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A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."
She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."
1/ Dear @brian_armstrong,
Armstrongb.eth
You do not own this.
You do not control this.
Yet, this @ensdomains name resolves to your address.
Most importantly, you cannot do anything about it.
I own and control it.
Identifiers are not identities. Let me explain.
This article is blowing my mind right now. I think you’ll find this interesting (if you aren’t already familiar with this work) @fredvanamstel @aansari86 @blnaveen @OscarLemusINFO @shannonmattern https://t.co/VKK0wEgUak
Once in college, a professor begged me to stop putting jokes in my footnotes because it was totally inappropriate for academic papers.
So I stopped, but now I think the real problem was none of my footnotes were as funny as this one:
The future is now. Our democracies, economy & social structures are predicated on the assumption of only real people acting. If we don’t get a grip on identity & learn to write off all other “noise” fast our key institutions will shortly fall
https://t.co/FlAX99C9iE
Nice guide from @ReutersGraphics on how to spot a deepfake image: https://t.co/uFYIspdBJ6 -- TBH though this is for the last generation of technology. Best be looking at @arxiv for the latest results...
"Law should be puncturing and distributing this power, and giving it to individuals, communities and governments... Data protection and privacy laws are easily circumvented by technical assurances of confidentiality: we need something more ambitious to escape the walled gardens."
Wouldn’t it be cool if at the very least Doxing corrections would be shown to the same social media audience that were exposed to the original. Make the platforms amplify the corrections & apologies at the very least https://t.co/ziXQ1lzjql