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Russia is spying on Telegram chats in occupied Ukrainian regions. Here's how.
Thanks to a Ukrainian in occupied Kherson, we now know how Russian occupiers are using Telegram to surveil Ukrainians — and how dangerous its design flaws are.
How to write an image description
I wrote this how-to guide with the immensely helpful counsel and insights from Bex Leon and Robin Fanning, as well as through an online…
Open-Source Software vs. the Proposed Cyber Resilience Act
The team over at NLnet Labs is closely following a legislative proposal by the European Commission affecting almost all hardware and software on the European market. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) intends to ensure cybersecurity of products with digital elements by laying down requirements and obli…
Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia
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In today’s video I’m looking into all the hype surrounding Web3, blockchain technology, NFTs, and trying to work out WHY this is all happening. The Folding Ideas video ‘Line Goes Up’ came out as I was researching this, and I found that even though we had come to the same conclusion on many aspects of this, I actually came to a different conclusion as to why I think this is all happening - and it’s much more dystopian than most people think. This technology is dangerous and could ruin people’s lives in more ways than just losing out on their investments when the bubble deflates or pops. I have found that many people on the left don’t like this technology but they’re not quite sure why - so my video focusses more on how Bitcoin in particular has strong ties to far-right extremism which was birthed out of the Great Depression in the 1930s, and how the extremely libertarian & conservative Ethereum founder, Peter Thiel, wants to harvest data for the purposes of governing society with rigid code, and he’s getting Jordan Peterson to help.
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0:00 Intro
6:41 NFTs
12:17 Gary Vee's NFTs
18:16 Celebrity NFTs
19:22 Play-to-earn NFTs
23:02 NFT marketing works exactly like MLMs
26:08 Influencers and Poocoins, Securities Fraud
36:53 Cryptoland
41:22 Web2 vs Web3
43:43 Banking the Unbanked
47:12 Is it secure?
52:10 Sending money internationally?
54:39 bUt tHe FeD pRiNtS mOnEy
1:02:05 The Superbowl Crypto ads & the "Early days" argument
1:06:37 Bitcoin: The Gold Standard & Right-Wing Extremism
1:18:27 Ethereum: Peter Thiel wants your data to build a Libertarian utopia
1:33:29 Is this a bubble?
1:38:29 My Man's a Hexagon
Study: There's No Ethical Use for NFTs
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A People's Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias — Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies
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Do No Harm
Social media is broken. Restorative justice offers a way to repair it.
Now I’m Seen: An AI Ethics Discussion Across the Globe | Montreal AI Ethics Institute
🔬 Event summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. Overview: A summary of our panel discussion “Now I’m Seen: An AI Ethics Discussion Across the Globe” with Claudia May del Pozo and Khoa Lam.
A quick hypothetical situation, or, your crash introduction to the real world – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
The Observatory of Anonymity
Explore the research of the Computational Privacy Group on anonymity online. Take a short quiz to find out what makes you more vulnerable to re-identification, explore anonymity in 89 countries around the world, or train our method with your own datasets.
Police used encryption powers without rigorous controls - InnovationAus via inkl
Law enforcement agencies began using Australia’s controversial encryption-busting powers before they had established sound governance frameworks, leading to potential “non-compliance” with the laws, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found. The Ombudsman identified the issues with agencies’ early use of the industry assistance powers in a report detailing findings from its first…
Is Mastodon Private and Secure? Let’s Take a Look
This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on what the fediverse is, and why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and more are on the way. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.With so many users migrating to Mastodon as their micro-blogging...
Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.
Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden
This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, and why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and more are on the way. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.A wave of people have announced that they're leaving...
Can Mastodon Survive Europe’s Digital Services Act?
Konstantinos Komaitis & Louis-Victor de Franssu say Mastodon’s decentralization raises questions about how regulatory regimes will apply.
Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product
French agency warns World Cup fans to get burner phones for Qatar apps
Avoid naughty pictures and scrub your phone to keep clear of state snoopers, French regulator says.
AJ Sadauskas (@ajsadauskas@aus.social)
The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement. For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously). "Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature. There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content. It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off. Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users. #twitter #mastodon #twittermigration
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol of our society.
KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion
The fast-food chain urged German customers to commemorate the Nazi pogrom with cheesy chicken.
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎 (@austinkocher@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Staying on #Twitter is a liability for major brands. Yesterday a scammy Twitter-verified account (one that paid $8) posted as the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly that "insulin is now free." This morning, Eli Lilly's stock dropped off a cliff. Musk's manufactured chaos at Twitter is having very real economic consequences. #Twitterpocalypse
Manyverse – a social network off the grid
A social network off the grid – mobile and available on Android
A People's Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias — Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies
Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette)
How do I know so much about how @elonmusk does things? I spent 3 years investigating Tesla at @BusinessInsider from 2018-2021. Here are some of sloppy, dangerous, callous, things I learned:
Instagram's Video Selfie Age Verification System Goes Live in the U.K.
Yoti, the company analyzing the videos, uses a facial age estimation AI system to verify the age of teen users claiming they are above 18 years of age.
Steve Krenzel on Twitter
“With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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Elon Musk’s Reckless Plan to Make Sex Pay on Twitter
A plan to monetize adult content could make sense from a business and social standpoint. In practice, Twitter won't be able to pull it off.