Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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Twitter Train Wreck In Full Swing Today
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-locked-private-elon-musk-account
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Fine reporting at the Verge on the ethical meltdown at CNET -- https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582046/cnet-red-ventures-ai-seo-advertisers-changed-reviews-editorial-independence-affiliate-marketing
We need much more of this kind of reporting about journalism.
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Donald Trump, former Commander in Chief, publicly declares that the U.S. armed forces are incapable of fighting or winning.
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This isn't just a Memphis issues. Tens of thousands of "real-time crime" cameras now blanket American cities, bringing their own drawbacks: oversurveillance, unequal policing, wasted money. If they're not deterring crime, what's the point?
“Are we just going to put these cameras in front of everybody’s house and monitor them and see if anybody’s up to anything?”
Here's a free-to-read gift link for this story: https://wapo.st/3Y25Anw
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I talked to the former Memphis police surveillance manager who installed the SkyCop camera that recorded Nichols' beating (and who now works for SkyCop).
He said, “Crimes of passion cannot be deterred. ... In the Nichols case, that was a crime of passion, and it was caught on video."
He says surveillance is the future, so get used to it:
“It’s the most indiscriminate form of policing there is. The camera doesn’t care. It just records.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/
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SkyCop's actual deterrent effect on crime in Memphis is totally unproven. People have broken into cars and fired guns in clear view of the cameras and not been caught.
Journalists with the Daily Memphian did an incredible investigation in 2021 that found that the cameras were cited in less than 3% of the more than 74,000 crime reports filed that year
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One SkyCop camera captured the SCORPION cops' brutality in Nichols' killing. And thankfully so, given how shaky and obstructed their own body cameras were during the attack.
NAACP Memphis president:
“We put SkyCop cameras up to assist the police in fighting crime in our community. And yet they come and commit the very same crimes we are trying to fight against."
But ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/
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In Iran, the state is using AI and facial recognition technology to enforce draconian laws.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epze9w/cyber-irans-ai-powered-surveillance-state
#Tech #worldnews #CYBER #Podcast
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New: Memphis spent $10 million installing thousands of 24/7 police-linked surveillance cameras, called SkyCops, on the promise they'd deter crime. But crime's only gone up. And even the cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death weren't deterred.
“Surveillance doesn’t prevent crime, even police crime. These officers knew they were on camera, and they still did this.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/
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@GIMP you people should get ads for free.
Here's one: "I've been using GIMP for a decade. It's incredible that do powerful software is given away for free, fixed, developed, distributed for free and I'm very, very happy that I can use it. I install it by default on any machine I have."
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Your last chance to run https://www.movetodon.org/ is nigh!
Twitter is closing free API access by next week.
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#News Iran jails couple shown dancing in viral video https://w.st/UPYuH
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.@ECS_GlobalHQ LIVA Q3H is a Japer Lake #miniPC with HDMI output and input ports suitable for #videoconferencing applications. #Windows11
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/02/02/ecs-liva-q3h-mini-pc-targets-video-conferencing-with-hdmi-output-and-input-ports/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/cnxsoft/status/1621139412800409601
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Cord Cutting Is Hitting Comcast Harder Than Ever https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/02/cord-cutting-is-hitting-comcast-harder-than-ever/
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According to The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth considered suicide in the past year and nearly 1 in 5 attempted suicide. We hope this documentary’s release cultivates awareness and acceptance among the public, showing LGBTQ young people that their stories matter and ultimately progresses our goal to end suicide among LGBTQ young people. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/Yf8uH-GOQzc
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Donald Trump unleashes a hate filled - lie filled - threat filled tirade against transgender people and those who care for them. This echos Stephen Miller’s lie filled attack ads from America First Legal last year. https://twitter.com/esqueer_/status/1620757034080821248/mediaviewer
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OLD REMINDERS: Plutocrats successfully used #christofascists to enact laws that have attained complete suppression of what was a flawed Democratic Republic. Democratic Republics have citizens. Fascist capitalists have worker units.
@darrylxxx @mapto @eastbaynian Also forgot to mention that your protective clothing won't do you much good if someone steals your bike, and that happens a lot in the US if you leave it anyplace that's visible from a public place. Cars can be stolen too, but it's a lot more difficult so it is unlikely to happen more than once to the same person.
@darrylxxx @mapto @eastbaynian Bullshit. You only tell yourself that to justify all the extra effort it takes to put on that protective clothing, which still doesn't fully protect all your body parts (well at least not without making you look like a total dork).
But with a car you just have to throw on a winter coat or a raincoat (at most) and maybe a pair of boots and you are good to go, and once the car warms up you are toasty warm and protected from the snow and wind and rain. And also you can go at a reasonable speed to get stuff done, particularly if you don't live in the middle of a big city. And if you buy more than one bag of groceries while you are out, you just throw them in the car trunk, no problem and no fuss.
Don't get me wrong, cars have their disadvantages, but there is no power on this earth that will force most Americans onto a fucking bicycle for their day-to-day transportation needs, particularly once winter sets in (in the states that have winter, which is pretty much everyplace but southern Florida and Hawaii and a few island territories). Maybe if someone would design a type or aerodynamic bicycle with a fully enclosed cab, a place to carry items, and an electric motor with decent range (and an electric heater!) you might stand a chance but then I suspect most bicycle enthusiasts would say that is not really a bicycle.
For recreation and maybe even short trips to work or school on nice days, sure, a small percentage of Americans will go for bikes for that. But almost nobody wants to spend ten minutes putting on expensive and dorky looking protective clothing just so they can feel like they are doing something for the planet, while millionaires and corporate executives are still riding around in their expensive private jets that in one trip negate all the environmental goodness of millions of bicycle trips. Stop trying to make the little people suffer, and focus on the fat cats that are really doing the damage to the planet (and also doing the most to block your bike paths!).
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Legal documents: Meta paid Bright Data to scrape data from other websites for years while publicly condemning the practice and suing companies over scraping (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/meta-was-scraping-sites-for-years-while-fighting-the-practice
http://www.techmeme.com/230202/p8#a230202p8
