This week a violent mob mounted the biggest attack on the Capitol, the seat of American democracy, in more than 200 years, driven by the … Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformedRead more
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Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?
Shayla Love: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shayla Love. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re trying to get some work done, and … Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain?Read more
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Email discrimination is unethical
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No … Email discrimination is unethicalRead more
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Manipulation and Deception in the Digital Age
Tristan Harris Testimony: Americans at Risk: https://humanetech.com/tristan-harris-testifies-on-capitol-hill/
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Coded Bias
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX4N3gvNBwY&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Shalini Kantayya 2020
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Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’
One of the most useful texts for anyone covering the tech industry is George Orwell’s celebrated essay, Politics and the English Language. Orwell’s focus in … Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’Read more
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Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
At the end of July, Microsoft and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, presented their latest and relatively disappointing economic results blaming it on the macroeconomic distress. … Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information GatekeepersRead more
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Give incentives to things that benefits society
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7PVrK58iGw&rel=0&feature=relmfu] http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/rms-1984.webm Richard Stallman’s 1984 (Talk)
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Serfing the Net
We are living in an age of unprecedented creativity, they tell us. But there was a dark time not long ago, the story goes, when … Serfing the NetRead more
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The ‘Dirty Quid Pro Quo’ Between Democrats and Big Tech
Briahna Joy Gray, former 2020 Sanders Campaign National Press Secretary, recently delivered a commentary on The Hill’s Rising about two significant bills regarding social media … The ‘Dirty Quid Pro Quo’ Between Democrats and Big TechRead more