Laws, regulators, governments and who is actually in charge of AI.
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Cancel the Debates Now: Trump is #NotDebatable
I have a vision. It’s a vision of a Democratic debate stage, and the Dem candidates are asked the question “if you win the nomination, raise your hand if you…
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The Shibboleth and the Miasma
Your word of the day explains all you need to know about the inanity of our modern politics and culture. The word is shibboleth. A shibboleth is any custom or…
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Mass Shootings and the Ouroboros of Language
I have written before about language not being an effective tool to solve our complicated social problems. Despite the deep irony of using language to express this thought, I will…
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C-Beams Glittering in The Dark, Protecting Your Face
We are seeing public calls for banning all face Recognition use by police. Cambridge MA joins the cities considering a ban. I understand why…take a look at the gif above…
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Upcoming Robocall Legislation is a Cosmic Joke
The House has passed new robocall legislation which is likely to pass the Senate and actually create a law that addresses an actual modern concern, the massive waste of time…
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Attempts to Ban Face Recognition and ML Will (and Should) Fail
You can’t ban facial recognition technology as this BuzzFeed screampiece suggests. You can’t ban building a model and querying the model, neural networks, or recording digital video. That genie has…
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George Carlin Made Fun of Me
Mostly I try to stay on-topic for this blog, but I’m going to veer wildly off today to talk a little about George Carlin, and my experience as his webmaster.…
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What’s Your Uptime?
When software and hardware engineers talk about reliable systems, we talk about uptime. This is the idea that a system is reliably doing what it is intended to do, and…
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Corps Control Government with Winks and Jobs
America is cursed with a terrible, creaking Government system only because we were early adopters of the freedom tech the Enlightenment was selling. But I don’t blame my ancestors for…
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The GreatFake
On April 1, 2022, the GreatFake occcurred. It started at 3:30AM Eastern Time, when 17,985 state and local police departments began receiving a slightly elevated number of phony 911 calls.…
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Humans Above Technology
Super excited to announce that the organization behind TrustNoRobot is now a non-profit that has been created to help promote humans above technology. Our simple belief is that technology should…
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Defend Yourself
Before the Modern Map of the World was a given truth, when a nation crossed into the unknown they would simply claim the land and inhabitants as theirs. The age…