"...they are mostly unbowed, hurtling ever-further into the algorithmic vortex, enthralled by the insatiable appetite of their vast and growing audiences—the precise metrics of which they and their handlers can meticulously track..."
"In the same way that getting a helicopter to the top of Mount Everest somewhat defeats the point, opening a language-learning app to pay libations to a multilingual owl seems silly."
How gamification can ruin your life
bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/how-gamification-can-ruin-your-life/
"Ban the countdown timer and the KPI behind it doesn't go away, it finds another way."
RE: beige.party/@kimlockhartga/116983005346963476
Last week while discussing this on a call, a coworker said, "My Oreos would never!"
RE: mas.to/@vrandecic/116985927423608174
The first reply I saw on there: "Picture an executive a taco company saying this sort of thing about a new brand of tacos coming onto the market, speculating about the geopolitical and societal disruptions they anticipate as a result of advances in tacos."
Is this new or did I enable something because this is amazing especially the share button where I can send straight to read it later. Down with nazi bars and obnoxious JavaScript modals and all that @phanpy
RE: mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116976402966028269
Do I have to read to learn how to read?