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Data portability is useless. Hardware is a privilege

And no “freedom box” should make us forget these facts.

What we already knew about (big) data-driven inequality

Warnings and examples of algorithms and “Big Data” that exploit or discriminate people in ways unknown to their very authors appear more and more frequently in the news. But they are not news.

Ford and others prove me right on driverless cars. Again

Last year I saw CEOs of the car industry implicitly acknowledge that the world has reached “peak car”. It happened again, just worse. For them, at least.

What if we just outlawed INSTANTNESS in social networks?

To see what I mean, let’s start from some facts (emphasis mine):

Social media infer a lot and it's all YOUR fault

Inference plus facial recognition are BAD, but what makes them actually toxic is you.

The "smart charger" sadly limited to solve "First" world problems

Question: why so many Kickstarter projects are not targeting the users that would need them the most?