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Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
theverge.com · 23 people
What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!
"Hostility is the basic mode in which we engage with each other and our government, and filming has become a hostile act. Meta's glasses are a sleek version of the weapon everyone already has in their pocket; the addition of facial recognition will accelerate the ongoing breakdown in public trust."
#Meta #surveillance #privacy
— @lrhodes · Mar 01
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
techdirt.com · 89 people
If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine
For Accurately Reporting That
The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
— @cdarwin · Feb 28
A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
theguardian.com · 34 people
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
“How dismaying – how unforgivable! – that those past lessons have not been learned. How incredible that an elected 21st-century American president still believes it’s effective and permissible, let alone moral, to dictate to the world from the barrel of a gun. By what conceivable right does the US behave in this way?”
— @heidilifeldman · Feb 28
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
politico.eu · 99 people
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
— @topstories · Mar 01
Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
theguardian.com · 12 people
The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan - Labour must stop imitating 'Reform'.
"In all my mayoral elections in London, I asked potential Green supporters to lend me their vote so that we could deliver progressive policies to build a fairer, safer, greener and more prosperous London for everyone. Many did, but it only worked because people believed we would walk the walk, not just talk the talk."
/Cont'd.
— @markhburton · Mar 01
Iran unleashes its deadliest weapon in closing the Strait of Hormuz
thecanary.co · 14 people
Iran has shut the Strait of Hormuz in a serious blow to Western consumers - we run on oil, and that oil must pass through Hormuz
Iran unleashes its deadliest weapon in closing the Strait of Hormuz
— @therightarticle · Mar 01
Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds
dublininquirer.com · 21 people
Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.
The good people of Earth had learned to celebrate their diversity and were out there exploring the galaxy as a founding member of the United Federation of Planets.
The bridge crew of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 included a Japanese man, a Russian man, and a Black woman – all in officer roles. It was simply unheard of on US television in the mid-1960s.
— @FSonder · Feb 27
How to opt out: Lessons from 14 years of evading surveillance capitalism
besi.berkeley.edu · 20 people
Please join us for this talk with sociologist of science and technology Janet Vertesi. Additional details to come.
If you're at or near Berkeley, mark your calendar -- I'm speaking about my Opt Out Projects this Wednesday from 4-5:30. Register here:
— @cyberlyra · Mar 01
Janet Vertesi, "The Cost of Crisis: Towards a Techno-socioeconomics of Big Science under Neoliberal Austerity"
sociology.berkeley.edu · 6 people
Also if you are around #Berkeley and you care about science funding, come see me talk about my new book, The Cost of Crisis, in the Sociology Department on Monday afternoon. It's all about what happens to science when you start slashing budgets, based on ethnographic and historical work at #NASA. Info and registration link below:
— @cyberlyra · Mar 01
A Month With OpenAI's Codex
highcaffeinecontent.com · 4 people Worth reading
I'm no stranger to using ChatGPT for development — a good chunk of the migration of all my apps from Objective-C to Swift, over a hundred thousand lines of code, was done with LLM assistance — but I've been sleeping on the shift that is already well underway in our industry.
⭐️ New blog post: A Month With OpenAI's Codex
It's been literal *years* since I last posted anything, so you know this is a big deal for me 😜
— @stroughtonsmith · Mar 01
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