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Just as polluters green-wash their products by bedecking their packaging with green imagery, major tech platforms are opting for style, not substance.

Over the next few years, EMU will use the ASKAP telescope to explore even deeper in the Universe, building on these discoveries and finding more. All the data from EMU will eventually be placed in the public domain, so that astronomers from around the world can mine the data and make new discoveries.

People have the right to communicate privately without backdoors or censorship, including when those people are minors. Apple should make the right decision: keep these backdoors off of users’ devices.

Meanwhile, many black families deliberately opted out of watching the Apollo 11 mission entirely. Neil Maher, a professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, and author of the book “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius,” argued that this was done in protest as well.

“They didn’t go out in the streets and protest, but instead, (during the moon landing) they sat home and watched a baseball game. They consciously did this. This was a conscious act. I want to argue that both of those acts are political and both of those acts are very very important,” said Maher.

The data-brokerage business is so lucrative because it’s so easy. There are scarcely any limitations on who can sell information, who can buy it and who can sell it all over again. Any thoughtful federal privacy legislation would restrict the data that companies can collect from consumers

The Biden administration should harmonize the U.S. approach with that of Europe, committing to require “high quality data, documentation and traceability, transparency, human oversight, accuracy and robustness” for high-risk A.I. sysyems...if a machine is going to decide whether or not you are hired for a job, at the very least you deserve regulatory oversight to ensure that it is using proper data...

...the walkout Wednesday at the company’s Irvine office, and also virtually around the world, was inspired by Activision Blizzard’s response to the lawsuit more than the lawsuit itself.

I'm sure many will find the blockchain component(s) of this system a deal-breaker, the broader concept, blockchain or no, seems compelling. I ran across it searching the web for "IP mixing":

Mysterium Network is a privacy solution at its core. It’s technologically impossible for us to store logs centrally, as traffic is distributed across our global network of residential IPs.

"If we do this well, I think over the next five years or so ... we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”