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Paul Biggar

Meta and Lavender

Meta and Lavender

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it? Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] -

Tech for Palestine

Tech for Palestine

Press Release: https://techforpalestine.org/press-release "we don’t have the right to show humanity towards Palestinians without being silenced or cancelled" - venture backed tech founder, in personal message to me Tech For Palestine (Twitter, Github) is a collection of over 40 tech founders, engineers, marketers, community

Image of Gaza in late October, showing black cloud of smoke over the ruins of a destroyed G

I can't sleep

I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings

Is Bluesky gonna be a nazi bar?

What happens when a small band of crypto enthusiasts, with innovative ideas around federation and moderation for a distributed social media protocol, find 10,000 left wing shitposters playing in their demo instance? Last week, Bluesky Social, the new and shiny invite-only Twitter clone, had a moment. Some of the

How to fund open source

Again this year, funding for open source is making noise. Throwing their hands in the air, breathless open source advocates on the Orange…

That party was way worse than it sounds

Last week Vanity Fair published a pretty intense article (an excerpt from Emily Chang’s upcoming “Brotopia”) about Silicon Valley’s sex…

Why would Facebook fire Peter Thiel?

Does anyone else think it was kinda insane that people suggested Peter Thiel should be fired from Facebook’s board and as a Y Combinator…