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Gig labor in university

mardi 12 octobre 2021 à 02:00

The University of Cambridge has resorted to gig labor for tutoring students.

Urgent: eliminate nuclear weapons

mardi 12 octobre 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: urge Biden to move for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Urgent: Prison Phone Justice Act

mardi 12 octobre 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Prison Phone Justice Act.

This would stop the price-gouging on prisoners' phone calls.

Urgent: not funding overturning election

mardi 12 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Everyone: call on GM, American Airlines, UPS and other companies not to fund the campaigns of Republicans that voted to overturn the election.

Celebrating freedom of speech

lundi 11 octobre 2021 à 02:00

Artist Shilpa Gupta still celebrates freedom of speech and poets who were imprisoned by tyranny.

Although I revile what people wish to say nowadays, I don't believe censorship can lead to anything but tyranny. Frances Haugen's explanation of Facebook's damage shows that the remedy for the harm that Facebook does is not in censoring specific categories of vicious things, such as QAnonsense, anti-vax, hatred and "Biden stole the election", but rather in prohibiting the recommendation algorithm that multiplies and propagates whatever gets the most response. As long as we allow that to continue, it will polarize society with irrationality along new dimensions.