THIS ALIEN SHORE (1998)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 20”

Most readers will remember author C.S. Friedman for the Coldfire Trilogy, but this was her most critically successful book, a New York Times notable book of the year. 1/4

#sciencefiction #illustration #csfriedman #dawbooks

Google Mail / "GMail" has no fewer than nine settings for "Smart Features and Personalization", e.g., Gemini. I have these all turned off in order to prevent Gemini ingesting my emails. To do this, you now have to opt out of benign machine-learning or even pattern-matching-based features, like sorting promotional emails from regular ones or spellcheck.

Despite this, as of today, Google is offering a Gemini smart compose feature on all my emails, despite me having turned off smart compose.

A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.

No one who does hardware security believes that any system is bulletproof, but do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?

Let's dive in. /1

No surprise, but it's good to have some data to back it up

"A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly"

https://theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-of-xs-algorithm-can-make-you-more-right-wing-and-it-doesnt-wear-off-quickly-276153

"A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm ... shifts users’ political opinions in a more conservative direction."

#SocialMedia #Politics #X #Twitter