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Donald Trump’s ideology of violence
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I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.
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Electric Vehicles | The Paper Pilot
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Cop unions put GPS monitors on politician's cars to frame them.
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Dissecting Doug Ford’s Bike Lane Removal Annoucement
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Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies
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The Internet Was Built by Movements w Sasha Costanza-Chock
Bias, Skew, and Search Engines Are Sufficient to Explain Online Toxicity
U.S. political discourse seems to have fissioned into discrete bubbles, each reflecting its own distorted image of the world. Many blame machine-learning algorithms that purportedly maximize “engagement”—serving up content that keeps YouTube or Facebook users watching videos or scrolling through their feeds—for radicalizing users or strengthening their partisanship. Sociologist Shoshana Zuboff15 even argues that “surveillance capitalism” uses optimized algorithmic feedback for “automated behavioral modification” at scale, writing the “music” that users then “dance” to.
Bias, Skew, and Search Engines Are Sufficient to Explain Online Toxicity
U.S. political discourse seems to have fissioned into discrete bubbles, each reflecting its own distorted image of the world. Many blame machine-learning algorithms that purportedly maximize “engagement”—serving up content that keeps YouTube or Facebook users watching videos or scrolling through their feeds—for radicalizing users or strengthening their partisanship. Sociologist Shoshana Zuboff15 even argues that “surveillance capitalism” uses optimized algorithmic feedback for “automated behavioral modification” at scale, writing the “music” that users then “dance” to.
The case for treating sugar like a dangerous drug
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Why 30 is the decade friends disappear — and what to do about it
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The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.
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Advocacy groups and Metric Media collaborate on local ‘community news’
<p>This is the second part of a two-part investigation. The first piece can be found here. Metric Media launched “Community Newsmaker” in 2020 using the language of citizen journalism. However, what appeared to be grassroots news is part of a sprawling network that promotes political agendas and corporate interests, without disclosing those ties to the […]</p>
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism | Los Angeles Review of Books
Whatever its imperfections, Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is an original and brilliant work, and it arrives at a crucial moment.
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Traffic Jam | Leah Finnegan
Ben Smith’s book on the history of the viral internet doesn’t truly reckon with the costs of traffic worship.
Anti-Crawler Defenses | The Paper Pilot
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