Just two topics: Snowden’s memoirs, and the climate crisis
#weekinquotes
“Week in quotes” was a newsletter-style post series in 2019, collecting citations from noteworthy bookmarks during the past week.
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User research myths, privacy dark patterns, responsibilities, social cohesion, innocence lost, and climate injustice
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Manipulative ad tracking, the “perfect user” bias, the right to log off, barcodes as mobile media, and climate refugees
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Google’s privacy charades, regulation of the web, legal education for developers, cash as a human right, negligence as malice, and eco-friendly wellbeing.
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Opt-out as luxury, digital privacy reckoning, terminology ambiguity, harmful patterns, loss of deniability, personal websites and the destructive impact of cheap flights.
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An Art 14 GDPR precedent, adtech on gov websites, data security in self-hosting, guerilla a11y, Cuban internet proxies, and ecocide.
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Growth hacking, white supremacy in tech, edge cases, persistence, digital resignation, and strangershots.
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GoogleDocs chat, #Web30, user research w/out analytics, depressing study on web a11y, and history’s greatest human rights violation.
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Accessibility (in maps, business and the industry), cookie walls, 4th party code, and microplastics.
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Hobbyist labour, research synthesis, inclusion, DNS fingerprinting, out-of-control Facebook, anthropocenic bias, and flight shame.
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Adtech lobbying, sharenting, algorithmic literacy, the technology maintenance divide, good design, and biodiversity.
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Ethics, cyberpunk standards, robust UIs, default browser behaviour, common a11y issues, and the vanishing of insects
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Web micropayments, Zuboff vs. Marx, Facebook as internet antithesis, vestigial friendships, and self-engineered devastation.
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Access to creating on the web, ethics in CS ed, abusability testing, and the loss of the human self.
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Free speech vs. attention, moral blindness, life without Amazon, GDPR fines, and climate change.
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Accessibility personas, privacy in open source, dignity, selfish intimacy, and learning exhaust.
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Toxic metrics, ethics of performance, e-mail tracking, research questions, financialised humans, silence, and user stories.