, an old man through his digital transformation

Studio Ghibli also released all their posters and stills [3] from its animations.

[1] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/program/video/10... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvslsD9F0bk [3] https://www.ghibli.jp/info/013344/

Creative coding interests me for some time, I'm researching, reading and getting together sources to start and apply to a project.

Mostly inspired by Tim Rodenbröker [1] and Patrik Huebner [2], they both have great techniques and works. There is also awesome-creative-coding repo on GitHub [3], carefully curated list of awesome creative coding resources primarily for beginners/intermediates.

[1] https://timrodenbroeker.de/ [2] https://www.patrik-huebner.com/ [3] https://github.com/terkelg/awesome-creative-coding

Addicted in a heartbeat, greatly executed. I'll use before Google decides to remove it, or shutdown the entire Art and Culture department.

Governments and regulations. They've even created poster designs to make it visually evil.

https://mashable.com/2016/04/18/anti-weed-film-posters/

Referring to Ike Broflovski of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t77Zv9Eo0-k

This is very good, explaining much better than I could possible do. Thank you.

Also, I remember reading about AuthaGraph World Map[1] from the architect Hajime Narukawa[2] which won The Good Design Grand Award[3] back then, creating a new world map displayin each contry, including Antarctica and the North Pole shown in its entirety.[4]

[1] https://totravelistolive.co/authagraph-world-map/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajime_Narukawa/ [3] https://www.g-mark.org/ [4] http://www.authagraph.com/top/?lang=en

Thank you. 1 week left to the appointment. Are they checking the money you have very seriously? Min exact amount etc for 1 year residence, or they are not strict on that?

Really missed that LAN parties, it was something small but so much valuable. Our first addictions was Half-life (got stuck in Stalkyard for months) and AoE. I'm still playing Command & Conquer. Also found Red Alert mac version recently, can't wait to rock n roll with Tanya.

Red October night! I'm also in.

A nomad friend of mine from Argentina moved in with me here in Turkey and she had a appointment from the immigration office on 10th November, applying for 1 year visa extension. Any tips that might be useful on the process?

right on! thank you.

Travel becomes almost impossible when you have a cat. Can't leave decent amount of time to anywhere, sometimes just possibilities of what may happen is enough.

Same here. Lost my interest and never able to gain it back.

We are not, companies are empowering. Because it all about $. That's all, no human rights can surpass this. Books, shareholders revenues, expectations and the money flow to their bank accounts. All that matters.

But it is really disappointing to see all the brands I'm using are feeding this regime. So disappointing.