https://www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-moves
Most especially the section “Fuck Civility”
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1280/316471/20240708144004496_23-1280%20Parents%20Protecting%20Our%20Children%20v%20Eau%20Claire%20Area%20School%20District%20-%20Amicus%20Brief%20of%20Virginia%20and%2015%20Other%20States.pdf
Amicus Brief in Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District joined by 16 states. “Parents Rights” (to be transphobic, or to control their children). I may write more on this.
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-social-media-tells-you-who-you-are-what-if-its-totally-wrong/
see also: gender classifier. I can report from experience how the algorithms they develop seem to lean into pushing content once they have decided you are a {thing} that gets engagement. I can also report that it’s uncomfortable when they get it wrong and keep pushing.
As Goode says:
“…In both cases, I’m supposed to tell the algorithms who I am. I’m supposed to do the work. I’m supposed to swipe more. I’ll be so much better off if I do. And so will they.”
We loose when we don’t let the algorithms know who we are, but we sure as shit also loose when we do. A double bind, right?
https://www.usermag.co/p/why-democrats-wont-build-their-own