Atlas667

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by Atlas667 5y ago
The internet is probably the biggest set of tools right now for preserving the past and keeping it at arms reach. You're referring to googles search practices, which is a for profit industry centered around marketing, people need to se
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I would not be surprised if apple was forced to implement a backdoor for these devices seeing their potential. Same goes for the Starlink satellites.
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An AI that has free range to more profoundly study all the human data Facebook users generate? That sounds wicked evil. If ads, marketing and habit inducing platform designs are a problem now, imagine what this will lead to. To understand w
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Yep, this will be used for precision tracking and context categorization. And of course, to more deeply understand human motivators and make platforms even more addictive to us. This will have minimal benefits to the working class and all t
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A materialist take on this is also that advances in technology made slavery a useless institution towards maximizing the interests of capitalists and that permitted its withering away. Slavery was a market for people in themselves, but the
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That's a bit of a stretch. I am obfuscating all the necessary technological and societal steps that lead to advertising supply and demand. I am saying it is unavoidable/irrevocable now. Not that every instantiation of capitalism l
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I think your comment is the most sensible because it tries to understand it. The bad part about these models is that they reflect the power of stakeholders in a company, not so much the worker/programmers. It reflects a mode of product
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They cite Ben Bagdikian the writer of "The New Media Monopoly" a decent book exposing the relationships between advertisers and media companies albeit his liberal perspective makes him incapable of realizing that this is inherent
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It should also be noted that Cannabis is the new hot market, so even if this is refuted in a future paper or found that it doesn't work in humans as previously thought, that doesn't dispel the notions this first paper will generat
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So you believe that if we just vote, the system that the rich have built will fix itself? These flaws are not bugs, these are part of the design. It was never meant to be democracy for the many, it was only democracy for the wealthy. Like t
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You claim my favorite mode of production has the same potential, but do not describe what "my favorite" is or how that potential is expressed. But if you believe that, whatever it may be, then how do we get rid of it? Do you not b
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Jolly, what a surprise... This article is just paying lip service to everyone who already feels this is the case (most sane people) and redditors. Just for gathering some traffic. The real truth is in understanding that this is fundamentall
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>“We tend to think that there are lots of contextual aspects that affect the way we move, such as the transportation system, the morphology of a given place, and socioeconomic aspects. This is true to some extent, but what this shows is
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You only explained how they justify it and the drawbacks of these platforms. But it's not the vague language of a law that allows social media platforms to censor "privately". You can try and change these laws and there will
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That does not guarantee mass representation of user interests. Mostly the interests of those with enough power to influence that corporation, nonprofit, or federal company will be represented. Which is what happens today and we are right ba
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It is a private company after all. You are pointing out the contradiction of having private business do a public service for profit. There is no way to solve that without controlling our platforms collectively.
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This is not good news for poor Salvadorans. Unless you believe in trickle down economics.
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Interesting article. I've never thought about psychedelics as an ideological tool, only as a brain stimulating tool. Because of that the view on Psychedelic culture is subject to the psychedelic market. And right now that market is mos