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Many of you will already have seen @ProPublica’s phenomenal reporting on the shocking case of a Georgia woman who died after she was afraid to seek abortion care as a result of her state’s restrictive laws, but #ICYMI, here’s the link.
https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison has pitched a new vision for AI-powered surveillance to an audience of investors and, um, @404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler 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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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