Zucked Quotes

Being a citizen is an active state; being a consumer is passive.

So, to answer the question from the beginning of this chapter – are social networks pushing society to the abyss? I would say yes, little by little, but we’ll get there one way or another. Zuck will then have a virtual live meeting with the whole world, saying: “In retrospect, it was inevitable.

Lennie Smullenski and Anthony Zuck bake the goodies in the back room in big steel ovens and troughs of hot oil. Clouds of flour and sugar sift onto table surfaces and slip under foot. And lard is transferred daily from commercial sized vats directly to local butts.

ZUCK: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard ZUCK: Just ask. ZUCK: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses … [REDACTED FRIEND’S NAME]: What? How’d you manage that one? ZUCK: People just submitted it. ZUCK: I don’t know why. ZUCK: They ‘trust me’ ZUCK: Dumb fucks1

Zuckerberg began the conversation with a boast, telling one friend that if he ever needed information on anyone at Harvard, he should just say the word: Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one? Zuck: people just submitted it Zuck: i don’t know why Zuck: they “trust me” Zuck: dumb fucks

Glaubst du eigentlich an Seelenverwandtschaft?", fragt sie mich. Ich zucke mit den Schultern. "Na ja…" Einem Menschen wie mir, ohne jegliche Seelenverwandten, ist so ein Konzept ziemlich suspekt. "Ich schon", gesteht Maya. "Aber nicht nur auf romantische Art und Weise, sondern allgemein. Ich glaub, wir alle haben so ein Dutzend Seelenverwandte, mit denen es einfach klickt, weißt du, was ich meine?" "Ich denke schon…

They have taken advantage of our trust, using sophisticated techniques to prey on the weakest aspects of human psychology, to gather and exploit private data, and to craft business models that do not protect users from harm.

One business practice I want to eliminate is the use of microtargeting in political advertising. Facebook, in particular, enables advertisers to identify an emotional hot button for individual voters that can be pressed for electoral advantage, irrespective of its relevance to the election. Candidates no longer have to search for voters who share their values. Instead they can invert the model, using microtargeting to identify whatever issue motivates each voter and play to that. If a campaign knows a voter believes strongly in protecting the environment, it can craft a personalized message blaming the other candidate for not doing enough, even if that is not true. In theory, each voter could be attracted to a candidate for a different reason. In combination with the platforms’ persuasive technologies, microtargeting becomes another tool for dividing us. Microtargeting transforms the public square of politics into the psychological mugging of every voter.

Zeynep Tufekci, the UNC scholar who is one of the world’s foremost experts on the impact of emerging technology in politics, has observed that internet platforms enable the powerful to affect a new kind of censorship. Instead of denying access to communications and information, bad actors can now use internet platforms to confuse a population, drowning them in nonsense. In her book, Twitter and Tear Gas, she asserts that “inundating audiences with information, producing distractions to dilute their attention and focus, delegitimizing media that provide accurate information (whether credible mass media or online media), deliberately sowing confusion, fear, and doubt by aggressively questioning credibility (with or without evidence, since what matters is creating doubt, not proving a point), creating or claiming hoaxes, or generating harassment campaigns designed to make it harder for credible conduits of information to operate, especially on social media which tends to be harder for a government to control like mass media.” Use of internet platforms in this manner undermines democracy in a way that cannot be fixed by moderators searching for fake news or hate speech.

Mil millones por una empresa con diecinueve empleados?»), Zuck se mantuvo firme y apretó el gatillo para hacerse con un activo que ahora vale cincuenta veces más que lo que pagó por él.

One of the most valuable use cases that resulted from combining data sets was anticipation of future purchase intent based on a detailed history of past behavior. When

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. —ALDOUS HUXLEY

It is the largest and one of the most important places where citizens exchange views. And every interaction is governed by the terms of service of a private corporation whose priority is profits.

Takeover Twattery (The Sonnet) Oligarchs don't even care about the welfare of their employees, And you want them to care about social welfare! Keep dreaming! Oligarchs have no regard for the struggles of human life, And you think they'll transform the world! Keep dreaming! I thought Mark was bad for not treating facebook's health issues, But the chief twat makes Zuck look like an incompetent simpleton. Oligarchs are poster boys for regress, not crusaders for freedom, Better to have a CEO without answers than one who answers to none. However, like corrupt politicians, oligarchs are made by people, If anybody is to blame it's the morons who put them in pedestal. If you had the common sense to question your pavlovian attraction, Spoiled brats could never treat society as daddy's mine of emerald. Now more than ever it is imperative to ban large scale takeovers. Moreover, it is vital to legally shun the rise of billionaires.

Ich spüre seine Hand auf meinem Arm unnd zucke zurück. Ich verdiene keinen Trost. Nicht nach dem, was ich getan habe. Oder wieder tun könnte. Cole gibt nicht auf und legt die Hand auf meine Schulter. Diesmal lasse ich es geschehen Die Berührung seiner Fingerspitzen dringt durch meine Jacke und brennt auf meiner Haut. Es ist so lange her, seit mich jemand berührt hat. Seine Hand scheint hundert Kilo schwer zu sein, so ungewohnt fühlt sich die Berührung an. Aber es ist ein gutes Gefühl.

the best way to differentiate the good from the bad is to look at economic incentives. Companies that sell you a physical product or a subscription are far less likely to abuse your trust than a company with a free product that depends on monopolizing your attention. The platforms are led by really smart, well intentioned people, but their success took them to places where their skills no longer fit the job. They have created problems they cannot solve.

Zuck's law: Wisdom halves every 18 months of Facebook use.

user data is feeding artificial intelligences whose objective is to manipulate the attention and behavior of users without their knowledge or approval. Facebook’s policy of allowing third-party app vendors to harvest friends lists, its tolerance of hate speech, its willingness to align with authoritarians, and its attempts to cover up its role in the Russian election interference are all symptoms of a business that prioritized growth metrics over all other factors.