UX design is about to become regulated and I doubt industry is prepared. Consider how revocable consent mandates a particular kind of switch type/design pattern if #ADPPA bill passes with this language which expressly prohibits dark patterns in consent UX/UI
Visualize a data broker registry website where you can issue “Do Not Collect” requests. #DataRights#ADPPA
this feeling of profound despair derives from the extreme minority rule engineered by the slave owners who designed this place
the minority worships guns because they are consumed with the prospect of having to kill the majority if it ever manages to exert any meaningful power
i was watching hannah arendt’s last interview this week via @openculture and her remarks on what makes the usa exceptional relate to minority rule so it’s informing my thoughts on question why our exceptionalism leads to a society animated by gun violence
Explorations, Speculations, Processes, Bodies, Sounds
Our graduate symposium @parsons_dt is starting at 11:30am Eastern. Register here. (It’s online so I don’t know why @TheNewSchool has a waitlist set up for it.) event.newschool.edu/dt2022d#echoes22
Summary of class today. Supreme Court’s privacy was violated so we know it is about to abort a women’s right of privacy as we know and our lack of privacy means huge risks from data brokers profiting in adversarial forced birth states.
There was also a scheduled discussion of web3 but it boiled down to the slurp juice is racist and interest in NFT has dropped 80% since the start of semester.
More class discussion notes:
web1
-decentralized protocols
-solo experience
-experimental web
web2
-centralized platforms
-social experience
-app for that
1. Striking the balance between expression and intimidation applies to Musk’s intentions #onhere
2. In my view, Cambridge Analytica was an historically abusive violation of human rights that did not result in any meaningful remedies, so there is significant work to do in this area
Leaked doc is quite a read. It will take *years* of massive investment to fundamentally re-architect Facebook to become compliant. Consider incredible visualization of data entanglement to deduce that a Facebook user has moved from their hometown (a valuable advertising audience)
what does opting out even mean anymore? #DataRights