twitterβs always had some *stellar* circles of privacy reporters/researchers/experts that might be looking for alternative places to hang right now. so i made one!
itβs open for anyone to join:
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This should be a great discussion - come join us!
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MAY 22: Join us for a virtual conversation with @JuliaAngwin, @BrandonSilverm, and @BKCHarvard Responsible AI fellow Dr. Rumman Chowdhury (@ruchowdh) on enabling effective and accountable technical oversight of generative AI.
cyber.harvard.edu/events/enablin
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Early YT limited vids to 10 mins to stave off copyright infringement claims, this man is inviting a DMCA deluge rn
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Shoutout to for copy-pasting my entire #WGAStrong Twitter thread from the other day, monetizing it, and treating the whole process as journalism. Youβre welcome.
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This is ghastly.
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Harry and Meghan sent a letter to Backgrid (paprazzi photo agency) demanding they hand over pics from Tuesday.
The response from Backgrid's counsel is one for the books:
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why are you as the ceo of a company ending your linkedin post announcing layoffs with a heart emoji
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with all due respect to tech policy folk: not everything needs to be an acronym!
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This is framed as a surprise, and maybe starting code reviews earlier could help allay concerns. At the same time, without agreement from CFIUS on how code reviews could be reliably done, documented and trusted, it could be a huge waste of time and money to start on spec.
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Scoop: TikTok touts its 'Project Texas' security setup which includes rigorous code reviews from Oracle. Except... they're not actually happening yet. w/@alexbarinka bloomberg.com/news/newslette
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I've made peace with "we're going to burn billions of dollars and thousands of jobs over ten years to recreate cable television", but I am just goddam not going to go along with the kabuki theater of pretending these rocket scientists are *inventing* it just now.
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David Zaslav Explains Why Bundling Is the Future of Streaming.
#future #streaming
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I joined for a chat on all things biometric privacy, including BIPA, how these technologies work & common misconceptions, harms and risks, and the need for reform. Iβm particularly proud of this primer, so hereβs some key takeaways:
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I spent the last four months investigating law enforcement reaction and exposure to fentanyl. In many cases, officers claimed to have overdosed in ways medical experts say isn't possible.
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i've been dizzy this morning & so refraining from work... but instead i've been replaying the *fantastic* Twine game Magical Makeover philome.la/Citrushistrix/
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you can learn more about american politics from this one image than from many books on the subject
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Reddit is mostly bad, but this thread of a man asking for advice about covering up a tattoo, only for everyone to think heβs insane for wanting to cover up βshrimps is bugsβ
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one wild thing about the "organized retail crime" panic is that we have almost no reliable sources. cops want to inflate their own importance and pad their budgets, while retailers want to offload their security costs onto taxpayers.
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Another month, another story of a child caught in the bonkers crosshairs of the healthcare system
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/
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For I wrote about dropshipping and how itβs impossible to buy anything on Etsy anymore because itβs full of cheap junk
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Oh my god. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37461489/p
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though if you say "coppa-cated" out loud it kinda does sound like a toddler saying "complicated," so maybe it works!
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nobody loves a punny tech policy headline more than me, but this...... aint it houstonlawreview.org/article/22277-
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The New York Times, a tech company that also reports the news, just released a new podcast app
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Big Day For MY Team! Introducing New York Times Audio, a new iOS app for news subscribers. You'll find features podcasts, narrated articles and bite-size stories for busy days, including a new Headlines show. Plus, lots of @ThisAmerLife and more
nytco.com/press/nyt-audi
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One of the knock-on effects of generative AI is that no one believes me that this is a real photograph of Ronald Reagan
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I know you all want Bellingcat to sue Musk, but I'd rather spend our money on publishing the sort of investigations that make people like him say dumb shit about Bellingcat, so please donate here if you want to see more of that
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I mostly stopped responding to email three years ago and aside from various consequences it's been fine
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Been thinking a lot lately how legislation around credit card processing, site registration requirements, other hurdles have kept adult film producers, directors, and performers from marketing themselves independently - and basically fed the porn monopolies and their algorithms.
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this company is literally called βlivepersonβ and has a whole stable of fleshy human workers whose entire job is massaging machines
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wait till yall hear about those βhuman-in-the-loopβ startups
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Replying to @swodinsky and @rob_sheridan
Soon, the way to stand out will be to boast that your business DOESNβT use AI. Marketing yourself as being human-centred/focussed etc.
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ive always wanted to experiment w making my own lil content farm just to see what this industry is like (and then donating any proceeds to a charity or something) but
A) that feels *wildly* unethical and
B) iβm scared that iβll be good at it
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i mean the part thatβs nuts to me, anyway, is that it really doesnβt have to be like this. but itβs just so dang profitable! itβd be a shame to course correct now
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fr thoughβiβll always been fascinated by the economics of an internet thatβs winning pulitzers and cratering on one end while the other makes bank off of content that nobody reads while running ads for products nobody asked for. isnβt that nuts?
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pretty sure weβre careening towards a digital media sphere full of outlets stuffing their bot-written content full of bot-created ads and then flooding the pages w bot traffic for easy cash
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TODAY: a slew of posts on Reddit show DoorDashers begging customers for extra tipsβwhich is bad, but makes sense, given that DoorDash pays them around $2/delivery.
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Does anyone have research/data on demographic differences in user engagement with content moderation?
I know Jon Penney's work on DMCA counternotice. But more on gender, race, etc. disparities in users seeking removal of content, appealing removals, etc. would be great.
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Sam Altman says he wants to be regulatedβand he wants you to believe AI could destroy the world. We're in the middle of a hype cycle. Here's why you should be skeptical about the entire conversation
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Open A.I. CEO Sam Altman is testifying as lawmakers grapple with this intelligence:
@jayobtv: "He wants their help to regulate this technology."
@thomasgermain: we haven't seen A.I "capable of replacing human critical thinking...I don't think it's quite time to panic, yet."
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