av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 16, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
You might have heard that algorithms are in control of everything you hear, read, and see. They control the next song on your Spotify playlist, or what YouTube suggests you watch after you finish a video. Algorithms are perhaps why you can’t escape Sabrina Carpenter’s hit song “Espresso” or why you might have suddenly been struck by the desire to buy one of those pastel-colored Stanley cups. They dictate how TV shows are made and which books get published—a revolutionary paradigm shift that’s become fully entrenched in the arts and media, and isn’t going away anytime soon.
Källa: The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 9, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
AT AROUND 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had just been banned from Twitter.
His crime: posting a link to @Elonjets, an account on the competing social media service Mastodon that tracked the location of the private jet of Twitter’s new billionaire owner, Elon Musk—a link that Musk would later claim amounted to “doxing” despite the jet’s location info being publicly available.
Källa: He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 4, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
BLUESKY HAS SEEN massive growth in the weeks following the US election. As of Tuesday, there are 24 million users on the social media platform.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has to do a lot to keep her promise to not “enshittify” the platform with ads while still funding its explosive growth.
Wired (betalvägg)
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 28, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
Det finns starka skäl att bli misstänksam då regeringen prånglar ut en nyhet sent en fredag.
Inte minst när det handlar om att Säpo ska få avlyssna allt och alla vid nationella hot.
”Utkast till lagrådsremiss Datalagring och tillgång till elektronisk information”.
Måttligt upphetsande var rubriken på pressmeddelandet som Justitiedepartementet skickade ut i förra veckan.
Innehållet saknar dock inte dramatik: nya regler som ger staten betydligt större möjligheter till massövervakning.
Källa: Säpo får helt nya möjligheter till massövervakning
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 8, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
Brandon Fellows, 30, spent several years in jail on charges linked to the January 6 Capitol insurrection. He was gun shopping online when WIRED reached him by phone on Thursday.
Fellows is a felon, and under federal law he is prohibited from owning firearms. But he’s so confident that Donald Trump, after winning the 2024 election, will make good on his promises to pardon January 6 rioters that he’s considering purchasing anyways.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 2, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
“Make cats safe again” read the MAGA-style baseball caps perched on the heads of five AI-generated felines printed on a black T-shirt alongside a Trump 2024 banner. It’s yours for just $29.99 (10 percent off if you order three) from United Patriot, an online store that proclaims it is “not afraid to speak the truth!”
The T-shirt may seem innocuous enough. But its slogan references a racist lie, spread by US presidential candidate Donald Trump, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, had been eating local pets. The false claims have led to a wave of xenophobic abuse including bomb threats and vandalism against the local Haitian community.
Wired
