[nonostantement #190] - privacy / fast fashion / climate change
Now with MORE climate change videos!
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Ciao everyone, I'm Joele and this is an email I send to my friends every Sunday. Here I collect the best links I find during the week while I am online doing my job, which would be to be an online communication consultant. They told me I'm Italian but I live in Barcelona, Spain. Like, right now.
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#THEDARKSIDE
The smart toilet era is here! Are you ready to share your analprint with big tech?
Loo design has barely changed in 150 years – until now. Will people trade their privacy for the chance to find out exactly what is in their waste?The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine
Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.Google and Apple, Under Pressure From Russia, Remove Voting App
The app, created by allies of the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores, reflecting a new level of pressure against U.S. technology companies in the country.How TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors
”Using dozens of automated bots that were registered as users between the ages of 13 and 15, the publication found that TikTok provided the accounts with scores of videos promoting rape, drugs, and sexual fantasies, including some depicting caregivers and children.”The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
The Intelligence Community has deployed ad-blocking technology, according to a letter sent by Congress and shared with Motherboard."Nike and Amazon among brands advertising on Covid conspiracy sites
Household names may have unwittingly helped spread fake news, investigation reveals
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#PEOPLE
Survivorship bias
"Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to some false conclusions in several different ways. It is a form of selection bias.”FILE NOT FOUND
“I grew up when you had to have a file; you had to save it; you had to know where it was saved. There was no search function,” says Saavik Ford, a professor of astronomy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. But among her students, “There’s not a conception that there’s a place where files live. They just search for it and bring it up.”[Video] - “There’s a reason why privacy is in the Declaration of Human Rights”
[Video] - Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
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#ART
Auria Kathi
Auria Kathi is the first Artificially Intelligent poet-artist living completely in the cloud. Auria Kathi was created as a machine learning art project by Fabin Rasheed and Sleeba Paul in collaboration with Microsoft.
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