#Byte Me #20: Correctile dysfunction, Rihanna, and LinkedIncels

#Byte Me #20: Correctile dysfunction, Rihanna, and LinkedIncels

“#Byte Me #20: Correctile dysfunction, Rihanna, and LinkedIncels” Subscribe to our monthly Byte Me newsletter NOW! Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Sorry we missed last month’s edition! We were swamped with TNW2020 which was a gorgeous success. In the meantime, Cara and Gigi have been obsessively inhaling The Handmaid’s Tale, and Anouk fell off…

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#Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle

#Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle

“#Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle” Recent decisions by Facebook and YouTube to crack down on the far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon will disrupt the ability of dangerous online communities to spread their radical messages, but it won’t stop them completely. The announcement by Facebook…

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#Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030

#Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030

“#Why software developers might be obsolete by 2030” In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted we’d be having 15-hour workweeks by the end of the century. But by the time it was 2013, it was clear the great economist had gotten something wrong. Welcome to the era of bullshit jobs, as anthropologist David Graeber coined it. Since the 1930s,…

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#By censoring The Post, Big Tech is begging for big-time reform

#By censoring The Post, Big Tech is begging for big-time reform

“#By censoring The Post, Big Tech is begging for big-time reform” The increasing brazenness with which the various Big Tech behemoths distort their search algorithms to hide conservative viewpoints, undermine conservatives through “shadow banning” and weaponize the sanctimonious and self-serving “fact-checking” cottage industry to suppress conservative voices has long been clear. The 2017 dismissal of…

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