- overwhelm online: we’re exposed to so much more info than ever before, and see so little of the sum total of it. FOMO/JOMO/our ancestors could never
- why is big tech sick of DEI?
- private vs public spheres and their confusion on social media
- social media vs social networks (we don’t have any social networks online)
- does social media use make you more likely to be mentally ill?
- does having a smartphone make you use your brain less, and is that bad?
- tech uses water. so. much. water.
- subsea cables vs satellite internet connection; why satellites can’t connect the entire planet
- ai and medicine seems to be the only good application of the technology- SIKE it seems like that’s just as bad (ai finding tumours cos there’s a big arrow so really it’s good at finding arrows??)
- ai and translation services destroying the industry
- ai and transcription services destroying the industry
- the good the bad and the ugly of uber (worldwide)
- enshittification (ugh)
- e-waste
- digital dark ages
- futurists: scam artists or visionaries?
- whatsapp back doors/security: why signal is the most secure messaging app
- are you secure online?
- are dating apps making dating worse?
- opsec for normal people
- join a tech union
- forever chemicals and tech manufacturing
- anger about “ai slop” sometimes kinda racist and classist?
- gps and the us military; entangled is not the half of it sadly
- genetic screening and the right to give away info about things that don’t just affect you
- access to the internet should be a human right
- digital accountability; who takes the fall when systems make an oops
- tech transparency; black boxes and why you shouldn’t need to be an expert to have a general understanding of tech
- tech enabled lack of work-life balance
- centralised tech knowledge and equipment in a few western hubs, outsourced development and equipment manufacture
- does intellectual property law help anything?
- copyright/copyleft
- cyberharassment enabled by social media sites? encouraged?
- the many flavours of online harassment, classified
- citizen journalism and the fall of twitter
- history of the theft of musician wages/ip by tech companies
- covid and its effects on the tech landscape
- online data tracking
- government mass surveillance (gchq and fbi agent memes)
- unequal footings at uni and school due to geographical and money based divides in digital resources available
- school and uni were unwilling to provide digital options for attendance for disabled students till they were forced to by the pandemic
- do we need a new spotify or is streaming just shit
- can we make the supply chains for our electronics completely ethical? (I have loads of notes for a video on congo and supply chains that never happened but i need to edit it before putting it in the garden lol)
- industry plants, industry plans: can streaming sites purposefully make a hit?
- wtf is digital citizenship; does it make sense?
- anti-capture technology
- what is technopaganism aka what does it mean to me
- citizen science and how the internet and tech have enabled and crushed it
- tech hasn’t made the business of fashion any less ugly
- digital landlordism
- our lives online; time, data, privacy
- internet archive
- what does facebook/google/etc have on you? who profits from your data?
- evisas, and the dawn of the id card; digital identity is…? e-visas????? safe? cheaper? what’s the benefit to gov and are there any for non-gov people?
- time zones are weird af - coding them is a nightmare i assume?
- sparkle emoji signfies ai; other examples of new symbolism
- fable and LLM oopsies
- digital footprints and linkrot