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@skry @Goufalite In many countries that is also a vulgar expression for anus or asshole and similar to giving someone the middle finger.
See negative connotations: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture
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They say that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian rain forest, it can change the weather half a world away.
If a designer adds a new button on the Internet, it can change wellbeing half a world away.
The same media that is exposing bad practices of surveillance capitalism in tech are promoting and making use of those same practices of surveillance capitalism on their own platforms.
It's turtles all the way down.
It's not only surveillance capitalism. It's systemic.
The New York Times broke the story about Manchin crafting the US climate plan, and then included some paid fossil fuel propaganda in the text.
Turtles, I say. All the way down.
heated.world/p/the-nyt-stop…
Consider a news article about a crime that has not named the suspect. If enough websites link to that article using the name of a person, a search for that person will generate a hit for that article and implicate them. #GoogleBombing #GoogleHounding.
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@Loukas_RS @martenschultz Just det, Googlebombing myntades ju när en sökning på "miserable failure" ledde till George Bush profilsida. Det här är en oerhört intressant vinkel på samma effekt, att sökning på personnamn kan "avslöja" det som tidningar försöker anonymisera.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bo…
Growth is at the expense of someone's toll, sacrifice or diminishment. As growth takes place, it matters if you are aware of this, if you are open about this and how you are managing it.
Part 3 of #TheFacebookFiles is about human trafficking. Part 4 is about how algorithm changes created exacerbated division and misinformation. Start with part 1 if you haven't already.
wsj.com/podcasts/the-j…
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@davidofyork It was just trying to get to the udder side.
"Facebook is developing a non-invasive technology that can read minds and turn thoughts into text."
I love this sentence. I could write a book about this sentence. Just the etymology of non-invasive. Wow.
In other news, this cow was blocking the road this morning, reminding me of how I now live in the countryside.
Don't worry, the cattle farmer was contacted and he helped the runaway back to its pasture.
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@ellecer The US has a long history of empowering dictators. At this point in history it's difficult to see what is sanctioned and not by political forces.
This is spot on and requires a response from @TwitterSafety x.com/AishaTaIks/sta…
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@ellecer Non-English would likely not pose a problem, but this would depend more on Facebook's relationship with Duterte and his ability to ban Facebook from the country entirely. As Facebook reports have shown, some people are allowed more leeway in breaking rules than others.
Facebook has started developing a new troll battling technology based on machine learning and the only reasonable measure of success is that the company itself self-implodes.
Read more here. Article also mentions how Facebook in 2018 tried to change its algorithm to increase “meaningful interactions” between friends and family, but ended up making them argue with each other.
thenextweb.com/news/facebook-…
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@weylandswart 😊 Oh I definitely feel they are following their (Mark's) plan to the teeth.
They've reached ludicrous speed, total tunnel vision and there are few actors who understand how, or have the ability to, enforce friction to slow them down.
In case you've missed it, these are Facebook's five guiding principles for the new #SurveillanceGlasses. How they're going to get people to comply is anyone's guess. 🤷
Also I can't believe nobody has used the hashtag #SurveillanceGlasses to describe this phenomenon before. You essentially can not have "smart", in the modern tech sense of the word, without surveillance. I believe awareness of this symbiosis must grow.
This piece of hardware set me on my path 40 years ago. RIP Clive Sinclair, inventor behind the ZX81, who passed away yesterday - at the age of 81.
bbc.com/news/science-e…
That screenshot of me is by @andyvitale, when I was interviewed by him and @lwelchman on @SurfacingPod earlier this year.
surfacingpodcast.com/per-axbom
"..concern for privacy has evolutionary roots in a need to maintain boundaries between self and others, for safety and security. "
"Stripped of the social cues that tend to ring our emotional alarm bells, the online environment elicits a muted response."
psyche.co/ideas/our-evol…
Last year was so distressing I do not even remember making this image. 😳. Found it in a search and can't remember in what context I made this. Scary... x.com/axbom/status/1…