Monthly Archives: March 2019

Sexual reeling

Who thought sharing sensitive data about sexual orientation could be an issue? Grindr’s Chinese owner forced to sell service over US security concerns, says report – The Verge Would one be so out of touch to draw a parallel line to the Breed Ready Rewards Status? An exposed database tracked whether 1.8 million Chinese women […]

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

I recall reading this some time ago: Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claims that algorithms, which are driven by math, are racist pic.twitter.com/X2veVvAU1H— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 22, 2019 People took pains to educate him, to no avail. Though it spurred an interesting conversation from scholars But I didn’t expect this: Stanford just launched their […]

Surveillance capitalism

The book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff is out. Don’t miss it.

Logic

The Logic magazine (logicmag.io) turns two, with their unique take on tech. They’re celebrating two years at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco on March 5th, 2019, with a great roaster of speakers: Alexis Madrigal (The Atlantic) Julie Carrie Wong (The Guardian) Megan Rose Dickey (Tech Crunch) Fred Turner (Stanford) Logic turns two