[Petit Fours #400] On analog privilege, data work, and Pippi Longstocking
Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’d like to share with you in this 400th(!!) edition of Petit Fours:
#1 Maroussia Lévesque’s piece The Future is Analog (If You Can Afford It) offers plenty of food for thought: “The idea of ‘analog privilege’ describes how people at the apex of the social order secure manual overrides from ill-fitting, mass-produced AI products and services. Instead of dealing with one-size-fits-all AI systems, they mobilize their economic or social capital to get special personalized treatment. In the register of tailor-made clothes and ordering off menu, analog privilege spares elites from the reductive, deterministic and simplistic downsides of AI systems.“
#2 Today (September 9 at 5pm CET), there’ll be an interesting talk on Zoom as part of the Data Workers’ Inquiry series: What Training Do Data Workers Need and What Do They Get Instead?
#3 Here’s an in-depth interview with Meredith Whittaker about Signal: Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
#4 For something completely different, check out the new World of Pippi Longstocking game (for mobile and tablet). This press release offers more details in Swedish.
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