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TechScape: What the crypto big freeze means for your money
TechScape: What the crypto big freeze means for your money
In this week’s newsletter: Crypto giant Celsius is freezing out users as it tries to solve a mammoth lending crisis. So what happens if money in the bank isn’t really there?
·theguardian.com·
TechScape: What the crypto big freeze means for your money
Don’t Just “Do Something.” Don’t Make Things Worse.
Don’t Just “Do Something.” Don’t Make Things Worse.
While some tech tools might indeed be helpful, they should be considered in conjunction with, not as replacement for, regulations that address the role of guns.
·scu.edu·
Don’t Just “Do Something.” Don’t Make Things Worse.
The Algorithmic Imprint | Upol Ehsan, Ranjit Singh, Jacob Metcalf, Mark Riedl @ FAccT 2022
The Algorithmic Imprint | Upol Ehsan, Ranjit Singh, Jacob Metcalf, Mark Riedl @ FAccT 2022
When an algorithm causes harm, is discontinuing it enough to address its harms? This paper introduces the concept of the **The Algorithmic Imprint** to show how algorithmic harms can persist long after the algorithm is discontinued. It chronicles the 2020 Ofqual Algorithmic Grading Scandal, not from the UK, but from a Bangladeshi perspective. The concept of the Algorithmic Imprint helps us understand how the algorithm's impact lives on in the algorithm's afterlife much the remnants of palimpsest remain. Critically examining our current conception of algorithmic impact, it expands how we may view algorithmic impact, especially in the algorithm's afterlife (after being discontinued). It also offers practical and actionable guidance on how an imprint-aware mindset can inform algorithmic design. This is a presentation of the paper "The Algorithmic Imprint" to be presented at the ACM Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) conference. Here is a quick tweetorial covering the key points: https://bit.ly/AlgorthmicImprint_Tweetorial
·youtube.com·
The Algorithmic Imprint | Upol Ehsan, Ranjit Singh, Jacob Metcalf, Mark Riedl @ FAccT 2022
Fair Game — Real Life
Fair Game — Real Life
Commonly used by researchers and journalists, data scraping is an underacknowledged privacy concern
·reallifemag.com·
Fair Game — Real Life
I’m done with Wyze
I’m done with Wyze
Why are we only hearing about a huge security flaw now?
·theverge.com·
I’m done with Wyze
This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network - A New Design Congress Essay
This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network - A New Design Congress Essay
Centralised power and decentralised communities are on the verge of outright conflict for the control of the digital public space. The resilience of centralised networks and the political organisation of their owners remains significantly underestimated by protocol activists. At the same time, the peer-to-peer community is dangerously unprepared for a crisis-fuelled future that has very suddenly arrived at their door.
·web.archive.org·
This is Fine: Optimism & Emergency in the P2P Network - A New Design Congress Essay
Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?
Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?
In the recent paper about "soulbound" tokens, Vitalik Buterin et al. write that they aim to build technology that is "acceptably non-dystopian". Do any of today's self-sovereign identity projects fit that bill?
·blog.mollywhite.net·
Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?
Police VR Training: Empathy Machine or Expensive Distraction?
Police VR Training: Empathy Machine or Expensive Distraction?
The maker of the Taser believes its new virtual reality firing range and community policing simulator can make cops less violent. Critics are less than sure.
·gizmodo.com·
Police VR Training: Empathy Machine or Expensive Distraction?
Why Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zones
Why Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zones
Why great things never came from comfort zones? Because the world is always changing. We need to face uncertainty to move forward.
·durmonski.com·
Why Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zones