There is no sense in which the normative value of a consensus morality is the central concern for a bully or online troll. Piranha feeding at a corpse do not much care for the reason the corpse lies before them in the water…
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Social Media: The Shame Game ?
The hyper-sensitivities of online social spaces have created a new moral matrix…
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No-one knows how AI works
No one really knows how the most advanced AI algorithms do what they do. I am not sure if this is actually a problem…
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Facebook’s “Safety Check”
Social realities have always been culturally-mediated spaces but when these spaces are themselves aligned to corporate financial gain, even genuinely or potentially useful post-disaster communications and humanitarian tools seem hollow and superficial…
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The “Mediation” in Social Media
Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…
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Through the Looking Glass
What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?
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Nurturing Creativity
Nurture creativity wherever you find it – in yourself, in others or in the world. It is far too precious to waste…
…attempts to lock systems down inadvertently create the loopholes and logics of their own failure…
A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…
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Obsolescence
To live a life forever chasing the ineffable dragons of manufactured experience and superficial self-expression…
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Words: Mistaken Identities
In a world such as this where we all have our guards up most of the time in response to the more bleak realities of life, we would still do well to remember that goodness, sincerity and honesty still exists within others and within ourselves…
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Cult of Personality
The cult of the leader, of single isolated points of power and control and is an inevitable consequence and inversion of a fundamental social and psychological misunderstanding…
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