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imagine trusting the government to handle your data ethically

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« Drawing on an original online survey from 2019 (N = 1,500), representative of the Chinese online population, this study reveals that concerns about data collection by government are low, albeit modestly elevated among individuals who are ideologically not aligned with the state. By contrast, concerns over data collection by companies are both extensive and consensual across key socio-structural and ideological divides. Surprisingly, the combination of government and commercially collected personal information does not multiply concerns. Thus, the Chinese authoritarian information state is perceived as a safety device for, rather than a threat to, citizens’ personal information. Extensive state interventions in the digital economy converge with broadly shared popular concerns about corporate information privacy practices. » firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/

sometimes i see people with a lot of energy and i’m like… who didn’t hurt you

oh, you mean PODCAST interview not like, interview interview

this is a post about design but also about a great many other things

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almost by definition you have to make something knowable before you input it into the computer

so if you don't know, i recommend trying without a computer first

people using machines to create problems for other people

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« The volume of these answers (thousands) and the fact that the answers often require a detailed read by someone with at least some subject matter expertise in order to determine that the answer is actually bad has effectively swamped our volunteer-based quality curation infrastructure. »

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@aescling spotted in a duckduckgo search result…… there was a lot of ground covered by that ellipsis lol

@coriander it’s so annoying dealing with liberals because they think you can’t simultaneously be human and evil and use evidence of the former as evidence against the latter

@coriander @aescling “sure, there’s some ‘rebel’ stuff in andor but can we talk about its female characters??”

@coriander @aescling “damn quick they tricked disney into putting out antifascist materials again we gotta spin this to liberalism somehow”

« Can tentacle porn be feminist? ... Are your humours bent out of shape? »

clearly it was actually thousands of smaller ghasts

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i don’t know how anyone could believe in Marx, the man literally thought a giant ghost was haunting Europe

@aescling you don’t have to have earthshattering takes to speak about the sonic franchise; the most important takes are plainly obvious. however, you do still have to make them

why is nobody making them

guys?

in fact i don’t think this story is “brilliant”, i think it is entirely mundane, which is why it is necessary for us to discuss its contents

i do want to read Marx’s writings on historical materialism the Communist Manifesto is just a little more relevant to me right now

@aescling TECHNICALLY that is anarcho-communism but it's the kind of anarcho-communism which views power structures inherent in successful labour organizing as an unqualified good insofar as it is effective

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