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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

And my Mom says she’ll never forget that her first knowledge of the events of the day came through my voice, whole and well, telling her to turn on the television. Now we are friends on Google Maps, and I can see his dot throughout his evening commute. And I’d have used Twitter that morning and in the surreal days to come.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., to automate fast-food restaurants).

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