Koning Ludd

Tech is going to get us killed.

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

counterpoint: Google Duplex is only possible because we treat service industry people like robots https://t.co/egKvcgdBG7

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

@antumbral also half the shit they're talking about now isn't even actually decentralized or public ledger ~oooh i put some encryption on a database~ now it's a crypto gtfo

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

https://t.co/scl7NsPq49

[Nieuwsuur @Nieuwsuur]

Voormalige werknemers van #Facebook en #Google waarschuwen voor wat ze zelf hebben gecreëerd. Donderdag en zondag in Nieuwsuur.

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

forgot to tweet this one! monkey selfie 9th circuit decision is a massive self-own for PETA: https://t.co/o5IJShtkeg

[Leonid Bershidskiy @Bershidsky]

Why I'm not sorry that Finland's experiment with a universal basic income won't be extended https://t.co/jS0umtzAk8 via @bv

[Pepijn Bergsen @pbergsen]

If after reading this you still believe in the magic of blockchain you need to have your money taken away for your own good https://t.co/fYXztcKDdd

[Clare Malone @ClareMalone]

If you didn't have the chance to read the big election hack story from yesterday ... https://t.co/KnZycqG0GI ...then here's the quick and dirty primer on the known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns of election hacking: https://t.co/a20w33dbsb

[Dylan Curran @iamdylancurran]

Mark Zuckerberg's laptop microphone and webcam taped over

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

Facebook hurriedly promising to add a gaslighting feature to their product after being caught gaslighting their users is the most Facebook that Facebook has ever been

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

The Stormy Daniels Saga is the greatest 1L Contracts final exam question I've ever seen

[Koning Ludd @KoningLudd]

Old anti-inequality policies are failing. The gig economy is not the answer https://t.co/jCnhfUsoge via @bv

[Clare Malone @ClareMalone]

Special bonus podcast just posted: we talked Cambridge Analytica/Facebook/the murky world of political data. https://t.co/1V2hB2Rgqo

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

writing about tech is exhausting right now because all I want is to see someone be competent for ONCE

[Dylan Curran @iamdylancurran]

10. Facebook offers a similar option to download all your information, mine was roughly 600mb, which is roughly 400,000 Word documents

[Dylan Curran @iamdylancurran]

7. Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you, I've requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB BIG, which is roughly 3 MILLION Word documents https://t.co/3Na4FxjNXk

[Dylan Curran @iamdylancurran]

Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it

[Anthony Carboni @acarboni]

Me: *watches a single YouTube tutorial so I can fix my door hinge*
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