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When your boss is an algorithm
We live in a black box society where many of the decisions made about us are done by algorithms and machine learning models that are opaque, indecipherable, and unaccountable. This poses an existential threat to democracy, fairness, and arguably our ability to make a decent living.
#AxisOfEasy 155: Turns Out Half The Internet Has A Single-Point-of-Failure Called “Cloudflare”
Cloudflare outage takes out huge chunk of internet (but not easyDNS)…New Hong Kong law makes it illegal to dissent for anybody anywhere in the world…AxisOfEasy Salon #13: The “Phase shift” everybody is bracing for has already happened
Inequality Is America’s Monster Id
What they don’t understand is inequality is America’s Monster Id: the more you try to suppress it, the more powerful it becomes.The word privilege is much bandied about now. I’ve been writing about privilege for many years, and ended up …
Invisible enemies in a datafied society
The historical significance of this pandemic rests not just in the severity of the accompanying disease or the high rate of infection (fueled by superspreaders) but in the data being generated about and around the virus. This is the significance of the quantified or datafied society: seemingly everything is measured and monitored.
The Real Unemployment Rate is 21%–and Heading Higher
As businesses, agencies and organizations recalibrate to the reality that the V-shaped recovery was nothing but a brief fantasy, 6 million additional jobs lost may be a best-case scenario rather than the worst-case scenario.It is somewhat less than rea…
Welcome to the Crazed, Frantic Demise of Finance Capitalism
The cognitive dissonance required to ignore the widening gap between the real economy and the fraud’s basic machinery–speculation funded by “money” conjured out of thin air–has reached a level of denial that can only be termed psychotic.When scams st…
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