Technology
In Defense of Recommendation Algorithms
The feed is everyone’s favorite villain. The alternative was an unsorted firehose, and we forget how fast we begged for the algorithm back.
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Your Data Isn’t Worth What You Think
The “data is the new oil” panic assumes your clicks are treasure someone is stealing. Individually they’re worth a fraction of a cent, and the real asset was never you.
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Software Isn’t Free
The largest public-goods experiment in history is paid for by advertising and resented most by the people who benefit most from it.
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Your Phone Isn’t Listening to You
The targeted-ad coincidence feels like proof your microphone is always on. The truth is more boring and more unsettling: nobody needs to listen to know.
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Technologos
Discourses on technology, culture, and society.
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Technologos
Discourses on technology,
culture, and society.
culture, and society.
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