As someone who is getting married soon, this lowkey freaks me out.
wilfred
architectural historian. comic book reader. underbiker. born and raised in loisaida.
Another cool website that shows different visualization of population data.
Please, read end-user license agreements of any service you might use!
"Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active.
Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to imagine anyone is comfortable with almost a decade of their Discord messages sitting in a public JSON file online. Separately, a different programmer released a Discord tool called "Searchcord" based on a different data set that shows non-anonymized chat histories."
#privacy #media #discord #scraping #database #messages #json #research #tech #News
https://www.404media.co/researchers-scrape-2-billion-discord-messages-and-publish-them-online/
ACTUALLY WILD (but not unexpected)!
"High poverty rates underscore the fact that Californians’ costs for housing, utilities, fuel and other necessities of life are among the nation’s highest. In some high-cost counties, California’s housing department considers adults making more than $100,000 a year to be poor in terms of qualifying for housing assistance.
Being poor from an income standpoint has another aspect that hasn’t gotten as much attention — the even starker stratification of Californians by wealth.
There’s a logical connection between the two. Low family income and high living costs make it more difficult to buy a home, contribute to retirement accounts and otherwise acquire what’s known as generational wealth — assets that can grow and be passed down to heirs."
#poverty #CA #wealth #rates #highcost #income #livingcosts #data
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/05/california-living-costs-poverty/
Absolute thrilling article! Truly harrowing to think how much of our data is just out there. Privacy should be a right, not a luxury.
"It’s not that I thought their life was weird. I could relate, in a world of nearly inescapable surveillance, to the urge to disappear. But the ongoing, escalating effort required felt Sisyphean to me."
If you are in the NYC area this Sunday, check this out!
#nyc #loisaida #festival #annual #events #celebration #PR #outreach
https://evgrieve.com/2025/05/sunday-marks-38th-edition-of-loisaida.html
Surprising but not surprising. Why not try to monetize your data? But also, god knows how this data is going to be used down the road.
“Between the lines: Many younger Americans consider sharing data the tradeoff for being online. They're already giving away their data for free, and are even more willing to share it for cash.
Reality check: Despite their relative comfort with sharing data, Gen Z-ers and millennials are also likelier to pay for increased security or delete data after they're done using a service, McKinsey notes.”
#selling #data #genz #tracker #privacy #sharing #tech #news
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/gen-z-data-privacy-generation-lab-verb-ai
More information on how California’s community college system is addressing fraud. Not sure if this is an appropriate next move.
“When Love Adu, a student and board member, tried to enroll at Moorpark College, she said she was unable to verify her identity online, so she had to drive five hours to present her documents in person. Incarcerated students, undocumented students, homeless students and students under 18 all struggle with the current ID verification software, she said. “These proposals would make it harder for students to get the very education that we’re trying to serve to them.””
#ca #fraud #california #communitycollege #ccc #students #college #financialaid #finances #news
https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/05/community-colleges-california/
Big tech is big tech. Never forget.
““Links were the last redeeming quality of search that gave publishers traffic and revenue,” Danielle Coffey, the CEO and president of News/Media Alliance, said in the statement. “Now Google just takes content by force and uses it with no return, the definition of theft. The DOJ remedies must address this to prevent continued domination of the internet by one company.”
This week, an internal document disclosed as part of Google’s antitrust trial over its search dominance showed that the company decided against asking publishers for permission to have their work included in its AI search features, as reported by Bloomberg. Instead, publishers must opt out of search results completely if they don’t want their work included in AI features.”
#google #news #publishing #ai #search #bigtech #tech #news
https://www.theverge.com/news/672132/news-media-alliance-google-ai-mode-theft
This is going to be a lawsuit worth keeping an eye on.
“In a decision filed today, Judge Anne Conway said that an attempted First Amendment defense wasn’t enough to get the lawsuit thrown out. Conway determined that, despite some similarities to videogames and other expressive mediums, she is “not prepared to hold that Character AI’s output is speech.””
#ai #speech #firstamendment #lawsuit #tech #news
https://www.theverge.com/law/672209/character-ai-lawsuit-ruling-first-amendment
@emma Agreed!
AI slop will get to us all.
"The May 18th issue of the Chicago Sun-Times features dozens of pages of recommended summer activities: new trends, outdoor activities, and books to read. But some of the recommendations point to fake, AI-generated books, and other articles quote and cite people that don’t appear to exist."
LOL. I feel that I could have told you this.
"But a new report from the Center for Policing Equity, a nonprofit research center based at Yale, has found that the system’s fare enforcement is not actually leading to significant new revenue and it’s not making riders feel that much safer.
“BART’s focus on fare evasion recovers minimal revenue, may be addressing an overstated problem, and is not effective at curbing incidents that make riders feel uneasy in the system,” concluded the report, which was released this week."
#bart #eastbay #oakland #ca #fareevasion #safety #transportation #public
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/05/19/bart-fare-evasion-report-safety
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✨ Wipr 2.7 is out now! ✨
This version lets you use Picture-in-Picture on a few popular video sites that intentionally sabotage it.
It also adds support for Hardened Runtime on Mac!
Finally, lots of fixes as always 🫡
Wow. Another reason to not use Meta products.
“With more than 3 billion daily users on Meta’s platforms, fraud is hardly a new phenomenon for the company. But fed by the rise of cryptocurrencies, generative AI and vast overseas crime networks based out of Southeast Asia, the immensity of Meta’s scam problem is growing and has been regularly flagged by employees over the past several years.
Current and former employees say Meta is reluctant to add impediments for ad-buying clients who drove a 22% increase in its advertising business last year to over $160 billion. Even after users demonstrate a history of scamming, Meta balks at removing them.”
#meta #scam #cryptocurrency #ai #fraud #problem #public #facebook #bigtech #tech #news
https://archive.ph/2025.05.16-113440/https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fraud-facebook-instagram-813363c8
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Extremely alarming! Important to know what is happening at the federal level regarding AI regulation.
#ai #CA #regulation #protections #federal #state #policy #law #tech #news
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/05/state-ai-regulation-ban/
1/5
Highlights the importance of right-to-repair.
“The US military is a major force for manufacturers to contend with — and Warren hopes that adopting repairability rules will have a ripple effect far outside it. “The Army’s commitment to right to repair shows other industries that they can do the same,” Warren says. “If it can happen here, it can happen in farm equipment, farmers, washing machines, consumer electronics… and every place else that big manufacturers have tried to take two bites at the apple: the initial price and another bite at the consumer to cover subsequent repairs.”l
#righttorepair #army #us #repairs #manufacture #tech #news
https://www.theverge.com/news/668414/army-right-to-repair-elizabeth-warren
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