phatcontroller.bsky.social
Academic working on digital citizenship, digital rights, digital authoritarianism, digital disinformation, civic tech, digital surveillance and all that jazz. Free typo with every post.
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You know what would really piss them off is a graph of declining Tesla sales in Europe superimposed on a graph of increasing sales of Chinese electric vehicles.
📉 📈 Bust Your Dreams. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Is it a confession that they are unethical?
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Does this apply to Bluesky?
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Shades of the Rothermere and Murdoch ideological newspaper moguls?
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A once-general platform can become an ideological publisher in the service of its owner’s beliefs and a broader international movement of the right and far right. 7/?
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Rather than focusing uncritically on "using AI in every way you can", we should make sure we are wise to AI's current flaws and how to overcome them. Top ten flaws =
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/ten...
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No for real
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Those errors are only one of the top ten reasons not to be using these forms of AI in our work right now.
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/ten...
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Those errors are only one of ten reasons not to use these forms of AI in our work.
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/ten...
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These are dull hasbara tactics from 2019. You really need to upgrade your troll subscription to the latest pro-apartheid talking points. The quality of hasbara has fallen off steeply since act.il imploded.
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Nazi Germany was a legal sovereign state. What is your point other than the attempted erasure of Palestine? Palestine is recognized as a state by 146 nations, with noted absences of other settler colonial states.
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Things are exactly as they seem. Israeli leaders call publicly and repeatedly for war crimes and genocide. Again and again. You can put your fingers in your ears and deny the mountains of evidence, but it remains true.
www.trtworld.com/middle-east/...
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I agree with you that Israel are colonialist occupiers. The United Nations also agree that the Israeli settlements in Palestine are illegal. press.un.org/en/2016/sc12...
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Denialism
the rejection of basic facts and concepts that are undisputed, well-supported parts of the scientific consensus on a subject, in favor of ideas that are radical, controversial, or fabricated.
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I guess you are also in denial about Israel being guilty of the crime of apartheid? www.theguardian.com/world/2021/a...
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Especially when the country is also guilty of apartheid. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/a...
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There is no need to try to demonise a country when it is busy committing genocide. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Yes, we agree it is unethical.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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The use of any technology is unethical if it is used for unethical purposes. In Israel's case the technology is being used to kill innocent women and children, to perpetrate war crimes, to propel ethnic cleansing and to reinforce apartheid.
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COBOL..invented by a woman btw(Grace Hopper)....must piss them off extra.
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Self-respecting folk are embarrassed to own Tesla cars. bsky.app/profile/your...