Fear of a Raging Planet
Welcome back to a more regular version of this newsletter, shedding the whole post easter lethargy and my own post-moving numbness. Seeing that this email gets read most on Wednesday’s - for whatever reason - I am going to start adding more in depth options for you to dig into. As always, if you have any suggestions, just drop me a line below or write me an email.
There are two videos, one short, one long that I wanted to share with you before we get into the thick of it today. The first one is called “Are We Automating Racism?”.
Many of us assume that tech is neutral, and we have turned to tech as a way to root out racism, sexism, or other “isms” plaguing human decision-making. But as data-driven systems become a bigger and bigger part of our lives, we also notice more and more when they fail, and, more importantly, that they don’t fail on everyone equally. Glad You Asked host Joss Fong wants to know: Why do we think tech is neutral? How do algorithms become biased? And how can we fix these algorithms before they cause harm?
This one is a bit longer, and whilst I have always struggled sharing any Vice content, this one I found extremely watchable and informative. Yes, it’s nearly 2 hours long but spank my arse and call me Charlie, if you are curious about our future, this is one to watch.
HOW TO BE AN ANTI-CAPITALIST IN CAPITALISM
I haven’t forgotten about this little subsection and today I am sharing you a little essay on why Capitalism should be opposed by This Bear Eats Fascists:
Going forward I am going to start linking articles to some of this fuckening when I feel it is appropriate. Rather than just offering you a soundbite of rage I do wish for those interested to have the ability to quickly dip into various rabbit holes and that’s starting today. I am writing this on Tuesday, which marks the 11th anniversary of the “Collateral Murder” leaks by Wikileaks. Certainly not something that’s on everyones mind but it is essentially the reason why Chelsea Manning was imprisoned and Julian Assange is still being tortured today. Specifically, on the 5th April 2010 WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. This, as many other, documented and undocumented War Crimes, kicked off a shit storm, sadly, mostly a wrong one.
In yet another episode of why you should get the fuck off facebook/IG ( yes I use it still to promote this ) and whatsapp, here is a little reminder of a massive data leak that happened two bloody years ago and one that Zuck and his robots have just admitted to. Again, I have linked an article from a Centrist Paper because all the ones I read literally are calling for his head.
Ok, one more. Just to drive the point home:
Spain’s Far-Right Past and current problems happily get ignored but I urge you to read into it if you can. This just happened and I have linked an article from the below tweet for those of you interested.
In case you needed a visual reminder, here is a video from the (failed) coup d’etat in 1981 when Fascist stormed the parliament in Madrid. Not going to say anything about what antifa actually means and all that.
Now onto the rest of the fuckening for your enragement.