Horrific/Terrific: the week in tech, rated on a five point scale

👍 30% Epic

Having a .tech TLD makes you COOL, no arguments | Twitter's scroll to success | Signal's suppressed ad campaign

👎 Assisted Crash

Please change the world, but ignore that the world even exists | Tesla's triple whammy | Now you can deepfake a great lake

🤷🏻‍♀️ Repetitive Motion

A capitalist's love letter | A wilful misunderstanding of data portability | ban facial recognition

🤷🏻‍♀️ MS Health

Prioritise AI, forget everything else | A responsible ML initiative | A very wealthy robot

👎 Award Bias

The Augmented Army | What's the Winklecost of a Winklevoss? | an unsurprising Turing Award winner

👎 FLoC Together

A FLoC of disgusting low fat cookies | upload, meditate, repeat | lucrative exploits

🤷 Wristbook

So much hearing, yet no listening | Wrist Flex | Anything can be a toilet

Substack 🔜🗑

Horrific/Terrific is taking leave from Substack | asset theft | a nifty alternative to sim-swapping

🤮 Minted Tweets

Google's plan to phase out cookies will only make them STRONGER, and make me SICKER | Do you need to buy/sell NFTs or are you already a massive douche?

👍 Sentiment Giant

Feeling left out? Form a tech consultancy! | Juicy delicious super Tweets | Cambridge Analytica Lite

🤷🏻‍♀️ Taxi Quest

Pixelated assets | heat your home with bitcoin | gig worker = lame. Quest taker = much better!

👎 Link Tax

Cars with drivers disgust me | Self-sufficient Fire Sticks | No, you need to PAY for those links

🤷‍♀️ This week was sort of okay, I guess?

BUY DOGECOIN | Working through your feelings with a ransomware attack | Twitter Pro

👎This week was something I could have done without

Apple VS Facebook | Google VS Microsoft | Amazon VS your face

👍 This week was good. Finally

Signal awarded with Best New App of 2021 by NASA | a forking bad time | The Big Society but for Misinformation.

👎 This week was something I could have done without

Deplatform, decentralise, desocialise, denazify | I'm so done with mining Bitcoin on Earth, get me out of here

🤷🏻‍♀️ This week was sort of okay I guess?

What data can they collect from your poo? | A full-stack ban | Stop complaining and just move to Signal

🤮 This week was Horrific

Don't just alphabetise, unionise | a machine imitating a human imitating an avocado imitating a chair

🤡 This week was [undefined]; get in the bin, 2020

Misinformation, abridged | Doing more learning with less bits | year++

👍 This week was good! Finally...

Christmas comes early for Google | An Elon Musk fail | Our lives are mostly online now — let's regulate!

👎 This week was something I could have done without

A summary of the paper that lost Timnit Gebru her job | Facebook are forced to be transparent, for once

🤷🏻‍♀️ This week was sort of okay I guess?

Facebook keeping things 'balanced' | AWS went down, pets go hungry