Log
What I read, watched, listened to that I find noteworthy. Basically a list of links and quotes/comments. In no particular order, generally on top what I read/watched/listened to most recently (not when it was originally published).
“When you tell a lie convincingly and it’s such an absurd lie, most people’s automatic reaction is that they can’t comprehend a lie told on that scale, so they try to find the ‘golden mean’ between the statement and the reality. But that, Lobaczewski says, is the intention of the big lie. They know it will sow confusion.” The impact on the population over which a dark personality presides is huge: some will try and find that golden mean; others will remain steadfast in calling it a lie and fall out with the first lot; others will try to adjust their own reality to make the lie true; while others will become inured to the new normal – that we just all lie now. [...]
[Essi Viding] “As I’ve done this research for 20-plus years now, I have increasingly started to think we really need to understand more about how we can inoculate people against being victimised. Because based on the literature, and what little I know about evolutionary and cross-cultural psychology, we are very unlikely to weed these traits out.”
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’ - The Guardian
Adira says she is not getting paid by an agency – instead she is chasing money from Meta, which can pay for content engagement through its creator program. Nor, she claims, is she getting instructions about which campaigns to post about. [...] She is part of Indonesia’s infamous “buzzer” economy – accounts that amplify certain messages on social media, usually while hiding their financial incentives.
Inside a meme factory: meet one of thousands of Indonesians trading political outrage clicks for Facebook cash - The Guardian
The problem with buying from any of the above is the incentive underneath the label. When a brand changes hands this many times, the name becomes the product and the pan becomes a cost to be managed beneath it: thinner steel here, an offshored handle there, a warranty rewritten by lawyers instead of engineers, and so on ...
Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose - Worse on purpose
Now, the hectobillionaires have begun their final assault on the last, best parts of what's still open, and likely won't rest until they've either brought all of the independent and noncommercial parts of the Internet under their control, or destroyed them.
Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
"Why should we be paying for this infrastructure? Why should we be paying for their power bills?"
We did the math on AI's energy footprint. Here's the story you haven't heard. - MIT Technology Review