Slides and resources for my Reasons.to 2018 keynote “taking the vile out of privilege”

I just came back from Reasons.to conference where I gave the opening keynote about the perils of social media and how we should use the privileges we have to make them better. I will do a longer write-up about this later, but a lot of people asked for the slides and links to the resources I covered, so here you go.

Lovely tweets

Great @reasonsto #keynote from @codepo8. Great to see a bunch of us are thinking the same things. In these weird times let’s use our privilege to reclaim social media through kindness. #sketchnotes #reasonsto pic.twitter.com/dbvW39v8st

— Chris Spalton (@ChrisSpalton) September 6, 2018

Slides

Resources

• My TEDx talk on Making social media social again
• The Pioneer Plaque showing the universe what humans are about
• A couple of Dutch journalist managed to track down”:https://bit.ly/fit-tracked the identities and location of spies, government officials and military personel using a fitness tracker
• How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
• How the ultra rich are already giving up on humanity and try to find hideouts for the coming apocalypse
• Mike Monteiro’s Beyond Tellerand talk skewering Twitter
• A great book: Not everything is shit, it is just you listing all kind of beautiful things we can experience and enjoy for free
• Kurzgesagt is a great YouTube channel explaining complex things in enjoyable, short videos
• Netflix explained is another great resource to learn new things
• The Paciello group explains how our pushy interfaces and copy have a terrible effect on people with anxiety and panic disorders
• Wil Wheaton leaving social media and what made him do it