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Why I’m not even slightly scared about the future | …good read + a thought-provoking observation from Femi Oluwole; I wonder why power may be afraid of TikTok & Social Networks?
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/independent-thinking/why-i-m-not-even-slightly-scared-about-the-future-b2450318.html
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Merry Christmas: “Stalkers ‘exploit face recognition site designed to stop revenge porn’”
From Le Times cometh yet another education in dual-use goods; as ever the problem is “if you ban dual-use software — i.e. all software —then you’ll end up banning everything“: PimEyes is intended to be used to combat revenge porn and identity theft. Users can upload a picture of someone to its website, which reveals
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Migrate your podcast shows from Google Podcasts to YouTube Music (US Only) | …sigh, another trainwreck
https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/249139848/migrate-your-podcast-shows-from-google-podcasts-us-only-%F0%9F%87%BA%F0%9F%87%B8?hl=en
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What’s the deal with KFC and Christmas in Japan? | Time Out Tokyo | …and I thought Jewish Chinese-Food Christmas was amazing
But how big of a deal is it really? Well, apparently a third of KFC’s yearly sales big https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/whats-the-deal-with-kfc-and-christmas-in-japan
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China to increase curbs on video gaming industry | BBC | …let’s be honest: this is all about political control
Proliferation of gaming means proliferation of unregulated, hard to censor, classless, cross boundary, collective yet individualistic cultural development. The PRC has no idea what will happen if it was permitted to continue. Hell, the UK Government is equally scared. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67801091
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Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters | some classic geekery, straight from the horse’s mouth
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters
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“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening
https://itif.org/publications/2020/09/28/podcast-technology-panic-attacks-radio-social-media-amy-orben/
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Age Verification: “New Jersey […] requiring social media companies to contract with third-party data vendors to perform invasive age and identity verification”
Everything I experienced surrounding the Age Verification debate in the UK led me to believe that it must have been enabled by a lot of cosy lobbying from rent-seeking startups upon impressionable and willing elderly peers. Looks like America has similar: