Ron Baecker

@CharlieWurzel writes interestingly about his process of building to follow 2000 people on #Twitter, feeling overwhelmed, nuking them all, then rebuilding, leveraging recommendations from people he has grown to trust, see @TheAtlantic. #socialMedia

I am speaking Friday at noon EST at TEDxUofT Salon on Ethical Tech Startups: The Keys to Success. Register at bit.ly/3kXFVKD. #startup #entrepreneur #ethics #techevents

Worth reading is a comprehensive thoughtful paper, Telelife: The Future of Remote Living, discussing the marriage of #virtual reality and remote #collaboration technologies and issues such as #privacy, #security, #accessibility, and #ethics, see bit.ly/3MSMg67.

Another firing of an #AI researcher at #Google, the internal conflict illustrating the global battle for the soul of AI, and the deep social and ethical issues underlying its deployment, see nyti.ms/3FekaQe. Learn more at compsocietytexts.com..

Amidst the understandable media sound and fury about the soul of @Twitter and the real risks posed by Elon Musk's purchase, this @NYTimes essay about the experience of being harassed on the platform is the most moving, see nyti.ms/3krWtdo.

Wealth, ego and arrogance — @ElonMusk — buys @Twitter. There is much in the news, but I recommend the very thoughtful and scary essay by @CharlieWarzel in his @GalazyBrain newsletter, see bit.ly/3vNhX9M. #FreeSpeech #HateSpeech #Disinformation #ContentModeration

Read at nyti.ms/36FWtmY a compelling essay by @MoiraWeigel discussing the dangers resulting from purchases through Amazon of #unsafe goods from 3rd party sellers, insufficiently vetted and supported by purchased fake reviews. Learn more at computers-society.org.

Tune in today at 12:15 PST for former President @BarackObama's speech at @Stanford on the threats to #democracy from #disinformation on the #internet. See bit.ly/38c5btl

The @NYTimes seeks to learn about experiences with software that monitors for cheating on online tests by watching eye movements, listening for whispers, and tracking online activity, see nyti.ms/3vtjhyB to tell your story. #privacy #surveillance

@BrettFrischmann @elonmusk @internetarchive What a wonderful idea !!

Will @ElonMusk's purchase of 9.8% of #Twitter lead to an effort to change its content moderation of #disinformation and #hateSpeech in favour of unfettered #FreedomOfSpeech, see bit.ly/3viOi8g and nyti.ms/3vi1SZA. Learn at compsocietytexts.com.

A fascinating article in @Bloomberg's chronicles @Amazon's decade-long unsuccessful attempt at #drone delivery, plagued by technical challenges, safety concerns, high turnover, and competition from @Alphabet, @Walmart, and @UPS, see bloom.bg/3KyYmQX

A bill now in Canada's Parliament, patterned after an Australian law, allows local media firms to negotiate with major digital platforms for fair compensation for their work, supported by binding arbitration, see bit.ly/3NO8sQ2, @Comp4Good.

Insightful political journalist @ThomasFriedman calls the War in #Ukraine "World War Wired" —the first true #worldwar — in which almost everyone on the planet can observe and even participate using modern #digitalmedia, see nyti.ms/3KdEZgb.

@MichaelSpencer writes about #China's use of #AI to design better hypersonic engines and its drive towards fully autonomous hypersonic missiles that travel five times the speed of sound or faster, see bit.ly/3DmH1Iq. Learn more at compsocietytexts.com.

My review of the excellent and important new book — Human-Centered AI by Emeritus Professor @BenShneiderman appears today on the blog at computers-society.org.

Representative (from Silicon Valley) Ro Khanna focuses on skills training and job creation and on the control of #BigTech in a thoughtful new book, A Manifesto for Dignity in a Digital Age. A review may be found at bit.ly/357BhWe. Learn more at computers-society.org.

#Turing Award Winner @YannLeCun discusses his research on self-supervised learning by artificial neural networks and suggests "amplification of human intelligence" as a major goal for #AI, see #VentureBeat bit.ly/3NnIanJ. Learn more at compsocietytexts.com.

#Wired reports on the huge role that #Tiktok is playing with videos about the war in #Ukraine ... some have been viewed tens of millions of times ..., and its failure to remove misleading #disinformation and stop sabotage, see bit.ly/364NAD6.

Uber seems to be working hard to enhance safety and establish more trust with both drivers and passengers, see nyti.ms/3JbUfK5. Learn more at compsocietytexts.com and computers-society.org.