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Watching WOKE on Hulu ( @WokeHulu) and reading INTERSECTIONAL TECH by @KishonnaGray.
I noticed something interesting: A new definition of “algorithms.”
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I noticed something interesting: A new definition of “algorithms.”
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Chat excerpt from INTERSECTIONAL TECH:
ChrisIsNice: We don’t need social media reminding us every minute that black lives don’t matter.
Smif&Wes: Just follow the stuff that ain’t all negative.
silentassasin321: Get ya algorithms right!
[All laughing]
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ChrisIsNice: We don’t need social media reminding us every minute that black lives don’t matter.
Smif&Wes: Just follow the stuff that ain’t all negative.
silentassasin321: Get ya algorithms right!
[All laughing]
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Ayana broke up with her girlfriend, WOKE, Episode 7:
Clovis: You wanna go ahead and talk about your girl?
Ayana: No I don’t, I just want to … fuck up her algorithms! Netflix, Hulu, all of that. So what do you think, 10 minutes of each of these shitty Lindsay Lohan movies?
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Clovis: You wanna go ahead and talk about your girl?
Ayana: No I don’t, I just want to … fuck up her algorithms! Netflix, Hulu, all of that. So what do you think, 10 minutes of each of these shitty Lindsay Lohan movies?
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The CS prof in me says “these dummies don’t know what algorithms are.”
First, all the speakers are Black, so that would be a bad look.
Second, it would miss the interesting part. Their intended meaning is clear. It’s just not the traditional definition from CS class.
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First, all the speakers are Black, so that would be a bad look.
Second, it would miss the interesting part. Their intended meaning is clear. It’s just not the traditional definition from CS class.
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CS definition of “algorithms”: Fixed computational recipes that I can study and analyze. The inputs and outputs may vary, but the recipes remain fixed.
Students learn about them, and think: one day, if I’m lucky, I’ll get to design my own.
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Students learn about them, and think: one day, if I’m lucky, I’ll get to design my own.
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New definition of “algorithms”: Surveillance data of me, used to compute a shadow simulation of me, that's then fed back to me, so that I’ll generate more data.
It's all such an opaque monolith that calling it “algorithms” is an acceptable synecdoche.
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It's all such an opaque monolith that calling it “algorithms” is an acceptable synecdoche.
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It’s a grim reflection on CS that people outside our field have converged on this definition.
If you work in CS, it’s worth asking: am I just a piece of intestine inside a coprophagic surveillance ouroboros?
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If you work in CS, it’s worth asking: am I just a piece of intestine inside a coprophagic surveillance ouroboros?
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Alas, all this may be common knowledge to History of Science people ( @hssonline).
And, I may have been missing the double meaning in @safiyanoble's title ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION this whole time?!
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And, I may have been missing the double meaning in @safiyanoble's title ALGORITHMS OF OPPRESSION this whole time?!
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