KevinC
1635
I hate that they refer to her as “Russian Instagram Influence” instead of “Recently graduated doctor”, but such is the world we live in, I suppose.
Nesrie
1636
Oh my God. Her poor parents.
It does seem a bit absurd that a runner up Ms. Russia, recently graduated from medical school, who has put 650 photos of herself on Instagram, is headlined as a social media influencer.
Clay
1638
This is the Remix version I hear most often.
Gotta get them clicks! A dead doctor doesn’t draw as many eyeballs as a dead Instagrammer because people assume the Instagrammer is hot.
Sharpe
1640
I’ve been hearing random people, mostly younger (including kids) humming and/or singing this as I go shopping etc., in my area. The song is HUGE. HUGE.
Oghier
1644
That’s pretty great, yep :)
Grunden
1645
If it leads to a re-release of Radical Jack I might have to slit my wrists.
The Storming Area 51 animated version is the best, of which whom they picked as the Naruto Runner at 1:33 is the best moment.
Also illustrates Lil Nash X’s savvy at internet memeing.
Oddly enough, some members of the GOP want to tackle infinite scrolling (and auto play). It’s a direct attack on our forum software! Where is @wumpus to explain how evil this idea is!
Aceris
1648
If I were internet dictator I would ban infinite scroll :)
Waging a war with his private army against Qualcomm.
I just finished listening to an episode of EconTalk with Shoshanna Zuboff on her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It’s an hour long and pretty uneven, as is true of many EconTalk episodes, but I found the concepts pretty intriguing. Zuboff makes the argument that the rise of “your data is the product” markets undermines individual choice, because the information you have about your choices is limited by whatever the algorithm chooses to show you…and you often don’t even know it’s happening. That’s disturbing enough in commercial terms, but when you apply it to the information that you see about your political options, it’s downright terrifying. Of course, people can spend the time and effort to break out of the information bubble, but too often it’s simply too easy not to do the extra work.
There’s not a lot of time spent on what to do about it, but what there is was largely focused on regulation of the kind of data market we want to allow. Zuboff wants data markets to exist, but with better restrictions than we have now. No biometric collection, for instance. Or 100% opt-in requirements, no more gathering without explicit permission.
Interesting discussion. I’d want to see a lot more thought put into exactly what restrictions are right, but I think the general idea of limiting the current “just about anything goes” environment is a good one.
Twitter has responsibility. The tech industry and its community needs to start blacklisting and excluding employees of these companies. You can’t complain about Trump and Nazis and then have dinner with some buddies from FB and Twitter.
We all know Jack Dorsey is an alt right asshole too.
