Below are posts associated with the “slate.com” source.
🔗 linkblog: Amazon’s Behavior Makes Walmart’s Earnings Call Look Like a Profile in Courage
Depressingly illuminating.
🔗 linkblog: Too much trust in machine translation could have deadly consequences.'
This article provides good examples of how the efficacy and efficiency of a given technology is often less important than deeper questions of reliance and roles.
🔗 linkblog: Everyone should join the “cult of privacy.”'
Caring about privacy ought to be common sense. It’s difficult to push back, but that doesn’t mean those of us who do are crazy.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter’s edit button: You don’t really want it.'
A good case for why the edit button probably isn’t as good as everyone thinks.
🔗 linkblog: Women are splitting off from Reddit’s preppers sub.'
This is a fascinating article on prepper communities on reddit. Great example of the importance of a gender lens.
🔗 linkblog: How liberal Russians are reacting to Putin’s war with Ukraine.'
Lots of important reminders in here. I also feel ashamed that I have not protested my country’s wars in the way these Russians are doing so now.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Why Grammarly’s suggestions around writing about slavery miss the mark.'
I am just now learning about this and am glad for the article, but I’m not sure it hits all the deeper issues here.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook whistleblower hearing: France Haugen finally got Republicans to stop yapping about anti-conservative bias.'
Interesting article. I’m particularly interested in the idea of focusing on algorithms rather than content.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'How Wikipedia grew up with the war on terror.'
Great read on what’s become perhaps the most defensible platform on the social web (though Wikipedia certainly still has its problems).
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Beauty Surge, a new short story by Laura Maylene Walter.'
Very interesting speculative fiction.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'The Giftschrank offers a path for social media companies on content moderation transparency.'
Interesting proposal for a difficult issue.