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
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
google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to spotify, microsoft & others gafam, google, technology https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/google-brings-its-new-domains-to-the-rest-of-the-web-including-to-spotify-microsoft-others/?guccounter=1
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
technologist stephen wolfram puts a pin in social media information bubbles facebook, fail, gafam, google, hope, hopelessness, know, politic, privacy, technology https://adage.com/article/digital/technologist-stephen-wolfram-puts-pin-social-media-information-bubbles/2215766?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=adage&utm_content=a16f7e8d-ddb0-457a-89cf-cfa22ca52d91
police robot told woman to go away after she tried to report crime – then sang a song 1984, ai, bias, ethic, fail, technology Police robot told woman to go away after she tried to report crime – then sang a song