Union busting at NYT
Leaked messages from New York Times (NYT) management reveal the paper's intent to obstruct #labor union organizing https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/01/leaked-messages-new-york-times-anti-union-strategy
Why anti-Muslim apps keep reappearing on GitHub https://restofworld.org/2022/why-anti-muslim-apps-keep-reappearing-on-github/
politics, facebook
*Facial recognition is used to wrongly arrest at least three Black people*
Facebook: Just needs tweaked a little
*Facial recognition is used to put Uyghurs in concentration camps*
Facebook: We can't be responsible for what people do with it
*Facial recognition is used to track down and convict J6 insurrectionists*
Facebook: WE'RE DELETING ALL THE DATA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/02/facebook-ends-facial-recognition/
Los trabajadores necesitan su soporte
https://twitter.com/jeffschuhrke/status/1441186676424904704?s=21
Facebook under fire over secret teen research https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58570353
So, there's this concept of "implicit feudalism" in online communities. Essentially, the vast majority of online communities - from old-school forums, to facebook groups, to large platforms like Twitter and Facebook themselves, even to fediverse instances - they're all run as dictatorships by default. It's built into the software - you'll have a top admin who has full, unconstrained power, they might delegate mods who have some limited powers, and anyone else has to listen to what these dictators and lords tell them. We talk about "federating" here in the fediverse, but each individual community - as far as I'm aware of - is a little dictatorship. A federation of dictatorships is not a free society, anymore than the UN, an international body composed of "liberal democracies" and authoritarian regimes is truly democratic. We need a way to start governing online communities through actual forms of democracy.
boosts++
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/
@Aleums So glad the missile targeting systems recognize my gender 🌈 finally some equity
Gaza-based journalists say their accounts blocked by WhatsApp https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/25/israel-blocks-whatsapp-accounts-of-gaza-journalists
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