13min clip - How This Building Powers the Internet

24min clip - Computer Scientist Explains the Internet in 5 Levels of Difficulty

5min 8sec clip - 1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET? | Tomorrow's World

the tech industry

 

6min 38sec clip - That Time I Got In Trouble With The Government (how to be popular on the internet)

3min clip - The Science of Internet Trolls

4min clip - Neil deGrasse Tyson: How science literacy can save us from the internet | Big Think

Twitter thread from @RobertGReeve - you're social media #apps aren't #listening to you - but frankly they don't need to

So compared with stuff where you do the listening, here's what happens when you're on the internet ...Source and HT to  https://twitter.com/RobertGReeve/status/1397032784703655938

"First of all, your social media apps are not listening to you. This is a conspiracy theory. It's been debunked over and over again.

But frankly they don't need to because everything else you give them unthinkingly is way cheaper and way more powerful.  Your apps collect a ton of data from your phone. Your unique device ID. Your location. Your demographics. 

Data aggregators pay to pull in data from EVERYWHERE. When I use my discount card at the grocery store? Every purchase? That's a dataset for sale.  They can match my Harris Teeter purchases to my Twitter account because I gave both those companies my email address and phone number and I agreed to all that data-sharing when I accepted those terms of service and the privacy policy. 

Here's where it gets truly nuts, though.  If my phone is regularly in the same GPS location as another phone, they take note of that. They start reconstructing the web of people I'm in regular contact with.

The advertisers can cross-reference my interests and browsing history and purchase history to those around me. It starts showing ME different ads based on the people AROUND me.  Family. Friends. Coworkers.

It will serve me ads for things I DON'T WANT, but it knows someone I'm in regular contact with might want. To subliminally get me to start a conversation about, I don't know, fucking toothpaste.  It never needed to listen to me for this. It's just comparing aggregated metadata.

The other thing is, this is just out there in the open. Tons of people report on this. It's just, nobody cares. We have decided our privacy just isn't worth it. It's a losing battle. We've already given away too much of ourselves.

Your data isn't just about you. It's about how it can be used against every person you know, and people you don't. To shape behavior unconsciously."

 

Quote: If an #internet enabled service is #free it means ....

 

1min 30sec clip - SIZE of #INTERNET ► #BYTES in perspectiv

8min 35sec #facebookfordevelopers clip - How #Programmers Effectively Search for Answers on the #Internet

 

found via a facebook for developers email

5min 20sec @rsaevents clip - Why we Don't Tell the truth, But our internet history does - with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

text from youtube "Forget what you thought surveys could tell you – our Google searches and other online behaviour reveal our true selves. Welcome to the biggest and most accurate dataset in human history! Harvard-trained economist and former Google data scientist, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s groundbreaking research will change the way you think about everything.

Watch Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, writer and former Google Data Scientist, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! "

5min 19sec @TEDEd clip - The hidden network that makes the internet possible - Sajan Saini

text from youtube "Explore how fiber optics uses light to transmit data over long distances, and with integrated photonics, expands our virtual world beyond the internet.

In 2012, a team of researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data— that’s 10,000 hours of high-def video— over a fifty-kilometer cable, in a second. This wasn’t just any cable. It was a souped-up version of fiber optics, the hidden network that links our planet and makes the internet possible. What is fiber optics and how does it work? Sajan Saini explores the vital technology.

Lesson by Sajan Saini, directed by Artrake Studio."

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Text from yoputube "The architecture of the social internet itself tells us not to be patient - to load more tweets, to hit refresh for new posts, and to click the top search results. But just because information is new, or algorithmically determined to be most relevant to you, doesn't necessarily mean it's the best or most accurate. So today we're going to teach you some tips to exercise a little more click restraint on the Internet. "

7min @thersa clip - How the Internet is Killing Democracy with Jamie Bartlett

Text from youtube "Should you really be shocked by the Facebook revelations? Author and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Jamie Bartlett argues that our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution. Watch Jamie Bartlett, bestselling author!

10min 31sec @thecrashcourse clip - Online #Advertising: Crash Course Media Literacy #7

 

Text from youtube "You're being watched. That sounded more sinister than I intended, but online, it's true. Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Netflix... the list goes on and on. They're watching what you do, what you shop for, what you watch... all of it. And have you actually read the Terms of Service? In this episode of Crash Course Media Literacy, Jay talks about how Online Advertising works and why companies want to know everything you're looking at. " 

Resources: How To Use 10 Psychological Theories To Persuade People https://www.fastcompany.com/3030173/h... The 6 Principles of Persuasion https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/bl... Impact of tobacco advertising and promotion on increasing adolescent smoking behaviours. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... L’oreal ad https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/0d/... Also: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet really did help sell watches & perfume respectively: https://imagelocations.com/portfolio/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kIj...

forget #cats - this kind of clip is what the internet was created for ...

Text from you tube 

Occurred on November 18, 2017 / Greenville, North Carolina, USA "I just wanted to jump the road."

found via laughing squid

4min clip - the #lavalamps that keep 10% of the internet #safe

Text from you tube

At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good bit of the internet secure: here's how. Thanks to the team at Cloudflare - this is not a sponsored video, they just had interesting lava lamps! 

There's a technical rundown of the system on their blog here 

Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin" found via laughingsquid

1min 11sec #wef clip - These #countries have the fastest #internet

1min 12sec @wef clip - These #countries have the #fastest #internet