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When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
Rachel Monroe • theatlantic.com ↗︎
"The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away."
“Whether they copied the LG Prada or not, Apple built upon a very mid-aughts idea created by the fashion industry: the luxury masstige product. Apple realized it didn’t need a fashion brand to create a “premium” product. The iPhone was the first luxury product that felt accessible to everyone, that ...Read More
"In 2007, speaking with fellow composer Frank Oteri, Carlos remarked on how technological breakthroughs in the present have allowed us to revisit artworks of the past with new esteem. She says, 'we can at last treat them with diligence, introspection and respect. I hope music, my music, can be treated ...Read More
"Yet as awareness of algorithmic bias has grown, a rift is emerging around the question of what to do about it. On one side are advocates of what might be called the “inclusion” approach. These are people who believe that criminal justice technologies can be made more benevolent by changing
If one camp sees inclusion as the path forward, the other camp prefers abolition. This involves dismantling and outlawing technologies like facial recognition rather than trying to make them “fairer.” The activists who promote this approach see technology as inextricable from who is using it. So long as communities of ...Read More
Really into this call for journalists to include more solution-based narratives in tech reporting but also #Zucksucks
“We need a public not only skeptical of Big Tech, but capable of navigating policy debates and ready to conceive of a technological world different from the one we live in.”
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What does WeWork’s architectural automation say about the state of architectural design and the way we all work?
“if we look at contemporary patterns of employment, jobs within production have been largely automated while entire new sectors of professional, managerial, clerical, sales, and service workers have expanded resulting in a self-perpetuating system that exists purely to produce more pointless layers of bureaucracy filled with more bullshit jobs”
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"Globally, carbon ion therapy is viewed as the next horizon of cancer care. About 22,000 patients have received the treatment at 13 centers in Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, and China. More locations are under development in South Korea, Taiwan, and France. Yet the therapy has followed an odd trajectory in
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The long term profitability strategy of the ride-share, scooter, meal-delivery apps is to sell user financial information. The author totally misses this crucial point. The goal right now is to continue growing the user base, profit will come later.
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The ways in which these lies will have transformed our culture is staggering...
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No! It’s time we all understood that this mess can’t be ‘fixed’.
“To Mazzucato, a Green New Deal could be as bold as the 1969 moonshot”? More like as self-aggrandizing for bourgeois ecomomics as the 1969 moonshot for US-imperialism.
A woke reformist is still just a reformist. Pity!
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Millions of Flickr images were
sucked into a database called
MegaFace. Now some of those ...Read More
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Lots to say here about simply naming something that has only been described before. Simplistic or not, it’s definitely potent.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/
Motivated by the same vigilantism that drives the PizzaGate crowd, R/ElsaGate is a community dedicated to finding and flagging disturbing YouTube content marketed for children. Seems like there's a certain kind of person, regardless of political orientation, who processes socioeconomic alienation by making themselves into a defender of children.
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Code of Acquisitions
Burak Arıkan & Ahmet Öğüt • codeofacquisitions.org ↗︎
“The Code of Acquisitions platform allows anyone to submit their cases anonymously or openly. Cases could range from gender and race discrimination to misconduct of payments. These submissions contribute to a database of conflicts, codes, and interactive visualizations that will increase awareness about the issues and hold organizations accountable through
-would be fascinated to see this model in other domains. ...Read More
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Facebook’s essential threat to democracy isn’t that Mr. Zuckerberg will intervene on behalf of his preferred candidate — it’s more fundamental than that. Mark Zuckerberg need not intervene, because Facebook, the platform, will do so instinctively. With its algorithmic mandate of engagement over all else, Facebook has redefined what it ...Read More