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X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)

An excerpt from You Deserve A Tech Union on deskilling, automation, artificial intelligence, and unions (roadmapmag.com)

the possible titles for this were all bad so this is a wholesale invented title by me to summarize the contents of this link, which i think otherwise is interesting....

We need [Gen AI] literacy like media literacy (jamesg.blog)

Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers....

I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’ (www.404media.co)

joinfirefish.org is a bit messy and compliacted

I thought I would try out firefish/calckey but found a few issues....

Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)

There’s a handy new label to tell you if your gadget is easy to hack or not (www.vox.com)

[SOLVED] New Lemmy Admin

EDIT: With thanks to u/[email protected], I have a solution for cleaning up the one table that is growing ridiculously in size and that is the activity table. A TRUNCATE activity; command cleaned that right up. A word of caution is in order because the Lemmy instance must be shutdown completely and only the postgres container...

Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline (archive.ph)

Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't (theconversation.com)

If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.

ChatGPT's official Android app is ‘coming soon,’ now on Play Store (9to5google.com)

tl;dr: chatgpt for android is now officially available to register for download in the play store

Here’s a rare look at Google’s most lucrative search queries (www.theverge.com)

What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves? (nymag.com)

How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?

These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I’m interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess....

Robots Are Already Killing People (www.theatlantic.com)

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AI images are getting harder to spot. Google thinks it has a solution. (wapo.st)

The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse...

Pregnant Black Woman In The U.S. The Latest Victim Of Detroit PD Facial Recognition False Positive (www.techdirt.com)

Open discussion among MIT professors about "The Impact of ChatGPT" (2023) [22min] (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3650559...

Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture (arstechnica.com)

Pocket for Mac to stop being maintained Aug 15 (help.getpocket.com)

At Pocket, we strive to provide our users with the best possible experience across all platforms. As part of this commitment, Pocket for Mac is no longer supported and may not work as expected. After August 15, 2023, the app will no longer work....

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