LOL I was like, aw, that's nice! And then I was like… Anyway, I appreciate the kind words! And I push back on the characterization of hopelessness. I don't argue against network externalities, or e-commerce, I simply say that the platforms as they're structured now are
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Big Tech AI Tools: Amazon, Palantir, Microsoft Cloud Ambiguity
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To be pedantic, the Intercept article doesn't clarify whether these particular "AI" tools are the same described in the +972 reporting. Or if these are in fact Amazon, or Palantir (which runs at least in part on Amazon/Google Cloud), or Microsoft. All of these cos have large,
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Military AI Evolution: From Perceptrons to Autonomous Weapons
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Military AI has existed, arguably, since Rosenblatt's perceptrons , funded by US military in the 1950s. What's 'different' here is not simply the scale and sophistication — it's the indiscriminate slaughter being authorized via AI.
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Encryption Privacy Tradeoff in Tech Narratives
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Fair! I opted for a punchy descriptor, but the net is we traded the ability to deploy/develop encryption for privacy as a substantive value, and didn't acknowledge this is what we were doing in the war stories we told.
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AI Systems Targeting Flaws Raise Critical Ethics Concerns
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Or, to be pedantic, when laughably imprecise “AI” systems probabilistically determined someone was a worthy target of death (think ad targeting but for killing) IDF waited until they went home and killed them and their family and their neighbors and their pets and etc.
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Coinbase Becomes First International Crypto Exchange Approved in Canada
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Exclusive: Coinbase secured a restricted dealer registration in Canada, making it the first international crypto exchange in the country with coveted approval from the Canadian Securities Administrators.
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Google drops contract following apartheid activism campaign
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We got Google to drop one contract. And people were fired and pushed out in the process. @NoTechApartheid bravely continues the effort.
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AI-Powered Adtech Systems Targeting Civilians: Ethics and Accountability
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The def of "it" is v important here bc what we're seeing IRL is e.g. repurposed adtech systems targeting people (their families, neighbors) for death based on probabilities in e.g. Gaza (see the recent +972 reporting). Space traffic control is fine but not driving AI hype or $
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Search Engines and LLMs Unable to Index Complete Content
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actually worse because now search engines and llms are guaranteed to not index everything