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"We are the #Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. #ResistanceIsFutile."

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So if one-fifth of @Facebook's employees work on #AR/#VR, have all of them done a stint as a content #moderator? And given its toxic business model why doesn't #Facebook have at least as many *employees* (not contractors) working on #ContentModeration as it does AR?
Also, whether you believe #data '#TheNewOil' or that a better analogy is #ToxicWaste, for #BigTech / the #platforms the result's the same.

Using ML/DL/AI/AR/VR to extract value involves energy-intensive processing and doesn't factor in other externalities like cultural damage...
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Exporting banned #chemicals is already illegal under #InternationalLaw. “Failing to address this longstanding #exploitation is #discrimination, pure and simple.”
by @AlanRMacLeod
mintpressnews.com/exporting-toxi… #toxicwaste #toxic #Africa #Asia #LatinAmerica #law
10,000 workers shift through electronic waste that pollutes the air, land and water for miles around, burning plastics and melting metals, hoping to find small amounts of valuable minerals, reducing their own life expectancy
#Ghana #Africa #capitalism
"#Vietnam has suffered tremendous consequences from the #war, especially with regard to the lasting and devastating effects of toxic chemicals, including #AgentOrange."
mintpressnews.com/as-monsanto-fa… #Monsanto
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