The Saudi Arabian government sentences a man to death for his tweets and YouTube.

Given Saudi Arabia is a major investor in Twitter/X, I wonder if we’ll hear from Elon Musk or Linda Yaccarino about how one of their users is being sentenced to death for exercising their free speech rights on their platform by their second largest investor.

https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-death-sentence-twitter-a2b5549806605d1d21f332ac4c36e43f

So far, there have been six people falsely arrested on the basis of facial recognition tech in the US.

You shouldn't be surprised to learn that ALL SIX people were Black. Why are we letting police departments get away with this?? 😡

#FacialRecognitionBias #Police #Technology #BiasedDataSets

https://www.businessinsider.com/in-every-reported-false-arrests-based-on-facial-recognition-that-person-has-been-black-2023-8
In every reported #FalseArrest based on #FacialRecognition, that person has been #Black

#IAmDB

A history of corporate propaganda

1894 - 2022
"NOboDy Wants To wOrk AnymoRe"

• every exploitative low paying bastard in history.

This is a great article. But I want to say don’t fall for “Researchers building AI outnumber those focused on safety by a 30-to-1 ratio, the Center for Humane Technology said at a recent presentation, underscoring the often lonely experience of voicing concerns in a large organization.”

The type of “AI safety” referred to is anything but. A bunch of white dudes who want to get $$ to “save humanity” the same exact way OpenAI described themselves when they were announced.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-19/google-bard-ai-chatbot-raises-ethical-concerns-from-employees?leadSource=uverify%20wall

I just recently discovered that "updating the Kaspersky" ("actualizar el Kasperspy") means "having sex" in Cuba.

For example, you meet a friend and you ask them about their date: "Did you update your Kaspersky?"

Truly one of the best discoveries I make in years.

Let me explain a bit more. Until very recently most Cubans didn't have access to the internet. But they still got access to all kinds of Western media thanks to "el paquete" (the package).

In practice, this is a hard disk that a local neighborhood guy comes to your house with.

When they came to your home, they'd take out the hard disk, connect it to your PC, and let you choose what you wanted, including software updates, for example for your antivirus.

My understanding is that the joke is that to "update the Kaspersky" you insert a USB in your PC.