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Elon Musk offered to help Twitter engineers reinstate Donald Trump's account after they struggled with glitches, book says
"Engineers struggled to find the capacity to rebuild the account's social graph, a task requiring millions of pieces of data to be activated and updated, Zoë Schiffer wrote in "Extremely Hardcore."
#news #politics #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #tech #Twitter #USpolitics #data
Having fun exploring #wikidata: a breakdown of types of fediverse/Mastodon accounts, out of 3,739 accounts in total.
I thought the EU were supposed to be the competition experts? Amazon isn’t buying iRobot to crowd out other robot vacuum companies. It wants all the data its robots are collecting on people’s homes.
This is easy for Amazon to agree to so it can get the valuable data it’s after.
A growing collection of tools that let you explore your fediverse/Mastodon data:
- your top hashtags: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-hashtag-word-cloud-creator/
- your posting history: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/visualize-your-fediverse-export-data/
- your connections: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/explore-your-fediverse-connections/
- bonus: hashtags around the fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-explorer/
How artists are fighting back AI
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
> The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training #data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, #Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless...
#AI #Art #Artists #data #Nightshade #OpenAI #copyright #security
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/
#Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health #Data With #Meta
In Feb 2023, @themarkup published how Kroger collects its data... and it collects _and_ shares a lot. Reasons include selling shopper insights and - you guessed it - targeted advertising.
This lawsuit is on grounds that the Meta tracking pixel embedded on Kroger's websites violated the Electronic COmmunications #Privacy Act, HIPAA, and Ohio state privacy/health information disclosure laws.
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/11/27/kroger-sued-for-sharing-sensitive-health-data-with-meta
New article from me & @jesse in @RollingStone:
We Spied on Trump’s ‘Southern White House’ From Our Couches
(a preview of our forthcoming @themitpress book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA)
#data #privacy #surveillance #commodon #bookstodon @bookstodon @commodon @jkehoe
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen.
How Data Happened
A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world.
Expanding on the popular course they created at Columbia University, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones illuminate the ways in which data has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power.
Here are all of the rivers and waterways in the #Germany, coloured according to the major hydrological basins they are part of and scaled by their size. #Python #DataScience #Data #DataVisualization #Germany
PythonMaps #Rivers
https://www.pythonmaps.com/
A haunting collection of roughly 10,000 recordings of nuclear weapons tests from the 1940's - 1960's.
"The films are equal parts terrifying and fascinating."
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/nuclear-weapon-test-films
#data #dataset #video #AtomicBomb #NuclearPower #war #science
Visualize your fediverse export data: https://fediverse-export-analyzer.stefanbohacek.dev
Currently supports Mastodon, Firefish, Friendica, and Pixelfed data exports, with more to come!
I did not think twice about joining #Threads #Meta #Zuckerberg. This detailed article https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-the-internet-went-to-threads describes all the very good reasons you should not join either....as this a #tech #nightmare and a #socialmedia prison that #harvests your #data and crushes any privacy you may still have. How the Internet Went to #Threads. And how we can sew it back together.
