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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      Giants buy up all the startups (see Facebook->WhatsApp) and talent. Also depletes academy & critical research. Only intra-giant competition. https://twitter.com/ceciliakang/status/922259919360884736 …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

      The current start-up tactic is rarely competing with anyone, it is to be acquired and not at seven figures since that's available as salary.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

      Academy remains the one place people with this kind of talent do research for the public good. But hard to compete with big money and data.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

      Meanwhile, truly, some of the greatest minds of our generation are trying to figure out how to make people click on ads—as one ex-FBer said.

      6 replies 71 retweets 141 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

      That ad infrastructure being built is also the infrastructure for surveillance authoritarianism. Will it happen here? Don't be so sure.

      2 replies 33 retweets 68 likes
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

      Anyone who is so sure that it won't happen here should ask themselves how likely they thought Trump would be president—just two years ago.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          Companies great at tech with obviously poor at understanding of people or history are building a giant, dangerous infrastructure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

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          Very talented in one, albeit quite narrow domain. Enticed by money & research. Wish more used talent for public good https://twitter.com/IntegralWorks/status/922453106813743104 …

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          Look, AI advances aren't hype. Every week is mind-blowing. And the harms of our new information infrastructure are already wide and deep.

          2 replies 10 retweets 32 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          Yes, there is a lot of good here. But in history, good and horrible aren't scalar operations. Don't cancel each other out, leave only a net.

          1 reply 8 retweets 28 likes
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          The downsides have already destabilized nations; fueled ethnic cleansing; hollowed out crucial institutions without time to adjust. No joke.

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          If you're a key tech person in one of these companies, dreaming of all the good: odds of the harms turning everything upside down are high.

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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          Not everyone gets a chance to help shape history for the better—or much worse. People with leverage at tech companies are in that position.

          1 reply 12 retweets 33 likes
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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted tse

          I'm in favor of redistributive policies. SV folk who think UBI is the answer don't understand ppl or current moment.https://twitter.com/tse_____/status/922456037449502722 …

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          Any thoughts on basic income
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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Rabbi Josh Yuter

          Wonder what happened, say, to Microsoft. And even after that, and despite their product, still dominant in segments.https://twitter.com/JYuter/status/922456680260136960 …

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          People said the same re MS, IBM, etc. back in the day. Google, Amazon, FB managed to become giants themselves. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/922449970514550784 …
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        11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Armin Rosen

          Just like people forgot what somewhat weakened Microsoft's monopoly (anti-trust), many in denial about their jobs.https://twitter.com/ArminRosen/status/922459454129541120 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Armin Rosen @ArminRosen
          I wonder how many of them (in media, say) don't even realize that that's their actual job https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/922452449146953734 …
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        12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          In media, too, readership was chased but there was at least a real public service ethos & structural guardrails. Not in Silicon Valley—yet.

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        13. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          2012: I said Facebook advantage WOULDN'T stay with pols Dems & tech liked—ppl howled. Surveillance/Ad. Infrastructure. Won't. Stay. Benign.

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        14. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Oct 2017

          I was able to do early warnings—and people thought I was nuts—because I study people and history. The current moment is terribly dangerous.

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