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Flashing content that can trigger seizures
World Ethical Data Forum autoplays a video at the top of their page that can trigger photosensitive epileptic seizures
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The creepy sound of online trackers
I can't get the noise out of my head. People who watch the video express awe and disgust. And that is why Dutch software developer Bert Hubert's experiment is so powerful. It doesn't really uncover something that we shouldn't already know. Something
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How to build the good and responsible thing @ #frontzurich
Per Axbom's keynote at Front Conference in Zürich, Switzerland. Presented on August 26, 2022.
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Digital Ethics and Moral Theory Explained
A brief guide to moral philosophy and how digital ethics fits within the branch of applied ethics.
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How captchas break democracy
A terrible captcha solution making it difficult to vote for many EU citizens.
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That Oompa Loompa message on Revue
As I'm moving my newsletter subscribers from Revue to a self-hosted platform I requested an export of my subscribers. The message on screen from Revue I got was this: We'll set our Oompa Loompas to work on exporting your subscribers and they'll send you
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Bye, bye algorithm
Saying goodbye to Twitter, LinkedIn et al.
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Big Tech Wipeout
It’s been a very long time coming with so many hesitations and false starts over the years. I’ve truly wanted to commit to small tech, open source software and ensuring that I publish my content on my own platforms. Keeping the content from being used by others for
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Faux-tonomy - the dangers of fake autonomy
The word autonomy is being thrown around these days, often to imply that software is running without human intervention. But it still does not mean software can make decisions outside of the constraints of its own programming. Software can not learn what it was not programmed to learn. Importantly, it
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The Mammoth in the Room
It’s starting to look like Musical Chairs in the Social Media Games™. Are you on Mastodon? Do you know what it is? I’m in it for the third time. The third time is the charm, right? Shortly after settling down after a considered approach to making a personalized
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The Trouble Diamond
Asking the right questions for moral management at each stage of the design process
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Keeping Up Appearances
The past two years I’ve been struggling to stay in touch with people, work colleagues and friends. My unease over global and local uncertainties, big life decisions and a string of illness and health issues in my close network of familiars caused me to turn inwards. In a big