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“These Amazon delivery workers—who aren’t paid to perform—are also being turned into social media celebrities by people who film them with surveillance cameras and feel entitled to leverage them into content.”
“These Amazon delivery workers—who aren’t paid to perform—are also being turned into social media celebrities by people who film them with surveillance cameras and feel entitled to leverage them into content.”
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The Bolsonaro government has as one of its priorities to strategically occupy the Amazon region to prevent the implementation of multilateral conservation projects for the rainforest, specifically the so-called “Triple A” project.
The Bolsonaro government has as one of its priorities to strategically occupy the Amazon region to prevent the implementation of multilateral conservation projects for the rainforest, specifically the so-called “Triple A” project.
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Amazon Flex drivers are using automated software, third-party apps and other tools to get jobs. Flex drivers are contract workers who use their own vehicles to deliver packages to customers’ doorsteps. Drivers say competition has _...Read More_
Amazon Flex drivers are using automated software, third-party apps and other tools to get jobs. Flex drivers are contract workers who use their own vehicles to deliver packages to customers’ doorsteps. Drivers say competition has _...Read More_
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After a long legal battle with a number of organizations, the Waorani people successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by huge oil corporations. The _...Read More_
After a long legal battle with a number of organizations, the Waorani people successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by huge oil corporations. The _...Read More_
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Such a quality article with strong, clear ideas. This part really struck me: “Decomputerization doesn’t mean no computers. It means that not all spheres of life should be rendered into data and computed upon. Ubiquitous “smartness” largely _...Read More_
Such a quality article with strong, clear ideas. This part really struck me: “Decomputerization doesn’t mean no computers. It means that not all spheres of life should be rendered into data and computed upon. Ubiquitous “smartness” largely _...Read More_
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its like..when the web is integrated into real life, so are the glitches🌀
its like..when the web is integrated into real life, so are the glitches🌀
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Hundreds of schoolchildren have been drafted in to make Amazon’s Alexa devices in China as part of a controversial and often illegal attempt to meet production targets. Many of the children have been required to work nights and overtime to _...Read More_
Hundreds of schoolchildren have been drafted in to make Amazon’s Alexa devices in China as part of a controversial and often illegal attempt to meet production targets. Many of the children have been required to work nights and overtime to _...Read More_
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great analysis on self sensationalising social networks, why everyones got the unwatchable stuck on repeat, by rob horning
great analysis on self sensationalising social networks, why everyones got the unwatchable stuck on repeat, by rob horning
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"Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system."
"Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first "war cloud" computing system."
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what's worse: this technology becoming a standard means of corporate governance or people saying it's not a big deal and get that money ?
what's worse: this technology becoming a standard means of corporate governance or people saying it's not a big deal and get that money ?
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A group of AI researchers (including the most recent winner of the Turing Award) have called on Amazon to stop selling it's racially biased Rekognition software to law enforcement officials
A group of AI researchers (including the most recent winner of the Turing Award) have called on Amazon to stop selling it's racially biased Rekognition software to law enforcement officials
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According to a Twitter poll I ran, 21% of my crypto audience respondents think Elizabeth Warren’s plan is “on-mission”.
According to a Twitter poll I ran, 21% of my crypto audience respondents think Elizabeth Warren’s plan is “on-mission”.
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Why I believe the expectation of web services being ‘for free’ should end.
Why I believe the expectation of web services being ‘for free’ should end.