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A lot of the social fallout and collateral damage caused by #AI is actually rooted in unregulated platform capitalism and neoliberal ad-consumer-waste-cycles: social media as mass manipulation, intellectual property laws that haven't been updated to the internet at all, gig economy exploitation... but most importantly:
Tech monopolies that are allowed to program dark pattern mechanisms int…

Tight Bounds On the Distortion of Randomized and Deterministic Distributed Voting
Mohammad Ali Abam, Davoud Kareshki, Marzieh Nilipour, Mohammad Hossein Paydar, Masoud Seddighin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17134

Tight Bounds On the Distortion of Randomized and Deterministic Distributed Voting
We study metric distortion in distributed voting, where $n$ voters are partitioned into $k$ groups, each selecting a local representative, and a final winner is chosen from these representatives (or from the entire set of candidates). This setting models systems like U.S. presidential elections, where state-level decisions determine the national outcome. We focus on four cost objectives from \citep{anshelevich2022distortion}: $\avgavg$, $\avgmax$, $\maxavg$, and $\maxmax$. We present improved d…