I sometimes hear from techies, especially those with a stake in the online ad biz: "You know, people don't *really* care about their online privacy." First, some really do. Second, a lot more *would* if they understood what it is you're doing. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

this is a ✨scoop✨ abt a tech co conning investors out of $73 mil in the laziest way possible it's also a ✨horrifying peek✨ into how the ad economy's made it ✨effectively impossible✨ to defund disinfo, even when that disinfo is getting ppl killed gizmodo.com/company-that-a…

not using tools by facebook is a good rule of thumb

until they burn out trying to build accessible experiences that last longer than a few months for hostile platforms

Every fucking magic crime-fighting surveillance tool includes these 5 elements: 1: The black box algorithm. 2: Unsupported claims of efficacy/biased research. 3. Disproportionate impact on marginalized groups. 4: Research showing ineffectiveness. 5. A stereotypical tech bro.

Prosecutors in Missouri literally argue that innocence simply doesn’t matter. The state Supreme Court agreed with them! They are ok with a innocent man rotting away in prison. This is America. cbsnews.com/news/why-are-w…

every US institution: "over the last 18 months, we've thought long and hard on how to keep people safe; after much deliberation, we've decided to do absolutely nothing"

Now that Apple has willingly built spyware into iOS and macOS, within 10 years this tech will: (1) be mandated by government in all end-to-end encrypted apps; and (2) expand to scan for terrorism, disinformation, "misinformation", then eventually political images and memes. 1/5

This is such a good example of the power of data visualization.

I’m glad that Apple is feeling the heat and changing their policy. But this illustrates something important: in building this system, the *only limiting principle* is how much heat Apple can tolerate before it changes its policies. reuters.com/technology/aft…

A great figure from #IPCC #AR6 integrating historic (Ed Hawkins) & future (Alex is declustering crises) warming stripes. The most striking element for me is that from today, the temperature only goes up. We can stop climate change getting worse, but hard to reverse it. ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/

Simply incredible—all 5 of the "third party" privacy and consumer groups Facebook said it consulted before rolling out its Ray Ban AR camera glasses to ensure privacy was "baked in" from the start are *funded by Facebook*. Every single one of them.

It’s actually very funny that it took them a week to come up with “how dare you impugn the motives of the hard-working billionaires and millionaires who have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize growth and profit at all costs”

"Google throttles the load time of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one-second delays in order to give Google AMP a "nice comparative boost.""

🧵 Making a cpu using an analog modular synthesizer I'd appreciate if you might share this, it was fun but writing it up was a lot of work :3

In other news, 400,000 sound recordings from 1922 and before have become public domain. The Internet Archive has 38,000 of them up, ready to go. archive.org/details/george…