The Guardian
The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social media.
Bluesky may make those feeds more congenial, but it won’t change the fact that we are still reduced to communicating in channels with a bandwidth not much wider than that of smoke signals.
Tags: #english #social_media #mastodon #bluesky #x #twitter #algorithm #democracy
Download #eBook - pdf: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5721/Algorithms-of-ResistanceThe-Everyday-Fight-against
Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic materials and perspectives from both the Global North and South, authors Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré explore how people appropriate and reconfigure algorithms to pursue their objectives in three domains of everyday life: gig work, cultural industries, and politics. They reveal how forms of algorithmic agency and resistance are endemic and mundane and how the platform society is a contested battleground of contrasting forces.
#knowledge #algorithm #web #www #software #technology #internet #economy
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the #internet, operates.
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Either you ban algorithmic timelines or you ban government spying. But if you only ban TikTok, the #propaganda will still reach us via the other networks ...
TikTok ban in the United States: https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/explaining-why-officials-want-to-ban-tiktok-in-the-united-states/article_2f1c3092-0baa-11ef-8c02-df0aeedefee3.html
#news #censorship #politics #China #USA #algorithm #software #socialNetwork #internet #problem #law #surveillance #economy
Pursuing Instagrammability is a trap: the fast growth that comes with adopting a recognisable template, whether for a physical space or purely digital content, gives way to the daily grind of keeping up posts and figuring out the latest twists of the algorithm – which hashtags, memes or formats need to be followed. Digital platforms take away agency from the #business owners, pressuring them to follow in lockstep rather than pursue their own creative whims.
#instagram #socialMedia #media #internet #follower #economy #Meta #influencer #customer #marketing #problem #fail
"It makes visible the #connection between an #engineer training an #algorithm in the #UK, a miner extracting #tantalum in #Kazakhistan, an engineer in #Mexico working in a #data centre, a #worker in #Taiwan #manufacturing GPUs and a worker in #Kenya dismantling e-waste"
source: https://twitter.com/ana_valdi/status/1747200486392950785
#economy #technology #supplyChain #resources #globalization #internet #software #hardware #gpu #labour #map #news
source: https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488
To judge by social #media, the world is divided between good and evil. No nuances, no context, no gray areas. Thus, to truly eradicate evil one must make a clear cut and choose a side: you’re either with the victim or you’re with the perpetrator.
Sadly, this blanket refusal to acknowledge complexity is intensified by the algorithmically induced cycles of engagement / enragement. The more extreme your position, the more tweetable or instagramable it becomes, and the more likely it is to be shared and go viral. And conversely, the more nuanced and devoid of catchy slogans your stated position is, the more it gets suppressed by the #algorithm.
#Hamas #Palestine #Israel #war #terror #socialmedia #society #politics #news
Source: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/
The company enacted a strict zero tolerance policy for drivers returning to the depot with bottles of piss in their vans.
That's where Butler comes in: the roads leading to Amazon delivery depots are lined with bottles of piss thrown out of delivery vans by drivers who don't want to lose their jobs, which made harvesting the raw material for "Release Energy" a straightforward matter.
#humanRights #economy #policy #satire #algorithm #trade #internet #news
source: https://autonomousweapons.org
Algorithms are incapable of comprehending the value of human #life, and so should never be empowered to decide who lives and who dies. Indeed, the United Nations Secretary General #AntónioGuterres agrees that “machines with the power and discretion to take lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant and should be prohibited by international law.”
Mankind would be well advised if its technology did not overtake its ethics.
#humanRights #future #technology #drones #military #security #AI #humanity #morality #ethics #morals #uno #problem #software #algorithm #terror #war #conflict #Slaughterbot #robot #weapon
The algorithm was able to track how much Amazon’s power in the e-commerce field would get competitors to move their prices, and in instances in which competitors didn’t move their prices, the algorithm would return Amazon’s prices back down, according to the Journal.
(I don't link to the original source the "Wall Street Journal" because of the paywall.)
Amazon is #neoliberalism in its final stage. It is no longer about manufacturing #costs and fair prices, but only about how to eliminate the #competition with low prices or how high you can rip off your own customers.
#economy #fail #customer #price #online #marketplace #internet #scam #crime #ftc #news #technology #business
I didn't know this formula existed. It was published in 1964 but if you look at it carefully, it's not a formula as such, it's actually an #algorithm coded into some nifty #maths. It gets excruciatingly slow for even modest values on n, when n represents the nth prime. I've written it as a #maxima code below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5s0h42GfvM
#WillansFormula #Mathematics #PrimeNumbers
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prime(n):=1+sum(floor((n/sum(floor(cos(%pi*(factorial(j-1)+1)/j)^2),j,1,i))^(1/n)),i,1,2^n);
source: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/60573-silicon-valley
The series is about a group of nerds creating a startup around a compression algorithm they developed. It is mentioned several times that compression is lossless and applicable to everything. Such a thing is not mathematically possible. It's a comedy series, so clichés are used and characters are exaggerated so their weaknesses can be used for jokes. Putting the fun aside, you still get a good insight into how hard it is to get funding even with a brilliant idea. Competitors try to copy your business model or hostilely take over your company. Of course, I can understand the fascination of being #CEO of your own company and that many people want to become like their role model Steve Jobs. However, for 99% of all nerds, the position of #CTO is much better suited and more in line with their skills. However, for 99% of all nerds, the position of CTO is much better suited and more in line with their skills. In the Incubator, for example, there is a Chinese man at the beginning with absurd ideas for an app, who then develops into a mafia boss over the course of the seasons. Well shown when you look behind the comedy though is the stress and the many failures and product changes you have to endure on the way up.
#entertainment #technology #comedy #humor #nerd #geek #computer #algorithm #software #economy #finance
