Wrote about the nation's greatest living dystopian fiction salesman, Howard Lutnick, and the pathetic policies that are trying to bring this technofeudalist fever dream to life:
https://www.404media.co/your-childrens-children-will-die-in-our-factories/
New from 404 Media: Mike Waltz has inadvertently revealed the obscure app the government is using to archive Signal messages. Made by a company called TeleMessage. Use of the Signal clone raises questions about how messages being secured, what classification of info
New: Mike Waltz appears to be using an unofficial fork of Signal in the cabinet meeting, which archives messages elsewhere, off device. Unclear what potential security implications of this are:
I spoke to the man who runs a Los Angeles tour bus exclusively for Germans that has a stop near my house and brings tons of tourists to many neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles. He says bookings for this summer are down 30%
We’ve uploaded more clips from the conversations at the Fediverse House last month at SXSW, including:
@jasonkoebler on the perils of building a business on rented land
@parkerortolani's recommendation to publishers who want to get started in the fediverse
Gina Michnowicz’s advice to brands curious about the space
@jlouderb's call to creators seeking autonomy
That about does it for our roundup from Austin. Hope you enjoyed these videos and felt inspired by these open social words of wisdom.
See them all...
Fediverse House: https://flipboard.video/c/fediverse.house/videos
Dot Social: https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos
#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #FediverseHouse #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #Tech #Technology #Flipboard
New: This is the leaked internal ethical justification Palantir has given its employees for building a massive immigrant deportation database with ICE:
https://www.404media.co/this-is-palantirs-justification-for-building-ices-master-database/
A lot of updates here. Reddit is issuing "formal legal demands" against the researchers who ran this experiment. The university is investigating how the research was done, and the researchers say they are not going to publish their findings:
Imagine spending millions of dollars (I can't) for a "forever" jpeg that blue screened of death because the creator downgraded to a free plan (also can't) (but lol)
NEW: Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit in a large debate sub. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to 'personalize' answers & created identities such as "rape survivor"
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