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A recent New York Times op-ed, titled “Stopping the Manipulation Machines,” derided the use of dark patterns: design tricks that push people to do things online by confusing or deliberately inconveniencing them. Liar, liar, paper on fire. Kudos to the writer, Greg Bensinger, a member of the Times’ editorial board, who does a laudable job calling out obnoxious dark patterns. His first target is the Amazon Prime unsubscribe process, which he calls “a labyrinthine process that requires multiple screens and clicks.” Bensinger claims Amazon deters customers from canceling Prime with a ...

I’m a bit of a rookie on Google Meet. Kathleen Kingsbury: Thank you so much for being with us. We only have a limited time together, so if you don’t mind, I’m just going to jump right in. My first question will give you a chance to tell us a little bit more about yourself, which is, why do you want this job? Why would you be better than anyone else in the field of candidates? Well, thank you all for having me today, and it’s a real pleasure to be with you even in this format. I wish we were meeting at The New York Times. Look, I fundamentally believe that this city is in a moment of r...

Read the board’s endorsement for the Democratic primary . Note: Several participants’ internet connections were unstable during this interview. Some audio broke up, and as a result sections of this transcript are slightly disjointed. Kathleen Kingsbury: Thank you for taking this time to be with us. I wanted to ask you, to start, if you could tell us a little bit about why you want this job and why you are the best candidate in the field. Just because we have very limited time together, brevity would be very appreciated. Brevity is the key. So, let me tell you why. New York is broke...

Opinion: Facebook is better without Trump 17 Mar, 2021 07:46 PM 5 minutes to read Facebook indefinitely banned former president Donald Trump following his posts inciting the raid on the US Capitol earlier this year. Photo / AP New York Times OPINION: If you are a public official, there's no more effective or efficient place to lie than on Facebook. It's company policy — meaning the policy of the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg — to roll out the red carpet to all manner of political falsehood and obfuscation. Zuckerberg has said that it's not the company's job to "be arb...

I'm the Amazon Worker the Media Doesn't Want You to Meet | Opinon Kevin Mims , Amazon employee On 2/24/21 at 1:50 PM EST I appear to be that rarest of working-class Americans: a gruntled Amazon employee. Judging from what you read in the press or see on TV news, Amazon has mostly disgruntled employees working in its warehouses, staffing its fulfillment centers, and driving its delivery vans. In a new book on Amazon, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, we meet people like Hector Torrez (a pseudonym), an Amazon warehouse worker who was exposed to the corona...