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Facebook Is Broken

The problem is this: Facebook has become a feedback loop which can and does, despite its best intentions, become a vicious spiral. At Facebooks scale, behavioral targeting doesnt just reflect our behavior, it actually influences it. Over time, a service which was supposed to connect humanity is actually partitioning us into fractal disconnected bubbles. The […]

Confessions of the Job Destroyer

Probably the most unfunny ironies from the rhetoric surrounding “job creators” in contemporary American politics is the fact that the majority of the jobs being produced (or at best, individuals using the finest demand) have been in the tech sector. Jobs like mine. Jobs that automate processes that were once done by people. So I’ll […]

I Think Therefore I Write

“Masters of war, Build to destroy, You play with my world, Like it’s your little toy, All the money you made will never buy back your soul”   Bobby Ray Simmons adapted from Bob Dylan Let me tell you in no uncertain terms I am already against the next war. And war, just like death and taxes […]