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Inside: Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/23/fal…

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I'm going to be mostly offline until Saturday - I likely won't get a new edition out before then. 2/

Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad: An AI that can't recognize its own training data is a very, very bad AI.

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#15yrsago Fair use 1: James Joyce’s grandson 0 cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2007/03/i…

#10yrsago Bruce Schneier and former TSA boss Kip Hawley debate air security on The Economist web.archive.org/web/2012032105… 4/

#5yrsago Libretaxi: a free, open, cash-only alternative to Uber, for the rest of the world shareable.net/qa-libretaxis-…

#5yrsago Internal Islamophobia and racism are costing the FBI its vital, tiny cohort of Muslim and Arab agents theguardian.com/us-news/2017/m… 5/

#1yrago Tories pass Grenfell costs onto tenants pluralistic.net/2021/03/23/par… 6/

Yesterday's threads: Ban surveillance advertising; and more!

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Hey look at this

* March Madness but for misunderstood legal concepts techdirt.com/2022/03/21/ann… (h/t @Beschizza)

* Uncanny Robot: Absurd AI-generated stories read by humans uncannyrobotpodcast.com (h/t @MusubiRocks) 8/

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

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* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now


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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

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Today's top sources: Cooper Quinton. 19/