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“The idea that we get our information as citizens through algorithms determined by the world’s largest advertising company is my definition of dystopia.”
Vladimir Prelovac • The Age of PageRank is Over | Kagi Blog
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22585287/technol...
vox.com
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
Anti-Charlatanism
Critiques of techno-optimism, authoritarian tactics and propaganda, and other snake-oil assaults against humanity
JD Goulet • 7 cards
This would mean, he explained, that the government would ban any business model that tracks you online in order to figure out your weaknesses and then sells that private data to the highest bidder so they can change your behavior.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
