I also really appreciate how this "broken world thinking" is not entirely negative, instead it's just different. It's one that makes much more sense for our current time, but one that is full of both positive and negative just the same. Perhaps adjusting this mindset would allow us to be more hopeful, instead of imagining a world of new and novel tech and getting one of decay.

I can already see why this piece was so influential, this is a simple way to adjust our thinking in today's technological world, but one I had not thought of before, to radially adjust our perspective.

Wikipedia is an amazing example of some of the "invisible work" of technology. I often wonder who is creating and maintaining Wikipedia as such an informative and largely reliable database.

This is a positive fact and one exciting to read about in comparison to some of the bleaker facts we read last week.

Really just comes down to these large corporations choosing capitalism over corporate social responsibility. It makes me wonder what would happen if just one tech giant committed to being truly ecofriendly and more sustainable (without all these loopholes). The public favor they could win over by doing so may be enough to force the others to follow suit. But maybe that's optimistic.

Reminds me of the many anecdotes and examples we read in "Race After Technology" earlier in the semester

This points out how truly calculated the actions taken by these companies to supposedly offset carbon emissions. Instead of continuously advocating for a global perspective, and that the carbon emissions are balanced globally, they're purposely choosing what seem like "localized" concerns, just not related to where their data centers are located.

I never before, until this week's readings, put much thought into how deliberately misleading the cloud metaphor is relation to how these large corporations operate. There are often jokes about "where/what is the cloud" as people really seem to believe their data is floating in space as opposed to stored in a direct location in a large server farm.

As a result, we are producing wastes and other effects that we have not anticipated either.

scary to think how overwhelmed our environment may become with waste when these physical objects are finally discarded

The increasingly shorter lifespan of electronics is a trend most consumers have noticed, as their devices stop working around the same time new devices are available. It's not only a trend to constantly have the newest item - it's the fact that old tech becomes obsolete, breaks, or becomes unusable so quickly and technology is so necessary in today's society that consumers are left with little choice than to keep up with the new devices and trends.

this is a new term to me!

makes me wonder how something as important as moderation, that is essential to the business model of internet communities, has become so dependent on the user's themselves in today's modern internet spaces

this is again a restatement of the idea that technologies cannot be neutral - no matter the intention they were created with - they will have an active impact on the world

I have actually received this message a few times as an opening line on dating apps, I never knew this was the source. I did not reply.

Who do these men see as real competition? Women who they are able to successfully manipulate with their seduction techniques or beating 'natural alpha males' for women's attention? Regardless, this structure within the red pill community is ultimately damaging to men participating - they are classifying themselves as betas, struggling to demonstrate worth to women and impress other men, adhere to strict masculine norms. True freedom for the men who see themselves as 'beta males' within that structure would be to eliminate that toxic masculinity structure all together, but they would have to change their perception of women in order to do so.

The idea that Black men would be natural alpha's complicates further the already convoluted racism within the Red Pill communities. Black men as natural alphas paints them as natural threats when earlier in this reading Zuckerberg described the Red Pill community's belief that they are absolutely superior to all other races and genders.

I had never heard of him so - "Paul Jeffrey Ross, better known by the pseudonym “Ross Jeffries”, is an American author, writer and television personality featured on such programs as The Dr. Phil Show, The Montel Williams Show, The Jane Whitney Show and The Daily Show, and a self-described speed seduction expert."

Ties into some of our classmates earlier annotations - it's not really a reading of Classic works but their own projections onto those works.

Already discussion of the Red Pill forum is reminding me of forums by men who self identify as "incels" meaning involuntarily celibate who believe women are depriving them of sex that they are owed. In 2018 Elliot Rodger posted a sort of manifesto video before going on a shooting spree targeting a sorority house https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43892189 . He was hailed as a hero in his online communities. These forums and communities supporting one another with no moderation build to incite real violence that extends far beyond internet troll storms.

Bullying - something that years ago was mostly limited to the classroom & playground - where teachers and parents had more control and protection over their children. The internet has completely altered bullying and harassment - and it's shocking to think a young person can have their authenticity questioned on a national platform. What can be done to protect young people from bullying that now follows them everywhere?

This could be applied to our discussions of cyberbullying and harassment - should those crimes have punishments in the real world?

When the responsibility of moderation of a digital space falls on the users as opposed to set and moderated by the creators of the space - the users are playing 'catch up'. They had little rules and that too loose structure was exploited and now they have to get moderation in place. If there was an existing structure/precedent to go off of it would lessen the difficulty of managing a difficult case such as this.

(page 17) I don't know if the idea that there is "no backstage" on the internet is necessarily true. There are certainly some spaces that feel more performative than others. I'm thinking like instagram vs. a journaling site or anonymous gaming community or entertainment forum.

(page 11) The notion of the internet holding promise for a "better, truer" self seems so out of touch now. The internet, with its inherent anonymity opened those up to be more truthful in some aspects I suppose, like journaling, but certainly the idea of the internet as a better, truer place seems laughable in today's environment.

detailed on page 8 - I find it interesting how in the early days of the internet the author describes "rules" and "basic etiquette" even back when the internet was not as prevalent and consuming in our lives as it is now. Interesting how that has shifted, we hardly see "rules" posted now and as we discussed last class, large internet companies have shifted that regulatory responsibility onto the users.

The theme of mass media being low culture, polluting minds, and filter hindering public discourse, like Professor Brown points out in his above annotation, if a recurring theme. It was done with radio, then television, and now the internet. The internet is such a vast space, with so many different channels and communities, in what ways is it different than television that only allows objects with 'entertainment value' to pass. Certainly the internet allows for much more diverse discourses in all its various channels and spaces, but it is still heavily filtered and regulated especially in those most popular channels.