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This just in: Dystopian science fiction will no longer be sold or streamed in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley due to the high risk of it inspiring new tech startups. #tech #scifi
#tech #scifi

Who gets to shape the future?

Sometimes people ask why we should bother thinking about the future when there are so many pressing issues in the present. But as @roseveleth explains in this week’s episode of #TechWontSaveUs, tech billionaires want us to buy into their ideas for the future, and we need to push back with better alternatives!

Listen to our conversation: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11975314-why-tech-billionaires-want-to-shape-our-future-w-rose-eveleth

#tech #future #podcast

Why Tech Billionaires Want to Shape Our Future w/ Rose Eveleth - Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Rose Eveleth to discuss the end of her long-running podcast, why thinking about the future is important, and how tech billionaires try to shape our idea of the future to serve their ends.Rose Eveleth is the creator and host...
Buzzsprout
#podcast #tech #future #TechWontSaveUs @roseveleth

This is apparently the tweet that led to my suspension from Twitter. Right as I was reinstated they announced a new policy that they apparently found me to have retroactively violated
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #news #elonmusk #tech #technews #technology
Links of my social channels
New policy saying you can’t promote other social channels
#twitter #technology #tech #news #elonmusk #technews #twittermigration #twitterexodus

TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 seconds, study says

#TikTok recommends self-harm and eating disorder content to some users within minutes of joining the platform, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate ( #CCDH ).

#news #technology #tech #security #china

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-pushes-potentially-harmful-content-to-users-as-often-as-every-39-seconds-study/

TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 seconds, study says

TikTok recommends self-harm and eating disorder content to some users within minutes of joining the platform, according to a new report published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
CBS News
#security #TikTok #technology #tech #news #China #CCDH

Now imagine if Mastodon didn’t exist and this was happening.…

Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?

Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…

Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

#funding #tech #eu #commons

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament

A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.
Aral Balkan
#Commons #EU #tech #funding

As the tech industry moves from boom to bust, an increasingly reactionary set of tech CEOs are waging a campaign against workers to reset expectations of labor in the sector.

On this week’s #TechWontSaveUs, Wendy Liu returns to discuss this shift and how executives are emboldened by Elon Musk’s actions since taking over Twitter.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11871797-tech-billionaires-are-coming-for-workers-w-wendy-liu

#tech #podcast #elonmusk

Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu - Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to discuss what it was like to work in tech in the 2010s and why structural changes in the industry are empowering an increasingly reactionary capitalist class to strike back at workers and upend the expectations ...
Buzzsprout
#podcast #tech #elonmusk #TechWontSaveUs

📅 MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🥳

On December 18, I’ll be breaking down the year in tech in a livestream with @bcmerchant, @hypervisible, and @xoxogossipgita — exclusively for #TechWontSaveUs supporters!

We’ll be discussing the wildest stories of the year, the worst tech CEOs, what we’re looking to in 2023, and much more!

Want to join us? Sign up to support the show: https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus

#podcast #tech #livestream
The Year in Tech with Paris Marx, Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, and Gita Jackson. On December 18 at 1pm ET, 4pm PT, 9pm GMT. Livestream for supporters. Sign up on Patreon.

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#podcast #tech #livestream #TechWontSaveUs @bcmerchant @hypervisible @xoxogossipgita

From the early days of the internet to the dot-com boom to the period after the 2008 recession, we’re constantly distracted by utopian visions for what digital technology might deliver instead of critical assessing them.

On this week’s #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @Rushkoff about why it’s time for us to wake up and challenge the power and self-serving narratives of the tech billionaires — before it’s too late.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11828681-trusting-tech-billionaires-is-a-recipe-for-disaster-w-douglas-rushkoff

#tech #siliconvalley #podcast #politics

Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster w/ Douglas Rushkoff - Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Douglas Rushkoff to discuss why internet visions of the 1990s were wrong to ignore corporate power, how the dot-com boom was like a Ponzi scheme, and why we desperately need to stop elevating tech billionaires.Douglas Rushk...
Buzzsprout
#podcast #tech #politics #siliconvalley #TechWontSaveUs @Rushkoff

The myth of Elon Musk as a genius building a better future for everyone is falling apart — and it’s about time!

As I wrote in Time a few months ago, we need to realize he hasn’t just taken a bad turn in the past few months. He’s always been selling us a lie, and nothing shows that better than his fake transport projects that distracted from real solutions.

His downfall can’t come soon enough.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

#elonmusk #tech #transport #future

Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him

Elon Musk became the figure everyone was looking for, but there were holes in his visions for the future.
Paris Marx (Time)
#tech #elonmusk #Transport #future

The Boring Company’s actions show Elon Musk isn’t ushering in a transport revolution; he’s stifling any hope of one. We need to wake up if we’re to ever build a better transport system.

In the same way that the Hyperloop’s purpose was to get California’s high-speed rail line canceled, the Boring Company is distracting from train and transit projects that aren’t as “sexy”, but could make a real difference.

#hyperloop #boringcompany #elonmusk #transport #tech
He has a history of floating false solutions to the drawbacks of our over-reliance on cars that stifle efforts to give people other options. The Boring Company was supposed to solve traffic, not be the Las Vegas amusement ride it is now. As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it.
#tech #elonmusk #Transport #Hyperloop #boringcompany

Across the United States, Elon Musk’s Boring Company shows up to pitch transport projects far below the cost of competitors. Local officials get excited and pursue them, for cost savings and to associate with Musk. In Ontario, CA, officials said, “it’s the Boring Company, so Elon Musk brings that kind of sexiness to it.”

But when it comes time for the Boring Company to deliver, it conveniently disappears.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396

#elonmusk #tech #transport #cities

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ only to back out
Ted Mann (The Wall Street Journal)
#tech #cities #elonmusk #Transport

Notable that Marc Andreessen backed Elon’s Twitter takeover and is now also backing Post.news, Twitter’s main competitor outside Mastodon. Once again, you think you’re given a choice but the rich get richer either path you take!
#technology #tech #twitter #elon #musk #twittermigration
#twitter #technology #tech #Musk #twittermigration #elon

We know advertising is central to the business model of companies like Google and Facebook, but we often understate how integral it is to the larger economy — in tech and beyond.

In a new #techwontsaveus, I spoke to @danjokaz00ie to explore how companies create audiences to sell to advertisers — and why that’s important to understand.

Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/11747335-why-advertising-shapes-the-tech-economy-w-daniel-joseph

#advertising #tech #techindustry #podcast

Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph - Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx is joined by Daniel Joseph to discuss why advertising is central not just to the tech economy, but modern capitalism itself, and how the business models of companies are increasing shaped by serving ads and collecting data to inform the...
Buzzsprout
#podcast #tech #advertising #techindustry #TechWontSaveUs @danjokaz00ie

Crypto is in crisis, Meta is crashing, Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison, and Elon Musk is doing all he can to destroy the reputation he spent decades building.

The tech industry is at a turning point, but where will it go next and how do we prepare for its next act?

📬 Read my newsletter: https://buttondown.email/techwontsaveus/archive/a-turning-point-for-the-tech-industry

#tech #future #economy #siliconvalley #elonmusk
The higher order system here isn't technology; it's capitalism. That's what will shape what comes next, unless we overturn it — a prospect I sadly don't see on the horizon anytime soon. That means we need to reject a desire to give into fantasy, and pay close attention to where venture capitalists and major tech firms allocate capital in the months to come: What are they betting the future will be, and how are their PR people going to try to sell it to us?

A turning point for the tech industry?

Less than a week since my last update, and I’m already in your inbox again! I couldn’t help myself from commenting on the downward slide the tech industry is...
buttondown.email
#tech #economy #elonmusk #future #siliconvalley

It’s fascinating to see the recent series of stories about how so few of the tech companies’ future bets actually panned out as planned: drone delivery, autonomous cars, crypto, etc. Alexa is just the latest to add to the pile.

What’s concerning though: Amazon’s “new favorite child” is its health tech business. The last thing we need is more privatization and tech companies distracting us from what matters in healthcare.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-alexa-job-layoffs-rise-and-fall-2022-11

#amazon #tech #health

Amazon is gutting its voice assistant Alexa

Mounting losses and massive job cuts for the former pet project of Jeff Bezos underscore a failure in the hardware business model Amazon pioneered.
Eugene Kim (Insider)
#Amazon #tech #health

Let this be a lesson to tech journalists that no matter how close you get to a tech leader and shill for their companies, there’s no guarantee they won’t turn on you after the slightest criticism. So maybe just hold them to account like you’re supposed to.

#tech #techindustry #media #journalism #twitter #elonmusk
Elon's Email to Swisher: Elon Musk apparently thinks Kara Swisher is an "asshole." For the latest episode of the "On" podcast, the tables were turned on Swisher as producer Nayeema Raza put her in the hot seat, asking about her relationship with Musk. "He's not speaking to me," Swisher said. "I'm an 'asshole.' He emailed me this recently." Swisher said the email came after she tweeted reporting from WaPo about him wanting the US to pay for providing Starlink services to Ukraine. Swisher noted that she agreed Musk should get paid and made that point on Twitter, but apparently that wasn't enough. She said Musk emailed her with the subject: "You're an asshole " Inside the email was a screenshot of her tweets. "In this case, I was supporting him, which is really kind of ironic." Swisher said. Listen to the full pod here.
#twitter #media #tech #elonmusk #journalism #techindustry

After all the amazing press Netflix and streaming received during the period of cheap money, there’s a growing recognition that was all unsustainable PR and streaming is recreating exactly what it claimed it would destroy: cable.

“This ad-centric future of TV looks a little like Netflix around 2022, but it looks more like something older: basic cable.”

#streaming #netflix #tv #film #media #tech https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/ads-on-netflix-are-part-of-streamings-new-model.html
#Netflix #media #tech #TV #streaming #film

For all the talk of Mastodon being better about harassment it doesn’t seem like it has any features ppl who deal w/ tons of harassment have been asking Twitter for:
* Mass blocking capabilities
* Ability to block/limit anyone who likes a specific post or follows a specific person
* Ability to see only notifications from mutuals, etc.

Can you even limit ur replies to mutuals only on here? Doesn’t seem like you can?
#tech #technology #twitter #twittermi #twitterefugee #media #news #journalist
#twitter #technology #media #tech #journalist #news #twitterefugee #twittermi

🌌 Some recent additions to the network (2/2):

• https://apotheke.social - for anyone from the #pharmacy sector

• https://medic.cafe - for employees in the #medical field

• https://aircrew.rocks - for #pilots, #flight attendants, and flight enthusiasts

• https://genart.social - for #artists working in the generative, AI, and glitch spaces

• https://mastodon.tech - English language #tech and open source

#fediworld

apotheke.social

Ein freier Mastodon-Server für Personen, Vereinigungen oder Organisationen aus dem Apothekenbereich. Diese Mastodon-Instanz befindet sich derzeit in der Erprobungsphase.
Mastodon, gehostet auf apotheke.social
#Flight #tech #Medical #artists #fediworld #pharmacy #pilots

Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection

EU data watchdog calls for a single, privacy-centred virus app, instead of dozens of national ones.
BBC News
#freedom #COVID-19 #privacy #technology #coronavirus #tech #surveillance #pandemic #BraveNewWorld

There is a nice infographic in this article explaining how the global COVID-19 tracking app could work but they missed a few things. Here is revised and improved variant 😀

Garry Knight

2020-04-06 17:02:08


Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection | BBC News


Europe's data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own.
Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might pose.
The European Data Protection Supervisor says a single EU app with strong data protection built in is the best solution to the coronavirus pandemic.


#technology #tech #Covid-19 #CoronaVirus

#privacy #freedom #surveillance #pandemic

#freedom #COVID-19 #privacy #technology #coronavirus #tech #surveillance #pandemic

Refugee from pluspora
Since pluspora seems to be closing, I decided to take refuge at nerdica for a change. I hope to reconnect with old friends and new ones.

My interests include, but are not limited to: #rpg #ttrpg #Shadowrun #boardgame #lego #starwars #theexpanse #tech #green #libertariansocialism #pluspora #GooglePlus #googleplus-refugees
#rpg #ttrpg #TheExpanse #StarWars #LEGO #tech #GooglePlus #shadowrun #green #pluspora #boardgame #libertariansocialism #googleplus-refugees

Garry Knight

2021-10-14 13:33:49


Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online | Hacking | The Guardian

Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activities
A longish, but interesting read.

#technology #tech #security #privacy #hacking #malware

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/14/leave-no-trace-how-a-teenage-hacker-lost-himself-online?CMP=fb_a-technology_b-gdntech
#security #privacy #technology #tech #malware #hacking

Pluming for freedom
#fediverse #censorship #Software #freedom #privacy #tech #rust #Layla_Khaled #Plume

”TikTok is introducing Americans to a question that Europeans have struggled with for 20 years: a lot of your citizens might use an Internet platform created somewhere that doesn’t know or care about your laws or cultural attitudes and won’t turn up to a committee hearing.”

#privacy #TikTok #tech
#TikTok #privacy #tech

Garry Knight

2021-02-17 16:47:52


'Spy pixels in emails have become endemic' | BBC News

The use of "invisible" tracking tech in emails is now "endemic", according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request.
#technology #tech #security #privacy
#security #privacy #technology #tech

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