I don't know how to easily sum this one up for social media but the Washington Post was very important to my family and to me, and now it's not.  The people at the Washington Post do good work in spite of, not because of Jeff Bezos & WaPo leadership
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The Billionaire Is the Threat, Not the Solution
Jeff Bezos is not the answer at The Washington Post. And billionaire funding is not the answer for journalism.
what could go wrong:
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Why the US General In Charge of Nuclear Weapons Said He Needs AI
Air Force General Anthony J. Cotton said that the US is developing AI tools to help leaders respond to ‘time sensitive scenarios.’
New: A leaked training presentation from a NY's largest hospital system shows how doctors are being encouraged to use AI for everything from writing emails to summarizing clinical evaluations to "diagnosing pancreatic cancer" and "parse" health records
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Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI
At Northwell Health, executives are encouraging clinicians and all 85,000 employees to use a tool called AI Hub, according to a presentation obtain...
The movie Twister—and ONLY the movie Twister—is unrentable from remaining Redbox machines and no one knows why even after weeks of people reverse-engineering the kiosks. Twister is Redbox's last DVD. If you know why this is happening, please tell me
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Redbox's Last DVD: 'Twister' Is Unrentable in Remaining Redbox Kiosks and No One Knows Why
Twister was one of the first DVDs ever released. Now it's stuck in still-functioning Redbox machines.
An encrypted messaging app based in Australia is leaving the country after police pressured an employee. Possible additional fallout from Telegram situation:
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Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch ...
Amazon argues that it has a First Amendment right to union bust, and claims requiring it to post NLRB posters about workers' rights & host trainings about workers rights in response to labor law violations violates its free speech rights
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Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
In response to an NLRB complaint, Amazon argues that preventing it from holding captive-audience meetings violates the U.S. Constitution.
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An Elon Musk-funded PAC is microtargeting Muslim people in Michigan and Jewish people in Pennsylvania with opposite messaging about Kamala Harris using ZIP code targeting, according to data I pulled from Snapchat. Few things from this investigation:
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This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
The Future Coalition PAC is targeting according to ZIP code in highly specific ways.
This conversation I had with @npub1s7r5...cum5 and @npub1lrqq...pn8w about discoverability on the internet, the fediverse, and the future of the internet was one of the best convos I’ve had in years- I left it feeling optimistic, excited and definitely scared … please listen!