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Joined Apr 2022
I'm begging space sims to stop turning themselves into shooters
A galaxy of infinite possibilities reduced to men with guns.
https://www.pcgamer.com/im-begging-space-sims-to-stop-turning-themselves-into-shooters/
AI Inventing Its Own Culture, Passing It On to Humans, Sociologists Find
Algorithms could increasingly influence human culture, even though we don't have a good understanding of how they interact with us or each other.
An appeals court finds Florida's social media law unconstitutional
"A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment"
Crypto And NFT Conference Has To Make Special Adjustments To The Toilet Situation
"enough of the attendees are men that they had to make some last-minute changes to the women's toilets in order to make them men's."
Artifice and Intelligence
https://techpolicy.press/artifice-and-intelligence/
"Words matter.
Starting today, the Privacy Center will stop using the terms “artificial intelligence,” “AI,” and “machine learning” in our work to expose and mitigate the harms of digital technologies in the lives of individuals and communities."
NEW: We're suing Mark Zuckerberg for his role in Facebook’s misleading privacy practices and failure to protect millions of users’ data.
Our investigation shows extensive evidence that Zuckerberg was personally involved in failures that led to the Cambridge Analytica incident.
In Big Win, Settlement Ensures Clearview AI Complies With Groundbreaking Illinois Biometric Privacy Law
As Part of the Settlement In ACLU v. Clearview AI, the Company Is Now Permanently Banned, Nationwide, From Making Its Faceprint Database Available to Most Businesses and Other Private Actors.
Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots'
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/21/lonestar_moon_datacenter/
Celebrity-endorsed NFTs leave some investors ‘financially crippled’
With little regulation, some influencers are stepping in to call out their peers
Joby Aviation's CEO let workers live in tents and yurts on his Santa Cruz property. One former employee said it made the flying-car startup feel like a family, while another said it fed into a hustle culture of long hours.
APPLE SHIPPED ME A 79-POUND IPHONE REPAIR KIT TO FIX A 1.1-OUNCE BATTERY
I’m starting to think Apple doesn’t want us to repair them
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on
US Department of Justice will no longer prosecute 'good faith
"Good faith security research" will no longer be charged under the new policy revision
https://www.pcgamer.com/us-department-of-justice-will-no-longer-prosecute-good-faith-hackers/
Russia Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine as Hackers Target the Country
Vladimir Putin thinks a switch to 'domestic technology' is the solution.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/russia-gets-a-taste-of-its-own-medicine-as-hackers-target-the-country
We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines
The company buying Trump's social network Truth Social warned investors about his history of bankruptcy and failed business ventures
The company buying Trump's social network Truth Social warned investors about his past business failures.
In a filing Monday, Digital World noted the bankruptcy of Trump Taj Mahal and failure of Trump Vodka.
The blank-check firm is engineering a merger with TMTG, the company that owns Truth Social.
Home worker gets verbal warning for gaming on break despite switching to their own PC
How the heck did their boss find out?
Apple accused of union busting in its stores for the second time this week
The CWA has filed another complaint, this time in NYC
We Need to Take Back Our Privacy
In a post-Roe America, women will bear the costs of letting data collection undermine our liberty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opinion/privacy-technology-data.html
Blizzard facing potential class-action suit over Hearthstone card packs
The Hearthstone developer has already responded in court
https://www.polygon.com/23123218/hearthstone-card-packs-class-action-lawsuit-blizzard-entertainment
"Earlier this year, Hearthstone developer Blizzard Entertainment won its fight to keep its Overwatch loot box lawsuit out of court, forcing the matter intro arbitration. Months later, another parent — on behalf of a minor — is looking to sue the company, this time regarding Hearthstone card packs."
A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence.
“She accused Musk of exposing his erect penis to her, rubbing her leg without consent, and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage, according to interviews and documents obtained by Insider.”
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A raw, eclectic firehose of things the librarian has found beyond the library that you may also be interested in checking out.
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