Universal basic income would just do more harm I think and I also think this alternative of Universal Basic Services is what we really need:"Access to sufficient services to enable universal safety, opportunity and participation". Learn more about it here.
I also switched back to Firefox earlier this year, and happy with all the privacy by default it gives. The containers and privacy by default options are just great!
Clicks accept - “Oh it’s just the terms of service of all the apps printed on the ground” via @internetofshit.
This made me laugh, sooo true 😆 The Real Scandal of AI: Awful Stock Photos.
Fun read at Brainpickings: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman
Via @1843magazine: the old supersonic Concord plane that could fly from Paris to New York in about 3.5 hours as a symbol for the Jet Set lifestyle and indifference to the environment. Read about it here.
Google released a new tool today to search for datasets.
Relevant piece in light of new proposals for automatic filtering of copyrighted materials in the EU: Can Beethoven send takedown requests? A first-hand account of one German professor’s experience with overly broad upload filters.
Nice explanation by Mozilla on improvements being developed on the Domain Name Service (DNS) infrastructure, and good introduction if you don’t know how this actually works.
This article caught my attention since I saw the nice documentary on their work as well, and seems they now struggle with Youtube suspending their account: “Women on Waves’ three YouTube suspensions this year show yet again that we can’t let internet companies police our speech”.