Notices by Alx 🐈 (alx@mastodon.design), page 4

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Asha Allen
'When we talk of digital rights we need to talk about them in the context of our financial rights'

'The online space is now our civic space'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Rodrigo Fernandez
'Tech companies are using their monopoly to grow economic and political power'

'On top of the digital monopoly, they also have growing financial power that they are using to reinforce themselves and gain more political power'

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Asha Allen

Despite the important role digital platforms in mobilisation, the commodification and profiling and abuse of data is a major drawback causing severe harms beyond the digital

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Asha Allen
'The Industry has an obligation that their services do not harm our human rights'

'To point to the tech companies as the only actors is looking just on one side of the coin' as governments keeps enabling them and profiting from certain models for their own gains.

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Nakeema Stefflbauer
Artificial Intelligence and Automation worsen the already existing dynamics of digital exclusion regarding:
- social benefits
- travel
- work
- school
- mental health

(I'd love if we could also stop call it #AI. #SALAMI is so much better)

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Nakeema Stefflbauer

Alternative: Centering Humans at Risk based on transparency and informed consent

'Edge cases' should be part of the testing in software design

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
Nakeema Stefflbauer
'We need to incentivise public input in AI development'

She concludes on neo-colonialism through digital tech that exploit #TechHypes reinforcing dependencies and existing unequal power structures

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Day 2 Panel 10 -
This panel brought up very interesting topics, but tbh I felt the way 'the digital' is addressed is as inevitable and necessary, and somehow universal. It also keeps on a very precise idea on what 'the digital' is doesn't consider non-Western ontologies. That will need a deeper discussion and I need to reflect more on it. I leave it here for today.

For more critical discussion on #tech I suggest @parismarx #podcast
https://www.techwontsave.us/

>>follow next post

while for AI ethical discussion I highly advise to engage with @DAIR work.

Last but not least, on algorithm and design, look at the amazing work of the Algorimic Justice League https://www.ajl.org/
and the Design Justice Framework
https://designjustice.org/

I have no ready references for different ontologies in tech, but the podcast mentioned before have some interesting interviews with non-western perspectives.

See you in the afternoon.

#BeyondGrowth #ClimateDiary #degrowth

Just a final note on the panel, answering to the question on 'What needs to shrink in the digital realm from a degrowth perspective', Nakeema Stefflbauer responded clearly: 'Large Language Model'

Which I totally agree, but I would say Tech Giants should be in the top of the Shrinking List. Also, I am a very big fan of @aral concept of 'Small Web' which I am very said nobody brings in the picture (despite he presented it many times in EU homes)
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

At some point I should write something about indigenous fetishism and why every time I hear the word 'sacred', 'healing', 'spiritual', and 'wisdom' from white people going on 'self-discovery trips' to remote land my skin crawls.
The commodification of #indigenous cultures is so normalised that even people that talk a lot about 'pluriverse' and 'decolonisation' fail completely to recognise how their 'ayahuasca trip' is and expression of whiteness, not a #cultural exchange

#decolonisation

Is it just me or the majority of posts that I am seeing now containing images don't have any #AltText ?
One thing that I really liked here when I joined some months ago was exactly how people cared about #accessibility issues.
I know cultures suffer loss when communities grow, but we should always encourage good practices to be maintained.

#a11y

@aral a little pride from my Italian roots I guess ;)
Happy holiday!

@aral I wouldn’t be necessarily so harsh on you. Awareness grows with time and through a process of acquiring knowledge for parsing certain information in the correct form. Though you were misinformed and wrong, you moved on to a place now that allows you to see it, which is an achievement onto itself, isn’t it?

Italian Christmas dinner is loading…

#tortellini #pasta #homemade #cooking #christmas #pastadesign

@aral I think I can relate to your feeling (same reactions every time I re-read my old essays or blogs). We’ve all been naive at some point, and maybe depending on subjects and points of view we still are. I find valuable to admit it and recognise ‘I was wrong’ because it means you’ve grown and deepen your knowledge ;)