Get this thing away from your kids.
New TikTok filters can convincingly alter a person's appearance — transforming a person of average attractiveness into someone considerably more physically appealing. Watch the transformation from "filter on" to "filter off" 12 seconds into this clip. https://t.co/tj4hG2gMu4
— Monitoring Bias (@monitoringbias) February 28, 2023
Win stupid prizes. Google blocking news content for some Canadians in response to government bill
I will not harm you unless you harm me first.
All socials were down. YouTube STILL down!
What's going on? pic.twitter.com/efpjmpVZjz
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 9, 2023
Live now: Twitter executives, including former FBI lawyer Jim Baker, testify before the House Oversight Committee about their handling of the Hunter Biden laptop.
Best burn of the day.
MTG to Yoel Roth:
"You permanently banned my Twitter account but you allowed child porn all over Twitter." pic.twitter.com/F7TgLrzbFn
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 8, 2023
Another.
BREAKING: @RepClayHiggins to former Twitter 1.0 Executives: “This is the investigation part, later comes the arrest part, your attorneys are familiar with that.. I’d like to spend five hours with these ladies and gentlemen doing depositions surely yet to come” pic.twitter.com/78eouCkyU4
— ALX (@alx) February 8, 2023
Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2023
The Hamilton 68 media fraud: The illusion of Russian support was created by tracking people like Joe Lauria, Sonia Monsour, and Dave Shestokas. Virtually every major American news organization cited these fake tales — even fact-checking sites like Snopes and Politifact.
Jan 28th Update! Hamilton 68 denies! Forgets about the Wayback Machine!
What could possibly go wrong. Grab a coffee.
el gato malo- the AI wars have already begun
We’re about to start dealing with an entirely new kind of manipulation, obfuscation, and weaponization of information as the real, no fooling around intelligence agency grade tools of propaganda and suppression are increasingly turned upon we the people by by our own governments. For our own protection. Of course.
A status report by Dave Rubin: Spent last two days at Twitter in SF talking to engineers, product managers and yes, @elonmusk. Learned a ton about what’s going on. Before I share, want to note that after couple hour meeting I asked Elon what I could share and he said, “anything that’s true.”
Including, “… they gotta get that company out of SF”
John Robb; (paywalled, but this much should do.)
ChatGPT and a handful of other social AIs are making a big splash. They are unreasonably good at many tasks and are already used to generate real-world work. However, these systems didn’t get this good based on the code written by the people building them. They got this good by using data strip-mined from the Web — social networking posts, images, etc. — and by employing low-paid ‘AI Turks.’ Recently, it was disclosed that ChatGPT is employing workers in Kenya, making $2 an hour, to train the system (currently valued at $29 billion and climbing fast).
Robb is a good follow.
Related: ChatGPT CAN pass US Medical Licensing Exam and the Bar…
And the First Law of Plumbing.
The SWIFT payments network has made an extraordinary decision that will have widespread implications on cryptocurrencies.
Asia Markets can reveal SWIFT will no longer process fiat currency transfers from bank accounts to cryptocurrency exchanges, with a value of less than US$100,000, effective from February 1, 2023.
The move will thwart cryptocurrency access to tens of millions of people worldwide.
One of the first crypto giants to notify users of the development this weekend, has been the world’s largest exchange, Binance.
“The banking partner that services your account has advised that they are no longer able to process SWIFT fiat (USD) transaction for individuals of less than $100,000 USD as of February 1, 2023. This is the case for all their crypto exchange clients,” said Binance.
“Please be advised that until we are able to find an alternative solution, you may not be able to use your bank account to buy and sell crypto with USD via SWIFT with a value of less than $100,000 USD.”
Note: there’s uncertainty out there as to whether this came via a legitimate source.
UPDATED Statement from Binance: In a statement to Asia Markets, Binance has confirmed at this stage it will only be Signature Bank customers affected by the move.
DAVOS WATCH: Director of FBI Christopher Wray says “the level of collaboration between the private sector and the government, especially the FBI has made significant strides”
Oh, wait.
Microsoft has said it will cut 10,000 jobs by the end of March, in the latest sign that layoffs are accelerating in the US tech sector as companies brace for an economic downturn.
The layoffs will result in a charge of $1.2bn in the second quarter of its fiscal year, Microsoft said.
Bill could sell some farmland, keep those employees on the payroll.
Remember this one? Russian bots and trolls were blamed by virtually every major news organization in the country for amplifying the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo. The files contain a mass of emails from executives blowing up this ridiculous story, once and for all.
The #ReleaseTheMemo scandal was one of the more shameful episodes in the recent history of our media, but taken seriously by all but one or two mainstream editors at the time. All citing the same dubious source — the Hamilton 68 “dashboard” trumpeted by former FBI counterintelligence official and current MSNBC contributor Clint Watts — they insisted Russians deployed Twitter bot-armies to whip up cyber-support for Republican congressmann Devin Nunes. Nunes had just released a classified memo alleging Democrats and the FBI used the infamous paid oppositional research dossier of ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain secret FISA surveillance authority on Trump-connected figures like Carter Page, amid other improprieties.
We now know Twitter internally found no evidence, as in zero, that Russians were anywhere near this story.
“I just reviewed the accounts that posted the first 50 tweets with #releasethememo,” wrote a piqued Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth, in all other respects as loyal a Democratic partisan as can be imagined. “None of them show any signs of affiliation to Russia.”
“These hashtags are organic,” said a second.
“Not seeing it,” said a third.
This is a constant theme in the files. In addition to revelations about FBI censorship, shadow-banning, Pentagon use of fake accounts, and suppression of true information about issues like Covid-19, the Twitter emails regularly expose the wide delta between what we were told about foreign threats, and what a major platform seeing the raw data knew.
The Twitter Files:The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag
Write a brief essay explaining why the federal government should have a central role in enforcing the speed of light.
…or a fake doctor.
Matt Taibbi- Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary
For those who haven’t been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations
The Twitter Files: Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button”
11.The GEC report appeared based on DHS data circulated earlier that week, and included accounts that followed “two or more” Chinese diplomatic accounts. They reportedly ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long, and included Canadian officials and a CNN account: pic.twitter.com/GYi4YuPdyu
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023