Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

Jeff Brown is supposed to be an outsider, but he seems to be doing insider dirty campaign tricks.

"the board alleges that Brown helped raise millions of dollars on behalf of the super PACs, who in turn used that money to support Brown’s campaign."

https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/mayorsrace/city-ethics-board-alleges-jeff-browns-mayoral-campaign-violated-campaign-limits/article_6114c145-0e1a-59b1-8bcf-c67354747f5e.html

"We Keep Promoting Performative Social Media, Not Valuable Social Media

Think about that. Twitter penalizes the discoverability of tweets that contain links. That SHOULD be a valuable service. And yet, Mister Musk doesn't see anything that way. He's not running the site to build it. He's just.. well, what do any of us know? "

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oh-twitter-chris-brogan/

WAY past time for this! We've lived in a multilingual for a very long time now. We have to acknowledge that and act on it with policy.

https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-multilingual-alert-system-office-emergency-management/

See https://www.npr.org/2023/03/18/1162659715/russian-53rd-anti-aircraft-missile-brigade-ukraine-mh17

https://newsie.social/@rvawonk/110167439937678249

"No matter what has happened, no matter what we’ve done—none of us are beyond redemption. Even in the brutality of Jesus’ execution there is evidence of this."

#Easter #stoicism

https://buff.ly/43jqxgz

"There is a ‘Play’ button on the JBL Bluetooth speaker case, and this is wired into the PIC18F chip. When this button is pressed, the burst of CAN messages changes slightly and they instruct the door ECU to unlock the doors (as if the ‘unlock’ button on the wireless key had been pressed). The thieves can then unhook the CAN Injector, get into the car, and drive it away."

#security #cars #theft

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/

"NEW from us:

*Seven* ethics experts — who’ve served in Republican & Dem admins — told us Thomas needed to disclose his fancy free trips.

They said if Thomas is arguing otherwise, he’s simply wrong.

“Not in any universe,” says one."

-Eric Umansky
(@ericuman)

https://propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-response-trips-legal-experts-harlan-crow

"Ok - here we go. We were able to create a link to give to both Justin Pearson and Justin Jones.

The Republicans can kick them out, but they can't stop them from running in the special election.

Let's go!"

--Senator Chris Murphy

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/tn-leg-csm-tw?refcode=csm-tw2

If you'd like to hear a podcast about the separation of church and state, try Unreasonable!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unreasonable/id1677942628

I am on the call now!

I haven't done this before! I just switched from Independent to Democrat. Let's see how it goes!

I’m attending PA Democratic Party’s event, “PA Secular Democrats monthly meeting” – sign up now to join me!

https://www.mobilize.us/padems/event/458391/?referring_vol=6031665&rname=Jayson&share_context=schedule-event-chaining-modal&share_medium=twitter&timeslot=3841817

"Both had left the bars with at least one unknown person before their bank accounts were drained of thousands of dollars using facial recognition access on their phones, according to their family members."

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/police-name-three-suspects-connection-nyc-gay-bar-killings-rcna77762

"The said former worker, the perpetrator in this case, used to access computers for plant monitoring purposes. At the time of his departure, his access credentials were not revoked. This is where the plant authorities committed a blunder."

#cybersecurity #infrastructure

https://kratikal.com/blog/cyber-attack-haunts-a-public-water-supply-system-again/

“Social media was once about connection; it’s now about performance."

#socialmedia

https://getpocket.com/collections/is-social-media-making-us-stupid

"As models improve their performance when scaling up, they may also increase the likelihood of unpredictable phenomena, including those that could potentially lead to bias or harm."

"social bias emerges with enormous numbers of parameters. “Larger models abruptly become more biased.”"

#ai

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316/

"Advantage plans give health insurance companies much more power to deny coverage — and those denials are being based on predictive algorithmic tools rather than medical personnel."

#retirees #healthinsurance #algorithm

https://www.theverge.com/23664533/medicare-advantage-healthcare-algorithm