Ben Caudron

@bencaudron
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Sociologist fascinated by Big Tech’s impact on democracy & politics. Professor. Author. Dada. Married to a Goddess. Opinions expressed are my cat's. In the process of #TwitterMigration
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Latest Book‘Niet Leuk?’ (Pelckmans)
Next BookForthcoming (2024)

Do you feel like this summer has brought just unending terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone! Join me and @alex as we attempt to clear out the backlog of Fresh AI Hell on the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream:

Monday, September 9, noon Pacific
https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

Twitch

The risk is clear: Without strong privacy protections in the #UNCybercrimeTreaty, we face increased government overreach, unchecked surveillance, and transnational repression. Countries must stand firm: defeat the treaty or limit its scope.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/un-cybercrime-draft-convention-dangerously-expands-state-surveillance-powers

UN Cybercrime Draft Convention Dangerously Expands State Surveillance Powers Without Robust Privacy, Data Protection Safeguards

This is the third post in a series highlighting flaws in the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Check out Part I, our detailed analysis on the criminalization of security research activities, and Part II, an analysis of the human rights safeguards.As we near the final negotiating session for the...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

@LALegault Yes, there are some spineless people on the left, but you want to stop #project2025 because EVERYONE will suffer. The next Republican President will:

* Defund NOA weather and hurricane monitoring.
* Eliminate FEMA disaster relief
* Criminalizes trans people (and porn)
* Defund Social Security
* Eliminate and defund EPA
* National ban on Abortion
* Eliminate almost all veteran programs
* Privatize the public schools
* Immediate mass deportation of all undocumented (15 million)

DHS watchdog has launched criminal probe into destruction of Jan. 6 Secret Service text messages, sources say

The DHS Inspector General has launched a criminal investigation into circumstances surrounding the destruction of Jan. 6 Secret Service text messages, sources say.

NBC News
What a difference an inch makes
PFAS-coalitie verwelkomt historisch Oosterweel-arrest Raad van State

De Raad van State hekelt de onwettige aanpak van vervuilde gronden op de Oosterweelwerf.

Blame the bullshit they call managing higher education… it took me almost a year to finish ‘attack surface’ by @pluralistic. I like it. I guess the bottom line stands. Wanna know what that is? Buy the book. Read it.
Debunking Myth #7: America is socialist

BUNK!

Robert Reich

Aan de hippe #controlearts (ex-intesivist) van #Helan (Wilrijk), die
1. Geen enkele diagnostische handeling stelde
2. Geen contact nam met de artsen die dat wel werk leverden
3. Geen probleem heeft om publieke middelen op te strijken
en
mijn godin bedacht op #agism & #seksisme:

May your shit comes to live & bite you in the nose, redundant asshole🖕

‘True, there will never again be a Noam #Chomsky. So we should all be Noam Chomsky.’

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-media-theory-elites/

Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant

More than any other thinker in the postwar era, Noam Chomsky has embodied Karl Marx’s favorite dictum: “nothing human is alien to me.”