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"content": "<p>Just liberated the video of one of my talks from YouTube and uploaded a copy to our Vimeo account:</p><p>Big Brother Awards 2014: Moving beyond the clouds (we need an ethical approach to design)</p><p><a href=\"https://vimeo.com/1075963646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">vimeo.com/1075963646</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p><p>(Imagine what a different world we’d be living in today if folks in tech had heeded our warnings back then. But I guess they were too busy making mint.)</p><p>PS. yt-dlp is your friend (on Mac: brew install yt-dlp). Also make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg). Finally, I had to manually tell yt-dlp where to find ffmpeg although your mileage may vary based on installation method: yt-dlp "<URL>" --write-subs --ffmpeg-location=/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg (--write-subs saves the subtitles if there are any to a file in a format you can use on the web).</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/EthicalDesignManifesto\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>EthicalDesignManifesto</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ethics\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/design\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>design</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ethicalDesign\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>ethicalDesign</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/AralBalkan\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>AralBalkan</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SmallTech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>SmallTech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigBrotherAwards\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>BigBrotherAwards</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BitsOfFreedom\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>BitsOfFreedom</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technology\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/panopticon\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>panopticon</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/surveillance\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/peopleFarming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>peopleFarming</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/technofascism\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Google\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Facebook\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Facebook</span></a></p>",
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