#techlash — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techlash, aggregated by home.social.
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"“Everyone, collectively, is feeling this sense of the world is shifting around us,” Venkatasubramanian says. “We don’t know how it’s going to play out, but the people we look to, whether it’s [national] politicians or tech leaders seem to have no answers or don’t care.”
AI ethicists for years have been saying that building guardrails and protections around AI tools is like adding seatbelts to cars and lanes to highways, he points out. The regulation allows people to go fast in a safer way.
“You don’t get to a place of trust by just convincing people to trust companies and others, you get to it by acting,” Venkatasubramanian says. “And those actions at the national level have been few and far between. The states have tried very hard to legislate, but they’re also being hampered, ironically, by the very tech companies who parachute into states and block them from doing anything to build more trust and to put up guardrails on AI.”
In addition to regulation of energy use, pollution, and environmental impact, there must also be genuine corporate accountability, Nelson says.
“Actual governance structures with teeth,” Nelson says. “The path forward is not better messaging. It’s sharing power.”"
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French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO
Basically all European tech regulation is envy & avarice, not user protection:
France’s National Assembly voted Tuesday night in favor of hiking a digital service tax on tech companies including Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon to 6 percent, up from 3 percent … Lawmakers had initially pushed to hike the levy to 15 percent to hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war
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Global Leaders, AI Pioneers Demand Superintelligence Ban, Citing Existential Risk
#AI #Superintelligence #AIRegulation #AISafety #Techlash #ExistentialRisk #FutureofLife #AIEthics #TechPolicy #OpenAI #Meta #GeoffreyHinton #SteveWozniak
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Paul Krugman highlights a troubling trend: under Trump's presidency, America's scientific and educational landscape faces peril as Big Tech shifts allegiances from Democrats. Key issues include slashed science funding and rising intimidation that hinders foreign scholars. Amid a growing public distrust, once-esteemed tech figures now grapple with backlash. This shift prompts questions about the ethics of tech leaders and their alliance with Trump’s administration. Read more here: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats #PaulKrugman #BigTech #Democrats #Trump #ScienceFunding #Techlash #Regulation #SocialMedia #BidenAdministration
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How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy | MIT Technology Review (2024-12-13)
“Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back.”
“Two of the more recent additions to the flourishing #techlash genre—Rob Lalka’s The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits into Power and Marietje Schaake’s The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley—serve as excellent reminders of why it started in the first place. Together, the books chronicle the rise of an industry that is increasingly using its unprecedented wealth and power to undermine democracy, and they outline what we can do to start taking some of that power back…”
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CW: uspol, mask off
Tim Cook To Donate $1 Million To Trump Inauguration
Cook joins other CEOs and companies donating hefty sums to the inauguration.
Amazon, Meta and OpenAI’s Sam Altman also have reportedly each given $1 million to the inaugural fund.
Deadline / https://archive.ph/Lns8K
…seeing all these rich maggots bend the knee to Dear Leader and kiss his ring makes me sick. time for a real #techlash
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Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app - Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044136 #ai-generatedimages #machinelearning #stablediffusion #imagesynthesis #socialmedia #aibacklash #jamescuda #procreate #techlash #firefly #biz #adobe #aiart #ai #x
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Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app - Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044136 #ai-generatedimages #machinelearning #stablediffusion #imagesynthesis #socialmedia #aibacklash #jamescuda #procreate #techlash #firefly #biz #adobe #aiart #ai #x
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Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app - Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044136 #ai-generatedimages #machinelearning #stablediffusion #imagesynthesis #socialmedia #aibacklash #jamescuda #procreate #techlash #firefly #biz #adobe #aiart #ai #x
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Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app - Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044136 #ai-generatedimages #machinelearning #stablediffusion #imagesynthesis #socialmedia #aibacklash #jamescuda #procreate #techlash #firefly #biz #adobe #aiart #ai #x
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Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app - Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. (... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044136 #ai-generatedimages #machinelearning #stablediffusion #imagesynthesis #socialmedia #aibacklash #jamescuda #procreate #techlash #firefly #biz #adobe #aiart #ai #x
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Labour plans to make tech giants liable for reimbursing victims of online fraud, report | …what could possibly go wrong?
It also proposes expanding the Economic Crime Act to include an offence for tech companies that fail to prevent scams on their platforms.
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#Techlash und #Enshittification: Die #Techindustrie hat verlernt, uns zu begeistern
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“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening
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“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening
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“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening
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This year’s business travel is in the books for me: With my return from Web Summit in Lisbon Friday, the rest of 2023 has no more out-of-town conference badges or hotel keys left. That’s pretty exciting, even if CES looms seven weeks away.
11/13/2023: T-Mobile Within Striking Distance of Becoming Fifth-Largest US ISP, PCMag
The way 5G has brought choice and competition to millions of American homes remains an underappreciated story in telecom.
11/14/2023: Is big tech killing trust?, Web Summit
I interviewed Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker and University of California at Irvine professor Veena Dubal about ways that people might reclaim some leverage against tech giants. Our conversation had some hiccups, in the form of acoustics that Whittaker said made it difficult for her to hear me–even while I could hear her mostly fine.
11/14/2023: Strike Up the Bands: White House National Spectrum Strategy Light on Mobile Details, PCMag
I stayed up late Monday to file this post unpacking the long-awaited release of the White House’s spectrum-policy roadmap–and explaining how some of the spectrum bands covered in the document seem unlikely to boost bandwidth to any phones or homes.
11/15/2023: Mozilla: Friends Don’t Get Friends These Tech Gifts, PCMag
I was going to write up the release of the 2023 edition of Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” anti-gift guide based on an advance look at the press release about it, then saw enough questions unanswered by that embargoed release that I decided to wait until the next morning to file. And then this nonprofit’s post announcing the guide had very little in common with the copy I’d seen before.
11/16/2023: Audience with a robot: AGI and a decentralised beneficial Singularity, Web Summit
My first panel Thursday had me interviewing one human, SingularityNet COO Janet Adams, and one non-human, that company’s talking, AI-powered robot Desdemona. I decided to test the robot’s conversational skills by asking her questions based on the Three Laws of Robotics and the Voight-Kampff Test, and she fielded them reasonably well.
11/16/2023: Raising money for robots, Web Summit
In my second panel Thursday, I interviewed Energy Robotics CEO Marc Dassler about the investment climate for robotics startups. We had fewer people show up to watch this, which I think has a great deal to do with this panel being scheduled right before a lunch break.
11/17/2023: Why Qualcomm Wants to Keep More of Your AI Offline, PCMag
I sat down with Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire Wednesday after watching one of his panels, then turned my notes from that interview into this post.
11/18/2023: Starship’s Second Flight Test Burns Bright But Not Quite Long Enough, PCMag
I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters report documenting some fairly gruesome workplace-safety issues with Starship.
#BigTech #Desdemona #EnergyRobotics #fixedWirelessAccess #giftGuide #Lisbon #NationalSpectrumStrategy #onDeviceAI #PrivacyNotIncluded #Qualcomm #roboticsStartups #SingularityNet #SpaceX #spectrumBands #Starship #TMobileHome5G #techlash #Verizon5GHome #WebSummit
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This year’s business travel is in the books for me: With my return from Web Summit in Lisbon Friday, the rest of 2023 has no more out-of-town conference badges or hotel keys left. That’s pretty exciting, even if CES looms seven weeks away.
11/13/2023: T-Mobile Within Striking Distance of Becoming Fifth-Largest US ISP, PCMag
The way 5G has brought choice and competition to millions of American homes remains an underappreciated story in telecom.
11/14/2023: Is big tech killing trust?, Web Summit
I interviewed Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker and University of California at Irvine professor Veena Dubal about ways that people might reclaim some leverage against tech giants. Our conversation had some hiccups, in the form of acoustics that Whittaker said made it difficult for her to hear me–even while I could hear her mostly fine.
11/14/2023: Strike Up the Bands: White House National Spectrum Strategy Light on Mobile Details, PCMag
I stayed up late Monday to file this post unpacking the long-awaited release of the White House’s spectrum-policy roadmap–and explaining how some of the spectrum bands covered in the document seem unlikely to boost bandwidth to any phones or homes.
11/15/2023: Mozilla: Friends Don’t Get Friends These Tech Gifts, PCMag
I was going to write up the release of the 2023 edition of Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” anti-gift guide based on an advance look at the press release about it, then saw enough questions unanswered by that embargoed release that I decided to wait until the next morning to file. And then this nonprofit’s post announcing the guide had very little in common with the copy I’d seen before.
11/16/2023: Audience with a robot: AGI and a decentralised beneficial Singularity, Web Summit
My first panel Thursday had me interviewing one human, SingularityNet COO Janet Adams, and one non-human, that company’s talking, AI-powered robot Desdemona. I decided to test the robot’s conversational skills by asking her questions based on the Three Laws of Robotics and the Voight-Kampff Test, and she fielded them reasonably well.
11/16/2023: Raising money for robots, Web Summit
In my second panel Thursday, I interviewed Energy Robotics CEO Marc Dassler about the investment climate for robotics startups. We had fewer people show up to watch this, which I think has a great deal to do with this panel being scheduled right before a lunch break.
11/17/2023: Why Qualcomm Wants to Keep More of Your AI Offline, PCMag
I sat down with Qualcomm chief marketing officer Don McGuire Wednesday after watching one of his panels, then turned my notes from that interview into this post.
11/18/2023: Starship’s Second Flight Test Burns Bright But Not Quite Long Enough, PCMag
I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters report documenting some fairly gruesome workplace-safety issues with Starship.
#BigTech #Desdemona #EnergyRobotics #fixedWirelessAccess #giftGuide #Lisbon #NationalSpectrumStrategy #onDeviceAI #PrivacyNotIncluded #Qualcomm #roboticsStartups #SingularityNet #SpaceX #spectrumBands #Starship #TMobileHome5G #techlash #Verizon5GHome #WebSummit
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📌 What if it's the creative industry - not tech - powering real innovation?
https://www.cityam.com/tech-investors-sound-alarm-over-five-urgent-issues-choking-uk-innovation/ #tech #innovation #techreckoning #techlash #creators #CreatorEconomy
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Please note: Techlash is now the "Tech Reckoning"
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-days-of-endless-big-tech-perks-are-coming-to-an-end-2022-10?r=US&IR=T #techlash #TechReckoning #CreditCrunch #MoveFastBreakThings #SiliconValley #techlash
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Please note: Techlash is now the "Tech Reckoning"
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-days-of-endless-big-tech-perks-are-coming-to-an-end-2022-10?r=US&IR=T #techlash #TechReckoning #CreditCrunch #MoveFastBreakThings #SiliconValley #techlash
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Please note: Techlash is now the "Tech Reckoning"
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-days-of-endless-big-tech-perks-are-coming-to-an-end-2022-10?r=US&IR=T #techlash #TechReckoning #CreditCrunch #MoveFastBreakThings #SiliconValley #techlash
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Please note: Techlash is now the "Tech Reckoning"
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-days-of-endless-big-tech-perks-are-coming-to-an-end-2022-10?r=US&IR=T #techlash #TechReckoning #CreditCrunch #MoveFastBreakThings #SiliconValley #techlash
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Please note: Techlash is now the "Tech Reckoning"
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-days-of-endless-big-tech-perks-are-coming-to-an-end-2022-10?r=US&IR=T #techlash #TechReckoning #CreditCrunch #MoveFastBreakThings #SiliconValley #techlash
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I was watching a webinar with Professor Neil Selwyn
“Rethinking Edtech for an age of climate climate”
and he used the word Techlash as a term for technology backlash. I had to stop watching because it was such a brilliant word. Here is the video
https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/92640
I will go back to watching it once I have got used to the term techlash
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@sten Given the #techlash at both general and regulatory levels in the US and EU, I'd give a strong disagree to that first.
And given expert-level criticism of proposals, especially from unaffiliated / independent researchers, I'd tend to repsect that over either motivated interests from vendors, their staff / employees / officers / business partners. Or the lay public, which tends to be known for 1) failing to grasp complex projects and 2) falling for overly-simplistic and ultimately inappropriate models or concepts.
Your catalogue of password faults is ... grossly incomplete.
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#TIL a new word: techlash
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/techlash #techlash -
Young People, Digitalisation and #Techlash. Listen to the coordinator of our Youth project discussing the impact of digitalisation on young people: https://eu-coe-youth-partnership.transistor.fm/episodes/young-people-digitalisation-and-techlash
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Will we just accept our loss of #privacy, or has the #techlash already begun? Alan Rusbridger in The Observer: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/02/will-we-just-accept-our-loss-of-privacy-or-has-the-techlash-already-begun
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✊ Une décennie d'activisme numérique : l'heure du bilan.
Les révoltes dans le secteur technologique, chez les cols bleus et les cols blancs, sont plus nombreuses que jamais et convergent de mieux en mieux. #Techlash #OnEstLaTech
http://maisouvaleweb.fr/tirons-les-enseignements-dune-decennie-dactivisme-numerique/
