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@stokel
Aug 24, 2019 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
My latest for @newscientist: Facebook's ad targeting could identify gay people in countries where it's illegal. I asked @acrumin to run the data three days ago: 4.2 million people were tagged as interested in homosexuality in countries where it's banned newscientist.com/article/221430…
@newscientist @acrumin Facebook told me: “The interest targeting options we allow in ads reflect people’s interest in topics, not personal attributes" - but there's likely to be overlap newscientist.com/article/221430…
@newscientist @acrumin Lots of data protection and privacy experts I spoke to are worried that the doing so is in a grey area at best, and breaches #GDPR at worst. Anyway, strongly recommend reading newscientist.com/article/221430…
@newscientist @acrumin The amazing @timothyrevell spotted the paper, which you can read here arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10672…. As of Wednesday, 940,000 Saudi Arabians were tagged as interested in homosexuality by Facebook, 1.3 million in Pakistan newscientist.com/article/221430…

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Mar 27, 2023
SCOOP: I spoke to the guy behind Balenciaga Pope for @BuzzFeedNews, who was (a) tripping on shrooms when he made the image and (b) thinks it means we should regulate AI buzzfeednews.com/article/chriss…
This is my second Balenciaga pope story of the day, after this one for @newscientist
As far as I can tell the key differences between the two publications is that New Scientist took the word “drip” out of the edit and BuzzFeed added it in
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Mar 27, 2023
My random Monday morning thought is I think there's a pretty compelling case right now for either banning r/midjourney or requiring every human being on earth to undergo a mandatory media literacy course
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I wrote about the Balenciaga pope, the Great Cascadia earthquake, and what the real fear is - and how we should tackle it (or at all) for @newscientist newscientist.com/article/236631…
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Nov 28, 2022
SCOOP: Twitter didn't pay its current and former employees on time in the UK and Germany today. “It has come to our attention that some of you may not have received your November 2022 salary yet in your bank account,” an email sent this morning says.
Usually, Twitter staff are paid on the 28th of every month. If the day falls on a Monday, staff would typically see their salary as a pending payment on the Friday, with the cash hitting their accounts by midnight on Saturday. But it didn't - or in one case, did and was reversed
This is a huge issue that has got current and former employees in private groups up in arms. Staff in Ireland and the Netherlands were paid on time. In the last 30 minutes, some of the salaries have been hitting bank accounts... one at a time, suggesting they're doing it by hand
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Sep 15, 2022
TikTok is becoming BeReal newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/introduc…
TikTok Now sounds like a horrible idea (largely because I think BeReal is a horrible idea), but it is fascinating to see how they're trying to mark out ever wider territory in users' daily lives
One thing I find really interesting is that they're also testing out both in-app integrations and a standalone, separate TikTok Now app, depending on the geography
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Sep 14, 2022
YES! What3Words strikes again
Unbelievably, no one in DCMS can make this work correctly. They're saying go to shops.views.paths (which is near Charlotte, North Carolina) rather than the actual site, shops.view.paths Image
I love this for us. A moment of levity at a time of national sadness. Death, taxes, and What3Words being rubbish
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Aug 26, 2022
This is something I fear a lot of people are missing in their budgeting. It's a price cap *for the average household*. By definition, half of us will use more than the average household
There's some really interesting Ofgem research on nine buckets of households it thinks most people fall into here: ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/…
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