“Don’t you miss the good old days when you could believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the media reported it?”
“Chinese tech isn’t an imitation of its American counterpart. It’s a completely different universe.”
Read more: https://logicmag.io/04-letter-from-shenzhen/
“There’s a category of story we call ‘Them Not Us’—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home.”
“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“‘Oh come on, bruh. You’re really going to tase him? He was sitting down,’ shouts the bystander who captured the incident on camera. ‘That’s crazy. That’s why I record everything.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/29/pennsylvania-lancaster-officer-tasing
“The Medical Board of California has ordered 35 months’ probation for Dr. Bob Sears, an Orange County pediatrician well-known for being sympathetic to parents opposed to vaccines.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-sears-license-20180629-story.html
“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
“At some point the wolf cannot say ‘I won’t eat you’ to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily.”
Read more: http://fastml.com/googles-principles-on-ai-weapons-mass-surveillence-and-signing-out/
“Silicon Valley relies on the SPLC to police ‘hate speech’.”
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”