On 1/29/21 10:34 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Maybe google sends mail to spam when it can't figure out how to > monetize it, thus encouraging me to get a more exploitable life?
Great bumper sticker... Get an exploitableLife! > > -- rec -- > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:49 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Well, there's evil, and there's Evil. This thread, including > RussA's implicit confirmation of Marcus' point about fora > rigidity, dovetails nicely with the [ab|mis]use thread and Nick's > trope about ancillary vs primary effects. The scammers, themselves > not necessarily their children, are Evil ... but we can empathize > if they're doing it because the world is a harsh and complex > place. You gotta make money somehow. They're simply doing what we > tell them they have to do. > > Lurkers are opaque. Presumably, Google is a lurker on every clear > text email you send through their platform, including this one. > But I haven't really noticed any targeted marketing, perhaps > because I use their IMAP interface, not the web interface? So even > if they're using this content to profile and target people, it's > merely little-e evil and I (perhaps falsely) understand why > they're lurking. They're a for-profit business. It's a way to > extract money. You gotta make money somehow. Google is simply > doing what we tell them they have to do. > > But individual lurkers are much harder to guess about. The opacity > doesn't bother me, personally. It's none of my business what > others think of me. (Similarly, to quote Fleetwood Mac, don't ask > me what I think of you. I might not give the answer that you want > me to.) But it does seem to be important to some. My advice is to > treat this like a traditional medium. Each post is something you'd > be willing to print out and nail to the telephone pole downtown. > Any other conception seems like magical thinking. > > On 1/28/21 2:18 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > Of course it is criminal to do that. I used to think whenever > something is happening in nature it is either supper or pairing > time. Now I tend to think whenever something is happening it is > something selfish. Or evil. There is so much evil in this world, > isn't it? > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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