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Where the images of Cyberpunk futures and techno-futurist marketing offered us post-humanity, they have delivered new precarities of all-too-human suffering in the contemporary economy of 'self-employment' (Uber, Deliveroo, Fiverr, and the various 'micro work' industries which have people in refugee camps unknowingly moderate the data sets of predator drones).
Flatline Constructs
Mark Fisher, Adam Jones
It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.
Propaganda
Edward L. Bernays
Filternets are not precision-guided takedown machines; they're indiscriminate cluster-bombs that destroy anything in the vicinity of illegal speech – including (and *especially*) the best-informed, most informative discussions of how these systems go wrong, and how that blocks the complaints of the powerless, the marginalized, and the abused.
Copyright Takedowns Are a Cautionary Tale That Few Are Heeding
Cory Doctorow
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