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Zuboff: The machinations of surveillance capitalism reduce you to a cog in the machine, a machine that feeds on the very self and pushes you to contribute ever more to its bosses. Me: *leans forward* Zuboff: Not at all like Ford's assembly line which was just great. Me:Permalink On twitter.com
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Zuboff: The leaders of Google manipulated politics to give themselves a lawless land in which they were free to do anything just like the Robber Barron of the Gilded Age. Me: *hold breath* Zuboff: 2 discrete unique situations that happen to align and tell us nothing in aligning.Permalink On twitter.com
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I am somewhat sympathetic to the capitalist objections to this book, not because I agree w/them but I think because, ironically, the same objection emerges when I read with a capitalist lens as with a socialist one: the specifics are novel, the way these systems work are not.Permalink On twitter.com
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(I know someone is going to be a pendent here, so tbc: the social and economic systems, not the literal machine learning based systems)On twitter.com
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