NEW oped from Citizen Lab's Kate Robertson Why the UN's new "Global Cybercrime Treaty" is a huge problem for human security and human rights, and a big boon for mercenary spyware abuse 👇 lawfaremedia.org/article/a-glob…

If you want to learn more about homelessness in SF, I think two easy things you can do are: 1. Volunteer and eat at Martin de Porres on Potrero. 2. Work from the SF public library main branch in lieu of a coffee shop. Occasionally say hello to the ppl on laptops at your table.

the love of your life is probably a Signal user btw

‘Signal is in many ways, the opposite of the Silicon Valley model. It’s a nonprofit that has never taken investment, makes its product available for free, has no advertisements & collects virtually no info on its users’ The very best ⁦Meredith Whittaker⁩ ↘️ wired.com/story/meredith…

Such a delight to sit down with the great Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) for a long engaged convo on surveillance, AI, my wild path through tech, and how by rejecting the toxic norm Signal provides a shining model for better, healthier tech futures♥️ wired.com/story/meredith…

Combine Google's massive surveillance power with the world's most lethal military, & you get a problem: Overclassification by the government + Corporate secrecy in tech = Zero accountability Great interview from Meredith Whittaker wired.com/story/meredith… web.archive.org/web/2024082901…

"Yoking the interests of a massive surveillance corporation to the world’s most lethal military...and the marriage between overclassification on the government side and corporate secrecy on the tech industry side would be a disaster" Truly an excellent interview by Meredith Whittaker.

“A signature strike is ad targeting but for death.” Great interview with Signal’s Meredith Whittaker. wired.com/story/meredith…

"Signal is a nonprofit because a for-profit structure leads to a scenario where one of my board members goes to Davos, talks to some guy, comes back excitedly telling me we need an AI strategy for profit." Meredith Whittaker 🔥🔥🔥 wired.com/story/meredith…

🎉 Happy 10th anniversary, Signal! In the app’s early years of development, @freedomofpress proudly served as the "fiscal sponsor" of Signal. We regularly recommend it to journalists as the best end-to-end encrypted messenger that exists.

So proud of and constantly inspired by my sister Meredith Whittaker for not only ensuring that we have safe ways to communicate, but also that there is an alternative to the Silicon Valley model! One that will not destroy the world! wired.com/story/meredith…

June Jordan said, “Writing from my heart I made, I think, a serious mistake. I said nothing about power.”

The inexplicable alchemy of human connection is one of my favorite things in life. Also, Proust, “love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”

#Signal is safe; it's reliable; it's private. Even more: it's cool. And it's growing. Models that do not rely on #sruveillance are possible, and better. More #privacy is coming. Wonderful interview with Meredith Whittaker, by Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places). #AIEthics wired.com/story/meredith…

You can‘t talk about AI without talking about surveillance, and vice versa. Privacy requires independent critical infrastructure and a paradigm shift in tech, says Meredith Whittaker, and Signal is in it for the long haul. w. Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) WIRED wired.com/story/meredith…

Read this! It is so kind, so oxygenated. Yes, it takes exhilaratingly clear & critical aim at its subject! And it does so as a blow against cynicism, with the bravery of someone refusing to disavow sincerity in room full of sneers💥Brandon lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Thrilled to have our work recognized as central in holding a notoriously impervious industry to account time.com/7012875/amba-k… #TIME100AI There's power in saying the unpopular thing, even if there is also discomfort :) Grateful to team AI Now Institute and those we walk with ❤️

YES! CONGRATULATIONS AMBA! Nothing has made me happier in recent memory! An honor of my life to see Amba Kak, Sarah Myers West and the AI Now Institute extended universe thrive and grow and have real impact in the world <3

This is so cool/kind (AND they're using machine learning to actually do the thing 'for humanity' that companies selling ML to the pharma industry claim it will , but that of course their version will not actually do, given the incentives♥️) 404media.co/right-to-repai…