A surplus of energy wasted publishing and reading articles predicting the election outcome because trying to grapple with what’s actually at stake is too difficult and speculation is endlessly engaging entertainment.

what did alex garland know and when did he know it

Uh oh.
This looks bad.
OpenAI will pay those who create the most engaging GPT's.
This makes their incentives very close to those of social media—capturing attention.
This could get dystopian very fast.

(What alternatives can we propose?)

The internet our children use has changed dramatically since the COPPA rule was last updated 10 years ago.

Today, the FTC took yet another bold step to protect our kids from the growing online harms detailed by researchers, medical professionals, and whistleblowers.

1/ Today FTC brought and settled charges against Rite Aid for using a biased face scanning system that led to employees falsely accusing people of crimes they did not commit. We impose a 5-year ban on Rite Aid using face surveillance. My statement: ftc.gov/legal-library/…

Striking Trump from the ballot could have a chilling effect on future would-be dictators’ ability to run for president after having committed insurrection.

Oh great now we have to reshoot the opening scene of The Great Hack Film

The Decolonial Web? On Colonial Infrastructure and Reclaiming Data mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata/2023/…

Well of course programmatic adtech means that Western companies are funding AI avatar propaganda campaigns on YouTube from China to the tune of 120M views, 730K subscribers. Where you can’t even use an adblocker to prevent adversaries monetizing disinfo! nytimes.com/2023/12/14/bus…

America’s thirst for authoritarianism increasingly evident in unbreakable devotion to Trump, the dictator in waiting, but also recently exposed on the left, showing preference for a president who rules by fiat and/or solely responsible for everything bad.
nytimes.com/2023/12/13/opi…

Little tidbit from Zamaan Qureshi’s FOIA victory on zuck’s SEC deposition transcript the-citizens.com/wp-content/upl…

Will new FDA regulations adequately protect people with digital devices implanted in their bodies? You know, like the 1.43 million pacemaker users out there. mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata/2023/…

The bane of Bannon and his Bannonites wapo.st/3v6igji

Zuck lied. Now we know for sure.

Uber fined €10M by Dutch authorities for failing to protect drivers’ data rights. Fighting for your data really matters!

Comparing how sousveillance technologies operate across different scopes and intersect to develop an expansive web of paranoia. mfadt.parsons.edu/darkdata/2023/…

RED ALERT: Buried in the House intelligence committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is schedule for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act. 1/11

a twitter client that always posts “Never tweet” no matter what you write and pushes you fake notifs that all your tweets go viral

USA: but AI is advancing too quickly to regulate

EU: hold my beer

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