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Roger McNamee

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Today, Bay Area collective @Moonalice releases a powerful version of the Grateful Dead classic “Bird Song” from their forthcoming EP, from their forthcoming EP, Cool Cats. Listen & Share Moonalice’s “Bird Song” Here:

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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.

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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

@sfkale

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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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I have been to dozens of playoff games. Many different ballparks. No park is as loud as Citizens Bank Park. Tonight was the loudest I have ever heard CBP. Someone will do isolated crowd audio after the Harper and Castellanos homers, but take my word for it. Ears still ringing.

Crossing Broad

@CrossingBroad

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BRYCE HARPER DIDN’T HEAR NO BELL!

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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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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

6 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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🧵 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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@SquawkStreet

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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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The Big Lie of Andreessen and Horowitz is that they represent “little tech.” Their startups are smallish, but designed to produce global monopolies. Decentralization in crypto and open source in AI are total BS. The harms are huge. 1/3

The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

In venture capital, you are what you fund.

www.theverge.com

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4 years

Brilliant!

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3 years

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

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

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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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Hey @Oprah ! Pro tip: If you want to help people understand generative AI, you should feature people who are not part of the scam. @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mer__edith @kortizart would all be better choices than Altman or Gates. You are getting played.

Karla Ortiz

@kortizart

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1/ Hi @Oprah . This event will be the first time many people will get info on Generative Ai. However it is shaping up to be a misinformed marketing event staring vested interests (some who are under a litany of lawsuits) who ignore the harms GenAi inflicts on communities NOW 🧵

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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…

www.c-span.org

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@Moonalice

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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Generative AI seems like a prank. The proponents assembled as many bad ideas as possible: a dead-end architecture that accelerates climate change, consumes insane amounts of water, requires theft of copyrighted content and personal data, and costs a trillion $ or more. See below.

Abeba Birhane

@Abebab

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this is the achilles heel that’ll bring the ganAI industry down "indiscriminately learning from data produced by other models causes ‘model collapse’—a degenerative process whereby, over time, models forget the true underlying data distribution"

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

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@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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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

5 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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This is so important. Google has lost the first of 2 huge antitrust cases, this one related to its monopoly of search. Concentrated economic power is not in the public interest. It undermines democracy, as well as consumer choice (because monopolies act in their own interest)

American Economic Liberties Project

@econliberties

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🚨BREAKING: @JusticeATR and AAG Jonathan Kanter just won the biggest antitrust case of the 21st century. A judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist for spending tens of billions on default search deals. Tremendous win for consumers, innovation, and the entire tech industry.

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@Moonalice

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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.

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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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The Moral Bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Everything you need to know about Silicon Valley. Thank you, @verge . h/t: @jason_kint

The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

In venture capital, you are what you fund.

www.theverge.com

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@Moonalice

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

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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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In far too many use cases, generative AI performs more poorly than existing technologies that consume a tiny fraction of the power, water, and capital.

Alex Bilzerian

@alexbilz

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A VC firm I had a Zoom meeting with used Otter AI to record the call, and after the meeting, it automatically emailed me the transcript, including hours of their private conversations afterward, where they discussed intimate, confidential details about their business.

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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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“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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. @LinakhanFTC is the most effective public servant of my lifetime. The hostility from billionaires is the proof.

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@ZephyrTeachout

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Khan's strongest receipts are the Money Power wanting her gone. She gets stuff done, and enforces the law.

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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

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Hey @TMacPhils and @JohnKruk ! Thank you for sharing the booth with me tonight. Huge fun!!! We even got a run out of it. Thank goodness for Schwarbs! Let’s add on!

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@Moonalice

4 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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3 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

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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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The thesis of generative AI is that if you spend hundreds of billions of dollars, you will eventually create a valuable product w/ a monopoly. The only part that is guaranteed is the cash burn. Imagine investing that capital in something useful, like addressing climate change.

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

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SCOOP: OpenAI may lose $5B this year & may run out of cash in 12 months, unless they raise more $, per analysis @theinformation . Investors should ask: What is their moat? Unique tech? What is their route in profitability when Meta is giving away similar tech for free? Do they

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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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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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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

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

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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

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

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Silicon Valley billionaires want Harris to fire @linakhanFTC , to buy Bitcoin, and end efforts to regulate tech. My advice to @VP @KamalaHarris : take the money and tell the billionaires to pound sand. They are making America weaker. Besides that, they are weird.

Rana Foroohar

@RanaForoohar

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Kamala Harris must reaffirm her commitment to Bidenomics via @FT She’s strong but the optics of being too close to Big Tech and Wall Street put her at risk of falling into the Hillary trap

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. @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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The catastrophic failure of @nytimes , @washintonpost , @WSJ , NPR, TV networks and others to join the fight against authoritarianism is both tragic and predictable. Evidently, these people think their farts smell like roses. Great essay by @RebeccaSolnit

The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset | Rebecca Solnit

The media is still pursuing the appearance of fairness by treating true and false, normal and outrageous, as equally valid

www.theguardian.com

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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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4 years

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

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@Moonalice

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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

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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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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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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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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

3 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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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

1 year

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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The claim by a generative AI vendor that it will need 5GW of power — including the revival of 3 Mile Island — seems like a clue that the architecture is a mistake. In that context, consider the headline below that Microsoft execs may be reconsidering their AI strategy.

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

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Oops. MSFT is apparently slowing down a “major AI overhaul” of Office 365.

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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

Jeff Berardelli

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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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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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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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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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We should not underestimate the degree to which generative AI is undermining the quality of information on the internet. Worst case, the information pollution will render the web unusable for research.

Joseph Cox

@josephfcox

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New: a project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere

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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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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.

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@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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4 years

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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8 months

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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@Moonalice

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

Brian Merchant

@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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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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@Moonalice

4 years

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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2 years

. @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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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

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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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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

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The DC press corps has totally lost the plot. It seems like all they care about is enriching themselves. More than once, Bob Woodward has deprived the country of timely knowledge of facts essential to the preservation of democracy in order to profit from those facts.

Jamie Gangel

@jamiegangel

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New: CNN has obtained an early copy of Bob Woodward’s new book which reveals stunning new behind the scenes conversations and interactions between Biden, Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and Harris among others… including conversations between Trump and Putin 🧵

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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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3 months

Please @VP @KamalaHarris . Do not allow billionaires to talk you out of the democracy-saving antitrust strategy of Biden/Harris administration. Silicon Valley needs a reset. GenAI, crypto are bad for America. Need to solve climate change, public health instead. Let’s talk.

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore - who is a close ally of Harris - was asked on CNBC about what Kamala Harris will do about antitrust/regulation. And his answer is that she is going to change it from the Biden framework towards a more friendly partnership between government and big

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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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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

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"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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1 year

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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4 months

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.

Rachel Metz

@rachelmetz

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4 years

. @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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2 months

Is Britain the canary in the coal mine violence encouraged and enabled by internet platforms? By the incomparable @carolecadwalla

Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America

The presidential election is three months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is overrated?

www.theguardian.com

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. @AOC is so good at politics. I don’t always agree with her, but that does not bother me a bit. She is an incredible leader and I trust her to do the right thing. I hope she will join Dem House leadership as a next step.

Acyn

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AOC’s full DNC speech

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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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4 years

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.

time.com

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2 months

I will be on @TheLastWord on MSNBC tonight around 10:30pm ET / 7:30pm PT. @AliVelshi is hosting. Topic is authoritarians vs democracy, Russian funding of MAGA influencers, and the role that internet platforms and tech billionaires play in undermining democracy.

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4 years

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

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You spend your career working for the worst people, flogging the worst ideas in politics. Just when you think your career is over, that you cannot do worse, a miracle occurs. Meta offers you a job in government affairs.

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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

5 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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@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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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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If you are wondering whether crypto is for you, look at the promotion below for the Bitcoin 2024 conference. These are the headliners. Seriously. If you are still unsure whether crypto is for you, please follow @molly0xFFF .

Molly White

@molly0xFFF

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nightmare blunt rotation

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@Moonalice

8 months

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

8 months

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

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

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