Wage labour. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1189277809. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wage_labour&oldid=1189277809 (visited on 2023-12-10).
This is a wikipedia article talking about what wage labour is, it is the getting paid for the work you do
When Margaret Hamilton was in charge of creating the software to run on the Apollo rockets, the men around her considered programming to be easy and less serious than the “engineering” they were doing in building the rocket. So, she began calling the programming she was doing “software engineering” [s62] to convey the complexity and rigor of the work she and her team were doing. She was able to convince her colleagues and the term “software engineering” became common.
Out of this entire reading i found the origin of the word software to be the most interesting, as someone who has dabbled in software engineering, this is dead on, it is a complex and rigorous.
Apartheid. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1189221484. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apartheid&oldid=1189221484 (visited on 2023-12-10).
This is a wikipiedia on South Africas Apartheid with was very violent and brutal segregation in South Africa, this one hits home as I am from south africa and we still feel its impacts today, thanksfully Nelson Mandela ended it back around 1994
On February 6, 2022, Jeremy Schneider became the Twitter “main character of the day” for posting the following Tweet, which was widely condemned as being mean and not understanding other people’s experiences:
I found the examples below super interesting, the way that cancel culture can actually bring a positive change to a person rather than just bringing them down
Billy Perrigo. TikTok's Subcontractor in Colombia Under Investigation. Time, November 2022. URL: https://time.com/6231625/tiktok-teleperformance-colombia-investigation/ (visited on 2023-12-08).
This is a news article talk about a subcontractor hired by Tiktok in Colombia that is under investigation for awful working working conditions for its employees.
If you are running your own site and suddenly realize you have a moderation problem you might have some of your current staff (possibly just yourself) start handling moderation. As moderation is a very complicated and tricky thing to do effectively, untrained moderators are likely to make decisions they (or other users) regret.
I find this super interesting because I did not think that moderation is that hard. However it makes sense that a more experienced moderator would be more effective in helping a site.
Congress.gov. U.S. Constitution - First Amendment. URL: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ (visited on 2023-12-08).
This is a link to the first amendment in the U.S. Constitution which is the right to practice any religion with persecution. However it is sad that this isn't followed as closely as it should these days.
Block an account: a user can block an account from interacting with them or seeing their content Mute an account: a user can allow an account to try interacting with them, but the user will never see what that account did. Mute a phrase or topic: some platforms let users block content by phrases or topics (e.g., they are tired of hearing about cryptocurrencies, or they don’t want spoilers for the latest TV show). Delete: Some social media platforms let users delete content that was directed at them (e.g., replies to their post, posts on their wall, etc.) Report: Most social media sites allow users to report or flag content as needing moderation.
This is interesting because I didn't think of these as moderation tool, however it is interesting that an individual has power of their own moderation. However it is unfortunate that this does not always do enough to help themselves stay private online
Digital detox. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1187412856. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_detox&oldid=1187412856 (visited on 2023-12-08).
This is a wikipidia site talking about digital detox. A digital detox is when a person by their own choice decides not to use digital devices as much as possible as a way to help improve their mental
While there are healthy ways of sharing difficult emotions and experiences (see the next section), when these difficult emotions and experiences are thrown at unsuspecting and unwilling audiences, that is called trauma dumping [m11]. Social media can make trauma dumping easier.
This is interesting about how dump online can still have real life effects. It is sad but interesting to me how trauma dumping can have such serious impacts on people lives.
Ecological niche. October 2023. Page Version ID: 1182139023. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecological_niche&oldid=1182139023 (visited on 2023-12-08).
This is a wikipedia page talking about something called ecological niche. This is when a species adapts to specific things in their environment.
Finally, social media platforms use algorithms and design layouts which determine what posts people see. There are various rules and designs social media sites can use, and they can amplify human selection (including coordinated efforts like astroturfing) in various ways. They can do this through recommendation algorithms as we saw last chapter, as well as choosing what actions are allowed and what amount of friction is given to those actions, as well as what data is collected and displayed.
This is a very clever way that social media used algorithms to get people to give their data without realizing.
Fair Sentencing Act. May 2023. Page Version ID: 1153436887. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fair_Sentencing_Act&oldid=1153436887 (visited on 2023-12-07).
This wikipedia article is talk about a bill president obama passed. This bill change the sentencing gap between crack cocaine and cocaine powder due to their being a racial bias in the sentencing time.
One concern with how recommendation algorithms is that they can create filter bubbles (or “epistemic bubbles” or “echo chambers” [k14]), where people get filtered into groups and the recommendation algorithm only gives people content that reinforces and doesn’t challenge their interests or beliefs. These echo chambers allow people in the groups to freely have conversations among themselves without external challenge.
This is a very interesting concept on something that happens in the background of programs and apps that I did not know about.
Color blindness. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188749829. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Color_blindness&oldid=1188749829 (visited on 2023-12-07).
This is a wikipedia page talking about how some people struggle to see a variety of colours, aka colour blindness
Those with disabilities often find ways to cope with their disability, that is, find ways to work around difficulties they encounter and seek out places and strategies that work for them (whether realizing they have a disability or not).
This is very interesting because I did not know some people could have disabilities without realizing because they are able to just find a way to cope with it.
Right to privacy. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1186826760. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right_to_privacy&oldid=1186826760#United_States (visited on 2023-12-05).
This is a wikipedia link talking about how we don't actaully have a right to privacy, at least not one stated in the bill of rights
Parasocial interaction. October 2023. Page Version ID: 1181960110. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parasocial_interaction&oldid=1181960110 (visited on 2023-11-24)
This is the wikipedia page on parasocial interactions. This the fake relationship viewers form when watching a piece of mass media. Which I find a very interesting thing that i never knew about.
Parasocial relationships are when a viewer or follower of a public figure (that is, a celebrity) feel like they know the public figure, and may even feel a sort of friendship with them, but the public figure doesn’t know the viewer at all.
I find this super interesting, I've seen people act this before but I never knew it was an actual problem that some people suffer.
So all data that you might find is a simplification. There are many seemingly simple questions that in some situations or for some people, have no simple answers, questions like: What country are you from? What if you were born in one country, but moved to another shortly after? What if you are from a country that no longer exists like Czechoslovakia? Or from an occupied territory? How many people live in this house? Does a college student returning home for the summer count as living in that house? How many words are in this chapter? Different programs use different rules for what counts as a “word” [d19] E.g., this page has “2 + 2 = 4”, which Microsoft Word counts as 5 words, and Google Docs counts as 3 words.
I find this discussion interesting. Data is try's to be person specific but struggles not to be black or white, it struggles to sit in that grey zone. This is important because the real people that data is trying to represent might not fit into the data.
The Onion. 6-Day Visit To Rural African Village Completely Changes Woman’s Facebook Profile Picture. The Onion, January 2014. URL: https://www.theonion.com/6-day-visit-to-rural-african-village-completely-changes-1819576037 (visited on 2023-11-24).
This is an article from the Onion which posts satirical posts making fun of real life events. This particular one was making fun of people that only do good things so they can change their Facebook profile photo to make themselves look better
Object-oriented programming. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1185356437. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Object-oriented_programming&oldid=1185356437 (visited on 2023-11-17).
this sources talks about object oriented programming, which is programming around an object within the program itself. This contains both data and code to modify data
Bots present a similar disconnect between intentions and actions. Bot programs are written by one or more people, potentially all with different intentions, and they are run by others people, or sometimes scheduled by people to be run by computers. This means we can analyze the ethics of the action of the bot, as well as the intentions of the various people involved, though those all might be disconnected.
This part brings up a very interesting point about who is responsible for a bots actions. I think it is who ever used it, the creator might have different intentions for its use, and the bot may get used differently.
“That which is hateful to you do not do to another; that is the entire Torah, and the rest is its interpretation.”
I find this a very important but overlooked rule that people tend to just ignore. People sometimes just don't think how if the harm they give to others happens to them, it will hurt too.
ifferent groups have different sets of virtues: Aristotle: Courage, Temperance, Liberality, Magnificence, Magnanimity, Proper Ambition, Patience, Truthfulness, Wittiness, Friendliness, Modesty, Righteous indignation, Intelligence, Science, Theoretical Wisdom Quaker SPICES [b28] (Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Stewardship) US Army LDRSHP [b29]: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage
I find it very interesting on how different groups have different virtues. However it feels that all of them have a similar end goal, all of them promote integrity of some kind.