zecg@lemmy.worldM · 11 days agoCheap and toxic - The dark side of mass-produced fashion jewelry from China | DW Documentarywww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCheap and toxic - The dark side of mass-produced fashion jewelry from China | DW Documentarywww.youtube.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 11 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 16 days ago"...as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely"plus-squareharpers.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"...as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely"plus-squareharpers.orgzecg@lemmy.worldM · 16 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 16 days agoIsrael-Hezbollah Conflict - Channel 5www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkIsrael-Hezbollah Conflict - Channel 5www.youtube.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 16 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 17 days ago"The point of the "gig economy" is to use the "did it with an app" trick to avoid labor laws, so that bosses can shift risks onto workers, because capitalists hate capitalism"plus-squarepluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"The point of the "gig economy" is to use the "did it with an app" trick to avoid labor laws, so that bosses can shift risks onto workers, because capitalists hate capitalism"plus-squarepluralistic.netzecg@lemmy.worldM · 17 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 19 days ago"We're stuck in a world where the purse strings and the levers of power are held almost entirely by these absolute dunces."plus-squaredeadsimpletech.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"We're stuck in a world where the purse strings and the levers of power are held almost entirely by these absolute dunces."plus-squaredeadsimpletech.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 19 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 19 days agoAI models are “Out of date before we finish building them”; they then get steadily worse over a quite short period of time, with the “End Of Life”(EoL) measured in months at mostplus-squarewww.schneier.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAI models are “Out of date before we finish building them”; they then get steadily worse over a quite short period of time, with the “End Of Life”(EoL) measured in months at mostplus-squarewww.schneier.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 19 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 19 days ago"...consider the sheer scale of the societal ratfucking happening on almost every single device in the world"plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"...consider the sheer scale of the societal ratfucking happening on almost every single device in the world"plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atzecg@lemmy.worldM · 19 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 22 days ago"...average Americans are far less ideologically polarized than they think they are – and misconceptions around polarization are greatest among the most politically engaged people"plus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"...average Americans are far less ideologically polarized than they think they are – and misconceptions around polarization are greatest among the most politically engaged people"plus-squarewww.theguardian.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 22 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 26 days ago"...it’s a little like Samuel Johnson’s comment about a dog walking on its hind legs: we are impressed not by the quality of the walking but by the fact it can walk that way at all." (Brian Eno on AI)plus-squarewww.bostonreview.netexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"...it’s a little like Samuel Johnson’s comment about a dog walking on its hind legs: we are impressed not by the quality of the walking but by the fact it can walk that way at all." (Brian Eno on AI)plus-squarewww.bostonreview.netzecg@lemmy.worldM · 26 days agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month ago"The crucial mechanism, what would allow the creation of tools which empower humans to act without warping our desires and indeed our natures, is to cut this channel of feedback..."plus-squarekevinmunger.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"The crucial mechanism, what would allow the creation of tools which empower humans to act without warping our desires and indeed our natures, is to cut this channel of feedback..."plus-squarekevinmunger.substack.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month ago"...tech industry has become oriented around a dead-end technology that requires burning billions of dollars to provide inessential products that cost more money to serve than anybody would ever pay"plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"...tech industry has become oriented around a dead-end technology that requires burning billions of dollars to provide inessential products that cost more money to serve than anybody would ever pay"plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atzecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month ago"Higher levels of education are associated with being less likely to believe oneself to be right-wing, whilst simultaneously associated with being in favour of increased inequality."plus-squaremusaalgharbi.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"Higher levels of education are associated with being less likely to believe oneself to be right-wing, whilst simultaneously associated with being in favour of increased inequality."plus-squaremusaalgharbi.substack.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month agoBy journalistic deontology we believe that we are moral decency’s last levy, the self-appointed guardians of the Delphic pithy. We don’t report the news; we package them as nice suppositories.plus-squareobserver.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBy journalistic deontology we believe that we are moral decency’s last levy, the self-appointed guardians of the Delphic pithy. We don’t report the news; we package them as nice suppositories.plus-squareobserver.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · edit-21 month ago"No matter which demon you sell to, it all ends up in the devil’s pocket."plus-squarechristopherferan.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"No matter which demon you sell to, it all ends up in the devil’s pocket."plus-squarechristopherferan.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · edit-21 month agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month ago"To be mature now is to fend off any incursions of the world on the self. The central task of the therapeutic system is to suspend this state indefinitely..."plus-squareamericanaffairsjournal.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"To be mature now is to fend off any incursions of the world on the self. The central task of the therapeutic system is to suspend this state indefinitely..."plus-squareamericanaffairsjournal.orgzecg@lemmy.worldM · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months ago"...setting up a (Bluesky) Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and even the smaller JSON version of the data is growing by around 18 GB a day" (from before the X-odus, it's more now)plus-squareanderegg.caexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"...setting up a (Bluesky) Relay requires around 4.5 TB of disk space, and even the smaller JSON version of the data is growing by around 18 GB a day" (from before the X-odus, it's more now)plus-squareanderegg.cazecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agoDon DeLillo Documentary (BBC)www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDon DeLillo Documentary (BBC)www.youtube.comzecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months ago"We — users of products — are at war with the products we’re using and the people that make them. And right now, we’re losing."plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"We — users of products — are at war with the products we’re using and the people that make them. And right now, we’re losing."plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atzecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months ago‘if the sudden halving of people and the doubling of everything else is not potentially revolutionary, what is?’plus-squarewww.lrb.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link‘if the sudden halving of people and the doubling of everything else is not potentially revolutionary, what is?’plus-squarewww.lrb.co.ukzecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
zecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agoLaboratory Greece (2019)plus-squarewww.filmsforaction.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLaboratory Greece (2019)plus-squarewww.filmsforaction.orgzecg@lemmy.worldM · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
