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Race After Technology
Ruha Benjamin
Scott, though, believed in a more optimistic story. At one point, he told me, about seventy per cent of Americans worked in agriculture. Technological advances reduced those labor needs, and today just 1.2 per cent of the workforce farms. But that doesn’t mean there are millions of out-of-work farmers: many such people became truck drivers, or returned to school and became accountants, or found other paths. “Perhaps to a greater extent than any technological revolution preceding it, A.I. could be used to revitalize the American Dream,” Scott has written.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
When you subscribe to a Smart List, all the posts from the accounts on that list will show up at the top of your screen, as a feed. That’s the “firehose”, nothing removed. By default, Smart Lists you subscribe to also show up in your For You feed. **In For You, we only show the posts that have engagement (likes, reposts, replies), so you won’t see *all* the posts from that list, just the best ones**. That’s a super simple algorithm (“only show posts from this list that have at least 2 likes, replies or reposts”).
What’s This for You Feed? Is It Algorithmic?
Mammoth Blog
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