I’m so surprised it took this long. twitter.com/moonalice/stat…
It is past time for technologists to admit that AI is neither as capable nor as safe as claimed. twitter.com/wired/status/1…
Correction to this. They’re closing from midnight to 4, thus they’d be known as 20-hour fitness. Hard not to see these guys are in a death spiral.
this gym is changing its hours: closed at 11, open at 4. I wonder if they’re changing the name to 19 Hour Fitness. Or “...Not All In A Row.” (at @24HourFitness in P...
The apocalypse is upon us. PayPal is down.
@MarenDeepwell This new service may be of interest to the #femedtech community https://i.haza.website/ you drop in a domain and get a website with all the #IndieWeb building blocks and a social reader that works with all kinds of feeds.
What do we measure/deem as public? Something coming out of a single company wouldn't work here imo since it's only a measure of who've visited them. Maybe a pooled data set of the metrics you're looking for?
Yehuda Katz 🥨 https://twitter.com/wycats
And before you point at one or two public data points, or tell me how compelling your private data is, that's not how this works. I want public data that describes what ...
Wow. A cache of leaked Facebook documents shows how the company CEO oversaw plans to consolidate the social networks power & control competitors by treating its user data...
Look who snuck into the frame of my portrait of Mohamed, tech guru and code helper, at our web design workshop @IITA_CGIAR
Harvard needs to run the money back
Caitlin G DeAngelis https://twitter.com/cgdhopkins
Harvard’s profits from Caribbean slavery go much further than this article acknowledges. Donors and alumni with plantations in Antigua, Jamaica, and Suriname gave gifts...
This is a solid thread / read of Gates and his pseudo good will outlook to the world. He's probably thinking that he can guard himself against Trump if it hits the fans
Anand Giridharadas https://twitter.com/AnandWrites
Astonishing. @BillGates, the great philanthropist of our age, is so attached to his own wealth that he refuses to rule out voting to re-elect a white nationalist demagog...
*yells what he's been yelling since 2016*
Anand Giridharadas https://twitter.com/AnandWrites
And now think of this. This is the same mind making big decisions about Common Core and your kids’ public education. About health priorities for entire societies. Abou...
This is why we opt to elect people who'd fight against this!
My guess: the concern is that the money will be spent inefficiently by the government. Not defending anyone but it does sound like a reasonable concern
Foolscap Beanie WeDrawWednesdays 100DaysOfDraw 1 of 100: crw.moe/b/27C
Yup yup yup yup yup. I know how this feels and I keep it consideration for little events I've done in the past. 2020 finna be rosy!
Obvious struggles aside, being broke has unintended social consequences. Having to decline invites to go out & skip weddings, funerals, family functions, bday parties, or...
I almost wish @greeneterry and @hypervisible had recorded this great episode just after Halloween so we might have gotten some discussion about Ring Doorbells recording millions of children. #SurveillanceCapitalism boffosocko.com/2019/11/06/hyp…
#TIL people who publish papers REALLY care about the author ordering, even when the reading audience size is small.
We’re throwing some positivity at you with news about Twitter’s product launches, plus (somewhat less positive, but incredibly important) pieces by @daithaigilbert @mat @JMBooyah & @thedextriarchy: getrevue.co/profile/caseyn…
as a tip to all hanging out and writing with microblogvember you can always click the Discovery tab..helful link right at the top and the word in a sticky note (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/28HfSY)
The only time this happened? I can't remember news like that ... and it seems like every single national and non-national intelligence organization would try this all the time, because it's so much easier and cheaper than almost any other form of #intelligence gathering, no?
Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom critics washingtonpost.com/national-secur…