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Transformational technologies like microcomputers and smartphones were so obviously useful that rank and file workers were smuggling them into their workflows despite the best efforts of CEOs to stop them.
The "transformational" technology of LLMs is so obviously anti-useful that CEOs must resort to threats and coercion to get their rank and file workers to go anywhere near them.
In today’s “terminology matters”:
❌ Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.
✅ Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.
We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.
TIL Mercedes Benz deleted what3words functionality from all their cars.
This would be the same Mercedes Benz who ***invested*** in w3w.
And why did they disable the functionality? Didn’t wanna renew the licence.
Whichever way you read it it’s a shit show.
“A PSNI report admitted that, over the past 14 years, it has applied for phone records of 323 Northern Ireland journalists and 500 lawyers.”
There are only 3,000 lawyers practicing in Northern Ireland.
Madcap CnaM age verification plans won't meet voters before the election.
"The general obligations contained in the code will apply from next month and platforms will have an implementation period of up to nine months for certain detailed provisions, which require IT build, to come into compliance."
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1021/1476505-technology/
Weakening #encryption will only help predators, criminals, blackmailers & scammers.
Since many service providers have stated that they will refuse to comply, this proposal will mean:
❌ No Signal
❌ No WhatsApp
❌ No iMessage
❌ No Facetime
❌ No Element
1/2 🚨 #Spyware is a threat to EU #democracy & our #fundamental rights 🚨
30 civil society & journalists' orgs, including @edri, are urging incoming EU decisionmakers to take decisive action against the abuse of spyware.
Read our joint statement ➡️ https://cdt.org/insights/civil-society-joint-statement-on-the-use-of-surveillance-spyware-in-the-eu-and-beyond/
CDT Europe is publishing a joint statement with a coalition of civil society organisations calling on the EU institutions to regulate spyware technologies in the new legislative term. We are a coalition of civil society organisations and journalists’ organisations committed to the protection of fundamental rights, transparency, and accountability in relation to spyware technologies. Spyware […]
Looks like Musk's deadbird site is up to some of its most vile political tricks, in this case sleazily discouraging people from looking at evidence relating to the Russian missile attack on a Ukraine children's hospital.
h/t @interfluidity
Do look at the report: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07/09/russian-missile-identified-in-kyiv-childrens-hospital-attack/
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