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Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
theverge.com · 30 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 · 187 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
We're really pretending the Epstein class bombing an Iranian girls' school counts as a liberation of women?
councilestatemedia.uk · 16 people
An illegal war to distract from paedophilia is being sold as “liberation” by elements of the media in a total collapse of journalistic ethics.
Nothing captures the depravity better than the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school. Three missiles into one school building is no misfire. At least 148 innocents were killed in the attack with 95 wounded—mostly girls aged 7 to 12.
— @cemedia · Mar 01
How to opt out: Lessons from 14 years of evading surveillance capitalism
besi.berkeley.edu · 23 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
A Month With OpenAI's Codex
highcaffeinecontent.com · 5 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
'Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave': Israeli Army in 1948
israelpalestinenews.org · 17 people
Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948.
"Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave’: What the Israeli Army Did in 1948"
"The area is to be cleansed of Arabs.... Every Arab who will be met with is to be annihilated.”
"Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – and to begin to grasp its bitter implications".
#Palestine #PalestineHistory #USPol #EUPol #1948IsraeliTerror .
— @DrALJONES · Mar 01
How a Mutual Aid Network Built Direct Support for Migrants Across Minnesota
truthout.org · 11 people
“There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money,” says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
"When federal immigration enforcement escalated in Minneapolis this winter, under what officials described as Operation Metro Surge, communities across Minnesota were forced to respond quickly. As businesses in immigrant corridors shuttered, families sheltered in place, and ICE activity intensified, organizers, faith groups, mutual aid networks, and everyday residents began building new forms of support in real time."
— @igd_news · Mar 01
I tested the weird, tiny, low-cost electric car soon coming to the US
electrek.co · 8 people Worth reading
Electric vehicles are everywhere these days, but few are as intriguing – or as polarizing – as the tiny urban...
"I've long espoused the merits of car drivers shifting away from battle tank-sized vehicles and into something smaller and more appropriately-sized for the average trips many urban drivers take."
Hey, common sense warriors, here's the 🎩!
I tested the weird, tiny, low-cost electric car soon coming to the US
— @dyckron · Mar 02
Landmark consultation seeks views on major measures to protect children on social media, gaming platforms and AI chatbots
gov.uk · 10 people
Government launches a landmark consultation on UK children's digital wellbeing, covering social media age bans, curfews, AI chatbots and gaming.
# Landmark consultation seeks views on major measures to protect children on social media, gaming platforms and AI chatbots
With the Online Safety Act in place for only a short period, the UK government is consulting on more "online safety" measures.
Including, it seems, a digital "overnight curfew" for children.
— @neil · Mar 02
MCP is dead. Long live the CLI
ejholmes.github.io · 11 people
I’m going to make a bold claim: MCP is already dying. We may not fully realize it yet, but the signs are there. OpenClaw doesn’t support it. Pi doesn’t support it. And for good reason.
The signs are there that MCP is dying
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— @hn50 · Mar 01
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