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A security breach of millions of records including personal and credit card data SHOULD have MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES!! Ticketmaster (Live Nation) not only flaunts the monopoly laws in many countries but now they demonstrate a callousness with regard to customers that feels unprecedented. This acceleration of hacked centralised systems points to a necessary move to distributed systems where no company can be a honeypot for their customer's data. https://lnkd.in/dqnquW4F

What a great read! Thanks Rosalind Marino for a framing of local first choices in such a profound economic perspective. It becomes obvious and easy to understand. Connecting slow food and inefficiencies in businesses to the gathering of wealth and vibrancy in communities is powerful. This connects to what I love most about Spanish culture - that it's okay to have people using hand tools to do maintenance, to have people owning and working in small bakeries, fruit stands and meat markets. These people create the relationships that make our lives richer. I love how you tie it to our choices in #digitalspaces and technology as well. https://lnkd.in/dWK3THsj

Spoke today at the #EmergingTech2024 conference put on by Public Knowledge at the visitors center in the US Capitol. After listening to others in the #Dweb panel, and about Music innovation and issues with journalism, I'm thinking a lot about consent protocols like RSS. (Really Simple Syndication) and how different that is from algorithms that curate our digital experience. I'm also happy to say that the sessions are filled with concerns and attention to privacy and well-being when it comes to understanding novel tech. Thanks to Christopher Lewis, and Nick Garcia at Public Knowledge and my co-panelists for a great event. I'm looking forward to the demos and networking later today.

Spent a few days in Amsterdam at #IdentityWeekEurope2024 talking about #Holochain and #digitalidentity The problem of fakes and misinformation was high on many peoples minds. Thanks Alex Tourski for moderating the panels on Identity and Blockchain and Decentralised Identity. It was a pleasure to get to know, listen to and share ideas with some of my fellow speakers: Damian Glover, Judith Fleenor, Stephen Curran, & Maarten Boender. And always a pleasure to reconnect with with friends and meet some new ones. Kaliya IdentityWoman Young and Philip Sheldrake

My favorite quote from this thoughtful article (of many good ones)... "Complexity was the goose that laid golden eggs, and she had been slaughtered." Complexity is not wo/hu/man-made, it's the result of true ecosystem evolution. https://lnkd.in/dQqcq5X6

We should be paying attention! And, we should have all been paying attention decades ago, as the platforms that we now rely on little by little started changing the rules of the game. Here is the reality we live in: the platforms and big tech companies that are 'the gold standard' mostly do not have people's (read customer or society) interest in mind. They have shareholders in mind. The system is fundamentally set up to make this so. We should have all been concerned when Adobe changed their model from buying a license to the software to buying a monthly subscription to the software, because it reduced our agency and the value of the purchase. (Some people were concerned...) We should have all been concerned when new online services starting offering 'free and freemium' services. (Few, if anyone was concerned...) We should have been concerned when brands and platforms started suggesting we keep our data on the app and buy or use their storage on the cloud for our creations, but it seemed so easy and so much more convenient that we could access it from everywhere. (And some people were concerned...) So what does all this really mean about our intellectual property and our rights. These are some of the things I'll be asking about in my upcoming podcast, so ...stay tuned. https://lnkd.in/d2NVCNy7

I have a 'love/but mostly hate' relationship with advertising, as I've shared previously. Sometimes I'm amazed by the fabulous production and storytelling (very rare), but often they just occur as an attention suck (99% of the time). Here we have an emotional hook and the disgust wrapped up into one tidy package, courtesy of Apple. "After a decade during which it felt as if computers were empowering human creativity, they now feel like a symbol of the forces that stand in creativity’s way and starve it of oxygen." I appreciate that mainstream media is reporting on the extractive nature of big tech & platforms. As the NYT shares in this article, people have a "growing awareness of tech’s aims: the data-harvesting, the desire to increase screen time at any cost, the monopolistic business practices." All this helps explain our shared negative experience of this imagery in the ad. That Much-Despised Apple Ad Could Be More Disturbing Than It Looks https://lnkd.in/dbPfKJ3U

Yet another way that corporate structure is enabling laws that protect consumers to be avoided. This only exacerbates the inequity in society. We need to ensure that the intent and act of collusion--pricefixing--cannot be legally avoided when using services of aggregators or middlemen running price algorithms. It should be treated as if the companies are directly engaging with one another. We a facing a future where we might automate out the need for people in certain activities but it should not mean there is no agency and intent to commit crimes. https://lnkd.in/dP47j8hV

Identity is very large and amorphous! Holochain’s latest blog delves into my chat with Kim Hamilton Duffy, Exec. Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation on how digital identities have evolved beyond usernames and passwords to encompass a vast array of personal data points. https://lnkd.in/d8fT2nnz #HolochainWednesday #HolochainChats #DID #DecentralizedIdentity

How to Fix Carbon Offsets In June, I'll be speaking on a panel about distributed technology at an innovation event at the US Capitol. I'll be talking about the sorts of good policy + tech that can bring the transparency and trust along with market incentive that can precisely address this question. The pattern is moving forward in British Columbia through the partnership of indigenous communities and government. https://lnkd.in/deA7CbCc #Holochain #RegenerativeFinance #PublicGood #MissionEconomics