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They say that the essence of comedy is recognition; the thing about @damienslash’s “Select All” ep2 is that I’m sure that I’ve met some of these people
Also: it’s the first time I’ve seen the trust & safety community properly mocked in mainstream comedy. Worth a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p7fh
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I love independent media but when @BylineTimesPod starts with someone saying how Marx (150+/-10 years ago) explained how capitalism is “not sustainable in the long term…”
…that’s when I know I’m in for a painful listening experience. Still, it’s worth airing if only to hear the other side, to hear whether there’s more than merely a faith-based critique (“…ancient book worshipping huge beard in the sky”) of the structural inequities in modern living.
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Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints | WIRED
At some point the battle against deep fakes is going to run into wholly-fabricated fake content which is neither copyrightable nor copyrighted… at which point DMCA will surely cease to be a useful tool unless augmented by “image rights” for individuals. But that cure might be worse than the disease; I’m not convinced that copyright-style
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CACM Is Now Open Access | Communications of the ACM
I rather wish that this had happened a few decades ago, when it would have been much more transformative than today https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/
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Would Terry Pratchett be in favour of, or against, artificial intelligence and its impact on writing?
I think he would be in favour of the technology but cautious about the nature of (and how we describe) its output: https://mastodon.social/@alecmuffett/112035424118762158
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Cyberpunk Librarian: “Okay, I found this on Reddit and I had to share it”
Nice, touching computer history story, with a happy ending. https://hackers.town/@CyberpunkLibrarian/112046696080448828
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TikTok users bombard House offices over bill that could ban the app – Live Updates | POLITICO
At the time of writing the Republican house staffers are saying that “the [TikTok] campaign is backfiring”, entrenching anti-platform sentiment amongst representatives. I wonder how much public sentiment is required before they apply the adjective “backfiring” to the draft legislation? https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/07/congress/tiktok-users-revolt-00145633
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FlipperZero vs: NSO’s Pegasus vs: Gamma FinFisher vs: Export Controls & the Wassenaar Arrangement: the difference is intent
I have spent far more than a decade – although the last decade has doubtless been the most interesting – explaining to peers in Digital Rights Civil Society that “it’s a bad idea to attempt to regulate the shape of technology, because of the principle of dual-use.” I’ve laid open bets – and I’ve never
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Caleb Smith on X: “Tik Tok is writing a real-time case study on what NOT to do for crisis communications.”
It’s interesting to watch people of the political establishment like this: …failing to grok the generation of people they are attempting to disenfranchise as described here: I wonder who is going to win?