게임과 추모 (This Is Game, 16 April 2024)
“2020년, 코로나19로 사람들이 모이기 어려웠던 바로 그 때. ‘416을 기억하는 숙명인의 모임’은 <모여봐요 동물의 숲>을 통해 온라인에 추모공간을 만들었습니다.”
On bodilessness [5]
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Ways of remembering [2]
Everyone in my social media circles is saying they vividly remember what they were doing on 16 April 2014. In contrast, I, known for my knack for remembering mundane details from several decades ago, cannot for the life of me recall specifics of that day. All I remember is the literal pain in my chest that followed. I couldn’t bring myself to read or watch any of the recovered messages those high schoolers sent to their loved ones in their last minutes. I probably never will be able to. I now understand what people mean when they say our brain blocks out certain memories as a self-protection mechanism. I now understand why that day is referred to as the nation’s PTSD.
“Actually, Indian”
Upon reading the article that revealed what has really been going on behind Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’, and appreciating social media responses such as “AI = Actually Indian”, I thought I’d save some other related readings in one place for future reference.
- The emerging mobile internet underclass: A critique of mobile internet access (Napoli & Obar, 2014)
- Servants of Globalisation: Migration and Domestic Work (Parreñas, 2015)
- The rise of ‘pseudo-AI’: how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots’ work (Solon, 2018, crossposted 6 October 2020)
- The underworld of online content moderation (Chotiner, 2019)
- Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon (Jones, 2021)
- OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic (Perrigo, 2023)
- Thinking and reading at the intersection of labor, race, and tech (Data & Society, 2023)
- The governance of artificial intelligence: interim report (UK Parliamentary Select Committee, 2023)
- The dark world of illegal loan apps in India (Tiwari, 2023)
- Don’t talk to people like they are chatbots (Schneier & Cahn, 2024)
- How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English (Hern, 2024, not mentioned but kind of in response to this tweet)
In search of a perfect analogy [2]
Bruce Schneier coined the term “feudal security” to describe Big Tech’s offer: “move into my fortress – lock yourself into my technology – and I will keep you safe from all the marauders roaming the land”.
But here’s the thing about trusting a warlord when he tells you that the fortress’s walls are there to keep the bad guys out: those walls also keep you in. Sure, Apple will use its control over Ios to stop Facebook from spying on you, but when Apple spies on you, no one can help you, because Apple exercises total control over all Ios programs, including any that would stop Apple from nonconsensually harvesting your data and selling access to it.
It’s a tried-and-true bullying tactic: convince your victim that only you can keep them safe so they surrender their agency to you, so the victim comes under your power and can’t escape your cruelty and exploitation. The focus on external threats is key: so long as the victim is more afraid of the dangers beyond the bully’s cage than they are of the bully, they can be lured deeper and deeper until the cage-door slams shut.
(From Cory Doctorow, “Bullies want you to think they’re on your side”, 13 March 2024, via @doctorow)
Life on earth
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that our whole life on this planet is like doing a group project.
Archive fever – on bodilessness
This was a new for me too!
On bodilessness [4]
RT @AJEnglish Gamers have held virtual pro-Palestine protests on Roblox, where thousands of users have attended the online rallies👇 (28 October 2023)
On bodilessness [3]
The baggage I carry [2]
- Lomas, N. (2019). Most EU cookie ‘consent’ notices are meaningless or manipulative, study finds. TechCrunch, 10 August.
- Utz, C. et al. (2019). (Un)informed consent: Studying GDPR consent notices in the field. arXiv:1909.02638v2.
- Van Eijk, R. et al. (2019). The impact of user location on cookie notices (inside and outside the European Union). SSRN.
- Matte, C. et al. (2020). Do cookie banners respect my choice? Measuring legal compliance of banners from IAB Europe’s transparency and consent framework. arXiv:1911.09964v2.
- Nouwens, M. et al. (2020). Dark patterns after the GDPR: Scraping consent pop-ups and demonstrating their influence. arXiv:2001.02479v1.
- Carmi, E. (2021). A feminist critique to digital consent. Seminar.net 17(2).
- Gikay, A. A. (2022). Cookies: I looked at 50 well-known websites and most are gathering our data illegally. The Conversation, 7 February.
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