Linked: What Facebook Is Good For, and Why It Can’t Be Good Anymore
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Linked: What Facebook Is Good For, and Why It Can’t Be Good Anymore

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve moved across the country a couple of times now. I’ve lived in 5 different states and have contacts and friends around the country. (And some outside of the US). Facebook, when it allows me to see someone’s new marriage, their kids, or even the sad things they are living with, provides the best way I’ve found to at least keep in touch in some small way with a lot of those folks.

It’s all the other stuff that makes Facebook terrible.

The Insanity of Forcing Tech Companies to Pay For Linking to News

The Insanity of Forcing Tech Companies to Pay For Linking to News

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 6 minutes

I’m sure many of you have already seen the ongoing battle between Facebook, and Google, and the Australian government. The government, mostly at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, is about to pass a law that forces the “big tech” companies to negotiate with news publishers to pay them for the content that is linked to on Google News or on Facebook. 

I’m hear to argue that this is legitimately insane. 

Don’t be Fooled, There’s a Good Chance AI Will not Just Augment Your Work

Don’t be Fooled, There’s a Good Chance AI Will not Just Augment Your Work

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

Look, it’s going to take some time, but eventually, it’s coming. We’ve only begun to have conversations around things like Universal Basic Income, or free healthcare, and restructuring the economy. Many, if not most, people are against these things, because they don’t fit with the current world, and frankly, if I thought the world was going to stay the same, I might agree that some of these ideas are probably taking things to far. But, what are we going to do when we simply don’t need as many workers? What does society looks like when AI is doing a lot of the economic work, and 1/3 maybe even 1/2 of the population of any country isn’t needed for work any more?

Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 7 2021

Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 7 2021

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

For U.S. businesses, less data is more than ever

The Future Of Mental Health And Career Support For Remote Workers

No, Getting Rid Of Anonymity Will Not Fix Social Media; It Will Cause More Problems

I cannot stress this enough, getting rid of anonymity does nothing to stop harassing (look at Facebook?), and only hurts already marginalized people.

eDiscovery Tug of War: A Breakdown of the In-House vs. ALSP Debate, Part Two

Defensible Deletion: The Proof Is in the Planning

Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 for Legal

How to ensure mental wellbeing policies genuinely work for employees

The ethical quandary of being a social media manager in 2021

Strong stuff from Tim Cook

“What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users joining extremist groups and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends even more?”

New ESI Sanctions Order Offers E-Discovery 101 Course for Lawyers

Linked: How to Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Productivity
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Linked: How to Use RSS Feeds to Boost Your Productivity

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

RSS is not gone, quite the opposite. Most people, however, don’t use RSS subscriptions like they did in the old Google Reader days, but RSS is running underneath a whole lot of stuff that we all use every day.

But, I also want to point out that there are a TON of good reasons to use an RSS reader now. Maybe more than there were when Google still had one. As it is, we’ve sort of grown into this habit of letting social media inform us. If there’s some topic we want to know about, we’ll follow some accounts and let the algorithm decide for us what we need to see.

Look how well that’s working out.

Linked: Your Data Is Discriminating…Against You
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Linked: Your Data Is Discriminating…Against You

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think this is really interesting, because the more information about you there is, the more reasons someone can find to either rule against you, or to do more investigation into you. Which leads to more information about you being available, and round and round we go. “That is in part because algorithms are made…