https://t.me/United24media/9810
⚠️🇺🇦Pure pain. Photo of a woman next to the body of her dead daughter near a polyclinic in the Desnyanskyi district of Kyiv. (PHOTO) #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
Press-free day for Guinea
A number of press associations in Guinea issue a joint statement to protest recurring media freedom violations in the country.
@uzayran We need to start replacing management & CEOs with chatboxes and "AI" and leave the people who do the actual jobs alone.
Happy Birthday to Nicholas Bowen "Topper" Headon, English drummer for punk rock band The Clash from 1977 to 1982, born on this day in 1955, Bromley, Kent, England
Photo by Pennie Smith
#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #topperheadon #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Oh hey! I just had my first social media post to be taken down from any platform ever, on LinkedIn. Yay! My post about the flabbergasting amounts of racism in "AI" violated their "professional" community guideline. Indeed. Its quite professional to be as racist as possible, but not professional to call it out. Totally makes sense.
Why AI really is dangerous to Society...
'what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history... unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside propriety products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.'
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
Mark Twain famously said, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Convincing someone that they have been fooled involves the admission that they made a foolish choice without the proper vetting. This can be especially difficult when masses of people and vast sums of money are involved.
42 years ago
"Too Drunk to Fuck" is the fourth single by Dead Kennedys released in May 1981 with "The Prey" as the B-side.
#punk #punkrock #toodrunktofuck #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory
@joncamfield @Zittrain @n8fr8 What "free speech absolutism" looks like https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders
Enshittification is like entropy, you can’t escape it, even when you buy hardware. A John Deere Tractor, an ink cartridge, or a fitness tracker. Without the right to repair, you don’t even own things you bought, you merely possess a useless brick of e-waste, protected by copyright. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/amazon-will-brick-all-halo-health-trackers-on-august-1/
@pluralistic is probably already aware of this, but since I am reading Chokepoint Capitalism at the moment, it seems à propos.
it literally took the US tech press the better part of fifteen years to realize musk was an unremarkable rich brat cosplaying as a supergenius engineer, which says more about our press than it does musk
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293
A woman posted in a Facebook group that I am in that she is attaching her youngest child to the grocery cart with a carabiner, so nobody tries to kidnap her.
I pointed out that 90%+ of abductions are custody disputes and no one has ever stolen a child from a store in the US. It’s not how human trafficking works, and we should really be more concerned about things that are harming kids daily.
Within 5 minutes I was booted from the group.
#ECE Professor. Computer/Network #security #research. #InternetFreedom applications in #SubSaharanAfrica. #Africtivistes supporter. #Danaides CTO.