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If privacy is being free of observation, what is being free of distraction? #Focus, #mindfulness?
We have "privacy advocates" and "infosec fans" but what term binds those in the fight against adverts, addictive sidebars, irritating popups?
@douginamug my tipp: have the smartphone always set to silent and don't even install social media apps. use them on your computer at home
@davidak absolutely!
In that direction: I found out some weeks ago that I can schedule "do not disturb" to be on pretty much 24 hours a day.
This is important for me, because I switch my phone off a lot and android just remembers the last status. I would regularly forget to turn on "do not disturb" before switching my phone off, leading to a tense race to enable it ASAP whenever I would switch my phone on! No more.
@douginamug there are some activist groups against adverts in public spaces, like @hhwerbefrei and @werbefrei.
but i agree the topic needs more attention!
@douginamug advertising is a form of pollution, pollution for thoughts.
RMiddleton.Art @douginamug
Focus and mindfulness are relevant terms, as are autonomy, freedom, free-thinking. This fight feels fuzzy and under-recognized. I believe thought and mood disorders are responses to the onslaught of distracting stimuli.
Autonomy and consent are terms I embrace.
"Anti brainwashing" is a loaded and catchy way of putting it. Thing is, many people habituated to distractions are not seeking changes.
This topic is massive.
To me it's about what it means to be human.
@douginamug in a way I think this touches on a topic I first read about in the early 90s in a Scientific American article by Mark Weiser¹. The article was informed speculation about how computers could become ubiquitous, but Weiser's focus soon shifted to how being surrounded by computers would make _being calm_ the challenge to tackle²³.
Ubicomp and "calm computing" seem to be out of fashion now though.
¹: https://calmtech.com/papers/computer-for-the-21st-century