🚧 Data Is Being Used To Screw Us

This popped into a thread that I am part of ...

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Yeshimabeit Milner

A thread that caused 'Friend of People First' - Adrian Gropper to write;

A talk that argues that most of the big data is being used to screw us and mentions data trusts as a possible solution. Data trusts are an immature concept but worth considering because it's one approach to decentralizing governance. Until we figure out data governance principles that are transparent and contextual to specific communities we should limit data aggregation by default and focus on personal agents and other fiduciaries.

Adrian Gropper

It is interesting because on that very same day I received these words from another 'Friend of People First' and occasional colleague Daniel Szuc after he received my newsletter declaring Data is Energy.

Energy is energy.
Climate is a result of energy misused.
Environment is the outcome.
What are the impacts on our environment today, inside people and in the outside environment people live in?
What contributes to the health or toxicity of the environment?
Data, understood deeply, should be used to contribute to the healthy environment ... yet ... how is it being used today?

Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong

The answer, of course, is exactly what Adrian expressed above.

It is being used to screw us.


Slow,

Slow,

Slow Slow,

Slow.


Ian Grigg On Identity

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I think that is the opportunity and in five years time we'll know whether we got the mega-corporations holding my identity or whether we managed to take it back.

Ian Grigg - October 2015.

The five years are just about up and I think if the 'megacorps' have not won - they are about to. Is it too late?

Three years ago he wrote: Identity is an edge protocol, and not a nodal protocol. (pdf)


SEVEN

 

Seven Avocados Waiting To Be Eaten.

 

More from this self imposed series of posts.






Bernie Needs a Big Win, and He’s Betting It All on Michigan.

” … and looks to have fallen behind Joe Biden in the delegate count …”

What? Looks to?

He HAS fallen behind … it’s very clear.


Republicans Susan Collins And Martha McSally Are In Serious Danger Of Losing Their Senate Seats To Democratic Challengers

Excellent - but not the time to let up the pressure. Also, even if they do, the Dems remain a long way from taking Mad Mitch out of the leadership position.


Perspective from Doc Searls.


Oasis’s greatest songs – ranked!

I’m going to go with a dead heat - for all of them - equal - LAST.


November - it’s so near and yet so far away.

Trump calls WHO’s global death rate from coronavirus ‘a false number’



Fuck You. Pay Me.

www.youtube.com/watch

Imagine, turning around to a lawyer, an accountant, a doctor and telling them that they weren't going to be paid.

Dear Lawyer

I listened to your advice - but I am not going to use it - so I don’t owe you.

Wrote no one ever.

So why does that happen to designers, creators, writers et al?


Thinking Allowed

This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.

This app turns business books into 10-minute summaries

If you read the ‘Cliff Notes’ of a book in school - have you read it?


SIX

 

6 Railings Guarding Your Safety

 

More from this self imposed series of posts.


I’d like to see a US Senate brawl … like they handle it in Turkey.


FIVE

 

Five Lights Not Lit

 

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🔗 Download this update from mybrowser.microsoft.com. Oh, sorry, that was malware on a hijacked sub-domain. Oops.

Wait!

What?

Seriously?

Who in Microsoft is responsible?

Have they been fired?

If not. Why not.