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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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Three 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.

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source and secret panel

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.