UdeRecife

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lucky you. My department, and the whole university, is now on a path of completely googlefying their services. And it's a public university!

So... Lucky you.

#envy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They are my mother, father, and everyone else. Life's hard, and too many things compete for our attention.

You're right. Indiscriminate data collection is like the meat industry. Some people may find abhorrent how animals are treated, even how destructive the whole thing can be. But ultimately, out of sight is out of mind, right?

Like you said, the same with privacy. Apps are shiny, addictive, and seem to be given away for free. Then life happens, the mind becomes busy with what holds its attention.

We're doomed because the game being played is simply too complex for anyone make sense of it. Any competing insight is immediately drowned under the massive torrent of data we're all subjected to.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Thank you for bringing this forward. It's simply too easy (an understatement, really) to impute malice, even incompetence, to the gritty mechanics behind complex systems.

In most cases, every single actor is willing a different outcome, but the system kinda has a life and goals of its own. And so those apparently nonsensical behaviors emerge.

We can call them stupid, but they're stupid by their own accord...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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