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When a giant company wrecks your life, what are you gonna do? They can hire more and better lawyers, and they have people whose sole job is fighting off suits - are you gonna beat those people by suing as as a side-hustle? Do you wanna be a full-time, professional litigant?

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For some people, the answer is yes: some people are angry enough, or sufficiently morally offended, to make suing a giant company their life's mission. Sometimes, they succeed, and force companies to cough up gigantic sums of money.

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If you want to do something terrible with tech, you can't just use it on people with money and status. They'll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with prisoners, kids, migrants and others who can be abused with impunity. 1/ A four-quadrant rectangle depicting four vintage workplace p
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Then they work their way up the privilege gradient. 2/
I call it the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve.

The point of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve is to normalize technological oppression, one group at a time. 3/
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The idea of selling indulgences - the right to sin, for a price - has been controversial for the past 500+ years, since Jan Hus's condemnation of the practice. And yet here we are, in the age of #CarbonOffsets, where forgiveneess for torching the planet is for sale. 1/ A picture of a logged-out f...
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The fundamental premise of carbon offsets is that capitalism - that machine for socializing costs and privatizing gains - isn't the problem, it's the *solution*. 3/
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Twitter is fine for respectful exchange of opinions, but when we’re really mad we dust off the Selectric and write a letter...yes, to an Editor! In this case about the C. difficile LabID event: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29708…
Adjustment by lab method still problematic, and now a new feature....last test reported wins! So if you use an algorithm that includes toxin EIA, be sure that test gets reported last. #lasttestwins
Public reporting and pay-for-performance continue to mess with HAI metrics. #GoodhartsLaw
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