"Shareholder" by J. L. Westover

alt textThree panels depicting a person and a robot labelled “social media algorithm”. Person (handing over a card): Please share this with my friends. Social media algorithm (holding the card closely): I will show this to… no one. Person: But… Social media algorithm (poiting gun at person): Pay me.

@MrLovenstein (toot)

source and secret panel

rubythulhu,
@rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

As a programmer, nothing about the modern world frustrates me more than the difference between the definition of the word algorithm when you ask a programmer or mathematician, and anyone else in the entire fucking world.

casmael,

Algorithm bad. Me no want algorithm. Me want see thing in order, old thing first new thing last.

rubythulhu,
@rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Me want see thing in order, old thing first new thing last

Fun fact: this is also an algorithm!

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