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Oracle founder Larry Ellison has pitched a new vision for AI-powered surveillance to an audience of investors and, um, @[email protected]’s @[email protected] is not a fan. “Ellison’s entire remarks are worth reading, because what he is pitching is a comprehensive surveillance apparatus that touches most parts of being in public,” he writes. “More importantly, every idea he is pitching currently exists in some form, and each has massive privacy, bias, legal, or societal issues that have prevented them from being the game-changing technology that somehow makes us all safer.” Read his full takedown here:
https://www.404media.co/larry-ellisons-ai-powered-surveillance-dystopia-is-already-here/
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San Francisco’s Chinatown is packed with art, but most of it is not made by AAPI artists because the commissioning process involved little or no outreach to them, and qualifying processes were complex and intimidating. “We were never part of that,” says Abby Chen, a curator at the Asian Art Museum. “We were never invited to begin with.” After decades of advocacy, the Arts Commission and the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is attempting to rectify that by opening up the applications process, as well as bringing more events and performances to Chinatown. Here’s more from @[email protected].
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/few-asian-american-artists-chinatown-tool-registry-could-change-that/
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Finally, how much do you know about money? @[email protected] has created a quiz “to test your knowledge of skyrocketing inflation rates, sketchy loan apps, and crypto-funded revolutions.” Give it a try here:
https://restofworld.org/2024/quiz-global-inflation-rates/
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The Computer History Museum has one sci-fi book, the Shockwave Rider(1975), about a dystopian future in which most people are (correctly) worried that powerful others can access their personal data and use it against them. It also introduced computer “worms” with “replicating tails” that were unkillable. When I read this in 1975, Iaughed a bit… until a few weeks later I saw one, Ken Thompson’s famed hack (Turing lecture).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider