There are many more bad tech products to avoid. But I keep coming back to @hypervisible.blacksky.app and David Golumbia’s concept of luxury surveillance.

We need to really think about the surveillance tech we’re adopting — and certainly that we’re pushing on others.

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500 untested rape kits in Maine but you’re focusing on two teenagers playing high school athletics in the name of protecting girls. You are not a serious person.

Grunt work is, by definition, boring and tedious, but in many fields, that’s how you learn. At the moment, those of us who have done it can tell when AI gets it wrong. If you never do the work, you never learn, and can’t tell when AI is wrong.

Eeeee

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