Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-11/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in 👂
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Did you watch the Sunday Keynote from the #Nextcloud Conference yet? Executive Director of the Smart Citizenship Foundation & international human rights lawyer, Renate Avila talked about the fight for a better, fairer and more open internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sp0pTbx64
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/at-seagl-2019-free-software-was-in-fine-feather
nice write up on SeaGL 2019. With special mention of someone really cool: https://github.com/ecmonsen
@purism what is the battery capacity in watt-hours for the Librem 13 laptop?
This is a critical read about human rights and modern life, especially for folks in the tech world: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
Check out Facebook's response in the full report, too.
I noticed a suicidal user on Hacker News, a popular tech news blog / discussion forum. I let the Hacker News staff know via their email contact link and I'll recommend the suicide prevention line to the user.
Anyone have any other ideas on how I might be able to help them?
Adam Monsen
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“The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is.”
Yep, that’s Amnesty International saying that.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
Adam Monsen
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Come join my research collective @comdatasci! Applications to work directly with me at @UwCom are due 12/1. I'm happy to talk about the possibility of joining our group either this round or at some point in the future!
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RT @comdatasci
It's grad school application seaso@comdatasci@twitter.activitypub.actore considering a PhD in communication, infor@UwCom@tw…
https://twitter.com/comdatasci/status/1197662920580009984
Some cool collaboration/sync/privacy research by Kleppmann et al at Ink & Switch: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html . Nextcloud should have got at least an honorable mention ( https://nextcloud.com/ ).
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) sound cool.
Many interesting links in there, including the library of congress recommended formats: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/TOC.html
Taking about trends in gendered language, using Ann Leckie's amazing book Ancillary Justice as an example of a story with all gender neutral pronouns or "gender flattening." At Eva Monsen's talk on the Regender project. #seagl2019 @SeaGL
Eva Monsen's stellar talk using Natural Language Processing to flip genders in text! #seagl2019
Sage Sharp rocks! We can create an environment where impostor syndrome will not exist. #seagl2019
Adam Monsen
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RT @abbycabs@twitter.com
I’ve always been interested in drawing digitally but never have. And now, a 10 year old is demonstrating how she creates digital characters using open source @Krita_Painting@twitter.com and it’s MAGICAL ✨🧙♀️
Thank you #SeaGL2019
#seagl2019 Mako at the helm. "Strategic openness is strategic closedness"
Adam Monsen
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Calling all Faifcast fans! Our Executive Director @o0karen0o and Distinguished Technologist Bkuhn are going to be doing a LIVE podcast this weekend at SeaGL. If you can get to Seattle, you'll get to see the magic in person. https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2019/program/proposals/711
Adam Monsen
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"Wanna know what makes SeaGL special? We're FREE, we provide childcare, and we have a tea meetup called TeaGL! Learn more here and see you FRIDAY!!!"
Adam Monsen
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Calling all #Tesla owners: let's discuss the source code for the #GPL'd parts of your car! Learn how to join the conversation with us at https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-owners/
Adam Monsen
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slides are in for #OhioLinuxfest talk next weekend
See you in #Columbus
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