Month: August 2019
Showing IndieAuth and Micropub at HWCLondon!
My last one in London before moving!
Long weekend in Lancashire, visiting family, exploring Lancaster (where I’ll be moving to in September!), and attending bits and pieces of the Full of Noises festival in Barrow-in-Furness.
Heck. The third and final part of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is grim, bleak and depressing.
Biased data sets in law enforcement.
“The problem is that crime statistics do not reflect the crimes actually occurring; rather, they provide a picture of the state’s response to crime.”
“The data on which we train technology ‘uncritically ingests yesterday’s mistakes’, as James Bridle puts it, encoding the barbarianism of the past into the future.”
(Future Histories)
In the frame of digital urban planning, I think this quote from Jane Jacobs (discovered via Future Histories) is very IndieWeb.
“What a wonderful challenge there is! Rarely has the citizen had such a chance to reshape the city, and to make it the kind of city that she likes and that others will too. If this means leaving room for the incongruous, or the vulgar or the strange, that is part of the challenge, not the problem. Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”
Says O’Shea:
“We need to protect space in our minds for the vulgar and the strange, for the unpredictable experiences of living free from the influence of commercialism. Like the flâneur or flâneuse, we should aim to cultivate curiosity through this liberated lens.”