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Inside the Pro-Israel Information War | Lee Fang and Jack Poulson

Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.

https://www.leefang.com/p/inside-the-pro-israel-information
#Israel #Palestine #censorship

Inside the Pro-Israel Information War

Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.

Lee Fang
Top cited AI articles since 2020 were all written by Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet-aligned researchers. The only exceptions: 2 articles penned by prestigious academic institutions… and that paper on stochastic parrots by Timnit Gebru et al. (Oh boy, that last one really backfired on Google…) https://www.zeta-alpha.com/post/must-read-the-100-most-cited-ai-papers-in-2022
Must read: the 100 most cited AI papers in 2022

Who Is publishing the most Impactful AI research right now? With the breakneck pace of innovation in AI, it is crucial to pick up some signal as soon as possible. No one has the time to read everything, but these 100 papers are sure to bend the road as to where our AI technology is going. The real test of impact of R&D teams is of course how the technology appears in products, and OpenAI shook the world by releasing ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, following fast on their March 2022 paper “T

Zeta Alpha
il fatto che i giornalisti cooptati da industria delle armi dicano "ma non siamo pagati da questa gente" è ingannevole: ci sono molti modi di *pagare* i giornalisti. Il più efficace: con le relazioni e l'influenza che fanno da propulsore alla carriera
Sul Guardian si trovano articoli sui "luoghi più sicuri in caso di guerra nucleare". Come se ce ne fossero. Sono articoli che servono a far abituare al clima di costante pericolo e perenne emergenza. A fomentare la paura.
Chi è terrorizzato rinuncia facilmente a libertà e diritti in cambio di una parvenza di sicurezza.
Ma il rischio di un'ecatombe nucleare è reale, l'errore è possibile. Giocano con la sorte dell'umanità. Criminali i guerrafondai e anche i giornalisti che si prestano a questo.

PIAZZE IN MOVIMENTO

Ieri 5.000 in corteo per gridare: “Basta morti in mare!”
Oltre al corteo di Milano manifestazione antifascista a Firenze e in solidarietà a Cospito a Torino.
Primi segnali di reazione dell’opinione pubblica di sinistra dopo mesi di stordimento?

https://milanoinmovimento.com/primo-piano/milano-5-000-in-corteo-per-gridare-basta-morti-in-mare

Milano, 5.000 in corteo per gridare: "Basta morti in mare!" - MilanoInMovimento

Ieri oltre al corteo di Milano manifestazione antifascista a Firenze e in solidarietà a Cospito a Torino. Primi segnali di reazione dell’opinione pubblica di sinistra dopo mesi di stordimento? Dopo lo sciopero per la giustizia climatica di venerdì ieri la piazza milanese si è nuovamente animata per un’iniziativa convocata dalle una serie di Ong che […]

MilanoInMovimento
US, the Main Nuclear Threat in the World - Chinese Spox

"The United States is the world's biggest source of nuclear threat," Mao Ning said.

Sony's Legal Attack on #Quad9 , Censorship, and Freedom of Speech

"If #Sony wins and Quad9 is forced to block access to the site, other companies can use this precedent to block sites they don't like, for example, for commercial or political motives."

https://www.quad9.net/news/blog/sony-s-legal-attack-on-quad9-censorship-and-freedom-of-speech/
#Censorship #FreeSpeech

Sony's Legal Attack on Quad9, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech | Quad9

A potentially precedent-setting legal case involving Sony Music and Quad9 may endanger internet freedom of speech and allow unchecked content censorship.

Quad9

The EU's proposal to force all service providers to automatically search all content that is either stored or transmitted anywhere in Europe, forward all illegal results to the police, and to block access to all non-European illegal content is expected to be presented to parliament in April. It's currently focused on algorithmic identification of unknown CSAM and of any social interactions that could be child grooming — basically, an AI trying to guess if an image might be child porn or a conversation might be trying to lure a child for sex — but it's unlikely that once the capability exists it won't be expanded to other crimes. The proposal would also force all services to age check their users (which means identifying them) and effectively ban anyone under 18 from interacting with the internet. There are no exceptions for end to end encryption and stored data not being shared is included.

To be clear, this proposal is not going to work. You know how bad chatGPT is? This is trying to solve a much harder problem, one humans struggle with, with much less compute power. What it will do is end all private communication in Europe, waste an amazing amount of police time, and leak a spectacular amount of private material to local police, some of whom — looking at you Hungary and Poland — are more than happy to use it to harass queers and trans people. It is fundamentally incompatible with the basic rights the EU is legally bound to uphold. It's also, in case they care, going to be a nightmare for corporate security and intellectual property control and will create a massive barrier to entry for anyone smaller than Google or Facebook running communication services in Europe.

Please call or write your MEP today and tell them to stop #ChatControl and preserve freedom of expression in Europe.

Esisterà un'istanza #mastodon popolata da persone che prendono seriamente l'inchiesta dei #TwitterFiles di #Taibbi (cioè almeno leggendo il thread su twitter e non ripetendo a pappagallo disinformazione e balle dei mainstream media), un'istanza fatta di gente che ragiona con la propria testa e non zeppa di fans di Trump e suprematisti?
Non ho mai visto due narrazioni tanto opposte e polarizzanti su una notizia con implicazioni su giornalismo, democrazia, #freeSpeech e censura.
Six Degrees from James Baker: A Familiar Figure Reemerges With the Release of the Twitter Files

Below is my column in the New York Post on the reemergence of James Baker, the former FBI general counsel, at the center of the Twitter suppression scandal. Here is the column:

JONATHAN TURLEY