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Dara Kerr

@darakerr

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NEW: SF city officials just filed a motion seeking to stay a state agency’s decision last week to allow Cruise/Waymo to expand operations in San Francisco.

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i'm breaking my twitter hiatus to say that i asked the yellow shirts where they were from.
they said they all work at waymo

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Teens have taken Ubers for years, because as a rider you're not required to use an ID--so it's been easy to skirt the rules.

But now, teens are officially allowed to take Ubers.

I'm curious what drivers think about this?

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Got to talk to Adrian Ma at The Indicator about what happened when Twitter dropped all its labels for state-affiliated media at the end of March
npr.org/2023/05/11/117…
Recent update, not only has Twitter dropped the labels--it's now recommending I follow these accounts

Got to talk to @ManyAdrians at @theindicator about what happened when Twitter dropped all its labels for state-affiliated media at the end of March npr.org/2023/05/11/117… Recent update, not only has Twitter dropped the labels--it's now recommending I follow these accounts
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Here's my investigation into Fusus, a police surveillance firm that's quietly expanding into smaller towns & suburbs across the US.

Their goal? To give small town cops big-city-style surveillance—including live access to private cameras around town.context.news/digital-rights…

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So many quotable sentences in the article.

'If you imagine A.I. as a semi-autonomous software program that solves problems that humans ask it to solve, the question is then: how do we prevent that software from assisting corporations in ways that make people’s lives worse?'

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Relevant and chilling read by Shannon Bond 📻 👇
'The idea is, as people become more aware of how easy it is to fake audio and video, bad actors can weaponize that skepticism'
npr.org/2023/05/08/117…

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Tidbits from Uber's shareholder meeting today:
*Uber has entered 150,000+ arbitration agreements with drivers over employee vs. independent contractor claims
*In resolving the majority of these claims, Uber has paid about $521 million as of 12/31/2022

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NEW: In a series of emails today, Elon threatened to reassign NPR to 'another company' unless the network started tweeting again

(link actually works this time)

npr.org/2023/05/02/117…

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Will Oremus(@WillOremus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you're looking for 'how has Elon Musk changed Twitter' in a nutshell...

Prominent anti-trans accounts have gone from being suspended under Twitter's 'hateful conduct' policy to getting free promotion at the top of the Notifications feed for people who don't even follow them.

If you're looking for 'how has Elon Musk changed Twitter' in a nutshell... Prominent anti-trans accounts have gone from being suspended under Twitter's 'hateful conduct' policy to getting free promotion at the top of the Notifications feed for people who don't even follow them.
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Rachel Metz(@rachelmetz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This week I learned ⁦VentureBeat⁩ is using AI to help write and edit articles, and has decided not to disclose this on stories to readers. It bothers me — not just bc I’m a journalist, but bc I’m a reader, too. Curious how others feel about this. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

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'Unlike a human boss... The algorithm knows so much about these workers, they know how much a worker is willing to accept for a particular ride, they know how much they try and earn on any given day'

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A DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social analysis of three state controlled media networks found that following a change in @Twitter's policy on the promotion of state affiliated media accounts, the once hemorrhaging accounts saw a dramatic uptick in followers.

Alyssa Kann reports 🧵👇 dfrlab.org/2023/04/21/sta…

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