AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics. This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
As you can see, most people said yes. I count myself ...
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@conor64@kittypurrzog It’s @zephoria’s context collapse, even within Twitter. I don’t see a solution that doesn’t involve design changes to how Twitter works, to provide context, and in the meantime — perhaps providing a genuine de-escalatory/reparative option along with any dunking.
@JonWalkerDC@ryanlcooper I'm digging into Katharine Young's analysis at lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/lsfp…. (Belgium went 530 days without an elected government (!); Canada's parliament was suspended four times from '06-'13, for a total of 181 days.)
Funding lapse is an obvious + distinct Congressional abdication.
@ryanlcooper@JonWalkerDC Hrm, it can surely be fixed by statute - which I think is how mandatory spending keeps cranking along. But I wouldn’t blame an AG for answering a question with what appears to be the right legal answer — one that respects Congress’s Article I powers.
"Facebook employees began voicing their concerns that people were being charged without their knowledge. [They] decided to analyze ... Angry Birds, and discovered the average age of people playing it on Facebook was 5 years old, according to newly revealed information." twitter.com/dhh/status/108…
