Tech and Society

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr • 5 highlights

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Never Forgive Them

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At wheresyoured.at

Jilber Najem

unselfing.social

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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Maggie Appleton maggieappleton.com

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Temporal Belonging

Lauren Collee reallifemag.com

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Collective ownership can take a number of forms: unions, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and stock options are all related. But the most important means of collective ownership will be the resurgence of an old model: the co-op.

Yancey Strickler • The Ownership Crisis

Josh Bowen

It’s wild that some mid level PM is making design tweaks for “retention” and ends up completely tearing the entire fabric of our society into a downward spiral of gamified virtual hot people musical chairs. “What if we added a bursting emoji heart?!” = Birthrates fall to zero

John Fio x.com

andrea

I often use the analogy of “AI for social good” being like creating a tank first and THEN being like oh let’s see how we can use this tank for “social good.” Then why not create something other than a tank in the first place? Scientists follow the state’s endless in warfare.

@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)twitter.com

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The Perils of Audience Capture

Gurwinder gurwinder.substack.com

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