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funnymonkey, to random
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Really like how sentencing is 4 days before the Republican National Convention.

anathema_device,
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@funnymonkey 👍🤣

funnymonkey, to random
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If I had a nickel for every person who told me - mistakenly, known-at-the-time-full-of-shit - "Google Analytics are fine".

Yeah.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/google-accused-of-secretly-tracking-drivers-with-disabilities/

funnymonkey, to random
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Gee. What got a big push in education approx 20 years ago? I wonder.

funnymonkey, to random
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Grilled apricots. They will be finished with ricotta cheese seasoned with lime zest, salt, and pepper.

Apricots on the heat.

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funnymonkey, to random
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This NPR piece about OpenAI's theft of Scarlett Johansson's voice/identity does a good job providing the context of Altman's knowledge Johansson's work in Her. That's missing from a lot of other pieces on this.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

funnymonkey, to random
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Today's OMFGWTAF comes to you from Emory, via @jasonkoebler at @404mediaco

https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

Just a reminder that Canvas is often a silent partner in "are you kidding me?" moments in education.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/technology/dartmouth-cheating-charges.html

anathema_device,
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funnymonkey, to random
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funnymonkey, to random
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Put it in the cloud, they said.

The cloud is managed by professionals. It's safer, they said.

The cloud: we're deleting your account, and all your data.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

funnymonkey, to random
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Surveillance tech, super helpful for cops and thieves.

Never been any abuse of surveillance tech, though, so nothing to worry about.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/05/14/police-car-surveillance-tech-uncovers-phones-pet-trackers-and-library-books/

funnymonkey, to random
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This isn't innovation. This is a data grab, paired with paternalistic language about how this is really in my be st interest.

To be really clear: I DON'T WANT AN ALGORITHM BETWEEN ME AND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. I CAN DO THIS MYSELF.

To see both this "feature" and this self-serving justification coming from Mozilla is depressing. It's becoming impossible to choose a browser that doesn't require choosing based on the least amount of compromises.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

funnymonkey, to random
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So, yeah. Facebook has been using that EXACT line and argument going back years, over multiple abuses.

https://www.funnymonkey.com/2024/05/advertisers-should-not-send-sensitive-information-about-people-through-our-business-tools-puhleeze/

funnymonkey, to random
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This story is from a year ago, and it highlights how abuses get normalized in industries that collect and maintain data.

The fact that this is Tesla under Musk shows how untrustworthy a steward he is, but these problems go way beyond Musk.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

funnymonkey, to random
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Walmart: destroying Main Street is so old news. Now it's time to do our share and suck joy out of the internet!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152172/walmart-disney-plus-hulu-targeted-ads

h/t @JennCutter

funnymonkey, to random
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I love how the tech industry's definition of "privacy protecting" practice often means creating another third party that gets access to reams of personal data.

But we can trust them. Because privacy protecting.

funnymonkey, to random
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