Roger McNamee @Moonalice Twitter profile

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Roger McNamee

@Moonalice

4 years

Big day for #StopHate4Profit : Unilever, Honda, Coca-Cola, and Hershey’s joined the “pause.” Does it matter? Investors think so. FB lost ~$55.8 billion in value today, costing Zuck ~$15.75 billion. Amplifying hate for profit is no longer acceptable.

Stop Hate for Profit

Tech companies are not doing enough to fight hate on their digital social platforms. They must Stop Hate for Profit. Join the fight.

www.stophateforprofit.org

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One of the core attractions of algorithms is that they allow the powerful to blame a black box for politically unattractive outcomes for which they would otherwise be responsible (e.g., predictive policing, mortgage redlining, biased hiring).

Dan Diamond

@ddiamond

4 years

Facing angry doctors, Stanford official tries to explain why vaccine went to others instead. The algorithm “clearly didn’t work,” he says, as doctors boo + accuse him of lying. “Algorithms suck!” shouts one protester. “Fuck the algorithm,” says another. (video via tipster)

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This got buried in the crush of news yesterday. FB abandoned drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluids under sea floor in OR. Is this not a perfect metaphor? Move fast, break things, leave behind toxic waste, hope no one notices.

Kale Williams

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Facebook was drilling under the Oregon coast to connect a high-speed cable to Asia earlier this year when an accident left drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid stranded beneath the seafloor. The company has no plans to retrieve it.

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Dear @WhitMerrifield , As an insane @Phillies fan, I want to thank you. You are one of the classiest people in MLB. Your assist from LF on Wednesday was one of the greatest I have ever seen. I was excited when we signed you and sad that it did not work out. I wish you the best.

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Until today, I was a subscriber to the @PhillyInquirer for the @Phillies coverage and @Will_Bunch . As of today, I am a subscriber because I believe in democracy and the Inquirer does, too. Read and subscribe. It is a fantastic newspaper.

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Board

Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

www.inquirer.com

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@Moonalice

3 months

Really great engineers don’t make wasteful, underwhelming products like generative AI; they design chips and systems that work in space for 46 years before failing … and can still be fixed when they are 15 BILLION miles away.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗

@CharlesCMann

3 months

Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online.

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Facebook waited until after it undermined democracy in the US, UK, and Brazil, undermined US pandemic response, converted a couple million Americans to QAnon, empowered white supremacy, and robbed every user of privacy before initiating a “test” it should have done in 2016.

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I wrote a limerick about today’s news … There once was a hacker named Zuck Who screwed half the world for a buck People hoped he’d do betta So the name changed to Meta But the name and the product still suck

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@Moonalice

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🧵 Today I was on @SquawkStreet on @CNBC to talk about the bubble in AI stocks. @GoldmanSachs put out a report warning capex for AI was way too high, given lack of high value use cases. Goldman is right on, but does not address other crippling issues facing AI. Thread. 1/15

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"America loves financial manias," @Moonalice discusses whether the markets can sustain the tech stocks driving its record highs with @davidfaber , @carlquintanilla & @saraeisen .

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2 years

An exceptionally valuable op-ed on stroke recovery from Dr. @JillBolteTaylor , a brain researcher who suffered from a major stroke and then recovered completely, as many people do.

Opinion | What Everyone Should Know About the Brain’s Ability to Heal (Published 2022)

What society can learn from John Fetterman’s stroke.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

Brilliant!

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@Moonalice

3 years

I stand with @carolecadwalla and hope you will join me. Please retweet.

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

3 years

I have been through a trauma. And I need to speak publicly about it. About why this lawsuit sent me to such a dark place. And why the pursuit of individuals outside their news orgs is barbaric, cruel & a threat to all journalism This is where it began. Nov 2017 with this video

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This speech last night by Leader @RepJeffries will be remembered as one of the finest ever delivered from the floor of the House. The fact that he delivered it at two in the morning — seemingly without notes — makes it even more remarkable. Must see.

New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries Delivers Speech After McCarthy's Election as Speaker of the House

New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries delivers a speech after McCarthy's election as Speaker of the House. Jeffries mentions the historic stint of "Speaker Emeritus" Nancy Pelosi, the achieveme…

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4 years

After the market closed, @LEVIS and @Dockers joined #StopHateForProfit . More than 100 brands have joined the campaign to force FB to stop amplifying hate.

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6 months

This is insane: power needs of AI are so big coal fired plants are being kept open. AI should be forced to prove that its benefits justify the environmental harms, copyright violations, abuse of personal privacy, and operating costs. It’s a long shot.

AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Sticking Around

Power companies are scrambling to satisfy the needs of data centers and new factories in a country where the grid is already strained.

www.bloomberg.com

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2 months

Reminder: lying is second nature to tech executives. If you always assume they are lying, you will be right far more often than you are wrong.

Jeremy Kahn

@jeremyakahn

2 months

Exclusive: OpenAI publicly committed to give 20% of its computing resources to a team dedicated to controlling the most dangerous kind of AI. It never delivered, and, in fact, repeatedly denied that team's requests for resources, sources say.

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When faced with important choices, Meta unfailingly chooses the one most likely to create the most harm to the largest number of people.

The Associated Press

@AP

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Facebook lifts restrictions on Trump, giving him equal footing with Biden on the social media site

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Better late than never! @AdrienneLaF @TheAtlantic finally writes the essay every tech journalist should have written since 1/6/21. Tech industry has become a cult, aided by journalists and politicians, with values hostile to the public interest.

The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

www.theatlantic.com

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@Moonalice

4 years

Every time I think we have seen the limit of FB’s bad behavior, another day begins and we discover some new horror. Throttling @MotherJones ? WTF is wrong with these people?

Clara Jeffery

@ClaraJeffery

4 years

1/ I am enraged. Excellent reporting from WSJ's @dseetharaman and @EmilyGlazer finds that Facebook engineers—with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR

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3 years

This story is soul crushing. I have spent five years criticizing FB policies without criticizing the people. This @washingtonpost story by the incredible @lizzadwoskin makes it clear that some FB executives are really bad people.

Elizabeth Dwoskin

@lizzadwoskin

3 years

EXCLUSIVE: FB knew its hate speech algorithms disproportionately harmed Blacks and other minorities - but kept that info from its own civil rights auditor, new docs show. At one point 90% of autodeletions were comments attacking whites and men.

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“70% of the top 100 most active US Civic Groups are considered non-recommendable for issues such as hate, misinfo, bullying and harassment,” the presentation concluded. “Our existing integrity systems,” they wrote, “aren’t addressing these issues.”

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@Moonalice

4 years

Could it be a coincidence that @reddit banned some white supremacist subreddits today? Not a chance. The success of #StopHateForProfit demonstrates that platforms can no longer permit, much less amplify hate.

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@Moonalice

4 years

After 2016, FB de-emphasized traditional journalism in favor of family and FB Groups. FB’s own research says that 64% of joins to extremist FB Groups result from FB recommendations. There are now MILLIONS of people in FB Groups devoted to QAnon.

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show

The preliminary results of an investigation by Facebook shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on the platform.

www.nbcnews.com

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@Moonalice

1 month

“Your AI girlfriend is a data harvesting horror show.” If this surprises you, I am sorry, but you have not been paying attention. EVERY new tech platform is a data harvesting horror show. It will go on until we force Congress and states to defend us.

Carissa Véliz

@CarissaVeliz

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“Although they are marketed as something that will enhance your mental health and well-being, they specialize in delivering dependency, loneliness, and toxicity, all while prying as much data as possible from you.” #AIEthics #privacy

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@Moonalice

3 years

Phone numbers and other personal data for HALF A BILLION Facebook users have been posted online. Happy Saturday.

Real Facebook Oversight Board

@FBoversight

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“533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online” @BusinessInsider

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@Moonalice

2 years

If you click on one link today, let it be this one. Caitlin Flanagan’s post mortem on Sheryl Sandberg is brilliant. I am not kidding. Read this thing.

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@Moonalice

3 years

What we should be talking about: (1) FB mgt foreknowledge of role in StopTheSteal and insurrection, (2) deaths due to amplification of Covid disinformation, (3) radicalization of approx 2 mm into QAnon, (4) possible felony prosecution of TX price fixing case (prison for execs?)

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@Moonalice

2 years

As far as I can tell, journalists are not covering this case. Incredibly, FB’s strategy of distracting journalists with the metaverse has worked. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a million times …”

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

2 years

Listening now, man the judge is angry at Facebook. Asks plaintiffs to call for sanctioning them over their bad behavior in discovery. Also calls for the lawyers to also be sanctioned. Wow.

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@ednewtonrex Isn’t the implication of Suleyman's argument that everything Microsoft puts on the web, including apps, games, and services, can be taken by anyone under fair use? Presumably this would extend to everything hacked from MSFT and offered on the dark web. @ednewtonrex

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3 years

FB seems to think its best defense for allowing personal information on 533 million to wind up on the internet is that it did not know which users it was obligated to inform. Faced w/ choice of informing all or none, it chose none.

Facebook will not notify more than 530m users exposed in 2019 breach

Company spokesperson said Facebook was not confident it had full visibility on which users would need to be alerted

www.theguardian.com

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@Moonalice

4 years

#StopHateForProfit is catching on. Major ad agency recommends that clients pause their business with FB.

WSJ News Exclusive | Ad Agency Encourages Clients to Join Facebook Ad Boycott

A prominent advertising agency is advising clients to support an ad boycott against Facebook that was recently called for by civil-rights groups, a move that comes amid growing tensions between...

www.wsj.com

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@Moonalice

7 months

Thank you, @ratemyskyperoom ! Thank you, @Yosquirt (whose incredible painting grace’s the back wall), and thank you @gretsch and @MartinGuitar for the instruments I play.

Room Rater

@ratemyskyperoom

7 months

The 2023 Room Rater Award for Top Art/Music Room goes to @Moonalice

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4 years

I wrote an op-ed for the @washingtonpost arguing that we cannot restore democracy unless we are willing to store fairness in the economy. Monopoly is economic authoritarianism. @FBoversight

Opinion | Biden wants to restore democracy. He won’t be able to without fixing capitalism.

We've let our antitrust laws wither. The result is autocracy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@Moonalice

4 months

. @MLB John Fisher is making a mockery of the game. No owner should be allowed to do what he has done since he acquired the A’s. He has no respect for the game or for the incredible fans in Oakland. Fans and cities are the foundation of the game and you need respect them.

Justice For Oakland Fans

@jvb43

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Looks like we’re running with #WristbandGate being real!

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. @linakhanFTC is my hero. We have not had a federal official do so much to protect consumers in generations.

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@linakhanFTC

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1. @FTC has taken action against Adobe and two executives for pushing people into subscriptions and then making it absurdly hard to cancel. Adobe ambushed users with hefty "early termination fees" and threw up obstacles when people tried to cancel.

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4 years

Support for #StopHateForProfit is growing!! Please tweet your support! Learn more at stophateforprofit (dot) org

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@Moonalice

2 years

On @MSNBC ‘s Last Word, I characterized Elon Musk’s actions at Twitter as an assault on journalism & democracy. Politicians/media companies must defend journalists and democracy. NBC’s suspension of @oneunderscore__ is totally unacceptable.

McNamee: Musk Twitter suspensions a 'direct attack' on journalism & democracy

Roger McNamee, a longtime Silicon Valley investor and author of "Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe," joins MSNBC's Ali Velshi to discuss the controversial decision by Twitter to suspend...

www.msnbc.com

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@Moonalice

4 years

Nearly one in five people arrested for the insurrection is a veteran. (Only 7% of the population has served.) This scares the hell out of me.

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@Moonalice

4 years

Surveillance capitalism meets private equity. We are doomed. h/t @JanetMaslin

Blackstone to acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion

Blackstone Group Inc said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion (3.5 billion pounds), including debt, placing a big bet on...

www.reuters.com

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@Moonalice

2 months

I cannot believe Bill Walton is gone. “Larger than life” is a phrase that could have been created to describe Bill. He was thoughtful, generous, and unfailingly optimistic. He had millions of fans and just as many friends. Fare thee well, dear friend.

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4 years

Look at what is happening in India. FB is like a black hole ... it undermines any society that comes close to it. The harm is not inevitable, but to end it we have to consider remedies that would ordinarily be viewed as extreme. Democracy is worth saving.

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FB says breakup would be a “complete nonstarter” ... as if theirs is the only view that matters. A breakup alone will not eliminate threat FB poses to democracy, public health, privacy, innovation, but it would be a fine place to start. h/t: @hoofnagle

Facebook Says Government Breakup of Instagram, WhatsApp Would Be ‘Complete Nonstarter’

A government effort to break up Facebook Inc. from Instagram and WhatsApp would defy established law, cost billions of dollars and harm consumers, according to a paper company lawyers have prepared.

www.wsj.com

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@Moonalice

4 years

Join the pause! First step: tweet your support #StopHateForProfit . Then pause your FB in July.

Facebook faces advertiser revolt over failure to address hate speech

The North Face, REI and other brands pause advertising on the platform in ‘Stop Hate for Profit’ campaign

www.theguardian.com

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@Moonalice

2 years

Daily reminder: Ukraine is the little guy, fighting a people’s war against a belligerent tyrant. This is not about NATO. This is about an unprovoked attack by a Goliath against a David. There is no middle ground here. @TimothyDSnyder

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11 months

This is your periodic reminder that @SenSchumer has one daughter at Meta and another at Amazon. He has unfailingly supported Big Tech, preventing all potential regulatory bills from getting a floor vote.

Techmeme

@Techmeme

11 months

Sources: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and others are expected to attend Sen. Schumer's closed-door AI forum on Sept. 13 (Axios)

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. @MLB wants the A’s to move to Las Vegas, and possibly play outdoors. Today it was 120 degrees in Vegas. For 3 years they are supposed to play outdoors in Sacramento, where temperatures are above 105 and where they will play on artificial turf. @MLBPA : stop this! #SellTheTeam

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All-time record shattered today in Las Vegas, beating the former record by 3 degrees F. Records that once seemed impossible, made possible - if not likely - by climate heating. As I say, with climate change expect the unexpected.

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4 years

Excellent piece in @WIRED by @wiczipedia and Cindy Otis on the harm caused by private Groups on FB. They are vectors for toxic disinformation ... and FB recommendations drive their membership.

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2 years

I am happy to report that I have now blocked 2,000 advertisers since the bird app went private. It is therapeutic.

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“It’s unbelievable,” she said. “These are among the richest Zip Codes in the world, but there’s no infrastructure—no street lights, no sidewalks, no real public transport investment—and so many people are homeless.” @MarietjeSchaake profile in @NewYorker

What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?

When the Dutch politician Marietje Schaake arrived in Silicon Valley, she realized just how bizarre American thinking about the industry had become.

www.newyorker.com

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4 years

FB’s disregard regard for the public interest takes my breath away. I cannot understand how anyone or any company can be so reckless.

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4 years

The people behind Prop 22 (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Doordash) have spent $203 million to ensure that drivers remain no better off than sharecroppers. This is a morally bankrupt industry and a morally bankrupt ballot proposition.

Levi Sumagaysay

@levisu

4 years

#Prop22 campaign financing update: DoorDash just contributed another $3.75M, bringing total on Yes side to $203,256,655.95, according to yet another Excel spreadsheet I just downloaded from the CA SOS website.

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Kudos to @business for covering this story. It has been building for a year, with fireworks galore, and until now there has been no press coverage from major outlets. FB may need to go full crypto now to change the subject.

Zuckerberg, Sandberg to Be Questioned in Facebook Privacy Suit

www.bloomberg.com

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@Moonalice

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We know: - LLMs require insane amounts of water and electrical power - They depend on theft of copyrighted content and personal data expropriated from cloud services We suspect: - Valuable use cases are few Now: - We learn they can be hacked. Still we do nothing.

Ben Nassi

@ben_nassi

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TLDR; we created a worm for GenAI applications and demonstrated it against Gemini and ChatGPT powered applications. by: Stav Cohen, Ron Bitton, @ben_nassi Here is the story on @WIRED

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FB algorithm found to actively promote holocaust denial.

Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial

Similar content is also readily accessible across Twitter, YouTube and Reddit, says UK-based counter-extremist group

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

I was lucky enough to be on @MSNBC this morning with the incredible @AliVelshi and my hero, @BrandyZadrozny , to talk about how disinformation amplified by FB, YT, G, Insta, T has broken our democracy and public health.

Roger McNamee on disinformation’s spread: Everyone is ‘isolated in their own Truman Show’

Since the election, conspiracy theorists and congressional enablers have pushed baseless lies in order to subvert democracy. ‘Zucked’ author and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee and NBC News...

www.msnbc.com

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Please join @ColorOfChange , @NAACP , @ADL , @CommonSense , @slpng_giants in a pause of FB in July.

Civil rights organizations want advertisers to dump Facebook

The NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and others say they are sick of waiting for changes.

www.vox.com

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@Moonalice

3 months

The energy and water requirements of generative AI are a clue that the architecture is a problem.

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@bcmerchant

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"AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources... by 2030, the world’s data centers are on course to use more electricity than India"

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The mania for AI is causing company after company to make sneaky changes to terms of service to enable behaviors that undermine the rights of key stakeholders. This time, the story relates to Spotify and audiobooks.

Rick the rabble-rousing Luddite, 🚫AI

@dreamosaurus

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Spotify just quietly changed its terms and conditions for audiobooks and AI narration, giving them rights to make derivative works. This company needs to be burned to the ground.

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. @TIME asked me to write about Sheryl Sandberg’s decision to step down as chief operating officer of Meta. I believe Sheryl will be remembered most for choosing to maximize profit over democracy, public health, and users’ right to self-determination.

Sheryl Sandberg Made Facebook Into a Giant—But At a Cost to the World

For shareholders, Sandberg was a superstar. Unfortunately, that wealth came at great cost to our society, writes Roger McNamee.

time.com

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@Moonalice

4 years

#StopHateForProfit is on a roll! Denny's, Patreon, Adidas, Clorox, HP, Puma, and Ford joined the movement today. You can join, too! Sign up at

Stop Hate for Profit

Tech companies are not doing enough to fight hate on their digital social platforms. They must Stop Hate for Profit. Join the fight.

www.stophateforprofit.org

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@Moonalice

9 months

This framing by @doctorow is brilliant: the choice we have is between regulation by governments that we can influence or regulation by corporations over which we have no power. Pick your poison.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

9 months

The same is true for Google/Facebook, who decide which news and views you see; for Apple/Google, who decide which apps you can use, and so on. The choice is never "government regulation" or "no regulation" - it's always "government regulation" or "corporate regulation." 41/

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This article — on the right’s invention of and obsession with a threat that does not exist — is a case study about the danger of algorithmic amplification on platforms like FB.

How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US

Rumors of roving bands of Antifa have followed small protests all over the United States. Why are people so ready to believe them?

www.buzzfeednews.com

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4 years

I was on @cnni early this morning to talk about #StopHateForProfit . That was before @unileverusa and @Honda signed up. Thank you to @NAACP , @ColorOfChange , @ADL , @CommonSense , @rashadrobinson .

Julia Chatterley

@jchatterleyCNN

4 years

"The hate speech is there because it maximizes engagement," says @Moonalice , an early Zuckerberg advisor. #Facebook has built the world's best ad platform on some pretty unsavory algorithms & that holds regulatory risks not yet priced. $FB

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This is really important. Class action lawsuit in CA challenges OpenAI appropriation of consumer data w/o permission to train Chat GPT. h/t: @bcmerchant

ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data

A California law firm is suing OpenAI for violating the privacy and property rights of countless people when it used their internet data to train its AI tech.

www.washingtonpost.com

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1 year

Excellent piece citing many of the most thoughtful people on AI. My distillation: generative AI is a con, like crypto and the metaverse. Threats of extinction are a marketing ploy, designed to distract from the massive real world harms of “AI” products today. AI = automation.

Matteo Wong

@matteo_wong

1 year

The AI 'extinction' statement is misdirection, and Big Tech's sudden AI regulation tour is a charade—we've known their products cause real harm for years. I talk to @safiyanoble , @emilymbender , @mer__edith , @rajiinio , @FoxCahn for @TheAtlantic :

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The energy and water consumed by AI are putting unsustainable pressure on the power grid and clean water supplies. Four high value uses have emerged for generative AI — deepfake porn, disinformation, spam, and plagiarism — and everything is a claim with limited or no evidence.

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. @latimes writer calls for breaking up FB. Love that idea, but it should come after reform of CDA230 to change incentives and regulation of business model. Break up alone will not reduce harms.

Column: Mark Zuckerberg just made the case for breaking up Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg's cluelessness shows how socially dangerous Facebook has become.

www.latimes.com

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@profgalloway @tristanharris I see the problem differently. To protect Americans, ban surveillance capitalism. So long as China can buy data sets on every American from data brokers (e.g., Oracle) and target every American on G, YT, FB, Insta, Snap, and T, attacking TikTok is at best an incomplete solution.

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Serious question: is there any point at which this country will bring a hammer down on FB? The company has undermined democracy, privacy, competition, and now, public health. Are we going to let them destroy everything?

Opinion | ‘But I Saw It on Facebook’: Hoaxes Are Making Doctors’ Jobs Harder (Published 2020)

Without the support of social platforms, our efforts to stamp out viral misinformation feel futile.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

My latest in @TIME : if Musk’s acquisition of Twitter threatens democracy, it is because democracy is already dangling by a thread. Politicians, press, voters have failed to force tech reform despite insurrection, covid disinfo, and a zillion other things.

Twitter Is Brilliant. The Damage It's Done Is Undeniable

Elon Musk's likely acquisition of Twitter shows how broken the company's business model has become—and how social media is harmful to democracy, writes Roger McNamee.

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@Moonalice

4 years

Thank you, @karaswisher . You make a compelling case for #StopHateForProfit and for rethinking our relationship with FB and Google. Like chemical companies before Clean Air Act, internet platforms dump toxic waste into society without paying for damage they create. This must stop.

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Thank you @CraigSilverman and @RMac18 for exposing role of Mark Zuckerberg and Joel Kaplan in bending, suspending FB rules to favor right wing voices. Damage to public health and democracy has been catastrophic.

“Mark Changed The Rules”: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures

Facebook’s rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and his policy team leader.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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@Moonalice

2 months

Given that Microsoft has not been able to prevent massive hacks of its servers, this product — which will record everything you do on a Windows PC — qualifies as criminally insane.

Tsarathustra

@tsarnick

2 months

Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots

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I love this! @bryceharper3 talks about the beauty of people in English pubs having conversations with no phones, totally disconnected. I would love to help him take this message global. With like Bryce on our side, we have a chance against Big Tech.

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@Moonalice

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There are few things more certain about the coming US election than that Big Tech’s products will be used to undermine democracy.

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: Executives from Google, Meta and other tech giants sign a new voluntary pact for how they'll respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters.

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I am devastated by the passing of Bill Walton. I will never meet a more generous or finer human being. To say that he will be missed is a gross understatement. Sending love to Lori and the family. RIP, good sir.

Hall of Famer Bill Walton, 2-time champ at UCLA and in NBA, dies

Bill Walton, who won two NCAA titles with UCLA and two NBA championships during a Hall of Fame career, died Monday at age 71 after a prolonged battle with cancer.

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@Moonalice

4 years

The more you know, the worse it looks: Facebook and Trump.

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@Moonalice

9 months

.⁦⁦ @linusalf ⁩ has brought the A’s Forever spirit to the NLCS in Phoenix. #SellTheTeam ⁦ @Oakland68s ⁩ ⁦ @AsHotDog ⁩

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I’m shocked! (Not.) It turns out that the “down ranking” tool that touted as an antidote to harmful content has actually been amplifying harmful content for six months. It is remarkable how often things like this happen at FB.

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When faced with a moral choice, Meta always does whatever is guaranteed to produce the most harm. The so called “oversight board” has always been transparent BS. Any journalist or academic that ever took it seriously should be embarrassed.

Real Facebook Oversight Board

@FBoversight

11 months

🚨New: Meta rejects its Oversight Board’s recommendation to suspend the account of former Cambodian PM Hun Sen after he used his accounts to incite violence. Once again Facebook renders its Oversight Board meaningless as the recommendation was non-binding

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An outstanding essay by @EvanSelinger about how FB may be able to normalize the wearing of sunglasses w/ a built in surveillance camera. Nothing good can come from this. We need something like an FDA for tech to keep bad ideas out of the market.

Please don’t wear a computer on your face - The Boston Globe

Google Glass crashed and burned, but be forewarned: Smart glasses are coming back.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Chat GPT is optimized to fool users into believing it is human. It does not do this by being smart. It does it by imitating the most convincing language in its training set and then filling in the details with both facts and lies.

Carissa Véliz

@CarissaVeliz

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"Not only could the majority of participants not tell the real tweets from the ones generated by AI, but they generally found the AI's tweets more convincing." #AIEthics #LLMs

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No one has less credibility than Schmidt. He has been exactly saying this for 20 years, as his co & Big Tech undermined pub. health, democracy, and pub. safety. AI is not complicated. Training sets scraped from web are dangerous. Ad monetization will increase harm. Regulate now.

Alex Thompson

@AlexThomp

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Eric Schmidt,an active player in how Biden admin handles AI, says companies shud be regulating themselves rather than the govt. “There’s no way a non-industry person can understand what’s possible….theirs no one in the government who can get it right”

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FB’s stock finally crashed, drive by three things: competition (TikTok), loss of access to data (Apple ATT), and huge spending on virtual reality. Hard to see any of these issues going away soon. I went on @CNBC @SquawkStreet to talk about it.

The real issue for Meta is that young people want the functionality of TikTok, says Roger McNamee

Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss Meta's quarterly earnings results, competition with Facebook's users and how data privacy could affect the...

www.cnbc.com

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@Moonalice

2 years

Fining Google $60 million for illegal data collection is not a deterrent. It is an acceptable cost of a dangerous business model.

Brendan Tierney

@brendantierney

2 years

Google fined $60 million over #Android location data collection #DigitalEthics

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The sociopathy that runs through the tech industry developed over a decade, beginning around 2009. It required the assent and participation of many organizations, but Y Combinator deserves special credit for treating sociopathic CEOs as a feature, rather than a bug.

BuccoCapital Bloke

@buccocapital

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Paul Graham wrote an essay in 2010 about how the best founders are naughty because they break the rules Then he has an interesting anecdote about Sam Altman... Interesting lens through which to view why OpenAI keeps showing up in the news for doing obviously bad things

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Can we talk about FB policy chief Joel Kaplan? Time after time, he steers FB policies to favor one political party and politician over democracy.

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This is a perfect example of our broken patent/copyright system. Clearview AI, whose facial recognition is based on stolen images and flawed technology that violates the civil rights of essentially everyone, is about to receives a patent.

Clearview AI on track to win U.S. patent for facial recognition technology

The government is moving to award a lucrative patent for a “search engine for faces,” a technology that has members of Congress and privacy advocates up in arms.

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@Moonalice

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Three reminders: 1. The architecture of generative AI may be the most inefficient one in tech ever to be rolled out on a mass scale 2. Every positive thing you have been told about generative AI is a lie 3. Every word spoken by management at OpenAI is a lie Have a nice day.

Hayden Field

@haydenfield

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Just received this statement from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the Scarlett Johansson voice controversy.

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No one has covered FB’s legal cases better than @jason_kint . Journalists are seemingly unaware that this case is even happening, which is too bad, as the judge has had it with FB’s obstruction. There appears to be no wiggle room for FB. Fireworks are coming.

Jason Kint

@jason_kint

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ok, it's started. if you're interested in Facebook accountability, you don't want to miss this. Judge already just told the plaintiffs to "file a motion for sanctions" because "Facebook's discovery conduct has been sanctionable." More coming... /1

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. @IfeomaOzoma worked at Google, FB, and Pinterest. She left Pinterest as a whistleblower, speaking out against gendered and race-related salary and opportunity differences. She shepherded CA’s Silenced No More Act into law and wrote a handbook. Hero.

A Tech Whistle-Blower Helps Others Speak Out (Published 2021)

Ifeoma Ozoma, who accused Pinterest of discrimination, has become a key figure in helping tech employees disclose, and fight, mistreatment at work.

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Monopoly is authoritarian. When it becomes pervasive in an economy, it drives politics towards authoritarianism. We have just experienced this. AG Garland may not appreciate how important it is to break up concentrated economic power to protect US from authoritarians.

David Dayen

@ddayen

4 years

Scoop from @ryangrim and me that AG nominee Merrick Garland wants his former colleague Susan Davies installed as head of the antitrust division. In addition to working with Garland, Davies had a more recent job: with Facebook.

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Pro tip: when FB fails to stop disinformation — as appears to be the case in Brazil’s election — most likely explanation is that it does not want to stop it. Hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories boost engagement, which increases profits.

Facebook fails to catch blatant election misinformation in Brazil, report finds

Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material...

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The breathtaking thing about Silicon Valley today is that it runs experiments like this one — possibly demonstrating that an AI armed with personal data is more effective at persuasion than a human — without ever considering the massive asymmetry of harm relative to benefit.

Manoel

@manoelribeiro

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🚨LLMs outdebate humans when given access to opponents' personal Information!🚨 In a pre-reg study (N=820), participants who debated ChatGPT had 81.7% (p<0.01) higher odds of agreeing with their opponents after the debate (compared to a human baseline) 📜

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This morning I was on @MSNBC with @AliVelshi on his show @AliVelshi to talk about Elon Musk and Twitter. You cannot fix Twitter without forcing big changes to the business model. At Twitter’s scale the incentives of that model make moderation a bad joke.

Ali Velshi

@AliVelshi

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The only way to force change at Twitter is to change the business model that rewards negative content, says @Moonalice . “If you want to fix this, if you want to save democracy, you have to do something about surveillance capitalism and algorithmic amplification.” #Velshi

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🧵Coda: BigTech dominates the S&P500. When the AI bubble bursts, Big Tech will not go broke, but all the forecasts will collapse, taking stock prices with them. No way to know when the bubble will burst, but it will happen. Be prepared. Thank you, @SquawkStreet ! 15/end

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. @Djrothkopf is right. What TFG did is sui generis. There is no case law or precedent. Context matters. It was a coup. Democracy and rule of law are at stake. The law needs to rise to this occasion, which it has not done so far.

David Rothkopf

@djrothkopf

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It's not that no former president might have been indicted for criminal conduct, certainly several could have been. It is that until Trump it had never been essential to the survival of our democracy and the rule of law in our country for a president to be indicted & convicted.

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The hype around ChapGPT masks an infrastructure that depends on humans to tag training data — for pennies — and a tech stack that is so costly to buy and operate that the scale required for break even is hard to imagine.

Inside the AI Factory

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

www.theverge.com

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