In 1996 Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ and accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news. Gates didn’t believe him. pic.twitter.com/MqjawT4NVV
— Marc Burrows⚡️ (@20thcenturymarc) May 28, 2019
Tag: misc.
Cyberpenetration
Uproar over Trump dropping demand China cease cybertheft? Reality: China&US cyberpenetrate each other's newest technologies. "Deal" cannot solve problem: US private industries need to implement much stronger, more costly shielding of US tech advances https://t.co/QvootAf9Au
— Harald Malmgren (@Halsrethink) May 1, 2019
Important to understand: Backdoors in chips (made wheresoever) cannot be detected by external data analysis as long as they "sleep". The only way to detect such moles would be to analyze the silicon. That's possible, but extremely expensive.
— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) May 2, 2019
Decline in Human Empathy Creates Global Risks in the ‘Age of Anger’
Urbanization and the growing use of technology is increasing social isolation
— FT Content Solutions (@ft_content) April 9, 2019
It Is Requisite That Great Numbers of People Should Be Ignorant
… in a free Nation where Slaves are not allow’d of, the surest Wealth consists in a Multitude of laborious Poor; for besides that they are the never-failing Nursery of Fleets and Armies, without them there could be no Enjoyment, and no Product of any Country could be valuable. To make the Society happy and People easy under the meanest Circumstances, it is requisite that great Numbers of them should be Ignorant as well as Poor. Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply’d.
Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, 1714
Chicago is suing the Trump administration over its decision to revoke $4 million in STEM education grant funds that were earmarked for schools that predominantly serve poor Hispanic and black students. https://t.co/Mry2sdN0hP pic.twitter.com/9pX4lmKEWZ
— Jon Steingart (@jonsteingart) November 30, 2018
At Borderline
Thanks to Trump
“A 9-year-old United States citizen was detained at a Southern California border checkpoint for more than 30 hours this week while the authorities said they worked to verify her identity.” She had her passport.https://t.co/zif319IND9 via @nytimes
— Mike Crowley (@MichaelFCrowley) March 23, 2019
Carlson Is Murdochs Bitch
A millionaire funded by billionaires, or, in his own words, “100 percent his bitch”. https://t.co/FpKSpfZjmM
— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) March 12, 2019
Utopia for Realists
Here's the full interview! https://t.co/8LrIcKDwht
— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) March 12, 2019
Black and White
Paul Manafort is a rich white man who stole millions, tampered witnesses & undermined US democracy. He got 4 years in prison.
Crystal Mason is a black woman who mistakenly cast a ballot in a local election. She got 5 YEARS.
Never tell me there is equal justice in this country. pic.twitter.com/7pHUxny6ig
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 8, 2019
Woman sentenced to five years for voting illegally calls out "disparity" after Manafort gets only four https://t.co/gwWf9DUbuq pic.twitter.com/ckAqNl0MP1
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2019
On Guns
State Sen. Stephanie Flowers had a powerful and emotional response to a white lawmaker trying to silence her in a debate on Arkansas' ‘stand your ground’ gun laws pic.twitter.com/aZ1OQg2mOs
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 8, 2019
Correct the Record
A really interesting idea for correcting fake news on social media – from Avaaz.https://t.co/Ut2KuH8laG
— QuantumChoices #FBPE #ABTV (@tfoale) March 3, 2019