Wow. New York has passed Right to Repair. We did it. #RightToRepair

A Bell 407 costs about $3000 per flight hour to operate, or 120 lifeguards paid $25 / hour.

Les jeunes vont bien.

"ostensibly benefits from access to this resource, these free tools may be understood as ‘hooks’ that ensnare users further into the extractive relationship of surveillance capitalism and ‘shifts economic activity to a handful of tech giants as providers of translation’."

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Pretty dope to have Amazon bricking my nearly brand new LG Electronics OLED TV by rebooting Alexa, which I never installed, every 5 seconds. Can’t even access my settings menu to ensure voice commands are turned off, or my App Store to uninstall the malware called Twitch

Hey Elon Musk, one of your Trust and Safety Council members. I think a great many people here would pay for the service, verified or not, if you ensured that they could actually express themselves free from threats, intimate privacy violations, cyber mob attacks, stalking, and /1

In 1970, Hirschman wrote a brilliant book called "Exit, Voice and Loyalty". It examined an apparently simple question of microeconomics: What should you do if a product you use gets markedly worse? (Filled with fascist conspiracies, for instance...)

Proud to announce: "A People’s Guide to Finding Algorithmic Discrimination." Funded by Democracy Fund this practical guide to understanding this topic was led by CR+DS affiliates Meredith Broussard Dr. Avriel Epps in partnership with ruchowdh.bsky.social & @ParityAI criticalracedigitalstudies.com/peoplesguide

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🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 Open-source software is ubiquitous in software systems. How can policymakers support its security and sustainability as a shared resource? By borrowing lessons from infrastructure policy ➡️ 🧵 atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-resea…

We compared Africa-centric Models to OpenAI’s GPT3.5 for isiZulu and here were our results 🤯 🌍 The translations are hilarious, but in truth quite terrifying 😂 😱 lelapa.ai/comparing-afri…

Lol, @Twitter is now charging for 2FA? How absolutely silly. (Yes yes, I know SMS is less secure than other 2FA options. I also know it's infinitely more effective than no 2FA, which is what less-technical users will end up with now, thx to a certain penny-pinching billionaire)

Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train grok. They never announced it. You can disable this using the web but it's hidden. You can't disable using the mobile app Direct link: x.com/settings/grok_…