A QUICK WORD FROM JEFFERSON: If this page looks like your browser is broken, don't worry. It's called an RSS feed, and it's a tool that lets you take back control from the algorithms trying to control what you read. For a full explanation, check out the "About Following Me" article on my About page. Or you can cut and paste this URL here: https://creativityhacker.ca/nav/about/artifacts/2025-03-26_191111/ (Sorry, URL links aren't clickable inside RSS feeds.) https://creativityhacker.ca/tags/ethics/ Recent content in Ethics on Creativity Hacker Hugo en-us jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:30:51 +0000 https://creativityhacker.ca/blogs/circuitses/logs/2025-05-08_055121/ -blogs Thu, 08 May 2025 05:51:21 +0000jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) https://creativityhacker.ca/blogs/circuitses/logs/2025-05-08_055121/ <p>Creating online communities is easy; but doing it ethically is not.</p> <p>Over the last few decades, we&rsquo;ve developed many hacks and tricks - a playbook, if you like - for tempting communities of like-minded humans to gather into online echo chambers, where they can be manipulated in demographically unified buckets. So before I go too far, I need to ask myself an important question: Is blogging <em>inherently</em> evil? Or is it possible to thread this needle without crossing over to the dark side?</p>