🔮 The Internet’s dark forest; robots & work; the tech cold war; Amazon & Germany; plutonium & Game of Thrones++ #219

I need your help :)

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Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society 

This issue has been supported by our partner: Ocean Protocol.

‘Human attention and time allocation are limited.
Only the networks with the best incentives will survive.’
Here’s Part 2 of Ocean’s Guide to Data Curation. If you missed Part 1, find it here.

The huge, horrible, auto-spamification problem. 🌪️

Every few months, the automated spam filters that are present in the Internet’s mail infrastructure decide the EV is spam. It really is a case of ‘computer says no’.

I’ve spent time talking to senior execs at various mail services. They can see the issue but can’t do anything about the decision made by those spam-scoring systems.

As humans, we need to teach those systems a thing or two.

But seriously, as a matter of priority, I really need your help in ensuring this wondermissive makes it into your inboxes.

👀 You need to do three things:

1. Drag this from promotions or updates into your inbox,

2. Reply to this email—just w…