zalando defends system of ranking staff like online products dystopia, ethic, fail, hopelessness, know, surveillance, technology https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zalando-workers-idUSKBN1XU1LC
russian cows get VR headsets ‘to reduce anxiety’ 1984, deepfake, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, know, technology, wtf https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50571010
the great white robot god – artificial general intelligence and white supremacy 1984, ai, bias, dystopia, ethic, hopelessness, know, psychology, technology https://medium.com/@davidgolumbia/the-great-white-robot-god-bea8e23943da
MIT system helps predict people’s driving personalities 1984, ai, know, technology https://www.techrepublic.com/article/mit-system-helps-predict-peoples-driving-personalities/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&taid=5ddd7ff99007110001d30e20&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+New+Content+(Feed)&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
google fires four workers, including staffer tied to protest 1984, ethic, google, hopelessness, know, surveillance https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/google-fires-four-employees-citing-data-security-violations
these hugely popular local news sites in the us and canada are fake 1984, fakenews, hopelessness, know, marketing, psychology, technology https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton
web creator tim berners-lee launches plan to ‘fix’ the internet hope, hopelessness, know, technology https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/25/tim-berners-lee-launches-contract-for-the-web-to-fix-the-internet.html?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1574701094
somehow facebook’s facial recognition was even creepier than we thought 1984, ai, dystopia, ethic, facebook, hopelessness, know, privacy, technology https://mashable.com/article/facebook-facial-recognition-app-privacy/?europe=true
how the iranian government shut off the internet 1984, censorship, know, politic https://www.wired.com/story/iran-internet-shutoff/
146 new vulnerabilities all come preinstalled on android phones android, fail, google, know, privacy, surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/146-bugs-preinstalled-android-phones/