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Rize.io - "an intelligent time tracker that improves your focus"
#Comment: This app represents late capitalism tech design at its finest. It helps you to meticulously track, surveil, measure and analyze every millisecond - cause "time is money and efficiency is paramount". The philosophy the app embodies is frankly nauseating and insane. The app's developers and users should take a very, very long break and ask themself "Save Time? Who for?, what is the value of laziness and productivity? What is the nature of being and time?
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Kua Kua groups: pay your way to adulation
If you say "I lost my bicycle today. I have looked for it for a long time, but failed." How will you expect others to reply? If you are a member of a "Kua Kua" online chat group, you will receive positive responses like "In spite of losing your bike, you are not irritated, which shows your elegance. Well done!"In recent days, WeChat "Kua Kua" groups have drawn increasing attention in China, especially among young people. In Chinese, "Kua" literally means to praise. The "Kua Kua" groups are online chat groups, in which group members can respond positively to whatever you say, even if the things you tell them are negative.
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.” ~E.F. Schumacher
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"A holistic approach to computing & sustainability inspired from permaculture"
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The Internet Is Rotting - By Jonathan Zittrain (theatlantic)
"The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone."
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Google updates Passes API to store COVID vaccination and testing infos on Android devices
"Google has updated its Passes API to enable a simple and secure way to store and access COVID vaccination and test cards on Android devices. Starting today, developers from healthcare organizations, government agencies and organizations authorized by public health authorities to distribute COVID vaccines and/or tests will have access to these APIs to create a digital version of COVID vaccination or test information. This will roll out initially in the United States followed by other countries."
“Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Mein Führer! I can walk!” - Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove
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"It dries the washing using the very latest technology - a combination of solar and wind power"
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Reflections on witnessing the latest PR events from sillycon valley players
The sillycon valley players (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) seem to be stuck in a collective hallucination that makes them believe in a heavily sanitized version of "reality", that is 99% surface gloss and 1% essentials. Their focus is on delivering nice-to-have "consumer experience conveniences" coupled with ever increasing surveillance and control - instead of meeting the urgent needs of real people. Most poignantly, sillycon valley innovations are almost excursively catering to a ultra niche "WEIRD" audience ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic") that makes up only 12% of global population. As a result of all this, the next four billion people coming online are predominantly adopting technology solutions from incumbent non-weird players. It's time for sillycon valley to really "think different", or perish.
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Today in late capitalist insane comedy news...
Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices (petapixel) - A related project i created in 2016: Don’t Worry Be Happy - A Emotion Enforcing Text Editor All of this is kids play though compared to the "features" that the assistance of amazon & co have to help "educate" children.
Microsoft Hits $2 Trillion Market Cap (geekwire) And still no comment or repercussions whatsoever about the nasty "Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jeffrey Epstein" or the fact MS has helped NSA & co backdoor every PC for 30+ years.
A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers In India To Yell At Armed Robbers (vice) - Just wait for pervasive central bank digital currencies, geo-blocking and robots to take off...
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"Dear Team — Many of you have read some concerning stories about our user tracking. While media characterizations aren’t entirely accurate, we are listening and learning. Today, I can share some exciting news: we’ve committed to purchasing ethics offsets, to be net ethical by 2030"
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Microsoft’s Irish subsidiary paid zero corporation tax on £220bn profit (Guardian)
An Irish subsidiary of Microsoft made a profit of $315bn (£222bn) last year but paid no corporation tax as it is “resident” for tax purposes in Bermuda. The profit generated by Microsoft Round Island One is equal to nearly three-quarters of Ireland’s gross domestic product – even though the company has no employees. The subsidiary, which collects licence fees for the use of copyrighted Microsoft software around the world, recorded an annual profit of $314.7bn in the year to the end of June 2020, according to accounts filed at the Irish Companies Registration Office. The company’s profits jumped from just under $10bn in the previous year and compare with Ireland’s 2020 GDP of €357bn ($433bn).
