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We’re All Chronically Online Now
It's just the latest step in our slow crawl into various forms of "online."
TikTok Is Flooding Vulnerable Teenage Girls With Self-Harm Content: Report
Research claims that the TikTok algorithm takes just 2.6 minutes to show vulnerable girls videos touting restrictive eating plans and self-harm content.
AI Inventing Its Own Culture, Passing It On to Humans, Sociologists Find
Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture, even though we don't have a good understanding of how they interact with us or each other.
How a Discriminatory Algorithm Wrongly Accused Thousands of Families of Fraud
Dutch tax authorities used algorithms to automate an austere and punitive war on low-level fraud—the results were catastrophic.
What Twitter's Preference for Ted Cruz With Big Anime Boobs Says About AI Bias
Twitter's cropping feature prefers white faces over black faces, fat Pikachu over skinny Pikachu, and Rachel Dolezal over Obama.
Snapchat's Anime Filter Will Reveal If You Have 'Main Character Energy'
The filter is charming, when it works. Sorry to most Black people.
New Observations Suggest the Universe Is Becoming Increasingly Chaotic
In the latest datapoint supporting the radical idea that the universe isn’t totally random, a scientist’s observations of about 200,000 galaxies suggest a “rather exotic” model of a spinning universe that is losing its structure over time.
Target's Delivery App Workers Describe a Culture of Retaliation and Fear
The Target-owned grocery delivery company Shipt is rolling out a new algorithmic pay model that is already draining paychecks. And workers are terrified to speak out.
YouTube’s Algorithm Keeps Suggesting Users Watch Climate Change Misinformation
And it's monetizing that misinformation with ads for the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace.
How Breitbart Is Crushing Mainstream Media on Facebook
The right-wing site's influence has been massive during impeachment.
TikTok Users Are Inventing Wild Theories to Explain Its Mysterious Algorithm
No one knows how TikTok’s For You page algorithm works, so users have taken it upon themselves to construct their own theories.
Watch a Computer Solve a Virtual Rubik’s Cube the Size of a Skyscraper
It took a YouTuber's computer 2,700 hours to solve a massive digital Rubik's cube that would be as tall as the Burj Khalifa in reality.