When your kids safety bill isn’t really about the kids
“Last week, the FTC said it would decline to enforce COPPA, a landmark law that mandates the protection of children’s data, in order to incentivize ID verification.”
This is a risk for everyday ordinary people. Not just minorities or protestors.
What a dramatic difference from the statement of Palantir’s CEO, which he made about 2 days ago.
I still can’t believe people aren’t talking about it more.
This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)
I think I’m going to get back into diagraming sentences.
Someone just reminded me of the activity and damned if I wasn’t really happy all the time when I was diagraming sentences.
Better than sudoku?
The crazy thing is that this is a Chinese firm, which just announced that it’s going to maintain the ability to mine huge amounts of UK and European citizens’ private comms, but the BBC is leading with the “it’s good that they can intercept our data” spin.
This almost seems quaint after reading Palantir’s CEO’s post today. TLDR: our business model is surveillance; there’s a lot of money in surveilling people for governments; if you don’t do it for them they’ll commandeer your company. Plus defending using the R word b/c it didn’t hurt his engagement.
“Artificial intelligence will be a core experience of the software” (not “powered behind the scenes by AI for maximum efficiency,” but front/center)
“transparent glass elements and a floating taskbar” (making OS usage a constant exercise in suppressing a scream)
And “new hardware requirements”
Psychology has a name for this pattern: hyperindependence. It often forms when someone has to self-manage too early, whether emotionally, practically, or both. Independence becomes a strength — but also a shield.
#News
Makes you wonder: are they really that stupid, or are the investing in/funded by these lobbies?
Next up: Dems are failing because sometimes we treat women like people.
“The price of being an ordinary member of society should not be having all of your online activity tracked, assembled and used to manipulate you.”
“The sky will not fall if we get the reasonable privacy rules we deserve.”
“It would mean…that a flashlight app for your phone wouldn’t be able to collect your location data and your fitness trackers wouldn’t be able to share your health data with third-party advertisers.”
Proposed MA privacy includes data minimization: “The heart of the privacy bill that the Massachusetts legislature is now considering is a…rule that companies should collect and use only the personal information that they need to provide services for consumers…
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual) and plural (multiple individuals of the same species.) “Fishes” is multiple species.
🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐡🐟 Fishes
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Is anyone else having trouble posting or clicking into elements like Profile on BSKY?
Can’t tell if they’re trying to force me to update my app or if there’s an outage.
I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...
Thinking back to when Pam Bondi said she had the Epstein files on her desk and would be reading them later.
Millions and millions of pieces of paper. I’d like to see that desk.
Ah yes, governments are famously flexible about letting you “tweak” the terms of a contract after it’s been signed.
Put this in the “never happened” pile.
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
The tech industry has spent decades asking to be trusted to self regulate instead of having laws guiding their behaviors. This has led to the lowest of voluntary standards.
Now, their defense for lowering the bar even further is “there’s no law against it.”
this is 18th century philosopher David Hume telling us to get off social media: "Only in the absence of lively impressions & heated passions will the brain be willing to succumb to the pursuit of reason--the tracing of a cognitive logic of ideas, often against customary association..." (D. Bates)
“…spam campaign were temporary while the company worked to implement better safeguards.”
“The Copilot Discord channel has recently been targeted by spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot,” a Microsoft spokesperson told us, adding that the “blocking of terms like ‘Microslop’ and some others associated with this…
“After users found simple workarounds for the new rule, like spelling it “Microsl0p,” the company’s moderation team locked the entire Discord server and hid its messaging history.”
Their messaging is epic DARVO: we are the victims of an attack by this vicious spammers. 😂
See next.
The end point of VC capitalism is universal surveillance. The endpoint of universal surveillance is labor & social control systems by people with the most money. The endpoint of that is fascism. Ben Thompson, like a16z, was always on this path... for anyone with eyes & critical view of capitalism
What an utterly stunted view of the concept of law: “International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right.”
@shannonvallor.bsky.social is right - these folks think like the most mediocre freshman. They also hold all the power - which they view as a binary: dominant or subservient.
if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.
Everyone I know has extreme weather.
Unnavigable snow piles in Boston. Friends whose kids can’t play in snow that deep.
Snow in South Carolina.
Summer type weather in NorCal, following 3 months of atypical great and rain - like Seattle.
I have an incredible pleasure in marrying my two loves in unexpected ways, in this case, product management and ethical theory.
Yesterday was my annual design lecture, and damned if the whole class of future PMs didn’t get a crash course in Immanuel Kant.
The point is to destroy the administrative state, centers of knowledge and all civic institutions that stand in the way of Russell Vought’s vision of an authoritarian theocracy. It sounds insane and something out of Atwood. But this is where we are. Under his eye.
