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“The reality is that tech companies have been using automated tools to moderate content for a really long time and while it’s touted as this sophisticated machine learning, it’s often just a list of words they think are problematic,” said Ángel Díaz, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law who studies technology and racial discrimination.
Taylor Lorenz • Access Denied
“cultural technology.” In a 2011 address at Stanford Business School,
John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit
The old high-low spectrum was policed by people who shared identity markers, experiences, and educational backgrounds, so it reflects their prejudices.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
If anything, mass culture lately appears more aesthetically homogenous than ever.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
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Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
We’ve outsourced the stewardship of speech to Big Tech.
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Good interface design was like magic, or religion: it cultivated the mass suspension of disbelief.