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swodinsky It gets even worse as OOH leaks digital advertising out into the real world and all its problems and incentives start becoming baked into physical reality. I've been thinking about this a lot recently in part because Shadow Kitchens have come to LIC and it's sort of wild...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky Not only is every food truck now a delivery hub, but every Bodega is three+ restaurants in the various delivery services and I've seen a trailer that sits in an empty parking lot every day with an outdoor portable toilet next to it, and it is also at least 3 restaurants.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky All these things are coming out of a need to optimize "interfaces" with the users of delivery services in the form of highly specific "restaurants" in another algorithmic problem with unintended side effects. It's about how they advertise on the services and to whom...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky So not only does this create worse conditions for labor out in the world, but it's changing my behavior as well. When the pandemic started a lot of places widened their delivery radius so I got to try food from Little Egypt or the award winning Indian place in Jackson Heights...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky I like trying new things normally, but now that I've realized what's going on I'm super hesitant to do so. I don't want to buy anything from a shadow kitchen, I'm checking locations and where normally I'd enjoy trying out a place few people have rated, now I hesitate...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky I wish about ordering from a place that is one thing but represents itself as another, and even that is stupid (when I go walking I'm seeing that pop up restaurant that uses to be at fleas or bars are now operating at Bodegas) but it's hard not to...On twitter.com
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swodinsky *worryPermalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky It's like when we talked about how targeted ad billboards on Ubers might change and create stratification around where riders drive. The scary thing is that the broken incentives of web advertising are now shaping our physical world and impacting our decision making logic...Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky It makes me terrified to think about a world where Google Glass was successful, or what that world will look like in the inevitable future of its return, which sucks b/c I used to think that sort of tech was going to be the cool future.Permalink On twitter.com
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swodinsky And that doesn't even get into how this increases the cost of doing business or the risk of operating a restaurant in all sorts of weird and creepy ways. Like how can physical restaurants compete in a high delivery world with near zero cost trailers and storage units?Permalink On twitter.com
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