During the Stockholm terror attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Stockholm_truck_attack) I had my first interaction with Facebook’s “mark as safe” feature which was pretty dystopian. I quickly figured out that this was an isolated incident, but all subways were shut down so me and a coworker walked homewards together. She was legitimately terrified and I did my best to reassure her it was going to be OK.
Sadly I’m just waiting for another thing to happen, which is more and more likely as obvious agent provocateurs are burning the Quran every chance they get…
I looked it up and apparently the safety check feature was invented by a couple of Facebook engineers who were on a research trip to Japan in 2011 and had to evacuate when the Fukushima disaster happened.
But according to that article, Facebook used unpaid volunteers from non-English-speaking countries to translate their UI and now I’m angry again.
oh wow, I was living in Tokyo in 2011 when the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear plant disaster happened. I think this was the event that led to the creation of the “mark as safe” feature.
huh, this is actually on my list to watch, but mainly because its soundtrack started playing while I was disastrously high and I’m a big sucker for some Dan Deacon, and also because I really fucking hate Axon
That last part sounds weirdly specific and personal… I hope it isn’t.
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I’m sorry you guys had to go through that.
During the Stockholm terror attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Stockholm_truck_attack) I had my first interaction with Facebook’s “mark as safe” feature which was pretty dystopian. I quickly figured out that this was an isolated incident, but all subways were shut down so me and a coworker walked homewards together. She was legitimately terrified and I did my best to reassure her it was going to be OK.
Sadly I’m just waiting for another thing to happen, which is more and more likely as obvious agent provocateurs are burning the Quran every chance they get…
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I looked it up and apparently the safety check feature was invented by a couple of Facebook engineers who were on a research trip to Japan in 2011 and had to evacuate when the Fukushima disaster happened.
But according to that article, Facebook used unpaid volunteers from non-English-speaking countries to translate their UI and now I’m angry again.
oh wow, I was living in Tokyo in 2011 when the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear plant disaster happened. I think this was the event that led to the creation of the “mark as safe” feature.
Yeah, I’m not mad at FB, I’m mad at a world where this is needed (at least when humnas are doing the bad stuff)
Have you seen the documentary movie All Light, Everywhere? It’s a great movie in this vein, and doesn’t seem to be recognised as much as it should.
huh, this is actually on my list to watch, but mainly because its soundtrack started playing while I was disastrously high and I’m a big sucker for some Dan Deacon, and also because I really fucking hate Axon