by campbellmorgan on 5/22/17, 6:40 AM with 29 comments
by slededit on 5/23/17, 3:47 AM
Google has a similar problem, it returns what it thought I meant - the keywords seems to have only minor importance to the results. Searching for a non-tech term when it has a tech meaning is near impossible because google knows I'm a nerd.
by aphinity on 5/22/17, 10:24 PM
Given the state of nature that exists between large industrialized nations, each in incentivized to foment dysfunction in their rivals to slow them down economically. The more infighting in any given country, the more headaches present among citizens, the slower and more reluctant their economy becomes.
There's a slow, glacial, permanent grind that never goes away, because the world at large is trying to make you call in sick to work, so that they can gain some breathing room, and pump up their own economy.
Meanwhile, uncompetitive personality flaws get classified as mental illness, so that there's medical justification to ply you with productivity drugs. Take prescribed speed to perform for the economy. Take mood stabilizers so you don't snap at your co-workers. Take anti-anxiety meds for your impostor syndrome, and stop worrying about whether everyone hates you. They're all just cranky from the speed and psychological operations of global superpowers trying to slow us down.
by supernumerary on 5/23/17, 12:20 AM
Regarding algorithmic doppelgangers and how we govern them (Zuckerberg 2020) this is a good place to start:
https://iainmait.land/posts/20170418-algorithmic-governmenta...
by cousin_it on 5/23/17, 8:58 AM
by chillingeffect on 5/23/17, 1:47 PM
Until the digital ages, (cameras, print, now bits), these external representations decayed somewhat organically. With perfect copies, these images persist for others and for ourselves. It makes it harder to escape.
As others noted, yes, we have more potential to escape our self-created representations, but there's also a higher escape velocity.
by mmiliauskas on 5/23/17, 6:22 AM
by pmoriarty on 5/22/17, 10:20 PM
[1] - https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
by panic on 5/22/17, 11:58 PM
If anything, Facebook has sacrificed some of its identity-shaping power in exchange for more engagement and ad sales. People are moving more of their real social interaction to other places, leaving Facebook to be mostly a source of news and updates from casual acquaintances.
by Pxtl on 5/23/17, 12:35 AM
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Are they actually blaming clinical depression on personal freedom and social mobility?