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Interesting Things on the Internet: July 23rd 2018

• Offscreen Magazine interviews Tom Loosemore. Lots of interesting insight into civic tech and the possibilities of a better digital Government. " if you’re making software, you are actively reshaping power dynamics between citizens, consumers, companies, and governments. Shifting power relationships is politics. If you are in software, you are in politics."
• Towards an Organized Tech Industry—Part One. Interesting tales of tech union organising in the US.
• Open Letter: Culture for Sale. Turns out property developers don't care about culture, artists, or generally the people they're profiting from. Who knew?! We need better tactics than open letters and panel discussions if we're going to find a better alternative to gentrification.
• Gratitude for Invisible Systems.
• Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change. Neil Postman warned us in 1998. We still need to heed the warnings now (and maybe now that we've evidence of him being right, more people will listen).
• Eclipse of The Sun. A reminder that collective action can combat the tabloid press.