Sorry…what does this have to do with the patent system?
@mer__edith
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FOSS Culture Toxic Behavior Creates Security Vulnerabilities
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One striking thing about the xz backdoor is how the uncool, mean standards of behavior common in FOSS, that many of us decried for years, & that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up being not just exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.
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Apple’s Power Over the Information Ecosystem
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Note that am not talking about whether JS is good, bad, or indifferent. I am talking about the power Apple (among others) wields over our information ecosystem.
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Platform Monopoly Power and Speech Control
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Speaking of monopoly power and platform control of speech https://t.co/nIL4q7WvUe
— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) 2 avril 2024Speaking of monopoly power and platform control of speech
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Business Models Destroying Functional Media Ecosystems
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YEP. The decimation of a functional media ecology is another blight c/o this business model.
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Voice Cloning AI: Microsoft’s Self-Regulation Theater Questioned
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Voice cloning AI isn't new + the risks have been known for ages, as has the fact that the "benefits" don't justify the risks Cynically, this looks like a performance of "judicious caution" meant to give MS execs an e.g. of "self regulation working" they can reference if pressed.
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Advertising History and Surveillance Capitalism in Digital Markets
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The Conquest of Cool is good foundational material here. The Surveillance Capitalism in America reader has some good pieces on the history of advertising/marketing as it relates to the models that currently dominate.
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Utilitarian metrics and the value of human life
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Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics.
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Facebook’s Role in Facilitating Harm: Ethical Accountability in Big Tech
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The only part I disagree with is this being The Thing that completely changed my perspective. This is def fucked. But Facebook’s whole business model, its response & lack of concern re. facilitating genocide in Myanmar, etc. firmly shaped my perspective a long time ago.
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Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, Industrial Control
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True! And if you want to learn more about this history I wrote more here: https://
logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skie
s/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
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