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Gady Epstein

@gadyepstein
20 posts
2023-09-21
Extremely grim Wired report on Elon's Neuralink monkeys and the suffering that appears to have been inflicted on them before they were euthanized. A former employee calls “ridiculous” Musk's claim they were already close to death before being tested on https://www.wired.com/... [image]
2023-09-21 View on X
Wired

Documents show that up to a dozen of Neuralink's primate subjects were euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk says no primates died due to implants

Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink's implants.  A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics …

2023-09-19
do it Elon, put this platform out of its misery once and for all so we can all go do other things
2023-09-19 View on X
CNBC

On a livestream, Elon Musk says X is “moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system”, as it's “the only way to combat vast armies of bots”

- Tesla, SpaceX and X Corp. leader Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in a livestream …

2023-03-29
Prosecutors allege SBF bribed Chinese government officials to unfreeze $1 billion worth of assets in Alameda Research trading accounts on “two of China's largest cryptocurrency exchanges” Sounds like a regulator decided to charge “administrative fees” https://decrypt.co/...
2023-03-29 View on X
Reuters

US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of ordering an Alameda payment of $40M+ in cryptocurrency to bribe Chinese government officials

2022-06-18
“I feel like with these tools, there's some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-18 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022

For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …

2022-05-22
Fascinating and timely look by @jcbeam at what happens in a DeFi crypto hack, from how it's done to how a platform responds to whether it's even straightforwardly illegal https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-05-22 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Indexed Finance's legal fight with a Canadian teenager who exploited the DeFi platform for $16M, which is raising several tricky legal questions

On Oct. 14, in a house near Leeds, England, Laurence Day was sitting down to a dinner of fish and chips on his couch when his phone buzzed.

2022-05-21
Fascinating and timely look by @jcbeam at what happens in a DeFi crypto hack, from how it's done to how a platform responds to whether it's even straightforwardly illegal https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-05-21 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Indexed Finance's legal fight with a Canadian teenager who exploited the DeFi platform for $16M, which is raising several tricky legal questions

On Oct. 14, in a house near Leeds, England, Laurence Day was sitting down to a dinner of fish and chips on his couch when his phone buzzed.

We need a word for the period of time on someone's Twitter between when he is informed of an upcoming investigative story about him and publication https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-21 View on X
Insider

Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's allegation that Elon Musk exposed himself and offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016

Complications for the Twitter deal? Bill Chappell / NPR : Elon Musk denies a report accusing him of sexual misconduct on a SpaceX jet Abram Brown / Forbes : How The Sexual Miscondu...

2021-12-19
Very interesting story on Amazon's dealings in China. This jumped out at me: “the company asked Guo [Wengui] to take an action that exposed the dissident's...IP address, and AWS ‘provided to [Ministry of Public Security]’ this data, the document stated” https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-12-19 View on X
Reuters

How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more

Welcome to the 97th edition of Trade War.  —  As we near our 100th edition … Msmash / Slashdot : Amazon Partnered With China Propaganda Arm Tweets: Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neerajka : ...

2021-12-18
Very interesting story on Amazon's dealings in China. This jumped out at me: “the company asked Guo [Wengui] to take an action that exposed the dissident's...IP address, and AWS ‘provided to [Ministry of Public Security]’ this data, the document stated” https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-12-18 View on X
Reuters

How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more

Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago … Tweets: @neerajka , @aliceysu , @dhakatribune...

2021-03-31
I'm working on a project combining various substacks into a single distribution site, organized by topic headings with a “front page” curated by editors. May offer a print version https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-31 View on X
Axios

Spotify buys app developer Betty Labs, creator of Locker Room, a live social audio app where fans can talk about sports, which Spotify plans on expanding

one way or the other! 🤷‍♂️ genius move or peak bubble moment—what do you think? https://twitter.com/... Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein : I'm working on a project combining various sub...

2021-03-29
‘A recent nonexhaustive search turned up more than two dozen podcasts from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups, offering a buffet of slurs and conspiracy theories. None of the podcasts appeared on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-03-29 View on X
New York Times

A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find

2021-03-28
‘A recent nonexhaustive search turned up more than two dozen podcasts from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups, offering a buffet of slurs and conspiracy theories. None of the podcasts appeared on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-03-28 View on X
New York Times

A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find

The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium. Tweets: @uugwuu , @dabeard , @uugwuu , @repteddeutch , @j...

2021-03-25
So Ev's brilliant plan in 2020 was to copy the Forbes of 2010 https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-25 View on X
The Verge

Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue

Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform: President Joe Biden was being served porn.

2021-02-19
Fantastic story and thread on Oracle's business serving Chinese police. This strikes me as a misbegotten legacy of a time (a decade ago and more) when Western tech businesses were pretty openly hawking their wares to Chinese authorities https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-19 View on X
The Intercept

Docs: Oracle has been marketing its data analytics tools to Chinese police, touting its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases

2020-12-22
China's Secret War for U.S. Data Blew American Spies' Cover — some incredible details in this ⁦@zachsdorfman⁩ piece. One (non-OPM hack) point jumps out: China learning that CIA was paying the promotion fees of its CCP recruits https://foreignpolicy.com/...
2020-12-22 View on X
Foreign Policy

Interviews with 36+ current and former US officials describe China's strategy of analyzing vast quantities of stolen US personal data to identify CIA operatives

2020-12-20
Important story on China's methods of control and propaganda via the internet, down to paid commenters & snitches in local areas. Worth noting this system was built and refined over many years. Lessons from each crisis are absorbed. You don't flip a switch overnight to get this https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-20 View on X
ProPublica

Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @paulmozur , @justinhendrix , @c...

2020-11-28
Damning story about Coinbase: “One Black employee said her manager suggested in front of colleagues that she was dealing drugs and carrying a gun... Another said a co-worker at a recruiting meeting broadly described Black employees as less capable.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-11-28 View on X
New York Times

Twenty-three current and former Coinbase employees allege mistreatment and racial discrimination, as some say the cryptocurrency startup ignored complaints

whose CEO said “keep politics out of the workplace”—has a hostile and racist workplace. https://www.nytimes.com/... Wynter Mitchell Rohrbaugh / @wyntermitchell : Y'all gon learn th...

2020-10-13
Imagining a notification if you try to deny the Holocaust where FB apologizes for the inconvenience and helpfully provides a drop-down menu of other genocides you can safely deny https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Facebook says its new policy that bans the denial or distortion of the Holocaust does not apply to other genocides, such as the Armenian or Rwandan genocides

Facebook Inc. will ban posts that deny the Holocaust in a reversal of a long-held and controversial policy.

2020-08-21
Incredible. Figuring out in 2020 that you might want to check on viral phenomena on your platform. Of course there have never been financial incentives to put the brakes on, only moral ones https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-21 View on X
The Interface

Facebook says it's piloting an effort to closely watch posts that rapidly gain millions of views to ensure they don't violate community standards

Earlier this week, I wrote about how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks.

2020-07-22
TikTok desperate to find a way to assure Washington it won't be under the thumb of Beijing. Will be v tough but some sort of spinoff is a prerequisite https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-22 View on X
The Information

Sources: a small group of ByteDance's US investors are discussing the possibility of joining forces to buy a majority stake in TikTok

A small group of ByteDance's U.S. investors is discussing with the company's top management the possibility of joining forces to buy a majority stake in TikTok …