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Tag: algorithmic cruelty

Pluralistic: 24 Jun 2021


Today's links

  • The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless: Kill it with fire.
  • This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Continue reading "Pluralistic: 24 Jun 2021"

Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 24, 2021June 23, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags algorithmic cruelty, education, human rights, invigilation, pedagogy, privacy, proctorio, scholarship1 Comment on Pluralistic: 24 Jun 2021

Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2021


Today's links

  • Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part one of five(ish).
  • The real cancel culture: Multiple-choice union-busting.
  • Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty: What technology does isn't as important as who it does it TO.
  • Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction: Books as artifacts.
  • This day in history: 2011, 2016
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Continue reading "Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2021"

Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 6, 2021April 6, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags ad-tech, algorithmic cruelty, antitrust, audiobooks, books, digital phrenology, folio society, gift guide, how to destroy surveillance capitalism, htsdc, labor, memory, monopolism, personality tests, philip k dick, pkd, podcasts, social media, surveillance capitalism, trustbusting3 Comments on Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2021

Previous editions

  • Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025)
  • Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 May 2025)
  • Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet? Part III (19 May 2025)
  • Pluralistic: Plinkpump linkdump (17 May 2025)
  • Pluralistic: Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule (15 May 2025)
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