As European users, we can opt out of Instagram and Facebook using our posts for AI training. I’ve exercised this control, as I am the product of Facebook and Instagram, but I strive to limit their use of me as such.
Opting out on Instagram looks deliberately cumbersome. However, from Facebook, which is also owned by Meta, I received an email with very simple instructions.
Now, I am curious if they can prove they are not using my data for AI.
Bij mijn favoriete boekhandel De Eerste Bergensche Boekhandel kocht ik Mijn Lieve Gunsteling van Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Ik had nog niet eerder iets gelezen van Marieke Lucas. Mijn eerste indruk was: wow wat een literaire krachtpatserij: een boek met ballen. Later lees ik over Marieke Lucas dat ze non-binair is en dan vind ik mijn gedachte erg flauw maar schrijf hem toch op omdat hij echt was.
American Geography van Matt Black is een van de beste fotoboeken die ik dit jaar heb gezien, samen met Bertien van Manen’s Archive.
Al jaren geleden gelezen, nu de film The Circle gezien. Vlakke film. Eggers heeft een vervolg nu in de boekhandel liggen: The Every. Op de verlanglijst. Heel actueel nu Facebook zich omdoopt to Meta en ons gaat assisteren: “Most of all, we need to help build ecosystems so that more people have a stake in the future and can benefit not just as consumers but as creators.” God sta ons bij.
Na Kevin Kelly’s 68 Bits of Unsollicited Advice nog 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice.
Op Netflix vond mijn egaa de geweldige serie over de tweede wereldoorlog: Greatest Events of WWII in Colour. In colour betekent dat de zwart-wit beelden fantastisch goed zijn in gekleurd.
To me, the Internet’s future is dominated not by Internet giants but by niche sites, niche tools, and niche apps. All Internet applications focus on a specific area and specialize in it. These tools are based on technologies that are not tied to a proprietary platform but are open and non-proprietary technologies.
We leave behind the violence of the roar of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Optionally, we use dedicated tools like Medium or Substack to produce and distribute our content, but we pay for that with a subscription, not with our time and attention.
To make our content available without the intervention of technology platforms, we use tools like WordPress for our websites, Vimeo for video, Mailchimp for newsletters, and Overcast for our podcasts.
We solve the finding problem that Google has now solved for us. Probably, a distributed solution is best. A solution by which we map the Internet in pieces. Everyone cures their own piece of the Internet and shares the links to the interesting parts. A distributed tool similar to a torrent network provides reliable indexing and searchability. A distributed tool is inherently stable and impervious to centralizers and monopolists.
Hierbij alvast een aantal van mijn Internet favorieten die zeker een plaats in de index waard zijn.
Austin Kleon – writer and artist.
Open topo – open topgraphical maps of the Netherlands.
Open Culture – free cultural and educational media.
Brain Pickings – Maria Popova’s great site.
Mr Motley – art, nice site.
Beeple-crap – artist famous from NFT’s.
Boing Boing – The Internet according to a.o. Mark Frauenfelder (pity about the indigestible amount of ads).
booooooom – art.
Swissmiss – design blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg.
https://www.dirtyharrry.com – the most interesting photographer in the world.
Seth Godin – Seth Godin.
De Correspondent – best newspaper in the Netherlands.
Derek Sivers– Slow thinker.
kk.org – Kevin Kelly’s site(s).
cool-tools.org – Cool Tools.
elsadorfman.com – Else Dorfman’s site. Love it.
B– Blake Andrews.