Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition
The New York Times: That gift was 250 pages’ worth of internal emails, in which Facebook’s executives are shown discussing ways to undermine their competitors, obscure their collection of user data and — above all — ensure that their products kept growing. Criminelen, zijn ’t. Maffiapraktijken en al.
Instagram Is the New Evite
The Atlantic met een artikel over tieners op Instagram: When teenagers are planning a big party, they’ll sometimes create a new Instagram account, often with a handle that includes the date of the party, like @Nov17partyy or @SarahsBdayOctober27. The account will be set to private, and its bio will list the date of the party […]
Why We Need to Audit Algorithms
Harvard Business Review: As AI moves from research environments to real-world decision environments, it goes from being a computer science challenge to becoming a business and societal challenge as well. Decades ago, adopting systems of governance and auditing helped ensure that businesses broadly reflected societal values. Let’s try replicate this success for AI.
Apple on the Champs-Elysées
Zotte nieuwe Apple Store in Parijs. Geweldige deep dive op Medium.
Reply All #130 The Snapchat Thief
Heerlijke aflevering: This week, a new Super Tech Support: after Lizzie’s Snapchat gets hacked, things start getting really creepy. Alex investigates. (via Tech45 #410)
Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history
The Economist: This transition away from public consumption of content on social networks to more private interactions is a substantial vulnerability for Facebook’s business. Mr Zuckerberg has acknowledged as much, comparing this transition to Facebook’s earlier shift from desktop computers to mobile and predicting that making money from stories and messaging “will take some time, […]
The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.
Mat Honan met de beste telefoonreview ooit: My neck hurts. I am never not looking down. When I am not looking at my phone, I become slightly anxious. And then, when I do actually look at it, I become even more so. It reminds me of how I once felt about cigarettes. I experience the […]
The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”
David James Swanson op Raptitude: That might have been the most interesting part of this experiment: when you add a small, immediate cost to unlocking your phone (in this case a twenty-second walk to the concourse), it suddenly isn’t worth doing. That says a lot about much we really value most of our impromptu screen […]
The End of Endings
Mooi gezegd: Canceled television shows are reinstated. Killed-off characters are resuscitated. Movies do not begin and end so much as they loiter onscreen. And social media is built for infinite scrolling. Nothing ends anymore, and it’s driving me insane.
Surveillance Kills Freedom By Killing Experimentation
Bruce Schneier op WIRED: We don’t yet know which subversive ideas and illegal acts of today will become political causes and positive social change tomorrow, but they’re around. And they require privacy to germinate. Take away that privacy, and we’ll have a much harder time breaking down our inherited moral assumptions.