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• Nursie 10y ago
  But it's accessible to people, that's the issue. Not my tech, but systems far away that belong to others.
  • mancerayder 10y ago
    Exactly. You're expected to naively trust 'the algorithm', because people are nowhere to be found near your supposedly anonymized data. Speaking of which, anyone following today's stories about the Yahoo email scandal, the pressure on the folks who own Signal, and recent litigation from Microsoft against government gag orders? But, let's go back to talking about none of us have free will and talking about how clever Now is.