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No person should ever trust that their personal information is going to be protected by a company. The place was managed by a mixture of twentysomethings with little work experience and a handful of computer-illiterate adults brought in to babysit them.
This imposed simplification, in service of legibility to the state’s eye, makes the rich reality brittle, and failure follows. The imagined improvements are not realized. The metaphors of killing the golden goose, and the Procrustean bed come to mind.
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Venkatesh Rao
I find it deeply depressing to think the people aspire to become advertisements, but it also makes perfect sense in a world that privileges ads and ad space over virtually everything else and values it precisely. If you can be an ad, then the whole world revolves around you. Your place in the world is assured and affirmed anytime you look at a screen or take a glance around in public space.
The Lowest Tide
Rob Horning
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