Re: Mechanical Turkish

2018-01-27 Thread Morlock Elloi
Agree. It's about machine-mediated 'socializing', not about who runs it. As I mentioned earlier, open sourcing/democratizing the dystopia is not solving anything - it might even make it worse. On 1/27/18, 14:24, Florian Cramer wrote: Thanks for sharing this. None of the issues described in

Re: Mechanical Turkish

2018-01-27 Thread Florian Cramer
Thanks for sharing this. None of the issues described in this write-up can be blamed on the corporate ownership of the currently popular social media. If people used Open Source, community-owned and community-run social media instead (like, for example, Mastodon or diaspora), there would be the

Mechanical Turkish

2018-01-27 Thread Morlock Elloi
TL;DR: Fb extracts ethical decisions from its digital precariat humanness deposits at the rate of one decision every 22 seconds (that's 0.045 decisions/sec.) (from https://sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/46820/Three-months-in-hell ) Germany has become one of Facebook's most