lavahot @lavahot@qoto.org
Joined Sep 2020
@kairyssdal just listened to your Tuesday episode of Make Me Smart. I wanted to say that given Elon's notorious manipulations of his money, it would not at all be surprising that he gave his money away to himself.
Take the Padagonia owner's "generous" donation of his company to "charity." What he actually did was give his company in a trust to a charity that he and his family control. Basically, it's a way to ensure that his wealth stays with his family.
Given that you said we don't know where Elon sent his Tesla stock, we really don't know that he's actually done anything good by giving it to "charity."
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TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance spied on Forbes journalists, including me. Read the shocking story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance
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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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Friends new and old!
My first Mastodon post.
For the past 5 months, I've worked on a two-part investigation with Floodlight's Miranda Green & Mario Ariza.
The details are pretty bananas. And they get at the grim truth of what flourishes as local news coverage withers.
Part 1:
How power company cash secretly flowed to a half-dozen news sites in Alabama and Florida that assailed their critics
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Power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm
Especially dangerous because of the greater trust people have in local news - see my Upshot column https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/upshot/fake-local-news.html
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About that alleged stalker incident in L.A. that Musk blamed on the ElonJet account: It took place a day after Musk's jet landed and 26 miles away: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/
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Here’s what really happened in the stalking incident Musk cited to ban @elonjet. Read @drewharwell and my latest story https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/ #twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #technology
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Taylor Lorenz suspended from twitter after seeking a comment on a story from Musk. Susan Li of Fox also still suspended for covering the story and Linette Lopez for simply covering Tesla - nothing to do with Musk’s location.
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Actually, the social media platform is John Mastodon's Monster
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Out of control speculation led to the Great Crash of 1929.
Wall Street deregulation led to the financial crisis of 2008.
Crypto delusion led to the crypto crash in 2022.
The worst is yet to come — just look at FTX.
All Ponzi schemes topple eventually. Crypto is no different.
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RT @CNBCnow
HP Inc. laying off 4,000-6,000 employees globally over the next three years https://cnb.cx/3hZUXkR
@kairyssdal I just finished listening to your Friday show and you briefly spoke about the fake Eli Lily tweet about free insulin and how their stock tumbled as a result. Specifically you said, "it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt." I have to say that really rubbed me the wrong way. LLY charges an extortionate amount for insulin: ~$270 for a cost of about $10. They are making this drug that people require to live prohibitively expensive.
I get that you're trying to show how twitter's new leadership is drunk at the wheel, but you maybe picked the worst example to sympathize with. Because seriously, FUCK Eli Lily.
This dog next door is yowling like a divorced dad who really fucked up the custody hearing and doesn't know what to do with himself.
Joined Sep 2020
