Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Turns out speaking out works.

Microsoft are making significant changes to Recall, including making it specifically opt in, requiring Windows Hello face scanning to activate and use it, and actually encrypting the database.

There is obviously going to be devils in the details - potentially big ones.

Microsoft needs to commit to not trying to sneak users to enable it in the future, and it needs turning off by default in Group Policy and Intune for enterprise orgs.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

“What would be informative: A minute or two of unedited video showing Trump’s rambling, incoherent and deranged rants. Rather than merely “fact check” the nonsense blizzard, reports can explore the unprecedented nature of his rhetoric, illustrate the deterioration in his thinking and speech, and discuss how an obviously irrational and unhinged leader casts a spell over his devoted following.” How to report on the election #JenniferRubin — https://wapo.st/45d5wpk

Colorado joins four other states (California, Illinois, Maryland and Minnesota) in banning book bans!

This new bill also:
- makes the names of people trying to ban books public record.
- protects library workers from "the whims of politicians or the demands of the public."

Things like this make me proud to be a Colorado resident.

https://bookriot.com/colorado-passes-anti-book-ban-bill-for-public-libraries/

"While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity"

― NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

There’s an important lesson here: don’t engage in dumb conduct when you are trying to do a critically important job. It doesn’t matter whether Willis’s romantic relationship actually prejudiced her prosecutorial judgment — she had to know how it would look if the defendants made an issue of it, and that they were definitely going to make an issue of it. It’s a shame because on the merits her case is excellent. https://wapo.st/3Vado6q

OpenAI is going through a similar problem Google has been going through for years.

You hire a bunch of engineers and sell them on a mission but then it turns out their principles get in the way of the company making money so they feel betrayed.

Then you start firing them.
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-employee-says-he-was-fired

When you hear "college educated white folk," picture:
* A barista at a Starbucks in Portland
* Pam and Jim from The Office
* Military officers
* Teachers

None of these people are making bank.🤷🏿‍♂️ They're slightly pro-Trump or pro-Biden, depending on the region.

When you hear "non college educated white folk," picture:
* Tech startup founders that drop out of college
* Trades business owners (plumber, electrician, etc)
* 70% of real estate agents
* 77% of sheriffs

Rich. Very Trumpy, everywhere.