As I stated in my veto letter for SB1001, I will veto every bill that aims to attack and harm children.
-Arizona state governor on anti-queer bills vis Pink News
Jun 7, 2023
To address this need we introduce value scenarios, an extension of scenario-based design which can support envisioning the systemic effects of new technologies.
From Value Scenarios: A Technique for Envisioning Systemic Effects of New Technologies
#design
Jun 5, 2023
Looking forward to being a part of this conversation at #RightsCon
May 30, 2023
Friedenbach said that free Wi-Fi is crucial for homeless people to access services, make calls, apply for benefits and jobs, and deal with healthcare. She said that many homeless people sleep during the day because it is safer to be awake at night, making after-hours internet access especially important.
From Mission Local
Steven Kabuye, a human rights activist in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, told The Guardian the act “violates basic human rights and sets a dangerous precedent for discrimination and persecution against the LGBTQ+ community” in the country.
From Axios
May 28, 2023
“We’ve built the infrastructure for nuanced moderation” is not an adequate answer to people who are suffering, or who are prone to suffer, abuse.
From werd.io
If it’s going to work with me, it ought to pass the interview, right? It didn’t. In fact, it failed miserably.
From xorvoid
The industry provides corporate and government clients with insight into conversations on private, invite-only Discord chats, WhatsApp groups, Reddit forums, and dark web message boards to help those powerful customers keep tabs on a variety of potential threats, from political hacktivists to the illegal markets that traffic in stolen passwords and intellectual property.
From Private Spies Hired by the FBI and Corporate Firms Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp
The organisation, along with GLAAD, analysed the tweets of nine prominent right-wing figures and accounts, and tracked retweets of posts containing the word “groomer” – which saw an 1,200 per cent increase following Musk’s takeover.
From PinkNews
As Ellul already knew in the 1950s, a society ordered by technique is necessarily inhospitable to the human person.
They tend to start out making products that western companies are willing to concede to them because shareholders sniff at their low margins. And they go into developing countries that western companies don’t like to be too entangled with…
From Interview: Dan Wang
May 22, 2023
By contrast, when a human body uses language, it is a clear indication of a deep and broad array of cognitive functions. As far as we know, human beings can’t use language without being sentient (and conscious and intelligent).
From Inframethodology.
Make sure you have the resources and resolve to develop your following and your skills regardless of how well you do in the first interactions.
From Seth’s blog.
On top of the dangers of weaponizing medical research, AI in healthcare settings poses a risk of worsening racial, gender and geographic disparities, since bias is often embedded in the data used to train the models.
From Axios.
May 19, 2023
Is there another kind?
May 18, 2023
I got a chance to write about what we are trying to accomplish in our project with Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web.
Unconstitutional TikTok ban would open the door to press censorship. Slippery? Meet slope.
May 15, 2023
May 13, 2023
