Digital culture and technology through a human lens.
Meta's new business terms let it crawl websites associated with any business account and, until Saturday, use what it found to train its products. The word is gone now. The crawling permission isn't.
Here's the plan. Evolving Humanities is starting a review series on reality television: the shows, past to present, taken one episode at a time. First up is The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, every episode from the 2020 premiere onward, with the details attached — air dates, casts, how each episode came to be, what audiences made of it, and what the people on screen are actually doing to each other.
What happens when vulnerability becomes content? A sourced examination of Wild Carlos’s travel thumbnails, poverty imagery, missionary accountability, white supremacy, and Sharbat Gula’s story.
A faster workflow still needs a person who can explain the evidence and stand behind the published claim.
Saving a file preserves less than we think if its people, places, and context disappear.
Digital connections depend on physical routes, landing points, and the ability to repair them.
Ownership becomes less useful when a broken product cannot be examined, serviced, or restored on reasonable terms.
Recommendation systems infer what might hold attention. That is a narrower claim than knowing a person.
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