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Our Yearning for Competence
If competence porn is media that titillates by showing highly skilled people doing their thing, then what could an erotics of competence look like?
The Most Undervalued Skill of the 21st-Century Economy
On the internet, just about every problem or quandary can be boiled down to an issue of content moderation. Who decides what content can be published or not, how fast content loads, who is allowed to see what… all of these issues are made real through content moderation practices. And yet, content moderators are some of the most exploited workers in the 21st-century economy.