Netdiver magazine

Feed your mind – #001

How Companies Turn Your Data Into Money by Max Eddy

Companies collect our personal data online and use it to target us with ads, among other purposes (or how companies turn you into money.

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16 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers by Deep Patel

Critical thinkers are focused on constantly upgrading their knowledge, and they engage in independent self-learning.

ndlr: Must read!

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DuckDuckGo – the search engine that doesn’t track you!

ndlr: Been using it for a few years now – all searches you do are not recorded and NOT batched to a monstrous data retaining centre for further mining. Not as Gee do.

Must use!

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I ditched the Mac for the iPad, and I’ll never go back by Jesus Diaz

The iPad Pro has changed my life, and I don’t care about desktop computing anymore.

ndlr: I own one (first gen) and DO all my generative art + art / photos editing on it!

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While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true con men are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. — Scott Monty

Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online by Data & Society

"the spread of false or misleading information is having real and negative effects on the public consumption of news."

Download the report.

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D&R is a (non-profit) research institute in New York City that is focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

Statement of independence.

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illustration by: Jim Cooke

Invitation to join Wuu private messaging app. Posts disappear forever after 24h. Splendidly minimalist + easy to use photo + text filters.

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ndlr: Android later this Spring.

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_Sample of my recent activity_

I use it all the time.

Facebook Should Pay All of Us by Tim Hu.

The most valuable innovation at the heart of Facebook was probably not the social network so much as the creation of a tool that convinced hundreds of millions of people to hand over so much personal data for so little in return.

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If interested, this is why I deleted all my Facebook accounts + pages.

Read the discussion.

Read The NSA Of Fonts Censors You In Real-Time by John Brownlee

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Project Seen is a new typeface that automatically crosses out words on the NSA’s watch list, it’s spooky. The point of the Seen font is to get people thinking about the privacy implications of what they are writing, as they are writing.

You can try it online and download the font here.

Check my sentence tryout!

It’s out! Ello iOS mobile app by Ello.

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I have been beta testing – and I can assure you – it’s a beautiful app. The minimalist interface makes visuals pop and since large format, .gifs are welcomed, video + music embedding – you can see (and hear) a stream of non-end eye candy.

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Check the Discovery panel to extend your network, either by inviting others to join or scrolling the suggested users.

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Choose how you want to read who you follow between single post feed (Friends) or grid feed (Noise).

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Notifications panel is where you can see who has interacted with your content. Hit a link or visual to comment.

Hit an avatar will take you to user profile.

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Some of the desktops functionalities will be ported soon – and it’s going to be even more awesome. If you are a creative or a geek – and would like to be part of an ad-free – no data collection platform (ever!!!)..

Ello is right for you!

There is no equivalent social platform for the conversations + interactions I have every day. People are nice. Really, really nice.

And brilliant as to depth of articles posted and comments passed.

And funny too.

Follow me @cgwarex. I also curate the @ellodesign community.

See ya there!

Glitchi was created to take back our privacy by sending encrypted messages on iPhone.

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Created to defeat that every time we download an app, we have to accept their privacy terms, and agree to give up part of our freedom.