Sublime

Rampant incivility, participation inequality, polarization, propaganda, distortion and distrust

After Trump took office, DJ Patil watched with wonder as the data disappeared across the federal government. Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior removed from their websites the links to climate change data. The USDA removed the inspection reports of businesses accused of animal abuse by the government. The ne

At YouTube Stats, a meeting Mehrotra held every Friday, they presented the befuddling results: the machines found a way to show more ads and improve watch time.

In short, much like the communists, the journalists’ moral conviction gives them the license to doxx private citizens, to go through people’s garbage, to use secret identities (and then claim they don’t), to print hacked data, to solicit leaks of private information while demanding to keep their own information private, to induce people to break co

Corporations and governments, empowered by increasingly sophisticated algorithms, know us better than we know ourselves—leaving us vulnerable to control and manipulation.

Você acha que é uma boa ideia uma empresa privada controlar o fluxo de todas essas informações?

We are treating the worst dynamics of today’s online ecosystem as  problems of speech  in the new technological environment, rather than challenges of curation and network organization.