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Dan Blah
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Partner & Dad (blahs.life). Chief Technologist / co-founder (reset.tech). Former lots of things.
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12/ CODA: "I just talked to Elon on the way here. We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened.” It's hard not to laugh, but these people are in control of the United States national security apparatus.
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Mike Waltz smears Goldberg as “the bottom scum of journalists.”
March 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A couple of years ago, I co-authored a report on messaging apps. We looked at how secure they really are and how users themselves often defeat security with their own behaviors. We focused on understanding vulnerable communities: journalists, abortion rights activists…
What is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps | TechPolicy.Press
Results of a technical, design, and policy analysis of encrypted apps from Signal, Telegram, Google, Apple, and Meta.
www.techpolicy.press
March 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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"I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw.
After watching 47 hours of video, I found an alternate reality curated for Trump supporters.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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The government has failed to create any meaningful legislation to stop the tech industry turning products into ultra-powerful skinner boxes. In any other industry Zuckerberg/Pichai would be in front of a senate committee, not being called "innovators."
www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/
There is an extremely-common assumption in the tech media — based on what, I'm not sure — that these companies are all doing a good job, and that "good job" means having lots of users and making lots of money, and it drives editorial decision-making. If three-quarters of the biggest car manufacturers were making record profits by making half of their cars with a brake that sometimes doesn't work, it'd be international news, leading to government inquiries and people being put in prison. This isn’t conjecture. After Volkswagen was caught deliberately programming its engines to only meet emissions standards during laboratory testing and certification, lawmakers around the globe responded with civil and criminal action. The executives and engineers responsible were indicted, with one receiving seven years in jail. Its former CEO is currently being tried in Germany, and has been indicted in the US. And yet so much of the tech industry — consumer software like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even ChatGPT, and business software from companies like Microsoft and Slack — outright sucks, yet gets covered as if that's just "how things are." Meta, by the admission of its own internal documents, makes products that are ruinous to the mental health of teenage girls. And it hasn’t made any substantial changes. Nor has it received any significant pushback for failing to do so. It exercises a reckless disregard for public safety as the auto industry in the 1960s, when Ralph Nader wrote “Unsafe At Any Speed.”
November 13, 2024 at 1:40 PM