License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case
www.404media.co/flock-remove... S. E. Smith / @sesmith.lol : Love it when reporting like this from @404media.co forces sleazy companies to change their practices now that they've been forced into dayl...
Twitter is seeking feedback for two potential new features, “Filter” and “Limit”, both of which will hide offensive or harmful replies
and people who might create that content — away from your replies. These are early ideas, so we'd love your feedback 👀🧵👇 https://twitter.com/... @mariedenee : This is curious and I'm wondering how thi...
A look at farmer-specific e-commerce and food distribution services, including GrazeCart, Farmdrop, Farmigo, and GrownBy, which took off during the pandemic
a huge help particularly during the pandemic https://www.theverge.com/... S. E. Smith / @sesmith : An interesting read on taking the farmers' market online, but what about farmers and ranchers who lac...
Deepfakes, which are predominantly being used to produce porn, are thriving because the stigma of porn has made it difficult for sex workers to protect their IP
But revenge porn and IP theft are the more pressing threats — OVER THE PAST three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. Tweets: @thewalrus , @bryonycole...
How AI Dungeon, a text adventure game that uses the GPT-3 text generator, can create sex scenes involving children, and why attempts to stop it aren't working
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @hkanji , @yudhanjaya , @marklittlenews , @wired , @sesmith , and @etzioni Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : Users complained the AI would bring up sexual themes unbidd...
As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe”
Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker … Tweets: @rachellevinsf , @chrisasolomon , @sesmith , @skiingrogge , @outsidemagazine , @talkpo...
Ransomware hackers are targeting managed service providers, causing chaos for the city governments, medical clinics, and smaller businesses who use them for IT
On July 3, employees at Arbor Dental in Longview, Washington, noticed glitches in their computers and couldn't view X-rays. Tweets: @propublica , @sesmith , @propublicail , @propublica , @guptamnka , ...
Interview with Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, on how the government became a catalyst for the birth of SV
Hope Reese / OneZero : Tweets: @medium , @sesmith , and @medium Tweets: @medium : Tech historian and author @margaretomara on how Silicon Valley was born, and why she thinks big tech companies like F...
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user
Lizzie O'Shea / Longreads : Tweets: @carnage4life , @longreads , @sesmith , and @longreads Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : This is a great read that contains an analogy I really ❤️. Lack of p...
All harmful technologies are a product of unethical design, yet, like car companies in the '70s, today's tech companies would rather blame the user
an excerpt adapted from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology | Tweets: @longreads , @sesmith , @longreads , @longreads , and @longrea...