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Announcing CrowdStrike AI

I’m old enough to remember the Tobacco hearings of the 90’s- they were a turning point. Today’s tech hearings had that same feel of shame and “final straw” zeitgeist.

It’s time.

The Kids Online Safety Act isn’t designed to help kids. Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process.

https://zephoria.medium.com/kosa-isnt-designed-to-help-kids-335ab57cddae

KOSA isn’t designed to help kids. - danah boyd - Medium

In a few minutes, the Senate Judiciary will start a hearing focused on “Big Tech and the Online Child Exploitation Crisis.” Like most such hearings, this will almost certainly go off the rails in a…

Medium
Good Skift followup to the fake women tech conference speakers. Somewhere a machine is planning a fake conference for the fake conference speakers and the fake Sports Illustrated writers.
https://meetings.skift.com/tech-conference-accused-of-creating-fake-women-speakers/
Tech Conference Accused of Creating Fake Women Speakers

Tech industry insiders say fake female speakers were featured in the DevTernity conference lineup to create the illusion of diversity.

Skift Meetings
Classic glass cliff: Hire a woman to save your business but don't let her actually do it. Musk "has made it impossible [for Yaccarino] to succeed in her mission to return advertisers to the platform w/ his rash of retweets of blatantly antisemitic posts." https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-advertising-resign-x-twitter
Marketing leaders urge X CEO Linda Yaccarino to resign

"It's simply that the owner is not someone marketing can do business with," one industry veteran said.

Axios
Is it true that they're replacing Sam Altman with a LLM trained on Hacker News comments?
Sam Altman fired by OpenAI. The robot uprising has begun.

Once again Ezra Klein nails it on Andreeson

“Rather, it’s the pairing of the reactionary’s sodden take on modern society with the futurist’s starry imagining of the bright tomorrow. So call it what it is: reactionary futurism.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/marc-andreessen-reactionary-futurism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | The Reactionary Futurism of Marc Andreessen

The reactionary futurism of Marc Andreessen.

The New York Times
Anyone who lists ethics and responsibility as their enemy is telling you exactly who they are.
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