That argument only serves their interests as long as elected officials feel like Section 230 works in their favor. What a stupid fucking mess.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Trends in my FB circle is that people are posting (24hour?) goodbye posts before permanently deleting their account (3 friends in the past 36 hours).
At least with Friendster and MySpace the buzz just faded away, this is more of a toxic amputation. This combined with an nearly 90 day swoon seems pretty real to me. I spent last weekend with my senior-aged folks and even they aren't as attached to the site as much as they were in the past few years.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
ban facebook
― 1-800-CALL-ATT (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
I had a friend who quit facebook for good about 6 years ago and never looked back
we actually write handwritten letters back and forth now, lol
― frogbs, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Usu use pigeon post now tbh
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft said Friday that it would sell the military and intelligence agencies whatever advanced technologies they needed “to build a strong defense,” just months after Google told the Pentagon it would refuse to provide artificial intelligence products that could build more accurate drones or compete with China for next-generation weapons.The announcement, made quietly in a small, town-hall-style meeting with the software giant’s leadership on Thursday, then planned to be published on a blog Friday afternoon, underscores the radically different paths these leading American technology firms are taking as they struggle with their role in creating a new generation of cyberweapons to help, and perhaps someday replace, American warriors.But the divergent paths taken by Google and Microsoft also underscore concerns inside the American defense and intelligence establishments about how the United States will take on a rising China.The Chinese government has, in just the past two years, set goals for dominance in the next decade in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other technologies that it believes will allow its military and intelligence agencies to surpass those of the United States. Pentagon officials have questioned how committed domestic technology companies are to keeping the United States on the leading edge, the way Raytheon, Boeing, IBM and McDonnell Douglas did in the Cold War.Google encountered fierce opposition from young engineers to the company’s participation in “Project Maven,” a program to improve how drones recognize and select their targets. Google declared a few weeks ago it would not bid on a multibillion dollar contract to provide the Pentagon with “cloud services” to store and process vast amounts of data. Amazon, for its part, appears willing to supply its services to the military and intelligence agencies, and it runs the information cloud services that power the Central Intelligence Agency.
The announcement, made quietly in a small, town-hall-style meeting with the software giant’s leadership on Thursday, then planned to be published on a blog Friday afternoon, underscores the radically different paths these leading American technology firms are taking as they struggle with their role in creating a new generation of cyberweapons to help, and perhaps someday replace, American warriors.
But the divergent paths taken by Google and Microsoft also underscore concerns inside the American defense and intelligence establishments about how the United States will take on a rising China.
The Chinese government has, in just the past two years, set goals for dominance in the next decade in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other technologies that it believes will allow its military and intelligence agencies to surpass those of the United States. Pentagon officials have questioned how committed domestic technology companies are to keeping the United States on the leading edge, the way Raytheon, Boeing, IBM and McDonnell Douglas did in the Cold War.
Google encountered fierce opposition from young engineers to the company’s participation in “Project Maven,” a program to improve how drones recognize and select their targets. Google declared a few weeks ago it would not bid on a multibillion dollar contract to provide the Pentagon with “cloud services” to store and process vast amounts of data. Amazon, for its part, appears willing to supply its services to the military and intelligence agencies, and it runs the information cloud services that power the Central Intelligence Agency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/us/politics/ai-microsoft-pentagon.html
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/google-walkout-organizers-explain-demands.html
― rob, Thursday, 1 November 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
Whenever there's a big Google story in the news, I always think of this, the funniest thing ever written about Google, from the New Yorker profile of the writers of "Silicon Valley" https://t.co/RAfCJITMOg pic.twitter.com/y48bNI1NeK— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 25, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 1 November 2018 18:02 (five years ago) link
I've been thinking about it, and here's my ranking of tech companies by how evil they are:1. Amazon2. Google3. Facebook3. Uber (tied)— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) November 13, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
BTW, after watching this my vote for most evil is FB.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-asked-police-in-spain-to-intervene-warehouse-strike-2018-11
Amazon asked police in Spain to intervene in a mass strike at a warehouse on the outskirts of Madrid, according to local reports.Amazon wanted a police presence at the warehouse to ensure that productivity remained high within the fulfilment center, while workers staged their protest outside, according to Spanish newspaper El Confidencial.A source at Spanish union CCOO, which helped coordinate the strikes, told Business Insider that Amazon "wanted to send the police inside the warehouse to push people to work."Amazon strongly denied the claims and called it "the worst kind of misinformation."
Amazon wanted a police presence at the warehouse to ensure that productivity remained high within the fulfilment center, while workers staged their protest outside, according to Spanish newspaper El Confidencial.
A source at Spanish union CCOO, which helped coordinate the strikes, told Business Insider that Amazon "wanted to send the police inside the warehouse to push people to work."
Amazon strongly denied the claims and called it "the worst kind of misinformation."
― j., Saturday, 24 November 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers
Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs’ questions.The cache of documents is alleged to contain significant revelations about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is claimed they include confidential emails between senior executives, and correspondence with Zuckerberg.
The cache of documents is alleged to contain significant revelations about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is claimed they include confidential emails between senior executives, and correspondence with Zuckerberg.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
bring iiit
― alomar lines, Sunday, 25 November 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt836zdXQAA-30N.jpg:large
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
An open letter to @Facebook, @Twitter, @Instagram and @Experian regarding algorithms and my son's birth: pic.twitter.com/o8SuLMuLNv— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) December 11, 2018
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 05:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/what-sund4r-pichai-couldnt-explain-to-congress/577903/
Google’s admittedly liberal employees, Republicans said, must, somehow, be tinkering with search rankings. “You’re so surrounded by liberality that hates conservatism, hates people who really love our constitution and the freedoms it has afforded to people like you,” Texas Representative Louie Gohmert told Pichai. “You don’t even recognize it. You’re like a blind man who doesn’t even know what light looks like.”
― j., Wednesday, 12 December 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
i don't exactly feel sorry pichai, but getting lectured about the truth by Louie Gohmert when you can't really respond must be the most agonizing thing on earth
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
Where would Alice Walker even find antisemitic conspiracy theories? Well... https://t.co/lMU8h9ftWN pic.twitter.com/JdzpdWAa3Z— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) December 17, 2018
― maura, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
I read that whole thing thinking it was Alice Waters
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
that's really weird and depressing
― omar little, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:15 (five years ago) link
uh
did she get like hacked or whatever like that one twitter lady
― j., Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
if she was hacked, it was by people who've mastered google SEO
https://www.splcenter.org/20170118/google-and-miseducation-dylann-roof
google deemphasized specific sites named in this 2017 article after it made the rounds. but their engine still operates under the same principles.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
She said in the NYTimes that she’s reading a David Icke book, it’s not a hack. YouTube and social media claim another Baby Boomer.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
Is there a thread on Theranos anywhere? I've been totally oblivious to the story up until now (not seen it/her on TV or anything) but have just finished the Carreyrou book and have loads of questions! I know there's a podcast starting today and a film in the pipeline...
― kinder, Thursday, 24 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
discussed in detail on this thread: Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 January 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
although you have to go back a couple years
cheers
― kinder, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/30/mark-zuckerberg-calls-for-stronger-regulation-of-internet
Fuck this clown. Disavowing all responsibility for the monster he has created whilst practically declaring it an institution worthy of protection.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 31 March 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
Qualcomm has been in the running for this prize for many years.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-shook-down-the-cell-phone-industry-for-almost-20-years/
A couple of crazy bits (and I've experienced these in my job):
Qualcomm's patent licensing fees were calculated based on the value of the entire phone, not just the value of chips that embodied Qualcomm's patented technology.
The other one that was nuts?
patent licensing terms requiring customers to pay a royalty on every phone sold—not just phones that contained Qualcomm's wireless chips.
― DJI, Thursday, 30 May 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link