Interview with Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters
Interview with Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters
Persuasive Technologies. #SE
The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Uncut (2012). Discussion Feat. Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann, and Jacob Appelbaum.
"We are now at the stage where the capacity of surveillance is doubling every 18 months. The ability to surveil everyone on the planet is going to occur sometime in the next 15 years" - Julian Assange
Anderson's Rule: "You cannot construct a database with scale, functionality & security because if you design a large system for ease of access it becomes insecure, while if you make it watertight it becomes impossible to use"
"Act always so as to increase the total number of choices" - Heinz von Foerster (1984). Comment: A good example of the kind of interesting sounding, but ultimately naive bibliomancy many of the cybernetics movement leaders engaged in.
While the west likes to point out how china & co are deeply engaged in heavy handed (internet) censorship to silence critics - the west is most certainly on par in capabilities & practices, just differs in style. While the analogy is flawed, it's 1984 VS Brave New World
"Filtering should be handled in the end user and in the end device of the end user" - Wau Holland
How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition:
http://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/How_Did_We_Do_That.pdf
Advertising locks in the culture of consumerism. It's messages that define us first and foremost as consumers far outweigh visible invitations to think of ourselves as citizens with broader, extended responsibilities.
How to Start a Speech - by Conor Neill:
"Better Video Impersonations with AI" - research overview by @karoly_zsolnai:
"Re framing the scene: appropriating familiarity for cultural change":
https://www.slideshare.net/gillking904/re-framing-the-scene-appropriating-familiarity-for-cultural-change-students-of-sustainability-20150712-final Students of Sustainability 2015 final
"Crafting Normative Messages to Protect the Environment" (2003):
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/Psyc591Readings/Cialdini2003.pdf
It is widely recognized that communications that activate social norms can be effective in producing societally beneficial conduct. Not so well recognized are the circumstances under which normative information can backfire to produce the opposite of what a communicator intends. There is an understandable, but misguided, tendency to try to mobilize action against a problem by depicting it as regrettably frequent. Information campaigns emphasize that alcohol and drug use is intolerably high, that adolescent suicide rates are alarming, and—most relevant to this article—that rampant polluters are spoiling the environment. Although these claims may be both true and well intentioned, the campaigns' creators have missed something critically important: Within the statement “Many people are doing this undesirable thing” lurks the powerful and undercutting normative message “Many people are doing this.” Only by aligning descriptive norms (what people typically do) with injunctive norms (what people typically approve or disapprove) can one optimize the power of normative appeals. Communicators who fail to recognize the distinction between these two types of norms imperil their persuasive efforts.
"New Toolkit Uses Normative Messaging to Encourage UK Citizens to ‘Recycle Now’": http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/behavior_change/sustainable_brands/new_toolkit_uses_normative_messaging_encourage_uk
"Social media has had a big part to play in the rise of the plant-based lifestyle":
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44488051
Humans are hardwired to tell & listen to stories. Narratives are how we make sense of complex realities & make decisions, given we can never comprehend all "facts". Hence, "Narrative Engineering" (e.g. multi dimensional/modal "story telling") is the foundation of societal change. Narratives eat evidence for breakfast
"Inside the Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-10/inside-the-brotherhood-of-pi-hole-ad-blockers Article on "Pi-hole", the open source software, running on a $35 Raspberry Pi which blocks ads across an entire network. "an existential crisis for the $200 billion advertising industry"
Ad-Blocking is only the very first generation of what could be called "Reality Tunnel Management" (RTM) Applications. It will become a very large industry, propelled by the rise of Augmented Reality and Generative Media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel
China's Social Credit System: An Evolving Practice of Control: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175792
There is a central core: the fundamental objective of the SCS is instituting cybernetic mechanisms of behavioural control, where individuals and organizations are monitored in order to automatically confront them with the consequences of their actions.
Psychometric Profiling: An Explanation and History:
https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/psychometric-profiling/ #SE
"The Known Traveller : Unlocking the potential of digital identity for secure & seamless travel": http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Known_Traveller_Digital_Identity_Concept.pdf
A shocking document (co-authored by most digital giants), proposing to shift the sovereignty over international (travel) security (and personal data) away from nation states, towards the digital giants, who say they can "do a better job using AI". #Politics #SE
Shadow Democracy: Who are SCL Group (Cambridge Analytica), what are they involved in and what are their links to the British establishment? - An investigation by Liam O'Hare #SE