Mark DeJoy
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Seattle food, history, and culture writer. Co-host of The Dinnernet with Mark and Meg.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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"Innovation"
“…Google's widely-used CAPTCHA system is primarily a mechanism for tracking user behavior and collecting data while providing little actual security against bots.”
reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits
New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.
boingboing.net
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Innovation"
Reposted by Mark DeJoy
again though my all-time pet peeve of this last decade is people in our actual government posting like they have no power. "we have to do something, don't get cynical" is what a community activist can post, not a member of the House, or a Senator, or as was often the case, the actual president
January 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
again though my all-time pet peeve of this last decade is people in our actual government posting like they have no power. "we have to do something, don't get cynical" is what a community activist can post, not a member of the House, or a Senator, or as was often the case, the actual president
Reposted by Mark DeJoy
Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
This piece made me furious. Nurses are asked to *bid* on shifts, offering to work lower and lower wages, and then the app can fail and not pay them at all. We don't have a nursing shortage, we have a shortage of good jobs sane humans are willing to work. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute
Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
Life hack: Never listen to former MMA fighters
November 19, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Life hack: Never listen to former MMA fighters