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"Outcomes are paradoxically more stable under the minority rule — the variance of the results is lower and the rule is more likely to be emerge independently across populations.

What emerges from the minority rule is more likely to be be black-and-white."

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"We argue the funhouse mirror nature of social media can be pernicious for individuals and society by increasing pluralistic ignorance and false polarization." (osf.io)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/175602

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Cheap and toxic - The dark side of mass-produced fashion jewelry from China | DW Documentary (www.youtube.com)

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"...as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely" (harpers.org)

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Israel-Hezbollah Conflict - Channel 5 (www.youtube.com)

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"The point of the "gig economy" is to use the "did it with an app" trick to avoid labor laws, so that bosses can shift risks onto workers, because capitalists hate capitalism" (pluralistic.net)

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"We're stuck in a world where the purse strings and the levers of power are held almost entirely by these absolute dunces." (deadsimpletech.com)

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AI models are “Out of date before we finish building them”; they then get steadily worse over a quite short period of time, with the “End Of Life”(EoL) measured in months at most (www.schneier.com)

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"...consider the sheer scale of the societal ratfucking happening on almost every single device in the world" (www.wheresyoured.at)

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"...average Americans are far less ideologically polarized than they think they are – and misconceptions around polarization are greatest among the most politically engaged people" (www.theguardian.com)

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"...it’s a little like Samuel Johnson’s comment about a dog walking on its hind legs: we are impressed not by the quality of the walking but by the fact it can walk that way at all." (Brian Eno on AI) (www.bostonreview.net)

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"The crucial mechanism, what would allow the creation of tools which empower humans to act without warping our desires and indeed our natures, is to cut this channel of feedback..." (kevinmunger.substack.com)

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"...tech industry has become oriented around a dead-end technology that requires burning billions of dollars to provide inessential products that cost more money to serve than anybody would ever pay" (www.wheresyoured.at)

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"Higher levels of education are associated with being less likely to believe oneself to be right-wing, whilst simultaneously associated with being in favour of increased inequality." (musaalgharbi.substack.com)

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By journalistic deontology we believe that we are moral decency’s last levy, the self-appointed guardians of the Delphic pithy. We don’t report the news; we package them as nice suppositories. (observer.com)

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"No matter which demon you sell to, it all ends up in the devil’s pocket." (christopherferan.com)

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"...producers in Kenya are removed from the commercial market, their coffee passing through a Byzantine and colonial export system that centralizes sales through an auction system with exporters in the position of greatest power, sacrificing traceability and financial transparency along the way."

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"To be mature now is to fend off any incursions of the world on the self. The central task of the therapeutic system is to suspend this state indefinitely..." (americanaffairsjournal.org)

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"...setting up a (Bluesky) Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and even the smaller JSON version of the data is growing by around 18 GB a day" (from before the X-odus, it's more now) (anderegg.ca)

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