CyberGunk Research

A dumping ground for all the research that I happened to note down. I wasn’t trying to put together a research list and I powered through a bunch of stuff and then threw it away, so this is very much not exhaustive, but hopefully valuable to someone.

Research List

	Title	URL	Notes	Video	Relevance
Article	Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble	https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/	Targeted advertising doesn’t work	Advertising	★★★
Article	Buying Consumer Data? Tread Carefully.	https://hbr.org/2020/05/buying-consumer-data-tread-carefully	Consumer data is innaccurate	Advertising	★★★
Article	Coors Light Can’t Beam Ads Into Your Brain	https://gizmodo.com/no-brands-cant-target-ads-at-your-dreams-1847113888?rev=1623886445493	This story that keeps cropping up about ads in your dreams is so fucking dumb	Advertising	★
Article	Deconstructing the Disinformation War	https://mediawell.ssrc.org/expert-reflections/deconstructing-the-disinformation-war/	Exaggerated narratives	Advertising	★
Article	Digital Marketing’s Last Decade Is Digital Marketing’s Lost Decade	https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/05/16/digital-marketings-lost-decadetime-to-think-different-do-different/	Programmatic advertising is a waste	Advertising	★★
Article	How AWS and Other Cloud Providers Became the Internet’s Most Powerful Moderators	https://onezero.medium.com/how-aws-and-other-cloud-providers-became-the-internets-most-powerful-moderators-9b23a954d68a	Amazon is behind the internet	Advertising	★
Article	How to Start Fixing Social Media.	https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-start-fixing-social-media-196297eb6b71	What social media could be	Advertising	★★
Article	ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions	https://www.ft.com/content/43962679-b1f9-4818-b569-b028a58c8cd2	CA didn’t do anything	Advertising	★★★★
Book	In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works & Shapes Our Lives	https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-plex-how-google-thinks-works-shapes-our-lives/oclc/1244174326&referer=brief_results	Background on Google/AdWords	Advertising	★★★★
Article	Is Using a Data Broker the Most Secure Marketing Strategy?	https://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/is-your-data-broker-the-most-secure-marketing-strategy/	Data brokers worse than random chance	Advertising	★★★
Article	Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign	https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-hq-used-facebook-ads-to-deceive-jeremy-corbyn-during-election-campaign-grlx75c27	A use case for targeted advertising	Advertising	★★
Article	Large Publishers Buy Incentivized Traffic & Popups Too	https://deepsee.io/blog/large-publishers-buy-incentivized-traffic-too	On incentivised traffic	Advertising	★
Article	New Zealand’s Stuff newspaper group joins Facebook boycott as ‘experiment’	https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/06/new-zealands-stuff-newspaper-group-joins-facebook-boycott-as-experiment	Facebook boycott	Advertising	★★★
Article	News site Stuff left Facebook. Seven months later, traffic is just fine and trust is higher	https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/news-site-stuff-left-facebook-seven-months-later-traffic-just-fine-and-trust-higher	Programmatic advertising doesn’t do anything	Advertising	★★★
Book	Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet	https://www.worldcat.org/title/subprime-attention-crisis-advertising-and-the-time-bomb-at-the-heart-of-the-internet/oclc/1225234235&referer=brief_results	Programatic advertising doesn’t work/some fun GFC analogies	Advertising	★★★★★
Article	The Big Lie Behind the “Pivot to Video”	https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/facebook-online-video-pivot-metrics-false.html	On the Pivot to video	Advertising	★★★★
Article	The downfall of adtech means the trust economy is here	https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/23/the-downfall-of-ad-tech-means-the-trust-economy-is-here/	No-one likes targeted advertising	Advertising	★★★★
Article	The Internet That Was (and Still Could Be)	https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/medium-is-the-message-paradise-paved-internet-architecture/396227/	Internet without perverse incentives	Advertising	★★★
Article	The Madness of the Crowd	https://logicmag.io/intelligence/the-madness-of-the-crowd/	Systems don’t work for people	Advertising	★★
Article	The Web We Lost	http://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/	Social networks are partly a step backwards	Advertising	★★
Article	Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Unsealed: Google Internal Documents Show AMP Pages Brought 40% Less Revenue to Publishers	https://wptavern.com/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-unsealed-google-internal-documents-show-amp-pages-brought-40-less-revenue-to-publishers	Google pushed amp. It only makes things worse	Advertising	★
Book	What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley	https://www.worldcat.org/title/what-tech-calls-thinking-an-inquiry-into-the-intellectual-bedrock-of-silicon-valley/oclc/1136959585&referer=brief_results	Misc ramblings	Advertising	★
Article	When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?	https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/	Huge companys didn’t suffer for turning off programatic ads	Advertising	★★★★★
Paper	Why Do People Avoid Advertising On The Internet?	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00913367.2004.10639175	Banner blindness and inneffectual online advertising	Advertising	★★★
Article	AI is wrestling with a replication crisis	https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/12/1011944/artificial-intelligence-replication-crisis-science-big-tech-google-deepmind-facebook-openai/	Replication crisis in AI	Algorithms	★★★
Article	AI: Still Just Curve Fitting, Not Finding a Theory of Everything	https://mindmatters.ai/2020/12/ai-still-just-curve-fitting-not-finding-a-theory-of-everything/	AI hasn’t moved beyond curve fitting	Algorithms	★★★★
Video	Andrej Karpathy – AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8	So much manual work to do	Algorithms	★★★★★
Video	Andrej Karpathy: Tesla Autopilot and Multi-Task Learning for Perception and Prediction	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHH47nZ7FZU	Talking through self-driving	Algorithms	★★★
Article	Artificial Intelligence Isn’t an Arms Race With China, and the United States Shouldn’t Treat It Like One	https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/artificial-intelligence-ai-not-arms-race-china-united-states/	AI hype and narrative	Algorithms	★★
Video	Building the Software 2.0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57wwucbXR8	Vast majority still 1.0 code	Algorithms	★★★
Article	Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests	https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/automous_car_ada_system_tests/?s=09	Self-driving tests	Algorithms	★★
Article	Deep Learning’s Carbon Emissions Problem	https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/06/17/deep-learnings-climate-change-problem/	Ecological cost of Machine Learning	Algorithms	★
Article	Elon Musk Describes the Future of Self-Driving Cars	https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-describes-the-future-of-self-driving-cars-1692076449	Stupid bullshit 2015	Algorithms	★
Paper	Energy And Policy Considerations For Modern Deep Learning Research	https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/7123	The material costs of deep learning	Algorithms	★
Article	Fear itself is the real threat to democracy, not tall tales of Chinese AI	https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/06/fear-itself-is-the-real-threat-to-democracy-not-tall-tales-of-chinese-ai	AI doomerism is nonsense	Algorithms	★
Article	Here’s Proof Tesla’s FSD Beta 9.0 Street Testing Is a Calamity Waiting to Happen	https://www.autoevolution.com/news/here-s-proof-tesla-s-fsd-beta-90-street-testing-is-a-calamity-waiting-to-happen-165597.html	General Tesla hate	Algorithms	★
Paper	Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation With Clip Latents	https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06125	Dall-e 2 release paper	Algorithms	★★★★
Article	How Tesla Is Bad For The Earth. An electric car is still a car, and…	https://indi.ca/how-tesla-is-bad-for-the-earth-31e644540a26	Green growth is the opposite of what’s needed	Algorithms	★
Article	Is California’s electric car revolution bad for the planet?	https://www.latimes.com/politics/0000017a-c69a-da5f-affa-dfbbb1050001-123	Electric vehicles aren’t the answer	Algorithms	★
Article	It’s disturbingly easy to trick AI into doing something deadly	https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/8/18297410/ai-tesla-self-driving-cars-adversarial-machine-learning	Adversarial attacks	Algorithms	★★★
Paper	Jukebox: A Generative Model For Music	https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00341	JukeBox release paper	Algorithms	★★
Paper	Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners	https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165	GPT-3 release paper	Algorithms	★★★★
Article	Lines of Sight	https://logicmag.io/commons/lines-of-sight/	Run-down of self-driving tech	Algorithms	★★★★
Paper	MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Study: Large-Scale Naturalistic Driving Study of Driver Behavior and Interaction with Automation	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8751968/	Full self driving is a ways off	Algorithms	★★
Article	Notes on the Turing Test	https://yeetgenstein.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-turing-test	Deep learning sucess vs full intelligence	Algorithms	★★★
Video	PyTorch at Tesla – Andrej Karpathy, Tesla	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBklltKXtDE	Talking through self-driving	Algorithms	★★
Paper	Release Strategies And The Social Impacts Of Language Models	https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09203	GPT-2 release paper	Algorithms	★★★★
Article	The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn	https://thewalrus.ca/the-double-exploitation-of-deepfake-porn/	Everyones freaking out about politics when its really only good for porn	Algorithms	★
Video	The Lighthill Debate (1973)	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yReDbeY7ZMU	Beginning of the first major AI winter	Algorithms	★★★
Article	Waymo is dropping the term ‘self-driving,’ but not everyone in the industry is on board	https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/07/waymo-is-dropping-the-term-self-driving-but-not-everyone-in-the-industry-is-on-board/	It’s not “self-driving”	Algorithms	★★
Article	What Full Autonomy Means for the Waymo Driver	https://spectrum.ieee.org/full-autonomy-waymo-driver	Current Waymo tech	Algorithms	★
Article	Why deep learning won’t give us level 5 self-driving cars	https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/07/29/self-driving-tesla-car-deep-learning/	Title	Algorithms	★★
Paper	Zero-Shot Text-To-Image Generation	https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12092	Dall-e release paper	Algorithms	★★★
Paper	This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces	https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06018	Algorithms just show us copies of the past	Algorithms	★★★
Paper	Predictive Inequity in Object Detection	https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11097	Object detection racial bias	Algorithms	★★
Article	Amazon Recruited Twitter Army to Defend Company and CEO Jeff Bezos, Leaked Document Reveals	https://www.ign.com/articles/amazon-twitter-army-defend-company-ceo-jeff-bezos-leaked-document-reveals	Amazon’s in-house astroturfing campaign	Astroturfing	★★
Paper	An Examination of the Impact of Astroturfing on Nationalism: A Persuasion Knowledge Perspective	https://www.mdpi.com/402650	Actual research into astroturfing	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	Bird Box challenge: How Netflix made a few tweets into a global trend	https://inews.co.uk/news/bird-box-challenge-netflix-twitter-warning-explained-241879	Faked “Bird Box Challenge”	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	Bird Box: How Netflix Harnesses It’s Memeing-ful Relationship with Fans \| Research World	https://www.researchworld.com/bird-box-how-netflix-harnesses-its-memeing-ful-relationship-with-fans/	Bird Box campaign overview	Astroturfing	★★★
Paper	Characterizing Retweet Bots: The Case of Black Market Accounts	https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02366	“Bot checkers” don’t catch retweet bots	Astroturfing	★★★★★
Article	Data Against Democracy	https://logicmag.io/failure/data-against-democracy/	Platforms warping politics	Astroturfing	★★
Article	Elon Musk’s not-so-secret weapon: An army of Twitter bots touting Tesla	https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-not-so-secret-weapon-an-army-of-twitter-bots-touting-tesla/	Tesla astroturfing	Astroturfing	★★
Paper	Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends	https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07783	How to fake a twitter trend	Astroturfing	★★★★★
Article	Facebook Campaign Nets Big Returns For ‘Bird Box’	https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/330557/facebook-campaign-nets-big-returns-for-bird-box.html	No trace of official Twitter Bird Box ad spend beyond hashflag	Astroturfing	★★★
Paper	Group topic-author model for efficient discovery of latent social astroturfing groups in tourism domain	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42400-019-0029-8	Actual research into astroturfing	Astroturfing	★★★★
Article	How Custom Emojis Crowned Twitter the Hashtag Registrar	https://medium.com/@justinogarrity/how-custom-emojis-crowned-twitter-the-hashtag-registrar-43e5fa60c557	History of hashflags	Astroturfing	★★
Article	Lil Nas X Was A Popular Twitter User Before ‘Old Town Road’	https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/lil-nas-x-was-a-popular-twitter-user-before-old-town-road.html	Lil Nas X, the tweetdecker	Astroturfing	★★★
Paper	Misleading Repurposing on Twitter	https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10600	Sockpuppets start as real accounts	Astroturfing	★★★★
Article	Netflix apologizes for using actors to meet press at Canadian launch	https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/netflix-apologizes-for-using-actors-to-meet-press-at-canadian-launch/article4326706/	Netflix doing good old irl astroturfing	Astroturfing	★★
Article	Netflix denies spreading ‘Bird Box’ memes with Twitter bots	https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/bird-box-memes-fake-netflix/	Bird Box wasn’t astroturfed, but why are all these links dead	Astroturfing	★★
Paper	Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.2019.1661888	Actual research into astroturfing	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	Power of Suggestion	https://www.chronicle.com/article/power-of-suggestion/	Many priming studies can’t be replicated	Astroturfing	★★★
Book	Public Relations and Participatory Culture: Fandom, social media and community engagement	https://www.worldcat.org/title/public-relations-and-participatory-culture-fandom-social-media-and-community-engagement/oclc/1127300821&referer=brief_results	PR and fandoms	Astroturfing	★★★
Book	Social Media and Public Relations: Fake friends and powerful publics	https://www.worldcat.org/title/social-media-and-public-relations-fake-friends-and-powerful-publics/oclc/1089492876&referer=brief_results	General new media PR textbook	Astroturfing	★★★
Book	Strategic Communication, Social Media and Democracy: The Challenge of the Digital Naturals	https://www.worldcat.org/title/strategic-communication-social-media-and-democracy-the-challenge-of-the-digital-naturals/oclc/1064560421&referer=brief_results	General new media PR textbook	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	Survive Reddit And Make An Impact	https://wearesocial.com/uk/blog/2019/10/survive-reddit-and-make-an-impact/	How to infiltrate Reddit	Astroturfing	★★★★
Article	The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix	https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/1/3/18167278/bird-box-memes-netflix-bots-marketing	Bird Box wasn’t astroturfed, but whats all this bot activity	Astroturfing	★★
Paper	The disconcerting potential of online disinformation: Persuasive effects of astroturfing comments and three strategies for inoculation against them	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444820908530	Actual research into astroturfing	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	The lesson of the dust-up over Trump’s fake Twitter followers.	https://slate.com/technology/2017/06/the-lesson-of-the-dust-up-over-trumps-fake-twitter-followers.html	We only have conjecture but there is manipulation happening	Astroturfing	★★
Article	The Stans Who Post So Much, Twitter Thinks They’re Bots — And Shuts Them Down	https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-stans-who-post-so-much-twitter-thinks-theyre-bots-and-shuts-them-down	Stans and “harmless bots, including ones that promoted Netflix shows”	Astroturfing	★
Paper	There’s Nothing Social About Social Priming: Derailing The “Train Wreck”	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1047840X.2021.1889312	On “priming” post replication crisis	Astroturfing	★★★
Paper	Thinking Taxonomically about Fake Accounts: Classification, False Dichotomies, and the Need for Nuance	https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04959	“Bots” encompasses so much	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	TikTok “Deeply Concerned” by Facebook’s Paid Campaign to Promote Negative Coverage of Social App	https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tiktok-facebook-meta-targeted-victory-1235122641/	Facebook shady anti-competitive campaign	Astroturfing	★
Article	Weekly Nielsen Streaming Charts – Archive	https://www.spoilertv.com/2020/11/weekly-nielsen-streaming-charts-updated.html	Viewership numbers	Astroturfing	★★★★
Article	Who Really Writes Twitter’s ‘Trending’ Summaries	https://onezero.medium.com/who-really-writes-twitters-trending-summaries-89e819255599	On the new team behind the twitter trends	Astroturfing	★★★
Article	Automaton	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton	Automatons!	Automation	★★★★
Article	Doctors turn to imperfect AI to spend more quality time with patients	https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/doctor-burnout-ai-patient-risk	AI causing medical harm	Automation	★★★
Article	From Manchester to Barcelona	https://logicmag.io/nature/from-manchester-to-barcelona/	Techlash ignores capital	Automation	★★★
Book	Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook: Annotated Translations of Greek and Latin Texts and Documents	https://www.worldcat.org/title/greek-and-roman-technology-a-sourcebook-annotated-translations-of-greek-and-latin-texts-and-documents/oclc/1243344417&referer=brief_results	Ancient technophobia	Automation	★★★★★
Article	Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.	https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic/	AI didn’t help with COVID	Automation	★★★
Article	Maelzel’s Chess Player	https://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm	Edgar Allen Poe grappling with the Mechanical Turk	Automation	★★★★
Article	Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit	https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit	Technological change has stalled	Automation	★★★
Article	Once billed as a revolution in medicine, IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts	https://www.statnews.com/2022/01/21/ibm-watson-health-sale-equity/	AI failure	Automation	★★
Article	Robots: what do they mean for jobs and incomes?	https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/robots-what-do-they-mean-for-jobs-and-incomes/	Economic argument against automation discourse	Automation	★★
Book	Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation	https://www.worldcat.org/title/smart-machines-and-service-work-automation-in-an-age-of-stagnation/oclc/1266189478&referer=brief_results	I didn’t really enjoy this but I think I’ve entirely ripped it off	Automation	★★★★★
Article	Tellers, toil and technology	https://www.atmmarketplace.com/articles/tellers-technology-and-atms/	ATMs doubled the amount of bank tellers	Automation	★★★
Video	Tesla AI Day	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0z4FweCy4M	Stupid Elon bullshit	Automation	★★
Article	The Automation Charade	https://logicmag.io/failure/the-automation-charade/	The illusion of automation	Automation	★★★★
Article	The Mechanical Chess Player That Unsettled the World	https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/the-turk-a-chess-playing-robot-was-a-hoax-that-started-an-early-conversation-about-ai.html	On the Mechanical Turk	Automation	★★
Article	The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand	https://onezero.medium.com/the-modern-world-has-finally-become-too-complex-for-any-of-us-to-understand-1a0b46fbc292	Nodes in networks	Automation	★
Article	The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary: An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist	https://logicmag.io/intelligence/interview-with-an-anonymous-data-scientist/	AI hype vs reality	Automation	★★★★★
Article	Uber’s algorithm and the mirage of the marketplace.	https://slate.com/technology/2015/07/ubers-algorithm-and-the-mirage-of-the-marketplace.html	Uber designed to maximise worker exploitation	Automation	★★
Article	Why algorithms beat experts (even in shipping)	https://splash247.com/why-algorithms-beat-experts-even-in-shipping/	Math has use cases	Automation	★
Book	Automation and the Future of Work	https://www.worldcat.org/title/automation-and-the-future-of-work/oclc/1316769061&referer=brief_results	Stagnant economy vs automation hype	Automation	★★★
Article	Despair Fatigue	https://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber	Art, welfare, future	Creators	★★★★★
Article	Don’t be a creator if you can’t do it for free	https://marker.medium.com/if-you-cant-afford-to-do-it-for-free-don-t-be-a-creator-569488f3ef72	There’s no money in creating	Creators	★★★★
Article	Ed Sheeran’s Vinyls	https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/ed-sheerans-vinyls	Big artists stifling others	Creators	★★
Article	HBO Max Might Have Outsmarted the Streaming Wars	https://www.wired.com/story/hbo-max-outsmart-streaming-wars/	HBO burning millions to make a dent	Creators	★★
Article	Hollywood is quietly using AI to help decide which movies to make	https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/28/18637135/hollywood-ai-film-decision-script-analysis-data-machine-learning	AI for script reading and casting and stuff	Creators	★★★
Article	How Can We Pay for Creativity in the Digital Age?	https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/how-can-we-pay-for-creativity-in-the-digital-age	Money in art	Creators	★★★★★
Article	Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class?	https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model	No money in streaming	Creators	★★★★
Article	Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/business/onlyfans-pandemic-users.html	Coronavirus and OnlyFans	Creators	★★
Article	Netflix loses subscribers for first time in 10 years.	https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/business/netflix-earnings-q1.html	How could this happen	Creators	★★★
Article	Netflix will consider buybacks as it returns to positive cash flow after 2021	https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/19/netflix-says-cash-flow-positive-after-2021-no-more-external-financing.html	Whoops	Creators	★★★
Article	Netflix’s subscriber growth has slowed dramatically. Blame competition and the pandemic	https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-07-20/netflixs-subscriber-growth-has-slowed-dramatically	Oh dear	Creators	★★★
Article	No One Makes A Living On Patreon	https://theoutline.com/post/2571/no-one-makes-a-living-on-patreon	No One Makes A Living On Patreon	Creators	★★★★
Article	Tears in Rain	https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/tears-in-rain	Spotify fraud	Creators	★★★★
Article	The creator economy is failing to spread the wealth	https://www.axios.com/2021/10/11/creator-economy-revenue-content?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter	Title	Creators	★★★
Article	The Data Journalism That Wasn’t	http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2015/08/21/data-journalism-wasnt	Some weird internet beef and also a good overview of the money in streaming	Creators	★
Article	The Death Of Subculture part 3: The role of poverty and social class	https://gravityglobal.com/news/the-death-of-subculture-part-3/	The working class has been priced out of art	Creators	★★★
Book	The Death of the Artist	https://www.worldcat.org/title/death-of-the-artist-how-creators-are-struggling-to-survive-in-the-age-of-billionaires-and-big-tech/oclc/1246727096&referer=brief_results	Easier to create, harder to make money, a social issue	Creators	★★★★★
Article	The Economics of OnlyFans	https://xsrus.com/the-economics-of-onlyfans	Losing money from creating	Creators	★★★
Article	The Gig Economy is failing, enter the hustle economy	https://onezero.medium.com/the-gig-economy-is-failing-say-hello-to-the-hustle-economy-13ae3aa91954	Work is increasingly atomised	Creators	★★
Article	The Year Sex Work Came Home	https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/style/camsoda-onlyfans-streaming-sex-coronavirus.html	Coronavirus and OnlyFans	Creators	★
Book	Platform Capitalism	https://www.worldcat.org/title/platform-capitalism/oclc/1236075764&referer=brief_results	Platforms amassing monopoly power	Creators	★★★
Article	‘Stan Twitter, do you know this song’ is the unifying meme we need right now	https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/22/17768546/stan-twitter-do-you-remember-this-song-meme	Nostalgia of stan twitter	Nostalgia	★★
Article	“I’m Not Interested in Cinema”: Adam Curtis on Bitter Lake	https://filmmakermagazine.com/93080-im-not-interested-in-cinema-adam-curtis-on-bitter-lake/	Conflating our current moment with Brezhnevian stagnation	Nostalgia	★★★★
Article	Boris Johnson: The Brezhnev Years	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/boris-johnson-the-brezhnev-years/	Conflating our current moment with Brezhnevian stagnation	Nostalgia	★★★★
Article	Chapter 1: The Politics of Kpop	http://www.moonrok.com/history-k-pop-chapter-1-politics-k-pop/	The start of K-pop	Nostalgia	★★
Article	Chapter 10: The Downside of the Debut	http://www.moonrok.com/history-k-pop-chapter-10-downside-debut/	Exploitation	Nostalgia	★
Article	Chapter 6: How the Internet Almost Killed Kpop, and How Idol Advertising and Acting Saved It	http://www.moonrok.com/history-k-pop-chapter-6-how-internet-almost-killed-k-pop-and-how-idol-advertising-and/	K-pop and internet marketing	Nostalgia	★★★
Article	Covid and fictitious capital	https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/01/25/covid-and-fictitious-capital/	Markets decoupled from reality	Nostalgia	★★
Book	Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More	https://www.worldcat.org/title/everything-was-forever-until-it-was-no-more-the-last-soviet-generation/oclc/941080827&referer=brief_results	Anthropological study of the mood of pre-dissolution Soviet Russia	Nostalgia	★★★★★
Book	Ghosts of My Life	https://www.worldcat.org/title/ghosts-of-my-life-writings-on-depression-hauntology-and-lost-futures/oclc/936416159&referer=brief_results	misc hauntology ramblings	Nostalgia	★
Article	How K-pop became a global phenomenon	https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/16/16915672/what-is-kpop-history-explained	On K-pop production and reception	Nostalgia	★★
Article	Op-Ed: How the streaming wars are changing what you watch	https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-07-18/netflix-amazon-hulu-streaming-competition-hollywood-content	Streamers monopolising	Nostalgia	★★★
Book	Protocol	https://www.worldcat.org/title/protocol-how-control-exists-after-decentralization/oclc/982668932&referer=brief_results	The Net exerts power	Nostalgia	★
Book	The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech	https://www.worldcat.org/title/circle-of-the-snake-nostalgia-and-utopia-in-the-age-of-big-tech/oclc/1140683049&referer=brief_results	Prediction feedback loops	Nostalgia	★★★★★
Book	The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media	https://www.worldcat.org/title/end-of-forgetting-growing-up-with-social-media/oclc/1109928854&referer=brief_results	You can’t escape your past	Nostalgia	★★★
Book	The End of the End of History	https://www.worldcat.org/title/end-of-the-end-of-history-politics-in-the-twenty-first-century/oclc/1252422521&referer=brief_results	misc end of history ramblings	Nostalgia	★
Article	The stock market is detached from economic reality. A reckoning is coming.	https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/stock-market-unemployment-disconnect/2020/09/09/087374ca-f306-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html	Markets propped up by bullshit	Nostalgia	★
Article	Twenty Years Ago, ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Changed the Future of Hollywood	https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/12/17/22840267/lord-of-the-rings-harry-potter-anniversaries-fandom-ip-hollywood	Post-00’s nostalgic blockbusters	Nostalgia	★★★
Paper	A Review Of The Data Broker Industry: Collection, Use, And Sale Of Consumer Data For Marketing Purposes	http://educationnewyork.com/files/rockefeller_databroker.pdf	2013 US Senate investigation into data brokers	Surveillance	★★
Article	Austerity is an Algorithm	https://logicmag.io/justice/austerity-is-an-algorithm/	Australian failure to automate social services	Surveillance	★★
Paper	Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance	https://www.cag.edu.tr/uploads/site/lecturer-files/behind-the-one-way-mirror-a-deep-dive-into-the-technology-of-corporate-surveillance-electronic-frontier-foundation-dCqr.pdf	Data collection overview	Surveillance	★★
Article	BUGGER	https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460	Spies aren’t good at their jobs	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Catching Or Creating Terrorists?	https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/government-corporate-wrong-doing/catching-or-creating-terrorists.html	Manufactured terror	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Classroom Management: Simon Sinek, ClassDojo, and the Nostalgia Industry	https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/classroom-management-simon-sinek-classdojo-and-the-nostalgia-industry/	Surveillance deployed against schoolkids	Surveillance	★
Article	Data Broker Errors	https://www.brennanlaw.com/practice-areas/identity-theft/data-broker-errors/	Data brokers fucking up	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Data Brokers Are a Threat to Democracy	https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-data-brokers-are-a-threat-to-democracy/	Innacurrate data used evilly	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Data Relations	https://logicmag.io/distribution/data-relations/	Data production as work and stuff like that	Surveillance	★
Paper	Estimating The Prevalence Of Entrapment In Post-9/11 Terrorism Cases	https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/jclc105&section=24	More sympathetic towards counterterrorism	Surveillance	★★
Article	How The Lapd And Palantir Use Data To Justify Racist Policing	https://theintercept.com/2021/01/30/lapd-palantir-data-driven-policing/	Tech won’t help policing	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian	https://logicmag.io/commons/inside-the-whale-an-interview-with-an-anonymous-amazonian/	Amazon relationships with law/Corporate perspective	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Logistics Workers of the World: A Conversation with Agnieszka Mróz of Amazon Workers International	https://logicmag.io/care/logistics-workers-of-the-world-a-conversation-with-agnieszka-mroz-of-amazon/	How Amazon workers are surveilled/Worker perspective	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Only 1 percent of “terrorists” caught by the FBI are real	https://www.salon.com/2013/07/10/only_1_percent_of_terrorists_caught_by_fbi_are_real_partner/	Manufactured terror	Surveillance	★★★
Book	Predict and Surveil	https://www.worldcat.org/title/predict-and-surveil-data-discretion-and-the-future-of-policing/oclc/1239321544&referer=brief_results	LAPD data use	Surveillance	★★★
Paper	Radicalization Theory: An Imminent Threat	https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/9k41zd97f	Counterterrorism is harmful busywork	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Ring gave LAPD officers free cameras, pushed product promos	https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-06-17/ring-influencer-marketing-los-angeles-police-department	Amazon <3 the police	Surveillance	★★
Article	Safe or Just Surveilled?: Tawana Petty on the Fight Against Facial Recognition Surveillance	https://logicmag.io/security/safe-or-just-surveilled-tawana-petty-on-facial-recognition/	Increasing use of facial recogntion	Surveillance	★★★
Paper	Separate And Unequal: The Law Of “Domestic” And “International” Terrorism	https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/agispt.20190828016173	Counterterrorism is harmful busywork	Surveillance	★★★
Paper	Social Media Privacy: A Dozen Myths And Facts	https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2298891	Weird privacy hot takes	Surveillance	★★★★
Article	The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information	https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information	Overview of data brokers	Surveillance	★★★★
Article	The Data Is Ours!	https://logicmag.io/scale/the-data-is-ours/	Data vibes overview	Surveillance	★★
Article	The Informants	https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/fbi-terrorist-informants/	FBI entrapment	Surveillance	★★★
Article	The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users	https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user	Underhanded data trading	Surveillance	★★
Article	The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder	https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/03/1046676/police-surveillance-minnesota-george-floyd/	Recent expansion of surv. tech	Surveillance	★★★
Article	Woke AI Won’t Save Us	https://logicmag.io/bodies/woke-ai-wont-save-us/	This stuff doesnt work. Why keep going	Surveillance	★★★★

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