The whole point of Jacksonianism is “You leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone. You play fair with me and I’ll play fair with you. But if you f*** with me, I’ll kill you.”
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Meet Yoel Roth, head of Twitter’s Site Integrity.
#LOL update: “Somebody in San Francisco will wake him up and tell him he’s about to get a lot more followers.”
Yoel Roth uses “fag” & “tranny” a lot pic.twitter.com/oh5icxuy4o
— SocialDistancingExpert JosephM1115 (@JMartin1115) May 27, 2020
Embrace Hollywood!
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Oddly enough, not Anthony Weiner: A new parasite that attaches to the genitals of its host has been discovered on Twitter.
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YouTube engineers warned Wojcicki videos from the mainstream “authoritative” sources weren’t performing very well in terms of engagement.
“The users don’t wanna actually see it,”
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Humans change behavior in response to changing conditions. Who knew?
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A Facebook fact checker who has ‘debunked’ articles suggesting that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has a giant conflict of interest; she worked at the institute – which is now suspected of accidentally leaking the hyper-virulent virus which has killed over 130,000 people and cast the global economy into chaos.
Related. Fact checking dies in darkness.
“As we shelter in our homes from one virus, we’re opening our computers up to another one.”
Until a few weeks ago, Zoom was barely known outside of the world of enterprise IT. But now it is everywhere. Schools and hospitals have it, before being taken into intensive care the U.K. prime minister spoke to the cabinet through it, even my mum’s ukulele group uses it. Zoom has added more customers in the last month than it did in the previous year.
In many ways this is surprising. The videoconferencing market is saturated with big names. Yet somehow, over the last few weeks, Zoom has become synonymous with videoconferencing. […]
Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan calls Zoom a “privacy disaster,” filled with “creepy” features that send tracking data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account and tell meeting hosts if attendees aren’t paying attention. Zoom’s privacy policy allows it to use what it calls “customer content” for advertising purposes. Put into normal English: Zoom can take the video from your private calls and use it to sell ads. “That’s probably not what people are expecting when they contact a therapist, hold a business meeting, or have a job interview using Zoom,” Consumer Reports said. A Harvard researcher published four posts on Zoom’s security and privacy issues. A full list of the issues, exploits, oversights, and dubious choices Zoom has made runs to thousands of words.
Not Creepy At All
Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing? Through a partnership with @xmodesocial, we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break. This is where they went across the US: pic.twitter.com/3A3ePn9Vin
— Tectonix GEO (@TectonixGEO) March 25, 2020
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Related: Coronavirus takes out aide to Iran’s “supreme leader”
Still, probably nothing.
(And this, I don’t even know what this means.)
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The National Transportation Safety Board has discovered that the man who was killed in a crash involving a Tesla SUV was playing a game on his phone at the time of the crash.
The man was identified as Apple engineer Walter Huang.
The NTSB said Huang was on his phone playing a game while the vehicle’s autopilot system was engaged. The SUV swerved and hit a concrete barrier on the freeway in Mountain View, California, in March 2018.
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The cure: Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Ukraine launches criminal proceedings against former US Vice-President Joe Biden on allegations he pressured authorities into forcing the resignation of Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reports, quoting Shokin's lawyer.
— BBC Monitoring (@BBCMonitoring) February 27, 2020
Related: Hunter Biden Seeks to Delay Paternity Deposition Until After Key Primary Votes
Oddly enough, when I searched Twitter for “Hunter Biden” it produced pro-Joe results instead. The same happened with “Hunter Biden support”. It didn’t bring up the Freebeacon link until I searched for “Hunter Biden paternity”.
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Hackers have manipulated multiple Tesla cars into speeding up by 50 miles per hour. The researchers fooled the car’s Mobileye EyeQ3 camera system by subtly altering a speed limit sign on the side of a road in a way that a person driving by would almost never notice.
This demonstration from the cybersecurity firm McAfee is the latest indication that adversarial machine learning can potentially wreck autonomous driving systems, presenting a security challenge to those hoping to commercialize the technology.
Mobileye EyeQ3 camera systems read speed limit signs and feed that information into autonomous driving features like Tesla’s automatic cruise control, said Steve Povolny and Shivangee Trivedi from McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team.
The researchers stuck a tiny and nearly imperceptible sticker on a speed limit sign. The camera read the sign as 85 instead of 35, and in testing, both the 2016 Tesla Model X and that year’s Model S sped up 50 miles per hour.
The modified speed limit sign reads as 85 on the Tesla’s heads-up display. A Mobileye spokesperson downplayed the research by suggesting this sign would fool a human into reading 85 as well.
h/t KP
Ryan Broderick’s Cool Time Bad Day
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99 old smartphones in a wagon.
More at Google Map Hacks.
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The cat and the laser-pointer;
A team of researchers in Israel have successfully tricked Tesla’s and Mobileye’s driver assistance features into stopping for pedestrians that weren’t there, and driving at speed limits posted on signs that don’t exist, exposing a possible flaw in modern automotive tech that could prove dangerous if exploited.
Researcher Ben Nassi from Ben-Gurion University just recently fooled a Tesla Model X running Version 2.5 hardware using a simple video projector. Nassi had previously fooled a Mobileye 630 Pro driver assist system with the same device. Nassi calls the system “Phantom of the ADAS.”
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New footage has emerged showing the moment a Tesla electric vehicle driving on Autopilot crashed into the back of a truck in California earlier this month.
The driver posted the video online, describing in a summary of the footage the moment when the unknown model Tesla experiences the Autopilot failure on January 13 while driving in Milpitas, in the San Francisco Bay area. […]
Drivers have reported several similar problems with auto pilot. A federal probe into a 12th Tesla crash in December, that was believed to be tied to the auto pilot system, which already had been blamed for four fatal accidents
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“Twitter sentiment is a Styrofoam iceberg”.
If you’d prefer reasoned debate, it will start with a collective realization that mobs can’t do much except make noise. They’re not actually very big, for starters — the number of people who replied to Rowling’s tweet wouldn’t fill most Texas college football stadiums, and reasonable people don’t choose their views by polling the crowd at the Aggies-Longhorns game.
More important, most mobs aren’t committed to the effort beyond flicking a thumb. Institutions that ignore the mob are often astonished at how little difference all the outrage makes to their business — and I’d bet Rowling won’t see much evidence of this controversy in her royalty statements.
The censorious power of Mrs. Grundys always depends on the cooperation of the governed, which is why their regime collapsed the moment the baby boomers shrugged off their finger-wagging. If Rowling provides an unmissable public demonstration that it is safe to ignore the current crop, we can hope others will follow her example, and the dictatorship of the proscriptariat will fall as quickly as it arose.