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eisvogel

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eisvogel··on Facebook’s disingenuous explanations call for more questions and even less trust
Right next door to a company where I was recently working was a successful startup whose entire business model consisted of using Facebook's commercial API for the analysis of the psychological profiles of its base product (the users), to detect potential terrorists. This outfit's only real customer is Australian law enforcement, and everyone who uses Facebook is attributed some non-zero terrorist score. I have told this to people who have continued to use Facebook. It's just crap and it can't die fast enough.
eisvogel··on A secret on the ocean floor
I like how the eco footprint is compared to a graphical depiction of Prominent Hill mine in SA. I used to code telemetry on site there.
eisvogel··on China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet
This is ass. It's time for a regime change.
eisvogel··on Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising
Oh look, in the second sentence of the second paragraph, the author of that article misused the word "word" for "world" (champion). The spell check didn't flag it. The grammar check probably didn't care either. Many people would read though that and not even see it, but interpret the intended semantic. I wonder if, when the Deep Mind team is building its learning-proof killswitch cage, they will accidentally mistype the name of some privilege guarding boolean. The compiler wouldn't flag it. The linker wouldn't care. The resulting executable would only have to be active for a few milliseconds, and humanity falls.
eisvogel··on The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
I think this would be strengthened considerably with the help of global networking. There are a lot of similar organisations worldwide that could be effectively merged with the right kind of social networking.
eisvogel··on How InnoDB lost its advantage
Why is there an apostrophe in "its"?
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