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Interserv

Having a strong online presence nowadays is important for business. However between 2018 to late 2022, Interserv didn’t have a website. Read on for our key lesson learned – the importance of an agile approach to project delivery.

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interserv.com.au/blog/our-fail

www.interserv.com.auOur Failure and a Key Lesson | InterservInterserv, in its current form, came into existence on 29 October 2018. As of September 2022, there was still no real website.
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earthling

#Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology by David Golumbia, 2024

An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start.

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Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, Cyberlibertarianism details how the purportedly democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns. As he unpacks our naively utopian conception of the digital world, Golumbia highlights technology’s role in the advancement of hyperindividualist and antigovernment agendas, demonstrating how Silicon Valley corporations and right-wing economists; antiestablishment figures such as Julian Assange, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Edward Snowden, and Mark Zuckerberg; and seemingly positive voices such as John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and Wikipedia all have worked to hamper regulation and weaken legal safeguards against exploitation. Drawing from a wide range of thought in digital theory, economics, law, and political philosophy as well as detailed research and Golumbia’s own experience as a software developer,
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Harald Klinke

CFP: From the Turing Machine to ChatGPT
Explore the intersection of art and science in the digital age. Submit your papers on topics like digital literature, AI, virtual reality, and more.
Deadline: 15 September 2024
#DigitalTechnology #AI #DigitalArt #Humanities #CallForPapers #ChatGPT #TuringMachine
pulse-journal.org/open-call

PULSEPulse: the Journal of Science and CulturePulse: the Journal of Science and Culture is an academic journal targetted at early career researchers.
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Lyla Mehta

"AI’s craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energy

The computing power for AI models requires immense – and increasing – amounts of natural resources. Legislation is required to prevent environmental crisis

One of the most pernicious myths about digital technology is that it is somehow weightless or immaterial"

#AI #Cloud #Data #DigitalTechnology

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · AI’s craving for data is matched only by a runaway thirst for water and energyBy John Naughton
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«The #Quebec #Liberal party is calling 4 an investigation & suspension of deputy minister who was close 2 #FrançoisLegault.

#StéphaneLeBouyonnec, former #CAQ candidate & ex-president of the party, allegedly still has ties with a loan-sharking company.

A former executive of the company said Le Bouyonnec, now a deputy minister @ the Ministry of #Cybersecurity & #DigitalTechnology, will have 2 testify in court about questionable payments allegedly made 2 #OrganizedCrime.»

montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-lib

Montreal · Quebec Liberals call for investigation into CAQ associateThe Quebec Liberal party is calling for an investigation and the suspension of a deputy minister who was close to Francois Legault.
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