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No a coincidence that the Pandora Papers breaks just as (yet another) Fb**k horror emerges. Pandora Papers is the other end the spectrum of the new era of internet scale sensemaking: weaponized surveillance capitalism and toxic misinformation like nuclear winter at one end.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -4 🙁
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And at the other, real-time global multidisciplinary networks capable of discovering new vaccines; investigative journalism on the dark-money ‘offshore’ domain; policing insurrections; acting as intel agencies; modeling and forecasting climate change; etc.On twitter.com
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And by what’s happening, the primary question is whether levels / quality / durability of structure in the middle = increasing or decreasing. There’s no stasis; only speed and valence.Permalink On twitter.com
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It’s not centralize <> decentralize - those instances are always present, just not equally visible / prominent — it’s what’s happening to the middle that’s the indicator of the nature of a given era.Permalink On twitter.com
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Same essential dynamic is visible: new techs enable exploration of the possibility space of sociotechnical forms, whether old, new, or a hybrid. They do so by destructuring ‘the middle tier’ of the landscape — whether that’s media, companies, nations, economic classes, politics.Permalink On twitter.com