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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Mar

AI researchers talk about "centaurs" - machine-human collaborative teams that outperform either computers or people. The greatest chess players in the world are collaborations between chess-masters and chess software.

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But not all centaurs are created equal. A "reverse centaur" is what happens when a human is made to assist a machine, rather than the other way around. Amazon may not have invented the reverse centaur, but they perfected it.

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Take the "Mechanical Turk," a massive cohort of precarious, sub-minimum-wage pieceworkers who do human decision support for automated processes. There's a reason that South Asian labor activists say "AI" stands for "absent Indians."

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Mar

- Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula

Dracula (1931)

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Mar

You know that free-floating sense that multinational corporations are above the law, able to buy their way out of consequences for even the most blatant, heinous crimes?

There's a (nearly) unbelievable, highly concrete example of it underway right at this moment.

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@SDonziger

It's the story of @SDonziger, a campaigning lawyer who sued @Chevron for its ecocide in Ecuador, a genocide against indigenous people, committed with cooperation from a brutal military dictatorship.

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Donziger managed the impossible. He secured a conviction against Chevron, and a $9.8 billion judgment against the company, owed to the indigenous people they poisoned, whose lands and bodies remain poisoned and sick to this day.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Mar

1979 commercial for the $100,000 bar by Nestle gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/646048113…

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

19 Mar

History says the last Count Dracula died in the Middle Ages. Why do you ask?
SON OF DRACULA (1943)
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