things no one is talking about
probably bad things, random facts about things we thought we knew, etc. (AI is on the other board.)
things no one is talking about
One of the book’s central innovations is Nguyen’s notion of value capture , whereby we are offered a simple metric designed to answer a complex evaluative question, and end up outsourcing our own values to that metric. How important and influential is my scholarship? Enter the h -index. How good and considerate am I as a passenger? Enter my uber ra... See more
Kate Manne • Substack is a Dangerous Game for Writers
And I have to wonder: what are these incentive structures doing to my writing?
Substack is a Dangerous Game for Writers
honestly need to make a whole subsection of this collection for Substack
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walzr.coman (outdated) list of things you can buy on Amazon for less than the cost of a stamp and free shipping
Waymos are ultimately an automation technology product. And a key function of any kind of automation is that it serves as an accountability sink for the companies and managers that deploy it. Self-driving cars, AI, app-unlocked e-scooters—tech companies like this stuff because it promises not just to remove labor from the equation, but accountabili... See more
Brian Merchant • The weaponization of Waymo
automation — humanlessness — to create a void where accountability once was
ICE raids are carried out using data provided by Silicon Valley companies—most notably Peter Thiel and Alex Karp’s Palantir, which has a $30 million contract with ICE to manage a “real-time” surveillance system on immigrants. But whether directly or through third party contractors, much of big tech, including Google, has made deals with ICE, too.
The weaponization of Waymo
This is a sign with facial recognition built in. It’s plugged into a database that reads moods and recognizes emotions so they can spit out a request for targeted advertising.
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It feels strange to me, that fixing the things that patriarchy has always loathed, like women getting older, loving themselves as they are and being individual - with cosmetic surgery has become a feminist act. And one we’re being sold as being entirely our choice, when distinguishing between societal pressure and our own autonomy is so, so hard to... See more
Anita Bhagwandas • Is this any way to treat a face?
in particular, 1) various forms of racism and 2) the cycles of surgery, etc. not only as trends change but as people age and so does the sh*t floating around inside of them: it moves, it sags, it degrades, it bulges and your face takes on a totally new (unnatural) shape only to be “fixed” with more work