children of Twitter
It’s a commonplace that Europeans, and people from several other parts of the world, see Americans as — if...
Tag: ethics
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social media, emotion, and politics
I’m not going to enter this contest — I should leave it to people who need the money and the publicity more than I...
Tony Stark and the view from above
Many people writing about the new Captain America: Civil War have commented on what seems to them a fundamental irony...
on microaggressions and administrative power
Let’s try to put a few things together that need to be put together. First, read this post by Jonathan Haidt...
algorithms and responsibility
One of my fairly regular subthemes here is the increasing power of algorithms over our daily lives and what Ted...
brief book reviews: The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong’s short book The Internet of Garbage is very well done, and rather sobering, and I recommend it to you....
the story of everything
A does something to B. (Maybe A shoots B; maybe A refuses to bake a cake for B. It doesn’t signify.) Social media...
Kathy Sierra and online abuse
Kathy Sierra has written a post about her experiences with what we (mildly) call online harassment — a post that may...
a civil tongue
A sudden consensus seems to be emerging among a subset of current-event commentators: there are big problems with with...
happy
Yuval Noah Harari introduces his new book Sapiens: We are far more powerful than our ancestors, but are we much...