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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru - WIRED
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru - WIRED
Timnit Gebru came up through Big Tech. When she switched careers from building AI to examining how it can spread racism and inequality, the giants kept courting her. Then she crossed an invisible line, and Google forced her out. Is Silicon Valley’s system of in-house ethics really going to protect us from the industry’s favorite toys?
·apple.news·
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru - WIRED
Evgeny Morozov, Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason, NLR 133/134, January–April 2022
Evgeny Morozov, Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason, NLR 133/134, January–April 2022
Countering current claims that digital capitalism is issuing in a ‘neofeudal’ age, as the rentier barons of Silicon Valley and Wall Street extract non-productive fortunes from their users and debtors, Evgeny Morozov returns to classic debates over the transition to capitalism to question the relation of the economic and the political.
·newleftreview.org·
Evgeny Morozov, Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason, NLR 133/134, January–April 2022
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism
"Within our present oligarchic, exploitative, irrational, and inhuman world system, the rise of crypto applications will only make our society more oligarchic, more exploitative, more irrational, and more inhuman."
·the-crypto-syllabus.com·
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism
define: Brand | Seth's Blog
define: Brand | Seth's Blog
Here’s my definition: A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over ano…
·seths.blog·
define: Brand | Seth's Blog
What Google Search Isn’t Showing You
What Google Search Isn’t Showing You
The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.
Google Search Is Dying.
·newyorker.com·
What Google Search Isn’t Showing You
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After a year of observation, experimentation, and testing, we may have found a careful response to the challenges we face with AI.
·ia.net·
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We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.
There’s a subtext of the #deleteFacebook movement that has nothing to do with the company’s mishandling of personal data. It’s the idea that people who use Facebook are stupid, or shouldn’t have ever shared so much of their lives. But for people who came of age in the early 2000s, sharing our lives online is second nature, and largely came without consequences. There was no indication that something we’d been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.
·vice.com·
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites
Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance
Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance
The internet — a fragile construction of hardware, software, standards and databases — is run by an ever-expanding range of private and public actors constrained only by voluntary protocols and subject to political pressure. The authors describe four emerging views of how to govern the internet, each playing a geopolitical role and championed at the national level: Silicon Valley’s open internet, Brussels’ bourgeois internet, Beijing’s authoritarian internet and DC’s commercial internet. The competition to establish which internet prevails is likely to be strong, and not always focused on win-wins.
·cigionline.org·
Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance
Your Pristine Hermès Bag, to Some, Looks Tacky
Your Pristine Hermès Bag, to Some, Looks Tacky
As a growing resale market has made the brand’s handbags available to more people, some say the image that they convey depends on their condition.
·nytimes.com·
Your Pristine Hermès Bag, to Some, Looks Tacky