A close look at China’s social credit system, which becomes mandatory in 2020. Straight out of Black Mirror.
«I imagine a future in which our clothes, music, film, art, books come with stickers like organic farmstand produce: Algorithm Free.» (full disclosure: as I’m writing this, I’m listening to music Spotify thinks I’ll like)
With its latest invention, Labo, Nintendo is bringing cardboards to life. This looks super fascinating.
When Facebook is not just a threat to people’s privacy, but to their lives.
A close look at the spying company that has been much better than Cambridge Analytica at staying in the shadows and that is arguably a lot more powerful. «An intelligence platform designed for the global War on Terror was weaponized against ordinary people at home.»
Here’s a feeling I have: I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg is a bad person, or driven by the wrong motives. However, he’s most certainly out of his depth when it comes to the societal implications of the behemoth he has created. Zeynep Tufekci tells the story of Facebook as a series of apologies.
I really like this Wikipedia approach to news: An explainer piece you can contribute to, both by asking the right questions and by providing answers. This one on Palantir’s links to Cambridge Analytica is far from comprehensive, but I’m pretty sure some among could contribute to make that happen.
«Unfortunately, ethics don’t scale as well as systems. We’ve poisoned ourselves, and more than a little.» After a week of revelations and (mostly) justified outrage over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, a proposal.
Never really thought about this, but it makes perfect sense: Why items in Amazon warehouses are shelved 100% randomly.
«The internet has enhanced our free speech in an imbalanced way: greater ease of reaching others with our speech has come at the expense of our freedom to speak without fear of reprisal.»