Thread by @doctorow

Canada's #MasseyLectures is among the anglosphere's great lecture series, on par with BBC's #ReithLectures. This year's lecturer is @RonDeibert, whose @citizenlab provides forensics and protection for civil society from despots and corporate bullies.

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The theme of Deibert's lectures is RESET, the idea that the internet has become a toxic runaway process, harmful to human thriving, in need of being rolled back to a known-good state and re-run. It's accompanied by an excellent book of the same title.

houseofanansi.com/products/reset

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I read Reset when it was in production: it's comprehensively details exactly how the internet got to this state: the combination of sociopathic greed, regulatory indifference and spies' desire to preserve defects in our technology so they can attack their enemies.

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The first episode of Deibert's Massey Lectures dropped tonight: "Look At That Device In Your Hand," about mobile computing, and beyond lazy narratives about "addiction."

cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

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Deibert's lecture is interspersed with commentary by the likes of @mer__edith, @jjn1, and @astradisastra (among others); making for a rich, reflective experience.

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It's the first of six lectures, one every night this week and another on Monday. You can follow them all via the CBC Ideas podcast:

cbc.ca/radio/ideas

Here's the MP3 for tonight's debut:

22153.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_IDEAS_P/me…

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