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🔗 linkblog: Meta’s VR Headset Harvests Personal Data Right Off Your Face | WIRED'
I had not thought this much about the privacy implications of VR, and ooooof.
🔗 linkblog: Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn’t Put on Air'
Wild story, and heck of a scoop. Says far more about Tucker Carlson than about Ye.
🔗 linkblog: How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech | WIRED'
I hate that there’s a need for articles like this, but I’m glad WIRED is putting them together.
🔗 linkblog: Arizona GOP Secretary Of State Candidate Insists ‘Deep State’ Google Is Blocking His Website; Turns Out He Requested It Not Be Indexed | Techdirt'
Politicians need to better understand the internet. This is just as dumb (and perhaps more devious) than the nonsense the governor of Missouri was up to.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 “Don’t install spy on a privacy lab,” and other lessons for university provosts – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
There is so much of both horrible and hopeful in this story. The way we’re normalizing surveillance is really worrying, and I’m glad some people are fighting back.
🔗 linkblog: Who is ready for a fleet of cubesats flying over cities, displaying ads? | Ars Technica'
This is a terrible idea, and it is wildly irresponsible to do research like this.
🔗 linkblog: Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online - The New York Times'
I am growing more and more nervous about our future.
🔗 linkblog: When School Superintendents Market Surveillance Cameras'
Lot of worrying stuff in here. Edtech needs to take surveillance tech more seriously, because the two are increasingly simultaneous.
🔗 linkblog: A tradition ends: Paris says goodbye to iconic paper Metro tickets'
Love the paper tickets, and this makes me sad.
🔗 linkblog: In Washington, Putin’s Nuclear Threats Stir Growing Alarm - The New York Times'
Russia is currently demonstrating just how powerful and dangerous nuclear weapons are—and, unfortunately, how complicated disarmament is.
🔗 linkblog: Rand Paul declines to debate Charles Booker on KET – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
Unsurprising but disappointing.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Won’t Fix Iran Internet Censorship'
Good read on the emptiness of recent Musk bluster.
🔗 linkblog: Gab Founder Andrew Torba Wants to Build a Christian Nationalist Internet'
Good reporting on a scary but important subject. I’ve been collecting Gab blog posts to eventually study some of this Christian nationalism.
🔗 linkblog: How ‘Lord of the Rings’ Inspires Italy’s Giorgia Meloni - The New York Times'
Very interesting article on how Tolkien can inspire far right thinking.
🔗 linkblog: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/26/subreddit-discriminates-against-anyone-who-doesnt-call-texas-gov'
This is juvenile enough that I feel guilty finding it funny, but it’s a good demonstration of the problems with this backlash against content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out'
Ooof. AI-generated art is fun, but it comes at a price, and we can’t afford to forget it.
🔗 linkblog: Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It | WIRED'
This is a good response to Musk’s complaining about bots.
🔗 linkblog: Transgender religious leaders use the Bible to make churches more inclusive : NPR'
Lots to love in this article, but I especially appreciate the point that God and Creation resist binaries.
🔗 linkblog: The Most Famous Blunder Of Content Moderation: Do NOT Quote The Princess Bride | Techdirt'
Great movie, great example of the difficulty of content moderation.
🔗 linkblog: The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps | WIRED'
I had heard about this kind of software at a conference last year, but reading about it just makes it scarier.
🔗 linkblog: Asian American council candidate fights Communist rumors | Lexington Herald Leader'
What a dumb allegation. Just makes me want to vote for Wu even more.
🔗 linkblog: The Sad Clown Joke That Became a Beloved Meme | WIRED'
My optimism about internet culture has been waning for several years, but I still appreciate a deep-dive into how rich and complex a given meme can be.
🔗 linkblog: Too much trust in machine translation could have deadly consequences.'
This article provides good examples of how the efficacy and efficiency of a given technology is often less important than deeper questions of reliance and roles.