We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
"If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security."
Great read from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
#digitalsovereignity #bigtech #palantir
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Nå som adventsholka er på plass så er det viktig å huske på at brodder er feigt
Sitter på åpen gård-kafé, drikker kaffe og leser om etologi. Kvalitetstid.
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Innsyn er både gøy og effektivt. Offentleglova er hovedgrunnen til at NNPF ikke lenger kan bruke politiuniform og autoritet for å spre feilinformasjon.
Europe is still pushing for the scanning of all your outgoing messages for potential child sexual abuse material (the so called 'chat control' proposal). This is bad for privacy, cripples end-to-end encryption, and makes apps like WhatsApp and Signal no longer secure for business and government use.
An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"
To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.
Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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Meta has yet another whistleblower: The former head of security at WhatsApp, who says in a suit filed today that the company shrugged off his warnings on privacy risks and could not keep solid track of user data. Free link from the marketing folks: wapo.st/4nr6CWu
DERE VAKRE, FORHÅNDSSTEMMENDE SJELER
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"On August 29, the State Department leadership notified staff that it was terminating more than two dozen agreements...designed to create common language and tactics to push back against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and terrorist influence campaigns overseas..."
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If you think you will sit this war out and nothing is going to happen to you of what Russia is doing to Ukraine every day, you are profoundly mistaken.
And if Ukraine falls and you get to be the next on Russia’s way, it will be too late to scratch your heads about how it ended up this way.
Om noen skulle være i tvil om hvor viktig hver stemme faktisk kan være
Quote from Carl Sagan with photo of the author in a yellow jacket and mint turtleneck cause the man had style: "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignor Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl if you wanted us to believe in science maybe you shouldn’t have predicted the future LIKE A WITCH
Valget er over, men kampen fortsetter. Jeg tror det er spesielt to ting som er viktig fremover: Kampen om hva folk tror er sant og riktig, og arbeid med institusjonsbygging. De henger litt sammen. Velkommen til min rant for å få dette ut av hodet:
in case you - how do I put this delicately - also need perhaps a bit of a wholesome palate cleanser in your feed tonight, let's play a game
what is the #1 thing in all the world you MOST would want to build and display a huge Lego set of
(money no object. say you get one free bc it was your idea)
Paris air pollution before and after they added bike lanes and restricted cars. Source: airparif
TW: GLADSAK
Sp viser ekte forakt for fakta.
#Valg25 #StemBøndaHjem
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i maintain the funniest possible outcome would be if the cybergod happens and it's truly genuinely omnibenevolent and all the usual rich kooks are screaming "SEE? THE CYBERGOD IS ANTI-HUMANITY, JUST LIKE WE WARNED YOU" when it institutes UBI and systematically dismantles corporate empires
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Fortell meg at du jobber på kontor uten å fortelle meg at du jobber på kontor
Jeg starter:
Hadde sesongens første innebandy-trening i går og jeg fikk VANNBLEMME på hånda.
Av INNEBANDY
A parent runs toward the school after the shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
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I’ve spent the better part of two decades dealing with people trying to dox and harass the volunteers who make Wikipedia the incredible resource it is today.
I liked it better when they weren’t in Congress.
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