Jonathangabriel

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History buff. Tech enthusiast. Avid wanderer.
@rachelshelden was it because he was a total grill master? 😂
My book on facial recognition technology comes out on September 19! Over the last two years, I tracked down the tech's early pioneers, found the people fighting against its worst impulses, and dove into the history of Clearview AI, the start-up that first drew me into the topic with a radical person-finding app that giants in the field, including Google and Facebook, had deemed taboo. It feels real now because there's a release date and a preorder button: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/
Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill: 9780593448571 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end ...

PenguinRandomhouse.com
This week a cheap fake tweet targeting an emergency ICU doctor made its way through the right-wing internet, from a white supremacist troll to millions via Joe Rogan's podcast. Twitter refused her pleas to remove it. I spoke with the doctor. https://t.co/ejMj1uHA3n
A fake tweet spurred an anti-vaccine harassment campaign against a doctor

When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning, she was greeted with a flood of Twitter notifications on her phone.

NBC News
"Our personal clouds may grow so vast that no one will ever go through them, and all the bits and bytes could end up just blowing away" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/technology/cloud-data-storage-google-apple-meta.html @kashhill
Your Memories. Their Cloud.

Google, Apple and Meta offer near-limitless digital basements in which to store photos, videos and important documents, but you should keep a copy of what you hold most dear.

The New York Times
@zadrozny will there be a Truthers season 2 (eventually)?
@caseynewton time to get Skeletor on Hard Fork
In The Age Of TikTok, YouTube Shorts Is A Platform In Purgatory https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2022/12/20/youtube-shorts-monetization-multiformat/
In The Age Of TikTok, YouTube Shorts Is A Platform In Limbo

YouTube is pushing the idea of the “multiformat” creator, who posts both TikTok-style short videos, as well as the longer videos YouTube is known for. Meanwhile, creators are eyeing something else: Shorts monetization coming early next year.

Forbes
@zadrozny loved your podcast, though!
Google Search In Video

Google announced in India yesterday that they are testing a search feature to allow you to search text within video. This isn't a huge stretch from key moments but it is neat to see you being able to

Search Engine Roundtable
I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy

The last few days on Twitter have been, well, chaotic, I guess? Beyond the blocking of the ElonJet account, followed by the blocking of the @JoinMastodon account, then the blocking of journalists a…

Techdirt