Dan Gillmor
Dan GillmorIn every financial bubble, apoiogists for the reckless spenders say "It's different this time."
Read between the lines here, and you're seeing echoes of that always-wrong justification for the unjustifiable.
https://qz.com/ai-bubble-debt-market-corporate-bonds-oracle
Dan GillmorUS Border Patrol's abuses long predate the Trump regime, but are increasing by orders of magnitude now. Here's some excellent AP reporting on just one way the government spits on civil liberties: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd
Dan GillmorJust in case you had the slightest doubt about what Elon Musk is doing with X/Twitter, look at this brief thread. He is one of the true monsters of our era, and he uses X/Twitter to guide his fellow right-wing extremists to ever-more-extreme places.
If you are still there, you should be ashamed.
Dan GillmorThe deeply anti-semitic Trump regime tells Coast Guard to stop classifying the swastika as a symbol of hatred.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/u-s-coast-guard-will-no-longer-classify-swastikas-nooses-as-hate-symbols/
Dan GillmorAI-generated "evidence" is infecting the legal system. Until judges come down HARD on the the lawyers doing this stuff -- and until some of the lawyers are disbarred -- these sleazebags will poison the system completely.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976
Dan GillmorMust-read:
So-called "age verification" laws are spreading.
They will not protect kids.
They are grossly insecure.
They will be tools of censorship, surveillance, and oppression.
They amount to requiring a license to speak -- and to read.
We have to stop this.
https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with
Dan GillmorThe brilliant historian Heather Cox Richardson makes the case that Vance and the oligarchs/fascists who own him are laying the groundwork to remove Trump. Once they've ensured their control over -- well, everything -- he's gone.
Is Trump that oblivious?
https://archive.ph/QRSBi
Dan GillmorSurveillance tech CEO Dan Heinen says "It's not my job to play the ethics game" regarding the (ab)use of his product.
Right, and as the great Tom Lehrer sang: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."
https://www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-geospy-an-ai-tool-that-can-geolocate-photos-in-seconds/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
Dan GillmorTrump regime is eviscerating labor rights, and Trump's judges are offering their slobbering approval to what what is clearly against the law.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-federal-workers-unions-terminate-contracts
(I'm still waiting for Big Journalism to wake the hell up to the impending dictatorship.)
Dan GillmorSomeone I respect wrote this: "Because network and attention trump everything. People understand how difficult it is to get attention" -- and I was sad to read it.
We've capitulated to the worst people because we can't understand that honor and integrity matter more than attention. Or should...