The Amazon Echo as a map of human labor, data and planetary resources
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#2I dont really understand the map is there further material that comes with it - a talk or slides?
Re: The Amazon Echo as a map of human labor, data and planetary resources
#3I dont really understand the map is there further material that comes with it - a talk or slides?
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#5I dont really understand the map is there further material that comes with it - a talk or slides?
I think the map is like a map in the background of a sci-fi movie: prop to set flavour, the real content is the long essay.
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#6In recent years, shipping boats produce 3.1% of global yearly CO2 emissions, more than the entire country of Germany. In order to minimize their internal costs, most of the container shipping companies use very low grade fuel in enormous quantities, which leads to increased amounts of sulphur in the air, among other toxic substances. It has been estimated that one container ship can emit as much pollution as 50 million cars, and 60,000 deaths worldwide are attributed indirectly to cargo ship industry pollution related issues annually. Even industry-friendly sources like the World Shipping Council admit that thousands of containers are lost each year, on the ocean floor or drifting loose. holy crap...
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#7There's a lot of truth in this essay but there are also a lot of unsubstantiated claims made by two people who clearly don't actually know how the Echo and Alexa are developed. The tone and language implies they know what they're talking about and express everything as fact even though they're completely wrong about some of it. The sensationalism and vilifying really detract from an otherwise important topic that should be discussed more: the environmental impact of modern technology and how sustainable it is.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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huh youre right, some kind of UI fail there but otherwise all good thanks
You're not the only one. The header image is so big, and links to a PDF, such that I thought the PDF was the content.
This is caused by:
height: 93vh;
...causes the header image to occupy 93% of the viewable area of the open window.
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#9There's a lot of truth in this essay but there are also a lot of unsubstantiated claims made by two people who clearly don't actually know how the Echo and Alexa are developed. The tone and language implies they know what they're talking about and express everything as fact even though they're completely wrong about some of it. The sensationalism and vilifying really detract from an otherwise important topic that sho…
Just curious, what parts made you think that? Kate Crawford is a very well-respected researcher on the sociological and cultural aspects of "big data". Her perspective might not be purely technical, but her descriptions of these productive processes seem very in line with a lot of the other conceptualizations (mostly in the humanities) of data as labor, which I think is the most important part.
Re: The Amazon Echo as a map of human labor, data and planetary resources
#10There's a lot of truth in this essay but there are also a lot of unsubstantiated claims made by two people who clearly don't actually know how the Echo and Alexa are developed. The tone and language implies they know what they're talking about and express everything as fact even though they're completely wrong about some of it. The sensationalism and vilifying really detract from an otherwise important topic that sho…
Just curious, what parts made you think that? Kate Crawford is a very well-respected researcher on the sociological and cultural aspects of "big data". Her perspective might not be purely technical, but her descriptions of these productive processes seem very in line with a lot of the other conceptualizations (mostly in the humanities) of data as labor, which I think is the most important part.
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