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aiefel

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Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.

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KathyReid, to microsoft
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Why does want to implement ? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's data (e.g. transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

aiefel,
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@KathyReid excellent points. I wouldn't count Google out on this market entirely as it has Chrome, Android and Workspace to mine but Microsoft has far more and an ability to get more on-device telemetry for sure.

aiefel, to random
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The UK political chattering class is sweating this morning over Joe Biden saying his N. Ireland visit was “to make sure the Brits didn’t screw around" with the Good Friday agreement. He said nothing wrong. More please.
https://www.politico.eu/article/joe-biden-northern-ireland-brits-screw-around/

KarenawokeKaren, to UKpolitics
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This feels like your very abusive ex partner asking you for a reference. Starmer hates the left, smashes to pieces the broad church, but still expects our votes. I sense they are panicking. Vote Green, Independent, TUSC, SNP. Don't give these right wingers your vote.

aiefel,
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@KarenawokeKaren political parties that feel entitled to your vote are the ones that do the least to deserve it. The vote-splitting argument assumes entitlement. If they see people interested in alternate policies at a significant number then the strategy should be to adopt those policies or address those needs. Instead we just have pursed-lipped Starmer stans finger wagging at people to accept the stance that they deserve less after 14 years of everything being demolished. Not a winning plan.

aiefel, to random
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This whole story is absolutely wild, and far beyond NSOGroup type capabilities. And the telecom industry is itself complicit.

"Global Surveillance: The Secretive Swiss Dealer Enabling Israeli Spy Firms"
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-05-10/ty-article-magazine/.premium/global-surveillance-the-secretive-swiss-dealer-enabling-israeli-spy-firms/00000188-0005-dc7e-a3fe-22cdf2900000

Viss, to random
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the 4th of july is a funny time for the uk to have an election, isnt it?

aiefel,
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@Viss it's going to be the day he decides to get another green card.

aiefel, to random
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Occasionally I look at Facebook via someone else's account and I see how much it's continued to slide and I can't fathom how people still live like that.

aiefel, to random
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Some people just don't have the microplastics it takes to make the hard calls.

I gotta hand it to you, that took a lot of microplastics.

You got a lot of microplastics comin' back around here after what you pulled!

aiefel, to random
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Everyone in the next video meeting point your camera slightly at an angle so no one looks like they're breaking the fourth wall.

aiefel, to random
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Antony Blinken always looks like he's one of the sales guys at the bottom of the board in Glengarry Glen Ross.

aiefel, to random
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And on the seventh day, The Lord ran package manager updates.

seth, to random
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Dear Haribo,

I’d pay handsomely for a bag of just the pineapple bears. Please make it so.

aiefel,
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@seth careful, don't OD on those.

aiefel, to random
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Good write-up of the absolute failure of StratComs in Georgia. Not surprisingly the NATO-funded project — that looks as anti-democratic as the Russian influence it was attempting to counter — appears to have been designed in UK.
You don't win by copying them, that just make their case for them.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/nato-helped-georgia-counter-russian-trolls-then-the-strategy-backfired/

aiefel, to random
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Zoom decided to be worse than 2012 era Skype or something a goal.

aiefel, to random
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"Recall records everything users do on their PC, including activities in apps, communications in live meetings, and websites visited for research. Despite encryption and local storage, the new feature raises privacy concerns for certain Windows users."

Concerns. You don't fucking say.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

aiefel,
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We need Tails to step up and make it easier for people to be okay with forgetting shit.

aiefel,
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@seth When I'm retired and have thrown my last devices into a cement mixer I will calm down.

aiefel, to random
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Copilot recording an endless series of me pasting text, clicking undo, and then doing paste special > unformatted text.

aiefel,
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When you die, everything Copilot captured you doing passes before your eyes.

aiefel, to random
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"There is a global cost to opposing the International Criminal Court. With U.S. and European support, the court is seeking to prosecute President Vladimir Putin for alleged crimes in Ukraine. The court promotes the global interest in accountability for the worst crimes under international law. Attacks on it only benefit those who, like Mr. Putin, seek to delegitimize its existence." — @davidkaye
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/palestinians-israel-international-criminal-court-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.RuRe.Zj-X3_rEG1nS&smid=url-share

aiefel, to random
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Make 'delete' mean something again.

aiefel, to random
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Reporting by @zack on how Modi's regime is "pushing the world’s largest democracy toward an authoritarian future" and targeting its critics at home and abroad... https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24160779/inside-indias-secret-campaign-to-threaten-and-harass-americans

raiderrobert, to random
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Coders of all kinds, I have a question.

What is the minimal amount for someone to "know how to code"?

aiefel,
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@raiderrobert Make it output "hello world."

aiefel, to random
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Emory University is dealing with AI about as well as the rest of the world, only in reverse. We find companies misusing it and give them a pass. Emory boldly inverts the model...
a) give students a grant to make an AI thing.
b) suspend the students for making it.
c) admit there was no evidence that anyone ever misused it.
https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

aiefel, to random
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Calling these groups "anti-government" is to still buy into their BS. What they have in mind is just a very different kind of regime, it's not anti-government, far from it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/people-rights-network-oregon-elections

aiefel, to random
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Encouraging to see that efforts to hold those in the Assad regime still persist.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-the-assad-regime-finally-facing-some-justice-trial-of-syrian-officials-in-paris/

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