[nonostantement #64] - facebook manipulation / amazon firing you with a software / artists' friends more important than art
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Sand Castles II by Markel Redondo
[Video] - People are Manipulating You on Facebook - Smarter Every Day 215
the camera in the mirror
"Google’s street view camera taking photos of itself in mirrors."Amazon's warehouse-worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement
"Amazon employs a system that not only tracks warehouse workers’ productivity but also can automatically fire them for failing to meet expectations.
Amazon confirmed that it fired hundreds of people for productivity reasons in just one facility over one year’s time."How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout
"[...] some researchers from the Belgian university KU Leuven have just shown that you can often hide from an AI video system with the aid of a simple color printout."When a Country Bans Social Media
"Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible?"Study Finds Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work
"Ingram and his colleague Mitali Banerjee, of HEC Paris, examined the role that creativity and social networks played for artists, in relationship to the level of fame they achieved. In a 2018 paper, they relayed their findings—including that for successful artists, making friends may be more important than producing novel art."Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls, Once a Secret Society, Now Prance in Public
"For years, a subculture of teenage hobbyhorse enthusiasts flourished under the radar. Now the craze is a national export, and a celebration of girlhood."
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