Re: Critical literature on big tech corps?

Aloha, And to Ted's brilliant, if very literary (as usual) explanation, one might add Saskia Sassen's rejoinder in a recent interview that ours is not the digital age, as many think, but the age of finance. Plus ca change et ... plus ca change - while staying the same, sortof.

on Hybrid Systems

Follow up on colonizing the future: investigating the logic of hybrid systems. "While boundaries between people, machines and animals blur, intelligences proliferate creating monstrous confusion - it feeds into existential dread and opens up space for reactionary politics but also radical visions

Lessons from Amazon's Italian hub strike

casilli.fr Lessons from Amazon's Italian hub strike: industrial action that does not factor in both work AND data is doomed to be ineffective

Algorithmic and pathological children's videos

These are some speculations that were started by this article, "Something is wrong on the Internet" (https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2) about a phenomenon which I wasn't aware of and is apparently also quite new, exploitative clock-bait videos for

Re: Lessons from Amazon's Italian hub strike

Interesting points, but I believe that the relation between data and labour go in a further direction too. Data are of course used to feed the algorithms that organize work in the warehouse (i.e. choose the task that a “picker” will need to perform, and direct them through the barcode gun they

Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory (NYT)

Bwo Alberto Cammozzo Original to: By STEVAN DOJCINOVIC BELGRADE, Serbia — My country, Serbia, has become an unwilling laboratory for Facebook’s experiments on user behavior — and the independent, nonprofit

Re: Lessons from Amazon's Italian hub strike

Perhaps this will start to erode "I don't have anything to hide" ideology imposed on the hapless crowd to facilitate amputation of privacy. It's funny, in a way, that attempts, based on potential personal harms, to achieve awareness of individuals about the toxicity of organizations'