There's nothing in what I said that makes a case for this tech being inherently bad

Yeah, breaks my heart.

NEW: Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging it used Facebook and Insta photos to build its NameTag face-recognition system and train AI models without consent. WIRED found code for NameTag hidden inside Meta’s AI app downloaded by tens of millions. Meta said the feature “doesn’t exist.”

To be clear--TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE BODILY AUTONOMY LIKE EVERYONE AND ACCESS TO HORMONES, OF COURSE, YES! And a critical perspective on VC-backed quasi-regulated wellness inflected industry growing around the real but ill-defined term perimenopause is warranted.

were that it weren't fugly

This is great, thank you!

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Yes! Also deeply insulting to readers, which hits personally as someone who learned a bulk of my mind palace reading things that required I bump against my lack of knowledge and familiarity, then work (the fun part) to incorporate new knowing. A troublingly essentialist undertone re 'intelligence'

Kudos to Andreas 💐 Thousands of us at Google organized against the company’s Maven contract nearly 10 years ago, even though principles like this existed. We saw no hope that such principles would survive bottom line pressure—nor were they legally drafted to do so.

Freedom is when I don’t have to pay taxes and people who exercise their constitutional rights are beaten, shoved into camps, and shot in the back or the face by masked agents of the state

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.