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recent bookmarks from jmYelp, The Red Hen, And How All Tech Platforms Are Now Pawns In The Culture War2018-06-26T10:08:52+00:00
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/yelp-the-red-hen-and-how-all-tech-platforms-are-now-pawns#.hgVAmWjZ2
jmThough the brigading of review sites and doxxing behavior isn’t exactly new, the speed and coordination is; one consequence of a never-ending information war is that everyone is already well versed in their specific roles. And across the internet, it appears that technology platforms, both big and small, must grapple with the reality that they are now powerful instruments in an increasingly toxic political and cultural battle. After years attempting to dodge notions of bias at all costs, Silicon Valley’s tech platforms are up against a painful reality: They need to expect and prepare for the armies of the culture war and all the uncomfortable policing that inevitably follows.
Policing and intervening isn’t just politically tricky for the platforms, it’s also a tacit admission that Big Tech’s utopian ideologies are deeply flawed in practice. Connecting everyone and everything in an instantly accessible way can have terrible consequences that the tech industry still doesn’t seem to be on top of. Silicon Valley frequently demos a future of seamless integration. It’s a future where cross-referencing your calendar with Yelp, Waze, and Uber creates a service that’s greater than the sum of its parts. It’s an appealing vision, but it is increasingly co-opted by its darker counterpart, in which major technology platforms are daisy-chained together to manipulate, abuse, and harass.
]]>culture-war technology silicon-valley yelp reviews red-hen dystopia spam doxxing brigading politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b5575d03e737/I Just Love This Juicero Story So Much2017-04-20T20:04:04+00:00
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-just-love-this-juicero-story-so-much-1794459898
jmWhen we signed up to pump money into this juice company, it was because we thought drinking the juice would be a lot harder and more expensive. That was the selling point, because Silicon Valley is a stupid libertarian dystopia where investor-class vampires are the consumers and a regular person’s money is what they go shopping for. Easily opened bags of juice do not give these awful nightmare trash parasites a good bargain on the disposable income of credulous wellness-fad suckers; therefore easily opened bags of juice are a worse investment than bags of juice that are harder to open.
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