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Meet MeWe founder and CEO, Mark Weinstein. He created the platform in direct response to Facebookâs notorious exploitation of user data. He also wanted to have a space without what he calls censorship. In doing so, he opened the door to a plethora of junk science.
Defending it in a NY Post op-ed, Weinstein says, âCensorship is often counterÂproductive. Banning content proves to the conspiracy-minded that it must be valuable because the authorities donât want them to see it.â To him, removing dangerous misinfo worsens the problem. Link â
https://t.co/i1uNcvz9Kh
Weinstein recently posted a statement on the site saying that it isnât the job of a social media company to regulate its content beyond illegal activity. He indicated that views on health and medicine were not to be moderated, acknowledging the sizable anti-vax community.
Quick thread on the topic from me below:
If you've followed me in the past you know that I've talked a lot about Xbox is moving beyond the console and has a goal to offer multiple entry points into its ecosystem, with Game Pass being the main entry point into its software and services
Xbox has two goals:
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) July 23, 2020
1. Remove barriers to entry in the hardware space
2. Remove barriers to entry in the software and services space.
With the overall goal to grow the number of players in the Xbox ecosystem through multiple entry points and a range of connected services.
This strategy makes a lot of sense on paper, but is proving difficult for Microsoft to execute in the short term.
The aim is to scale Game Pass as a service to reach the entire gaming audience via multiple console offerings, but also beyond console via PC & Mobile (Cloud) etc.
It's also why Xbox has plans to extend Game Pass + xCloud to iOS, Windows and other devices (Smart TV's) in the future.
Its investment in studios and IP aims to increase the value prop of Game Pass, with multiple AAA titles available on the service day 1.
All for $15pm.
Game Pass has already grown to 15 million subscribers, but it's worth noting that the majority of these subs are also Xbox console players.
The goal of reaching the broader gaming audience beyond console will take some time to fully execute for a number of reasons:
Palantir works with the UK police; building highly controversial predictive policing software, gathering intelligence for major sporting events and have also implemented and information sharing initiative across five constabularies, @allthecitizens can reveal. pic.twitter.com/VPZOVuVTpW
— The Citizens (@allthecitizens) January 6, 2021
Between 2014-15 Palantir were 1 of 3 companies trialled by Met police to use an algorithm to consolidate crime data âsubject to local interpretationâ by police officers, along with PredPol and Azavea.
https://t.co/EfxRHbSQsK
This trial was before Data Protection Impact Assessment became a requirement, so itâs not known what information was processed, and it took an FOI from @NoTech4Tyrants to even reveal
In 2019, the BBC reported that at least 14 constabularies in the UK are known to have employed predictive policing software run by companies like IBM, Microsoft, PredPol, and
In the US Palantir predictive policing software has been implemented by a number of police departments, notably in New Orleans and by the LAPD, combining datasets in order to map and track criminal activity, surveilling specific people and
I'll provide a response to @nilbold's concerns in hopes of a fruitful exchange of information.
the issue of bestiality is one of consent and an uneven power dynamic that leads to abuse
— nude antifa kobold (@nilbold) January 8, 2021
a horse dick dildo doesn't make someone a zoophile
yes this is the 500th time this discourse has surfaced since 1998
furries please, i'm begging you, there's more important things afoot
RAINN has a rather serviceable model for sexual consent for humans: https://t.co/0gelDI53Fa
And Planned Parenthood has a more comprehensive one: https://t.co/8QQ1GsyGGT https://t.co/PQKkYcpftl
What's interesting is that both models fit and can be successfully applied to...
nonhuman animals regardless of if their prospective partners are of the same species or not. https://t.co/wrE2jLPWHp
Now we need to explore power imbalance in human sexual relationships to understand what degrees of power imbalance are tolerated or not, and why.
We must also note that "Power Imbalance" does not inherently mean bad things. There are Negative or Harmful Power Imbalances (like when the powerful have complete control over vital resources and the powerless are aware of this) and there are Positive or Growth Power Imbalances
(Like when one is an expert martial artist and teaches their SO how to defend themselves).
Power exists in all relationships. Having power means to have a sense of control, to have choices and the ability to influence our environment and others.
https://t.co/Jd7cLPXRx1
A look back before we zoom too far into the future...đ
#FutureOfWork #WorkforceFuturist
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https://t.co/4SxOJDx8HG
What % of working adults in the UK will 'work from home exclusively' in July 2021?
About 75% of this group of #superforecasters say more than 10% but less than 20% (the red line in the graph below)
@superforecaster
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https://t.co/3fhFR1lXFy
âWe tend to overestimate the effect of the technology in the short run and underestimate for the long runâ
Roy Amara
Our predictions tend to be made through foggy Zoom goggles and constrained by the Gregorian calendar.
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Remote Work Isnât New
In Britain from the 1600s to the mid-19th century work did not take place in factories but in peopleâs houses.
Workers made dresses, shoes, and matchboxes in their kitchens or bedrooms.
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Some predictions from people in 1921 who were asked
âwhat will happen in 2021?â
đș streaming entertainment into our homes
đ electricity powers our wheels
đ books will read to us
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First, the IP belongs to ddos-guard, a CDN (Content Delivery Network). First, a CDN is a service gets content to your site visitors faster through methods which aren't important right now. /1
Well, it kind of is, hrm. There are two ways it makes it faster: 1. by putting copies of often-loaded content closer to the end users, and by using a dedicated network to spread out to places closer to your end users. There's a problem: right now DDOS-guard isn't doing that.
Right now, when you look up https://t.co/6vN8gzCjkW, the return is a single IP address in Russia. That IP is not in Russia, it's in Belize.
DDoS-guard offers a service where you locate your own address allocation on their network, but this isn't what Parler is doing (yet, and I suspect they never will).
Basically, all we know is that Parler has not committed to using ddos-guard yet, in the sense that they...
aren't using it for anything that would be useful from a technical point of view (with the possible exception of some network filtering). I say that because CDNs really shine when you have a page that makes a lot of calls back to the origin server, but right now...