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Bruce Schneier on the inevitable application of AI to mass surveillance: "Knowing that they are under constant surveillance changes how people behave. They conform. They self-censor, with the chilling effects that brings. Surveillance facilitates social control, and spying will only make this worse. Governments around the world already use
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"Harvard University dismantled its prestigious team of online disinformation experts after a foundation run by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $500 million to the university, a whistleblower disclosure filed by Whistleblower Aid reveals." If this is true, it's damning: essentially a
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I see myself very clearly in this post, which is a somewhat rare and lovely thing. I've called myself a technologist for over a decade, but the definition in this post is better than anything I've offered. Thank you, Robin. Also, this: "The past few
I’ve been struggling a little bit to re-find my creative rhythm and balance it with the needs of having and supporting a family. My day — every day — looks like this: * Woken up by baby * Get baby ready for daycare (breakfast, clothes, etc) * Walk to daycare and back * Eat breakfast
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Well, of course. Brexit was a massive own goal at the hands of regressive nationalism. As a European citizen who grew up in the UK, I took the Brexit vote very personally. Not being able to legally live in the place you used to call home is very hard (although
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Duke University Libraries says "no" to 37 Signals based on DHH's blog posts: "When we enter into business with a company whose boss takes delight in the mass layoffs of tech workers because it disempowers those who might speak out against their company keeping a
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Spoiler alert: no. This concept been tried before, more than once, and will fail again. Jim McKelvey seems to understand why advertising is broken - but not necessarily how to align users and publishers. This quote from a publisher says it all for me: “Honestly, I’m not that invested
As part of my roundup of Giving Tuesday suggestions the other day, I mentioned a few non-profit media organizations that I’ve recently donated to. Of course, as soon as I hit publish, I realized there were more that I wanted to highlight. In particular, I think it’s worth
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If Elon Musk seems to be acting more like a politician than a businessman, then I think it has to be on purpose. This was an awkward exchange that played to an audience on X rather than the one that was in the room. X is not a business in
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Here we go: proof that it's possible to extract real training data from LLMs. Unfortunately, some of this data includes personally identifiable information of real people (PII). “In total, 16.9% of generations we tested contained memorized PII [Personally Identifying Information], and 85.8% of generations that contained
It’s Giving Tuesday: a reaction to the consumer excess of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the whole winter holiday period. Here, you give to causes you believe in, and encourage others to do the same. I’ve used Daffy to donate to non-profits for the last few years. It
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Upgrading the broadband standard is good, although I agree that the new, improved speed benchmarks are still really substandard. Almost all US households have broadband, although in reality, for many of them the internet is very slow. I wonder if this is one of the reasons that most internet traffic