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Facebook makes shadow profiles of you anyway
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It’s because they’re no fun.
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Do you mind sharing how you got insurance approval? I looked into it but it was needlessly complicated. I couldn’t even get a cash price quoted.
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Algorithmic decision making, which obliterates nuance and forecloses alternate futures, has been a part of every America’s personal life for almost 30 years, when display ads on the web began targeting users. This technology is a new, perso
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It’s not the kids it’s the parents. They expect to be in constant contact with their kids. Note to the office won’t do.
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There is no such thing as privacy focused ad tech. The purpose of ads is to know you and influence your future.
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There are laws like the WARN act that companies would prefer not to deal with.
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> Should we stop eating chicken, fish, and other small animals, in favour of bigger ones like cow? That would reduce farm animal suffering by more than 80% We should stop eating all animals. > Why did nature evolve for animals to eat
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I’m glad you wrote this. I have one of these, and I love it, but haven’t ridden it in the rain. Now I won’t. I thought it might be okay because, as you pointed out, it definitely wasn’t cheap.
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There will always be angry customers. People who call customer service and abuse the representative are not expressing anger solely due to the complaint. It’s an accumulation of other things in their lives.
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Contributing to the household income. It takes 2 incomes to live anywhere but BFE in the US.
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People clamor for open source software and then shit on the people who make it because they provided a feature they didn’t want but didn’t have to use.
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If you are the target of a nation state level actor, you are already fucked. Most of us just don’t want our behavior sold to our insurance companies or whatever. Apple doesn’t do that because it would kill their brand for very little return
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Antitrust does not require consumer harm, that is just the philosophy by which previous administrations have operated. That is changing rapidly.
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Huge win for oil drillers and large scale pig farmers
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We can. > Indeed, obesity development is associated with a significant reduction in taste buds. [0] [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453985/
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The chronic illness is obesity. GLP-1 drugs are being used to treat obesity.
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Supercharged here means more sensitive. If you are obese, you have the opposite problem.
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Yes. You have to take it for the rest of your life, pretty common with drugs to treat chronic illnesses.
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Does Phoenix have a heat problem or a meth and fentanyl problem? > Meanwhile, drugs and alcohol were involved in 65% of Phoenix’s heat deaths, merging two public health scourges into one. Among the drugs most commonly contributing to hea
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The RAV4 EV exists! It’s also behind the curve but it’s a fun little car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV
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And sell outrageously priced MP3 players. There’s no way people were stocking those things with music they paid for.
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So what are they doing with the movement data? Is it tied to a shadow profile for ad targeting?
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If Google doesn’t need surveillance, why do they surveil? Why then do they waste the time to track your browsing history, your location, and etc? If simple keyword matching was enough, why would they spend literally billions a year on other
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Google’s transformation of conventional methods into means of hypercapitalist surveillance is both pervasive and insidious. The “normal definition of that term” hides this.
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I recommend a credit card, in that case, because the level of surveillance is the same as a credit card but at least it’s more secure and you get back a portion of the markup in the form of rewards. (Note - perhaps you are not in the US, in
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Apologies in advance for this level pedantry: Google’s business is behavioral futures, not ads. Ads are just a means to that particular end.
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If this topic interests you, you might enjoy the book “Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation” by Michael Zielenziger: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24765707M/Shutting_out_the_s...
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GPT feature but no gapless? Strange priorities. Is gapless super hard?
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Would you mind saying a little more about what it means for your local credit union to support Apple Pay?

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