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How Big Tech funds the debate on AI ethics: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/technology/2019/06/how-big-tech-funds-debate-ai-ethics #ML #Politics #Ethics
The Silicon Valley giants are spending billions developing AI, but they are also funding the people setting the technology’s most fundamental principles.
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"The hidden empire": https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/das-verdeckte-imperium/ (DE only). Excellent investigative journalism by @Tagesspiegel on how the UK-based Billionaire family "Pears" has been using a network of shell companies, to buy up thousands of apartment in Berlin and pay zero tax. Corruption 100x. #Infrastructure #Politics
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"Fabship is an off-grid FabLab, powered by renewable energy and Earthship-inspired design and systems. Fabships enable communities to build resilience and grow autonomy": @fabship http://fabship.cc/ #Regenerative #OpenSource
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"Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff": #P2P #OpenSource
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs/A funny world we live in, where there are 100s of highly profitable "shit you really don't need" e-commerce startups, yet an organisation that empowers adults & children to do DYI crafting & science collapses.
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"Surveillance capitalism: critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project. Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy & data harvesting": https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/toronto-smart-city-google-project-privacy-concerns << Big Tech's push to privatise & dominate the basic infrastructure of life is a shit show & insane. #Urban #Technology #Politics
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"Global demand for cars will decline 3% in 2019". << This is truly excellent news! 20% decline in 2020? https://www.businessinsider.com/peak-car-38000-layoffs-job-losses-sales-at-auto-makers-2019-5 #Technology #Regenerative
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“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.” - W. E. B. Du Bois
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In technology design a primary challenge now is how to shift from the dominate model of automation & augmentation (more! better! faster! growth! etc. - focused on artefacts) to cultivation (permanence, wisdom, appropriate tech, open source, commons, etc. - focused on life)
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If the narrative of AI, Robotics & Automation is essentially just "more growth" (our current modus operandi), it will dangerously accelerate the wholesale destruction of life on earth - and thus calling such tech "intelligent" is oxymoronic - "cancerous" more accurate.
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The urge to kill & dominate is quintessentially the same mindset that drives contemporary technological development: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a weapon".
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"Tech Giants Amass a Lobbying Army for an Epic Washington Battle": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/amazon-apple-facebook-google-lobbying.html #Technology #Politics
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Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html #FFHCI #Biology
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"The canton of Geneva in Switzerland has banned the construction of 5G antennas for the time being. Parliament lacks scientific evidence on health risks.": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schweiz-Vorlaeufiges-Verbot-von-5G-Mobilfunkantennen-in-Genf-4398114.html #Technology #Health
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"Tech Companies Are Profiting Off ICE Deportations, Report Shows": http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/10/23/tech-companies-surveillance-ice-immigrants
"Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells": https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/
US tech industry doing what it does best: Empowering fascistic military dictatorships. #Military #Technology #Politics
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Is the #Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? interview with Jamie Wheal.
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"Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes":
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The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone: https://www.osnews.com/story/27416/the-second-operating-system-hiding-in-every-mobile-phone/ #Technology #InfoSec
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Edward Snowden: With Technology, Institutions Have Made 'Most Effective Means of Social Control in the History of Our Species': #Technology #Politics #InfoSec #SE
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Silicon Valley in Switzerland: Bilderberg 2019 and the high-tech future of transatlantic power - by @deYook: https://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-switzerland-bilderberg-2019-and-high-tech-future-transatlantic-1441259 #Politics #Technology
