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Title: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on April 24, 2019, 09:19:21 am
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kinda like disconcerting images, but for news articles and webpages.

here's my example: sequencing fish samples (https://www.truthorfiction.com/sequencing-fish-samples-viral-twitter-thread/)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on April 24, 2019, 09:22:57 am
"AMAZON WORKERS LISTEN TO YOUR ALEXA CONVERSATIONS, THEN MOCK THEM" aka, "WHAT IF YOUR JOB WAS TO LISTEN TO SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" (https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-listen-share-alexa-recordings)

fuckin nightmare fuel
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on April 24, 2019, 11:09:44 am
"AMAZON WORKERS LISTEN TO YOUR ALEXA CONVERSATIONS, THEN MOCK THEM" aka, "WHAT IF YOUR JOB WAS TO LISTEN TO SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" (https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-listen-share-alexa-recordings)

fuckin nightmare fuel
oh great it's worse
Alexa and Siri can hear this hidden command. You can't. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on April 24, 2019, 11:33:18 am
"AMAZON WORKERS LISTEN TO YOUR ALEXA CONVERSATIONS, THEN MOCK THEM" aka, "WHAT IF YOUR JOB WAS TO LISTEN TO SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" (https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-listen-share-alexa-recordings)

fuckin nightmare fuel
oh great it's worse
Alexa and Siri can hear this hidden command. You can't. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html)

Cocaine Noodles
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: h on April 24, 2019, 11:40:05 am
"AMAZON WORKERS LISTEN TO YOUR ALEXA CONVERSATIONS, THEN MOCK THEM" aka, "WHAT IF YOUR JOB WAS TO LISTEN TO SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" (https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-listen-share-alexa-recordings)

fuckin nightmare fuel
oh great it's worse
Alexa and Siri can hear this hidden command. You can't. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html)

tbh that one is fairly standard neural network tomfoolery
http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on April 24, 2019, 12:22:10 pm
"AMAZON WORKERS LISTEN TO YOUR ALEXA CONVERSATIONS, THEN MOCK THEM" aka, "WHAT IF YOUR JOB WAS TO LISTEN TO SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" (https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-listen-share-alexa-recordings)

fuckin nightmare fuel
oh great it's worse
Alexa and Siri can hear this hidden command. You can't. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html)

tbh that one is fairly standard neural network tomfoolery
http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling
that doesn't mean I hate it any less
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on April 24, 2019, 01:32:48 pm
oh look, in my state the location data gathered by my phone is unprotected by any laws, that's really what I needed to read today (https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-tracking/cell-phone-location-tracking-laws-state)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on May 08, 2019, 04:02:15 pm
amazon recieved a patent for wristbands that track your hand movements and issue "electronic correctives", also companies want to track your facial expressions and tone of voice while working (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20934/whole-foods-amazon-ups-tracking-orwell-dystopia)

Title: Really big surprise here
Post by: rachel on May 09, 2019, 04:44:53 pm
Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley’s next frontier. Amazon, Apple, and Google automatically keep your recordings to train their AIs (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-you-this-whole-time/)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on May 09, 2019, 07:17:02 pm
A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging (https://boingboing.net/2019/03/14/grifters-in-gowns.html)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on May 12, 2019, 07:22:23 am
in September of 2016, 180 million workers in India staged a strike. It was the largest strike in world history, and went virtually uncovered by mainstream news, as they were instead reporting on the iPhone 7 release. (https://fair.org/home/the-biggest-strike-in-world-history-no-thanks-were-focusing-on-the-new-iphone/)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on May 12, 2019, 09:28:45 pm
Stanford researchers found that black and Latino drivers were stopped more often than white drivers, based on less evidence of wrongdoing. (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/inside-100-million-police-traffic-stops-new-evidence-racial-bias-n980556)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on May 17, 2019, 12:30:51 pm
Protected birds abandon WA sanctuary after feral cat massacre (https://amp.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/protected-birds-abandon-wa-sanctuary-after-feral-cat-massacre-20190108-p50q7x.html)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on May 21, 2019, 05:23:02 pm
Incompetent people from upper-class backgrounds succeed, even if they’re not smart (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/incompetent-people-from-wealthy-backgrounds-are-more-likely-to-act-like-theyre-smart-and-people-believe-them-2019-05-21)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on May 24, 2019, 01:02:46 am
"AMAZON WORKERS LISTEN TO YOUR ALEXA CONVERSATIONS, THEN MOCK THEM" aka, "WHAT IF YOUR JOB WAS TO LISTEN TO SEXUAL ASSAULT WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT" (https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-listen-share-alexa-recordings)

fuckin nightmare fuel
oh great it's worse
Alexa and Siri can hear this hidden command. You can't. (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html)

On the other hand, can you train Alexa or Siri to listen for your safeword?
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on June 22, 2019, 05:22:07 pm
https://grist.org/article/we-broke-down-what-climate-change-will-do-region-by-region/

(https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/regional-map-climate-change1.jpg)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on July 01, 2019, 12:11:21 pm
Amazon awarded a patent to use their experimental delivery drones for surveillance (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-patent/amazon-gets-u-s-patent-to-use-delivery-drones-for-surveillance-service-idUSKCN1TM2OI)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: netpun on July 01, 2019, 12:19:57 pm
(https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/34a13065-96c3-0514-d323-82a63062c7ec.jpg)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on July 03, 2019, 04:10:12 am
https://grist.org/article/we-broke-down-what-climate-change-will-do-region-by-region/

(https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/regional-map-climate-change1.jpg)

Climate change is going to turn colorado into a ginger snap?
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on July 24, 2019, 12:07:49 am
here (https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=2693.0)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on July 24, 2019, 01:35:49 pm
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-and-must-put-backdoors-in-encryption-ag-barr-says/)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on August 01, 2019, 09:42:40 am
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-and-must-put-backdoors-in-encryption-ag-barr-says/)

The only reason the FBI thinks this is because it only hires programmers who don't smoke weed.  You know, the ones that are dumb enough to believe that you can insert a safe back door.
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on September 17, 2019, 10:58:29 pm
A children’s media expert on what Kidz Bop censorship says about how sex and violence are perceived in America. (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/3/17930132/kidz-bop-censorship-music)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on September 18, 2019, 07:16:45 pm
A children’s media expert on what Kidz Bop censorship says about how sex and violence are perceived in America. (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/3/17930132/kidz-bop-censorship-music)

I was expecting this piece to be another hack job aimed at an easy target, touting easily digested cliches.  Instead I found the article had deeper and more nuanced view point than is ordinarily available.  Yes we all know regressive perspectives are bad (well, anyone who might be reading Vox in the first place knows this), but rarely do we get a hint at how the mechanics play out and poison our society.   
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on October 06, 2019, 07:58:12 am
TVs emit a tone during ad breaks that are inaudible to humans but that smartphones are listening for; now corporate entities can link the tv & phone as belonging to the same person. It means govt entities can play a tone thru the TV & ping all the phones in the room, identifying the whole group. (https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/is-your-smartphone-listening-to-your-conversations/)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on October 06, 2019, 04:55:57 pm
TVs emit a tone during ad breaks that are inaudible to humans but that smartphones are listening for; now corporate entities can link the tv & phone as belonging to the same person. It means govt entities can play a tone thru the TV & ping all the phones in the room, identifying the whole group. (https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/is-your-smartphone-listening-to-your-conversations/)

That's fucking terrifying as I often watch anime with known malcontents.
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on October 30, 2019, 01:35:16 pm
Australian government agency wants to use a facial recognition system for verifying the age of people who want to view pornography online. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/world/australia/pornography-facial-recognition.html)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on November 03, 2019, 12:11:30 am
Australian government agency wants to use a facial recognition system for verifying the age of people who want to view pornography online. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/world/australia/pornography-facial-recognition.html)

I have faith that today's teenagers will defeat this within 30 minutes.
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: redheron on December 29, 2019, 05:44:55 am
How 5g could contribute to insect death (https://sciencepost.uk/2019/05/5g-loss-of-insects/)
How 5g will screw up weather forecasts (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/5g-is-going-to-screw-up-weather-forecasts-meteorologists?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc)
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on December 29, 2019, 11:27:16 am
How 5g could contribute to insect death (https://sciencepost.uk/2019/05/5g-loss-of-insects/)
How 5g will screw up weather forecasts (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/5g-is-going-to-screw-up-weather-forecasts-meteorologists?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc)

Yikes
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on January 12, 2020, 07:00:22 pm
Amazon is working with the police to promote "Ring", the internet connected home surveillance device, to local communities across the US.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwea4/revealed-the-secret-scripts-amazon-give-to-cops-to-promote-ring-surveillance-cameras
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3ag37/us-cities-are-helping-people-buy-amazon-surveillance-cameras-using-taxpayer-money
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Ozmiander on January 12, 2020, 07:16:16 pm
https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=2681.msg17446#msg17446
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: Diabolizer on January 12, 2020, 07:40:38 pm
How 5g could contribute to insect death (https://sciencepost.uk/2019/05/5g-loss-of-insects/)
How 5g will screw up weather forecasts (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/5g-is-going-to-screw-up-weather-forecasts-meteorologists?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc)

Yikes

The 5G and insect article seems kind of week.  It doesn't provide or explain evidence that high frequency radio signals affect insect populations.  It could, I suppose, but I think it's astro terfing.
Title: Re: Links You Hate
Post by: rachel on January 12, 2020, 08:06:35 pm
How 5g could contribute to insect death (https://sciencepost.uk/2019/05/5g-loss-of-insects/)
How 5g will screw up weather forecasts (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/5g-is-going-to-screw-up-weather-forecasts-meteorologists?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc)

Yikes

The 5G and insect article seems kind of week.  It doesn't provide or explain evidence that high frequency radio signals affect insect populations.  It could, I suppose, but I think it's astro terfing.

Um? It links to this Nature article which explains how frequencies above 6 GHz are absorbed by insects enough to raise their body temperature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22271-3