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Angela Chen

@chengela
10 posts
2021-11-19
“Across Amazon, some low-level employees were using data privileges to snoop on the purchases of celebrities, while others were taking bribes to help shady sellers sabotage competitors' businesses, doctor Amazon's review system, & sell knock-off products.” https://www.wired.com/...
2021-11-19 View on X
Wired

Sources and internal docs detail Amazon's careless handling of its retail customer data, including letting some low-level staff snoop on celebrity purchases

2021-08-14
.@RachelFeintzeig reported this extremely funny story about remote workers who secretly have two jobs (incredible money, incredible stress at keeping up the ruse). One line was downright inspiring to me: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A half-dozen white-collar workers in industries like tech and banking say they are stealthily holding multiple remote, full-time jobs

the team never did video calls—while he was teaching a coding class at his secret second job.” What a story https://www.wsj.com/... @editorialiste : “Looks like you've been missing...

2021-07-19
.@_KarenHao and @SamGregory weigh in on the Anthony Bourdain voice deepfake: https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-19 View on X
New Yorker

Experts say consent and disclosure are key to the ethical use of synthetic media, amid controversy surrounding Bourdain's deepfake voice in a new documentary

2021-04-01
1. New from @open_phil: 1-18% probability we reach artificial general intelligence by 2036 https://www.openphilanthropy.org/ ... 2. Ted Chiang in @newyorker: “We're a long way off from being able to create a single human-equivalent AI...” https://www.newyorker.com/...
2021-04-01 View on X
New Yorker

For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a “singularity”

2020-09-16
“On May 4, a Nigerian man became the first known person in the world to be sentenced to death via a virtual court on Zoom.” https://restofworld.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-16 View on X
Rest of World

As a Nigerian man was sentenced to death on Zoom, a look at how virtual court hearings are becoming the new normal in legal proceedings around the world

Kechi Nomu / Rest of World : Tweets: @cengizyar , @namlyd , @kemnomu , @chengela , @pribellini , and @raju Tweets: Cengiz / @cengizyar : This year has seen a lot of firsts on Zoom...

2020-08-06
The QAF site is the go-to place for LGBTIQ content in China, “not only as a place to access foreign queer media but also as a hub of exchange and support in a country where LGBTIQ people are still often discriminated against.” https://restofworld.org/...
2020-08-06 View on X
Rest of World

Profile of QAF, a Reddit-like site in China that has become a go-to place for accessing LGBTIQ content and a support hub for the LGBTIQ community in the country

fascinating story by @ZeyiYang & @megatobin1 Torr Leonard / @torrhl : “How a group of volunteers are fighting to make gay cinema available in China - The country's queer community ...

2020-03-08
“The company's slogan, 'He's Right Next Door,' embodies its ethos: to bring together gay men from all segments of Chinese society into one digital ecosystem.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-03-08 View on X
New York Times

Profile of China-based Blued, one of the largest gay dating apps in the world, which has succeeded by navigating complex rules while staying clear of activism

Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China … Tweets: @chengela , @yilingliu95 , @anne_ma...

2020-01-31
Aron D'Souza came up with the legal strategy to kill Gawker (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...). Now that experience is a selling point for his involvement in a new social network helmed by the rich: https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-01-31 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Pitch deck details Column, a paid social network centered on tech/business notables, with Aron Ping D'Souza as CEO; investor Sarah Cone later said she was CEO

unsolicited and without any indication that it was confidential or embargoed—two weeks ago in an attempt to have this publication as a prospective partner.” https://www.technologyr...

2019-09-07
For people asking what the MIT Media Lab does, might be helpful to look at their 2010 list of top 25 commercialized products: http://newsroom.blogs.cnn.com/ ... E-ink, Scratch, Guitar Hero, as well as a clock that runs away and “karaoke-on-demand”: pic.twitter.com/dGyeerlXtU
2019-09-07 View on X
New Yorker

Leaked documents show MIT Media Lab hid the extent of Jeffrey Epstein's fundraising role, which also involved helping raise $7.5M through donors like Bill Gates

New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions …

2019-08-14
Amazon claims it's improved accuracy for its facial recognition tool, which can now recognize fear. Academics spent two years reviewing over 1,000 papers and concluded that emotion detection still can't be trusted: https://www.technologyreview.com/ .... https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-14 View on X
Computer Business Review

Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect

Release follows amid immigration protests  —  AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …