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@thedextriarchy

Procrastinating on the future, senior reporter for The Verge.

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Joined November 2009
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  1. 11h

    sry canceling all my CES meetings, something came up

    3 replies . 37 likes
  2. 13h

    A Steam user review written within the fiction of the game? I swoon!

    2 retweets 4 likes
  3. 14h

    Every time I write something now I worry I’ll fugue and end the piece with “And that's why Earth should be destroyed by a giant meteor."

    8 likes
  4. 16h

    Can’t wait to put Milo’s new book on my shelf next to his bestselling and totally existent Silicon Valley and Gamergate books.

    5 likes
  5. 19h

    The flip side is that VR opens up technological ways to *mitigate* harm in a way that doesn’t exist in the real world.

    2 replies . 1 retweet 9 likes
  6. 19h

    But people tend not to do toxic things in real life because of complex existing social networks with serious consequences for acting out.

    1 reply . 7 likes
  7. 19h

    Theoretically, maybe it’s easier to form social groups if you can see someone’s emotions, so it’s easier to build community.

    1 reply . 2 likes
  8. 19h

    With all due respect to the many wonderful men I’ve met in VR, do people just forget real-world catcalling is a thing?

    1 reply . 2 retweets 13 likes
  9. 19h

    Anecdotally, people are just fine seeing the negative emotions of an outgroup, if there’s no social cohesion or, arguably, risk of shaming.

    2 replies . 2 retweets 9 likes
  10. 19h

    Here’s Tim Sweeney on how VR emotional feedback will humanize the internet. I generally tend to disagree.

    6 replies . 5 retweets 16 likes
  11. 19h

    UploadVR wrote up one of the more interesting pieces from my Tim Sweeney interview yesterday.

    2 replies . 2 retweets 5 likes
  12. 19h

    Non-VR screen heatmaps are already pretty advanced but biometric tracking can be pretty fascinatingly invasive.

    You: Silicon Valley can't hurt me SV: "The goal of everything we do is to change peoples' actual behavior at scale"
    1 reply . 4 likes
  13. Dec 28

    . is my favorite pop culture of 2016, because it was one of the only things I saw make people happy.

    1 reply . 10 retweets 37 likes
  14. Dec 27

    we need to talk about how gloves are not fun to wear even if they make you look like a total h4xx0r

    2 replies . 2 retweets 8 likes
  15. Dec 27

    “Her brother died because trolls thought it would be fun to divert self-driving car routes into the Grand Canyon."

    1 reply . 1 like
  16. Dec 27

    “Humanity is destroyed by plague thanks to a medical smart grid that can’t figure out if vaccines cause autism."

    1 reply . 1 retweet 8 likes
  17. Dec 27

    "A family torn apart by inaccurate algorithmic guesses at world affairs and interpersonal events, compounded by constant misinformation."

    1 reply . 1 retweet 5 likes
  18. Dec 27

    Automated platforms failing because they rely on the wisdom of crowds is a few steps from literary-tragedy level.

    1 reply . 10 retweets 22 likes
  19. Dec 27

    bad enough to get a Stormfront page as top result on a search—even worse if you ask an AI about the holocaust & it answers “didn’t happen”

    1 reply . 3 retweets 3 likes
  20. Dec 27

    one of the premises of Google’s AI assistant is that it will just answer questions based on top search results—it needs to fix this stuff

    1 reply . 3 retweets 3 likes

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