DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare@octodon.social
A data knight, far too aware of the dark side.
The algorithmic is political. ('is' as in A⊆P)
Joined Apr 2017
DataKnightmare
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Poi c'è una cosa che è venuta maturando negli anni in Internet: una crescente giustificazione delle intrusioni da parte delle aziende nella vita degli utenti, riassunta nell'idea del "che mi importa? Tanto non ho niente da nascondere."
E invece no. Proprio perché non ho niente da nascondere nessuno ha diritto di intromettersi nella mia vita.
Se avessi fatto qualcosa sarebbe la polizia ad indagare, non G. FB. Tw. o chissà chi. E visto che non ho fatto niente, dei privati cosa vogliono da me?
@rosjackson
I'm a great fan of active countermeasures, but I think a social issue won't be solved by individual action.
Makeup may even serve as an additional parameter for discrimination as well as incentive for tech improvement.
Given the shitty state of data shmience, I submit all "research papers" be mamdatorily accompanied by a fully replicatable methodology annex, incl. a copy of the dataset.
The annex being favourably reviewed is a precondition to reviewing the paper.
Anything less, we're fooling ourselves.
Some idiot had to get there sooner or later.
That this was ever allowed to happen is a mistake we will live long enough to die regretting the shitty world we are leaving our children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
I'm a European Terminally sick to need enchantments every effing time I need to type diacritics or even a simple backtick in Windows.
That that lame excuse for an OS ever found a market speaks volumes on our culture and what passes for IT
@nitot
Took me a while to understand it was a parody.
"Votre beau-frère vs. La consensus scientifique" is sublime
Buon ascolto!
DK 4x18 - Certificazioni GDPR http://www.spreaker.com/user/runtime/dk-4x18
Oh yeah!
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming | MIT | Artificial Intelligence Podcast
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming https://lexfridman.com/donald-knuth/
DataKnightmare
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Here's a take: Media designed to manipulate people is unsuitable for children who might be more susceptible to that sort of thing. As such, all advertisements are unsuitable for children and should not be shown in public.
DataKnightmare
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New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking the law
https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising-industry-is-systematically-breaking-the-law/
(submitted by robin_reala)
DataKnightmare
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"In May, Nils Melzer, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on torture, condemned the “deliberate, concerted and sustained nature of the abuse inflicted on Mr Assange”.
“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution, I have never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law.""
DataKnightmare
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anno nuovo, episodio nuovo: "Violazioni privacy: chi paga?"
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21465953
@sifr
One couldn't hope as much if one paid for it. No, wait...
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Modern data tracking is a big risk for democracy, if only because 'they' know exactly who joined the protest.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html
@sifr
What a curious and surely undesired, er..., malfunction
DataKnightmare
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apparently the hashtag 'dantealighieri' on Facebook in English posts gets translated in Italian to a pro-Salvini hashtag (Salvini is the leader of a racist right-wing party)
@mcpaccard
This is absolutely fantastic!
@clawfire @thomas
DataKnightmare
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'The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade'
by Audrey Watters
https://hackeducation.com/2019/12/31/what-a-shitshow
@laetsgo How are you? Well settled in the new job, I guess? I hope you are having fabulous holidays with all your dears, and relaxing ones too. I'm taking the last available chance to send you my best wishes, I hope the new year and the new decade bring you all you desire. Also, I will be back, enough with silence.
Be well, my friend. Ave atque vale. W
A data knight, far too aware of the dark side.
The algorithmic is political. ('is' as in A⊆P)
Joined Apr 2017
