The obvious difference, though, is that the algorithm isn't pushing a line, it's *failing to push the one she wants pushed*.
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I think that's an interpretation of an interpretation. It may even be valid. But the question of "how does comparitively benign surfing generate these kinds of recommendation results" is, in itself, also valid.
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There's an Issue there, yes. I'm confident (based on other threads I don't have to hand) that ZT is a bad actor here and has nothing constructive to add, except as an example of the problem.
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I probably agree. But I don't think anyone's going to examine it dispassionately at this point. It's far too fraught, and the interrogation of social media is necessarily going to be about some kind of normative view of society.
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I don't grant people like her any more respect or inevitability than I granted Jerry Falwell.
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Falwell lost. Mary Whitehouse lost. But this kind of syrupy malice needs to be clearly identified.
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Hi there, by the way. I'm Rhosyn/the Semiotechnician.
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Ah, so you're the most recent -1 to my Following: count.
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Yeah, probably. I know I've flipped the switch on that avatar a couple of times now. I *think* this is the last time, but who knows.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.