The tech industry's eternal cycle: Build fast, ignore safety, chase growth. T&S and privacy get relegated to "we'll deal with it later" because protecting vulnerable communities was never the priority. They weren't the "target audience." When their platforms get weaponized, when harassment turns systematic, when harm becomes irreversible - only then do they summon marginalized voices as free "advisors," shunning most of the feedback anyways because what could these communities possibly know?
The Biden-Harris administration's refusal to hold war criminals accountable by discrediting and undermining the ICC cements its complicity in genocide. History will not forget their role and rejection of international law and justice. #Palestine #Gaza #Biden #Harris #USA #Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes
"It is a daily struggle for survival under the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza. Families are surviving on scraps of bread and contaminated canned food, and my children dream of a simple chicken meal. In a land once full of life, only ashes remain." "I just want to wake up feeling safe to save what remains of my homeland. I don’t want my children to die of hunger" "We are in a daily battle for survival and on a very long journey of patience and suffering." #Palestine
Took a nap and dreamt that I was stuck in an elevator with a gleeful a16z exec. Still nauseous.
"Niantic, the company behind the extremely popular augmented reality mobile games Pokémon Go and Ingress, announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world" (and power robots) #AI
Despite attempts at reform, the Kafala system in Gulf countries is still custom-built to exploit workers:
It should matter that one of Bluesky's investors is Alumni Ventures, which also funded Outlogic (formerly known as X-Mode Social) - basically a data broker that collected and sold location data by tracking various mobile apps (including dating, music, weather, and Muslim prayer apps.) Among other controversies, Outlogic/X‑Mode had supplied location data to U.S. military contractors: #Bluesky #Privacy