Interesting

It’s notable that even Apple, a paragon of brand creation and maintenance, is so out of touch with this moment. It’s not 2015. People want human art and no one trusts big tech.

Say it louder for the bots in the hidden replies!

We’re pretty rapidly and consciously heading towards a future where everything you do on the Internet requires government ID, with basically no attention paid to the consequences of that (indeed, the consequences of that may be the whole point.)

Hi, hello, we don’t have evidence of extant vulnerabilities, and haven’t been notified of anything. We follow responsible disclosure practices, and closely monitor [email protected] + respond & fix any valid issues quickly. So if you do have more info hit us up! But beyond…

I am impressed with politico for interviewing someone skeptical about AI but also as smart as Ben. Regulators should pay attention to him! politico.com/newsletters/di…

Generative AI should be called Normative AI, as all it's doing is an endless rearrangement of elements according to the statistical norms it has learned from its training data. AI is the sedimentation of the status quo.

It’s true. Signal is a better way to communicate, with everyone.

I often reject tech analysis that centers free speech because of how it was used by tech libertarians to usher in the current dystopia. I think Meredith Whittaker does a good job bringing together political economy with the importance of free expression here: lpeproject.org/blog/social-me…

I can get behind this statement from the German Computer Scientists Forum for Peace and Social Responsibility calling for 'the practice of targeted killing with supporting AI systems to be classified as a war crime'. Original statement [de] blog.fiff.de/warnung-senkun…

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Oh god. I've been dreading this.

Ask yourself why reporters would need to be arrested for reporting on what's happening at UCLA? What dont they want the public to know? Asking as a UCLA alum class of 1996

This is Annelise Orleck who is the head of the Jewish Studies program at Dartmouth and 65 years old.

Europe is maybe two months from passing laws that end private communication as we know it, and folks are looking the other way (understandably.) You’re not going to get a do-over once these laws are passed.

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

'Peaceful' ≠ 'lawful.' 'Forcing the cancellation of classes, trespassing, shutting down campuses' are all PEACEFUL.

Biden's willful conflation of peaceful w/ lawful is underwriting stunning brutality, & forging political weapons that will be wielded by others at our peril.

Anyone who cares about free speech & expression should be feeling cold blood in their veins as USG rushes to silence, censor, & brutalize those critical of Israel's extremist gov.

Bills like this are political weapons. Once forged, they will be wielded for much, much more.

GREAT TO SEE: Amnesty Tech & partners lifting the lid on surveillance sales to #Indonesia

Transaction secrecy is a key accelerant for proliferation...

...hiding powers used by governments against citizens & while blunting the chance they will be held to account.

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.