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‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
David Streitfeld, The New York Times
The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.
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The Dangers of Reading in Bed
The Dangers of Reading in Bed
Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic
People feared that solitary reading … fostered a private, fantasy life that would threaten the collective.
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IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs
IBM Tells Thousands of Remote Employees to Come Back to Office or Find New Jobs
Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica
While selling benefits of “telework” to others, IBM forces relocation in stealth layoff.
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The Enslaved Woman They Called Lola
The Enslaved Woman They Called Lola
Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic
Enslavement is a process, not an identity. The use of the word “slave” obscures that fact.
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Amazon Made a Small Change to the Way It Sells Books. Publishers Are Terrified.
Amazon Made a Small Change to the Way It Sells Books. Publishers Are Terrified.
Constance Grady, Vox
Here’s what happens to your money when you buy a book through Amazon but from a third-party seller: Amazon gets 15 percent of the total sales price, including shipping, plus a flat rate of $1.85 per item. The rest goes to the third-party seller. Not a single cent goes to the publisher, which means nothing goes to the author — but Amazon has made a profit either way, and without having to shoulder the expense of shipping and warehousing.
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Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Crippled U.S. Spying Operations
Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo, Michael S. Schmidt, & Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times
The Chinese government systematically dismantled C.I.A. spying operations in the country starting in 2010, killing or imprisoning more than a dozen sources over two years and crippling intelligence gathering there for years afterward.
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If You Want to Glimpse the Power of AI, Play These Games
If You Want to Glimpse the Power of AI, Play These Games
Paul Sarconi, Wired
Google made on thing abundantly clear at this week’s big I/O developer conference: It is an AI-first company now. The brass spent hours explaining how artificial intelligence will touch every product—Google Lens! A new AI chip! Smart Reply! Heady stuff for sure. But Google already offers a simple, ridiculously fun way of understanding what this future holds: games.
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These Are the Arguments Against Net Neutrality — and Why They're Wrong
These Are the Arguments Against Net Neutrality — and Why They’re Wrong
Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch
The next few months will be full of bitter dissent regarding the FCC’s net neutrality rules, how they should be enforced, and indeed whether they should exist at all.