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a #SoftwareEngineer in #Chicago. life is weird.
With only a few exceptions, male journalists have little understanding of what female journalists routinely face in doing their jobs. This story, from @taylorlorenz, is must-reading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/
These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them targets.

A Forbidden Stories consortium: Female reporters are often pushed out of their jobs as global news organizations struggle to respond to disinformation campaigns

The Washington Post
The three Cs: Credit, Consent, Compensation
"many artists are primarily looking for credit, consent and compensation from AI art generation companies"
“The developers could have treated artists as partners and stakeholders, rather than raw material to train on,”
@randomwalker says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/02/14/ai-in-illustration/
Artists are alarmed by AI — and they’re fighting back

“I feel like it’s a violation of the soul,” says one cartoonist who is suing artificial intelligence companies for using images without permission, as illustrators ask: Will this transform our industry?

The Washington Post

It took all of twenty seconds for this box to get filled after setting it down.

I call it cat fishing.

25 Mind-blowing Reasons This Fucking Sucks
Putting #TailScale on it was such a brilliant idea because now everything has valid HTTPS certificates that my computer doesn't get (too) mad about, and they're very easy for me to access but very hard for anyone else

Computers are smart sometimes!
😆
I have been introduced to the great joy of having a powerful processing device on top of my #NAS

It runs
#Docker (and #dockercompose)!

I feel invincible
From now on when I read or watch news pieces and pundit discussions about “the economy” I’ll think of this…

This whole fediverse trend of responding to ideas about improving moderation with "well just make a personal block list, there you go"

really needs to die.

Personal filters and block lists are not "moderation" they aren't an affirmation of shared community values, they can't replace moderation to effectively stem the flow of hate content.

They don't meet the need.

If you don't have this need that is fine. There are places you can go. But lots of people do. jeeeeez

I'm still not sure how #facialrecognition tech is allowed in courts, especially in criminal justice cases, especially in prosecutions

RE:
https://dotnet.social/users/poppastring/statuses/109634255337252746
Mark Downie (@[email protected])

A black man wrongfully jailed for a week in Louisiana after face recognition error, report says. Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight or the mole on his face. #blackmastodon #facialrecognition https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/facial-recognition-tech-used-to-jail-black-man-for-louisiana-theft-hes-never-been-to-louisiana/

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