Showing posts with label the algorithm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the algorithm. Show all posts
Friday, November 15, 2024

The UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm discriminated against young people

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Here's how a 2003 BBC article starts : The system for allocating most liver transplants on the NHS is causing younger patients to wait l...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Those Columbus headlines today sound like pseudo science at best

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You can read the BBC article and see how little it's based on, and per this write-up , it's based on even less than that. Perfect f...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

"The firm run by a man dubbed 'Britain's kindest plumber' faked stories of helping people as it raised millions in donations"

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BBC : [He] has received letters of thanks from the late Queen and the King and a Pride of Manchester award. He has been a guest on Good Morn...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Spotify "removed tens of thousands of songs from artificial intelligence music start-up Boomy" (but apparently not because they're AI-generated)

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Ars : Boomy, which was launched two years ago, allows users to choose various styles or descriptors, such as “rap beats” or “rainy nights,” ...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Algorithm Heaven: Feel the Rhythm & Feed the Algorithm

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Another good Famicase 20203 design: What is this game about? Rhythm? Strategy? It’s not clear. We only know two things: 1. The algorithm ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

"Facebook's Ad System Went Nuts and Ripped Off Customers"

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Gizmodo has one write-up, and here's another . (Not super clear to me how many people were defrauded, or by how much, or whether they...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Logo for the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency

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🔚 Enhorabuena a @EU_ScienceHub y la @ComisionEuropea por el Centro 🇪🇺 de Transparencia Algorítmica #ECAT . Y gracias por ubicar e...
Monday, September 5, 2022

I like the different strategies websites are using to pad out their articles about the escaped wolf being recaptured

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They have no information other than a wolf "escaped" and was recaptured at the zoo, but have to pump up that word count. WaPo repo...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Here are magic incantations you can try to thwart Twitter's recommended tweet algorithm

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Thank you! I typed these out if anyone wants to copy: suggest_recycled_tweet_inline suggest_activity_tweet suggest_who_to_follow suggest_rec...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Funny (in a nightmarish way) thread describing an attempt to let the Disney Genie app plan a day at Disneyland

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Like Amazon search results, Instagram feeds, and Spotify playlists, adversarial to the user's stated desire. Thread starts here . Gen...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Today's funny posts

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I love these swooping magpie signs. 'Try a different route next time'. Like they're basically saying 'yeah nah this area...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

The "mamasphere is a series of interactions between human and non-human actors"

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Anne Helen Petersen's latest newsletter features an interview with Kathryn Jezer-Morton , who is writing a doctoral dissertation on mom...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

1602 Spider-Man cosplay; Grant Morrison on internet trolls; Tiktok's algorithm basically produces reality television

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Hey! My design for Spider-man 1602 has real image in cosplay! #spiderman1602 @Marvel pic.twitter.com/VE6OyxelLo — Ramon Rosanas (@RamonRos...
Friday, July 9, 2021

The hot algorithm trick is tweeting "logo for my business" to attract attention

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Ryan Broderick's GarbageDay : On Wednesday, I wrote about Twitter users having a botnet post gibberish in the replies of a tweet to art...
Friday, June 4, 2021

TikTokers spread a baseless rumor that a company selling glowsticks on Amazon was involved in human trafficking

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Mashable : The conspiracy theorists posed this question to their audience: Who would buy a party hat or glow stick or bubble gun for thousan...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Ghost kitchen companies are now competing to game the algorithm on food delivery services

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Long article at the Verge about restaurants that sometimes house 12 different brands, and the various companies competing to dominate deliv...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The gross viral food videos are connected to a magician that's skilled at Facebook's algorithm

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Ryan Broderick for Eater : It is, at this point, statistically impossible to not half-recognize magician Rick Lax. He is essentially the fa...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

The people posting slander online and the people who help remove it are often one and the same

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From a l ong article at the NYTimes , detailing the shady characters contacted. The businesses that say they can remove the libelous posts a...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Tiktok's automatic translator transforms nonsense syllables into disturbing phrases

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This is legit so weird and terrifying can someone who is an expert explain how this works? https://t.co/4CqOLFtLo9 via @alisedaandrea pic....
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Instagram’s algorithm will either reward or punish based on how comprehensively you use the app

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Here's one artist  describing what they believe you need to do to get Facebook to boost your Instagram account: Instagram likes it when ...