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Proposal to a conference
Received email from mailing list about an event in Toronto. my proposal: https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/14
other proposals I found interesting in topics of
- Dat, Tor, p2p technologies
https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/9 https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/12 https://github.com/ournetworks/2019-submissions/issues/23
Smart City
Bay Area
- 5G Network, high speed and capacity service, reliable, short delay in communication between devices, allow machine communication of larger scale, effective implementation of IoT.
- Singular digital ID for uers, implement AI, Chat bot, big data.
- Smart Street lamps to collect real time city data to implement city management and other public services
- Promote open data (what is this open data? In what way it is open?)
News
996, ICU
996, ICU is a project initiated by Chinese programmers to speak about their work conditions. I brought up this project during initial conceptualizing session for the event launch. Tancredi brought up working with the Git structure to upload annotations. The git workflow will be explicit in retaining versions of different versions of annotations, showing which user had contributed what content, tracking changes, etc. In prototyping session, we also worked with EPUB file structure, it is composed of HTML files when unzipped. We imagined a collective annotation reader stored in a git repository, as separated files of HTML. I presented and talked about 996, ICU during class as an example of Git used as a social space to afford collective interactions. The Git software is particular powerful at recording authors and alterations made to files, making public of the provenance of these voices (in context of 996, ICU it's the voice of the programmers). Eventually we didn't pursue on working with this particular direction, however I want to write down the outline of 996 ICU and how the project hold relevance to what's being discussed during the course.
996 is short for going to work from nine in the morning, getting off work at nine in the evening, on six days per week. ICU is short for the emergency room. In the Chinese tech industry, there had been numerous cases of employees overworked to severe states health failures and death. To name the project 996, ICU is to call attention to labor condition of the tech workers.
996 ICU's page published citations from the Chinese Labor Law, which demanded limitations on work hours and overtime compensation if excess hours are needed. It is regulated that workers work less than 8 hours a day, and no more than 44 hours per week. If overtime work hours is needed per purposes of production, it is to be discussed with trade unions and laborers and be compensated accordingly.
The policies outlined by Labor Law is not carried out in practice. On the contrary companies had openly adopted 996 working models, treating as the unofficial, de facto rule to abide to. To claim 996 as a working schedule is to assign it with credibility and authority, uphold to it, promote it as industry standard.
This is the project page in which there are more details about how it's structured. It moved me by it's way of using Github, a virtual site for daily interactions of tech workers as a site for activism.
use of invisible watermarking to track exposed internal emails: https://www.zhihu.com/question/50735753/answer/122593277
National Technology Worker Day(全国科技工作者日),on May 30th
As I followed news from 996 ICU, I wondered if National Technology Worker Day had addressed tech worker's working condition by any means, as the topic popped in my news feed of the day. To my disappointment it didn't. The news reports on this particular memorial day focused on paying tribute to impacts that technology brought to society at large, such as technology used in agriculture and national defense. I felt disappointed that this day dedicated to technology workers across the nation failed to address working conditions of the most common worker in tech industry.
in relation to conditions of burn out and precarity
As I ruminate on the topic of the "entreprecariat" from the starting Special Issue, I see how 996, ICU reflect phenomenons described by the "entreprecariat" condition. I am trying to re-read the Entrepreneurial Self by Ulrich Bröckling.
A first look at the Chinese OS the government want to use to replace dependency on Windows
Link is here https://qz.com/505383/a-first-look-at-the-chinese-operating-system-the-government-wants-to-replace-windows/ The news article wrote about NeoKylin, a Chinese developed OS that's similar to linux, possibly developed from Fedora according to the article. The intention of promoting NeoKylin is to decrease dependency on foreign developed systems such as Windows, after it announced it's dropping support for Windows XP.
digital human right
rethinking autonomy and legality
Huawei to replace Android
https://bgr.com/2019/06/13/huawei-phones-operating-system-android-replacement/
Ubuntu Kylin
https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-kylin/
Digital Leninism
https://chinese.uhrp.org/article/1892833337 Facial recognition, social credit system: a social experiment reshaping human behaviors?
Infrastructure: prevalent surveillance system, facial recognition algorithm, and artificial intelligence. "There is a large database to train with since surveillance footage provided training data" - who is labeling the data set? Therefore, human behaviors become predictable.
In fact several of my colleagues asked me about social credit system in China, it's not until now I see in the article that in 2014 the state council had proposed an outline for year 2014 to 2020. According to the social credit system aimed to act as a mechanism that bridge the gap between fast economic and haphazard social credit order. This is a mechanism that works on the axis of reward and punishment. The examples of haphazard social credit order fall in sectors of finance, public health, and education sectors. And indeed that in sectors of public health and education there had occurred major scandals of fake vaccine, fake/poisonous milk powder, abuse of young children in kindergarten.
The news article pointed out the mechanism can be abused by authority. As disobedient citizens (who held different political view and interest than the party, for example) will be marked with criminal record permanently. Once the record is set, it obstructs your freedom of mobility, such as booking trains, airplanes, making payments, etc.
Formation of digital authoritarianism
Another piece of news on implementation of facial/posture recognition in middle school classroom http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/05-18/8516603.shtml
p2p lending
Kikuchu becoming mainstream
Kikuchu, a type of video subculture related to anime, is growing from the domains of subculture to mainstream. A recent recruitment call of 163.com adapted Kikuchu rhythms of video editing.
Resistances toward surveillance abuse
http://www.qdaily.com/articles/63805.html city of SF first city in the U.S. to ban facial recognition in government and other sectors. Tenants protest against installment of facial recognition device in apartment building http://www.qdaily.com/articles/63694.html Doubts towards implementation of facial recognition in U.S. airport customs http://www.qdaily.com/articles/61980.html Amazon selling Rekognition to government sectors, what is/should be/will be/needs to be the code of conducts of use of technology in governance bodies? http://www.qdaily.com/articles/58176.html https://medium.com/s/powertrip/im-an-amazon-employee-my-company-shouldn-t-sell-facial-recognition-tech-to-police-36b5fde934ac Amazon employee open letter to Jeff Bezos published on Medium.
Pin-hole camera discovered in hotels rooms, fitting rooms, netizens "need to bring tents to hotel rooms"
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_3723772 is forming to a business chain of filming - distributing - customers
Anti-trust bid 2020
Now
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/elizabeth-warren-2020-antitrust-monopoly-crusader.html https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you
Then
History of Rockefeller monopoly
How to live without Li Ka-shing
https://yatming.wordpress.com/ http://www.qdaily.com/articles/62044.html
Andrew Yang Presidential Campaign - Universal Income, Added Value Tax, Industry Automation
US Attack on Russian Grid
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html
Practice intersects community
starting point, motivations
Interest in excavating history of Katendrecht, being once a red light district and Chinatown. Still many Chinese immigrants live here, I identified them by these ways:
1.coming across them in public spaces, such as on the street, in the Asian supermarket Amazing Oriental. A lady working in Amazing Oriental once spoke to me asking if I the bread I bought that day was Turkish bread. As I live on Katendrecht for several months now I brewed a curiosity towards people working in the supermarket, despite my limited interaction with them.
2.encountering with their private spaces. On a frequent basis I discover Chinese last names on the post boxes, as I took walks after dinner. I see a Chinese family water their plants on the balcony.
3.semi-public, semi-private place, which is the Chinese church on Katendrecht. I see people gathering there for events, and there are posters outside about afternoon tea sessions. I thought I would like to invite the community to do something with me than the population from the church might be a good place to establish a network?
4. misc. As I participated in Angeliki's workshop the yesterday (23-05-2019), she told me that in Leeszaal west, some Chinese immigrant females go there. Her workshop inspired me in her way of how she worked with people. Several tips include confronting the fear of "I am the artist who is going to appropriate other people in my work", and be open and clear while proposing work plans/intentions to invitees.
The Flaneur
organizations
http://www.socialsensibility.org/