Activism, politics, campaigns

New York City 2024 and urban trends

Impressions from NYC and urban decadent trends

NYC in 2024 shows an obsolete modernity. Despite its uniqueness and vibrant lifestyle, the city seems stuck in the last century NYC is the sublimation of the most ferocious liberalism, whose effects can be seen and counted along its streets,…
World map 2023 Cities

Colourful Thematic Maps Hide the True State of Development

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Thematic maps are often misleading, specially at global scale Undoubtedly impressive, thematic maps - especially if shiny, vivid and global - are always trendy. But often the elements they try to compare are defacto incomparable for various…
Research on Political polarisation by social media Facebook

The News We See: How Facebook Fuels Political Polarization

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Research published by Science reveals ideological "echo chambers" on social media Facebook (Meta) has transformed how we get news and information. According to self-proclaims by Meta Inc., over two billion users and counting - or better profiles,…
Günther Anders filosofo

Günther Anders's 'The Obsolescence of the Human', an omen of the contemporary world

In 1956, the German philosopher Günther Anders wrote this thought, which I think describes contemporary life very well: "To suppress any revolt in advance, one does not have to act violently. It is enough to create collective conditioning…
UN World Food Day

Towards the UN World Food Day

Some updates concerning key food issues towards the UN World Food Day The UN Food Systems Summit, held during the UN General Assembly in New York on 23 September 2021, set out to transform global food systems to achieve the Sustainable Development…
A paywall news website

How to remove paywall sources from Google News

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TLTR: Try this Chrome extension - it's not guaranteed that it works for all websites or that it remain available in the future. The paywall is a tool to restrict access to users who have paid to subscribe to a website. In recent years…

Save Street Photography from EU’s GDPR! Sign the petition

Street photography is at risk with the new EU's GDPR, in force starting from the 25th May 2018. Your dreamy picture of that girl in the sunflower field is the “collection and sharing of personal data” in the eyes of a data protection officer…
Digital Activism

Florence: training for digital activism to enhance protesters 2.0

BBC announced a former prison centre would be the base of a learning centre for human-right activists from critical countries News posted on May 22 Students will learn how to run successful digital campaigns, looking at examples from…