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UK "gang lists"

lundi 14 mai 2018 à 02:00

UK "gang lists" label black men as potential gang members, based on handwaving.

Facebook

lundi 14 mai 2018 à 02:00

Facebook has made it so hard to turn off targeted ads and some of the surveillance that it's not much better than impossible.

I think it is incorrect to focus on the "monopoly" aspect. Facebook's size increases the harm it can do, but having a choice between ten such disservices would not make any of them acceptable.

There are some things that Facebook does that might be useful, but they need to be done separately so that some of them can be anonymous.

Biden

lundi 14 mai 2018 à 02:00

Biden shows he won't do anything that billionaires might complain about, which means, nothing that would really reduce inequality.

Iran deal

lundi 14 mai 2018 à 02:00

The Dishonest Case against the Iran Deal.

AI voice conversations

lundi 14 mai 2018 à 02:00

Google has developed an AI system that does voice conversations and successfully pretends to be human. However, fooling people in this way is mistreatment.

Its phone calls should state at the beginning, "This is a robot talking."