RRB @rrb@social.cleverlibre.org

Just spitballing here but maybe if you are CEO OF A LUXURY ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPANY you shouldn’t buy one of the most powerful communications platforms in the world and use it to troll anyone to the left of Ron DeSantis

@kashhill

Any thoughts on possible effects on this tech working poorly on women and dark skinned people?

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/02/08/770174171/when-bias-is-coded-into-our-technology

I could imagine a class action suit in the works.

After the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

The success of Mastodon and the Fediverse is not the success of a new platform. It’s a potentially groundbreaking change for the internet. No traditional social media platform will be able to compete with this anymore once the network effects kick in here. And it’s looking very good at the moment.

I cannot repeat this enough right now.

Musk has given journalism, and the news business a once in a generation gift.

Don't squander it.

Take control and ownership of your audiences in a way that only federated social media like Mastodon affords.

Do the two-step:

Step 1: Get onto Mastodon.

Step 2: Launch your own server to go with your website.

#news
#journalism

It doesn’t matter who Elon hopes to pass CEO power to, #twitterisdone . It’s not coming back. #twittermigration

I propose a mass exodus from Twitter on Dec. 31, 12pm ET. Maybe we can break something. Surely it will SAY SOMETHING with an explanation point. Let's fuck with this guy.