May seem trivial, but its my corner: tech companies should immediately go to end-to-end encryption and ponder alternative financial models.
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People long warned about the surveillance-industrial complex (now in new hands) and click-bait algorithms (which fuel misinformation).
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Perhaps the most informative chart (2012 elex). Among other things, the level of non-voting among almost all groups shows striking mistrust.pic.twitter.com/0D6ZbxdT2p
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No, this doesn't happen in a vacuum—but social media, esp. Facebook & Twitter, wildly amplified this method/message. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse/ …pic.twitter.com/6v2EZkFvE7
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If I had a magic wand, I'd nix all the either/or analyses—which I believe blinded people to dynamics before the election, and still do now.
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Facebook's algorithm is central to how news & information is consumed in the world today, and no historian will write about 2016 without it.
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Twitter OTOH was key to the echo chambers that fuel extremism and fool punditry—but also the internal bickering that paralyzes movements.
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the odd part is that both total unemployment, numbers for middle aged white men, is at historic lows. And these are good jobs
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@AureliaCotta No. Unemployment number misses the despair *for the future* people have post de-industrialization. It's the trendline.7 replies 4 retweets 19 likes -
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@AureliaCotta The response has been "your kids should learn to code!" Economic dislocation is real. It's not the only thing but its real.3 replies 3 retweets 24 likes
Oh, yeah, besides "learn to code", there was mumblings about universal-basic-income. Forget the politics of it: totally misses role of work.
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Role of work, or role of jobs? The distinction is important (though I'm no fan of UBI either, it's just shuffling chairs on Titanic)
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