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Favoriting June 29, 2020: Mark Zuckerberg finally blinks

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Tonight: Mark Zuckerberg finally blinks



Pointers:

• Snapchat and content collapse, my own description of Snapchat's Juneteenth filter (June 25)

• Reverse-engineering TikTok (via BoredPanda.com, June 25)

• Google promising to delete data after 18 months (NYT, June 24) See also Wolfie Christl's reaction.

• Adobe as data broker, working with Mobilewalla, a broker that is surveilling protesters (Wolfie Christl, June 26). See also Christl's post on Adobe from last fall.

• Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location (BuzzFeed News, June 25): "Data company Mobilewalla used cellphone information to estimate the demographics of protesters." Adobe is a partner of Mobilewalla.

• Air Force Investigates Military Planes That Monitored Protesters (NYT, June 18) and U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aerial Surveillance (NYT, June 19)

• Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (by Kash Hill in the NYT, June 24)

• Interview of Robert Williams, courtesy NBC Today show (June 26)

• Interview of Rappler's Maria Ressa, courtesy Australia's ABC Media Watch (June 23)

• Unilever to Halt U.S. Ads on Facebook and Twitter for Rest of 2020 (WSJ, June 26)

• Jason Kint's thread listing over 40 incidents of awful behavior from Facebook (and counting)

• Wikipedia on Grimes' "We Appreciate Power"

• From Matt Stoller (June 22):



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Listener comments!

Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:01pm
ultradamno:

Mark! Techsistors of the disruptor!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Mark and all!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
ultradamno:

Yeesh. That break the chains thing...John Oliver did a little thing at the end of his show last night on the almost as tone deaf Papa John Tik Toks
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

My guess for today's theme: BIG TECH BAD!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

There was a nice scary article about the internals of the TikTok App and what it seems to collect and transmit.
  6:06pm
Dave Miss:

Howdy hotdogs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
Mark Hurst:

Hi ultra, James, Webham!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
Mark Hurst:

@Webham find that TikTok article linked at left - via boredpanda
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
Mark Hurst:

@Dave hi!
Avatar 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
herb.nyc:

Sports cliché- "Techtonic punches above its weight", and *they* should be scared.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:09pm
ultradamno:

Does Chatroulette still exist? That was stupid.
Avatar ♥ 6:10pm
Cp304:

good evening peoples.. i'm late
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno:

'cause turning your frown upside down is all it took.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

@herb @Cp304 welcome!
  6:12pm
kevlicki:

Hey Mark, did you hear the segment on systemic racism in AI on Democracy now last Friday?

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/26/racist_facial_recognition_technology_joy_buolamwini

Was good but I wish the interviewee mentioned more about how the big tech companies may distance themselves from AI, but the cat is out of the bag, as previous guests here mention.

I gotta go to a meeting now.
Will listen on the archive
  6:12pm
David in London:

Good evening Technoids. Hello Mark.
Hey ultradamno.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

@kevlicki thanks for the pointer
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

@David hello!
Avatar 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
herb.nyc:

SnapChat did that? Come on! Let's have the names of all the executives who approved this.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm
ultradamno:

Hiya DiL!
  6:13pm
ignatatus666:

Hi Mark
FB has the broken chains as an emoji
  6:14pm
Switchblade Batman:

And r/the_donald got permanently banned too!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm
Folsom:

@mark links don't open in new window
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
Mark Hurst:

@Folsom fixed it, try it again
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
Folsom:

@mark it works, thanks!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
Bas NL:

Late! Hi Mark! Hi all!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
Folsom:

@switchblade i heard that all of the users had gone to r/conservative for a while now
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
Mark Hurst:

@Bas hi, welcome!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
Webhamster Henry:

18 months is probably enough data redundancy that losing older data actually makes for a more precise data targeting .
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

In short, it's actually an optimization for them, spun as a security improvement.
  6:19pm
David in London:

That’s a nothingburger with a side order of onion rings and an extra large milkshake.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:19pm
Mark Hurst:

@Webham heh hadn't considered that
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:20pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi spies.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:20pm
listener james from westwood:

Adobe! I and all of my graphics-design chums lean in, ears cocked.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:20pm
Mark Hurst:

@KfHP hi!
  6:21pm
Dave Miss:

I’ve been using Photoshop since the late 80s. Let’s just say Google learned everything they needed to know from adobe. Adobe bought and destroyed any good creative company that had a decent product such as Macromedia‘s full line. I’m sure they have loads of info for sale.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm
Webhamster Henry:

I'm a Pixelmatorist.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm
Mark Hurst:

@Dave you've seen it since the beginning
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:23pm
Bas NL:

It's time to start naming and shaming buyers of these data.
  6:25pm
Switchblade Batman:

@folsom, I heard similar. But a lot of them rage quit reddit to go to some bargain bin reddit clone like voat
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm
Folsom:

what is the military system that uses a high flying plane/drone to get general movement of people, cars, etc and then once they know where to dig down they use local cameras?
Avatar ♥ 6:26pm
Cp304:

@folsom.. skynet?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:27pm
Megaroni:

Yes drones were at more than one rally I attended in NYC, very unsettling
  6:28pm
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Dave Miss, you're so right about Adobe; Macromedia products were brilliant. Still miss them.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm
ultradamno:

Police still pretty much have faith in polygraphs too, don't they?
  6:28pm
Sam:

The courts need to rule that facial recognition software can’t be used to arrest or convict people. Period. Just like the polygraph test. So completely outrageous.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
ultradamno:

Also, if you watch the mini-series Atlanta's Missing & Murdered, your faith in fiber analysis might be called into question as well.
  6:32pm
Sam:

How about every time there’s a grainy crime video and it’s hard to tell who the perp is, the default is they arrest Mark Zuckerberg, until he can prove his innocence.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Fb has been stepping up sloppily justified "violates community standards" post takedowns.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:37pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I know you're not supposed to point lasers at airplanes. What about pointing them at drones?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm
ultradamno:

The principle of fast movin' thing breakin'
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm
Webhamster Henry:

I like the "send eagles after drones" technique.
Avatar 6:39pm
craplivion:

profit driven data mining control and servelience
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:39pm
listener james from westwood:

It's like the Sleeping Giants tactic against Fox News: hit the advertisers and finally, when the money is threatened, the only thing they care about, they'll react.
Avatar 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
herb.nyc:

(Ahem) mark, we know you and all the wfmu DJs and ken and michele and the skeleton crew- yr all in it for the money. End and end.
Avatar 6:41pm
craplivion:

google your email.you may see a bunch of your activity online.
  6:41pm
GListener MW:

Amazing. <3 What a very-needed piece of good news in these trying times
Avatar ♥ 6:42pm
Cp304:

down with the algo's!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno:

Duterte. The worst of the worst.
  6:44pm
ignatatus666:

I clicked on a Honey company that was giving away a jar of honey on FB
Instantly a pop up warning that read they are collecting and using my data if I continue. I immediately backed out
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
ultradamno:

And we've seen this tactic used to target trans children for abuse domestically
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

Jair Bolsonaro is also a piece of work. They don't have to be the worst - there's an easily reached low bar that has been crossed by plenty of "elected" authoritarians.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:48pm
ultradamno:

White supremacists use social media to organize racist attacks amid unrest www.ajc.com...
Avatar ♥ 6:49pm
Cp304:

govt? or deep state lady..
Avatar ♥ 6:50pm
Cp304:

and it aint just the journo's, it's society in a whole
Avatar ♥ 6:52pm
Cp304:

i think drudge said it best.. get out of these internet ghetto's
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm
ultradamno:

I'm still shocked the baby wasn't named Gremlon
  6:53pm
Listener Robert:

I'm glad Mr. Hurst brings up all these subjects for discussion, for the attention they deserve. However, he's always blaming the instrument for the ends it's put to.
  6:54pm
Sam:

Just the fact that you need to consult a special site called deletefacebook.com to delete the damn thing should be warning enough never to sign up!
  6:55pm
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this should be on music of mind control.
  6:55pm
Listener Robert:

Take the bit about face recognition. What's the difference between misidentifying an alleged criminal by putting his picture out and asking people if they recognize him, and doing so via tech, and acting on the result either way?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
ultradamno:

That was really bad.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
ultradamno:

Like hair metal Aqua bad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
dale:

i was question mark - wasn't signed in.
  6:56pm
olivia:

there have been some reviews on this we appreciate POWER song where they're completely boggled by the lyrics. I think the trajectory of grimes place in culture as a "tech" electronic music "siren" is worthy of more analysis....
  6:56pm
ignatatus666:

Just got a fat package full of WoodMoo swag!!
Be patient the swag is coming
Avatar 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
herb.nyc:

More power to mark and wfmu!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
WR:

Thank you Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
listener james from westwood:

Thanks, Mark!
Avatar 6:57pm
craplivion:

thanks for another interesting show
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Mark! Keep fighting the fight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
chresti:

Thanks Mark!
Avatar ♥ 6:57pm
Cp304:

Thanks Mark, good listening..
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, everyone!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
ultradamno:

I wish I changed my handle to "and the mysterians" and got a message right underneath it.
  6:57pm
Thanks:

Mark
  6:58pm
David in London:

Thanks Mark.
Ecraser l’infame,
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
WR:

Mark is a messenger, we all have to fight the fight...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

Lota news this week! Meanwhile, Disney is pumping up the deepfakes: www.theverge.com...
  6:58pm
Listener Robert:

You think Facebook wouldn't be working with any big customer, or with whomever used their tech to win Philippine elections? They're not to blame for Duterte's policies.
Avatar 6:58pm
Stillwell Coney Islander:

Riveting show tonight Mark. Thank you !
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
listener james from westwood:

Always forget that NIN released that in 1989. My college years had a lotta good music.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:06pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Who's to say that Zuck doesn't have data to blackmail the firms (executives of said firms) that are leaving him?
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