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I just heard something so chilling, and yet plenty familiar to privacy advocates—that the Taliban has seized American biometric and facial recognition equipment, which it could use to identify U.S. collaborators.

I hate when people overhype things on on twitter so I will just state calmly that this is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life

My latest short story is called "Lena". qntm.org/mmacevedo

This incredibly disturbing fake wikipedia page about the historic first guy to have his consciousness uploaded to a computer should win a Hugo award: qntm.org/mmacevedo from @qntm:

There's the no-fly list, which Ottawa told you about. But then there's TUSCAN, which it didn't. theguardian.com/world/2018/jun…

"Humans as a Service" (via @JeremiasPrassl)

I 100% believe that Americans are only flipping out about Facebook right now because of the Russian connection. Europeans aren't intrinsically more privacy focused: people just don't trust *foreign companies* with their data.

Do👏🏼not👏🏼play👏🏼devil’s👏🏼advocate👏🏼unless👏🏼you👏🏼have👏🏼passed👏🏼the👏🏼bar👏🏼and👏🏼are👏🏼currently👏🏼representing👏🏼Satan👏🏼in👏🏼a👏🏼court👏🏼of👏🏼law.👏🏼

[colleagues i barely know start talking about tech and journalism] me: [okay, be cool, keep it casual] we should nationalize facebook

Blockchain is an elaborate work-around for a *very specific problem*: verifying irreversible transfers of value without a centralized authority. In other words, it's a computationally burdensome way to hate the government.

The world in 2017: MasterCard wants to know if refugee camps can be turned into smart cities.

@dvelyk yes! ottawa! everything is v good :)

@dvelyk kk, will DM you with details when i've got them. how are you??

@dvelyk hey! still interested in a Cool Tech Article Club? trying to get something organised; maybe articles biweekly with convos in slack?

@DallanInvictus @dijkstracula You Better BeGlebe it! ... ... (sorry)

Raymond Chandler owning all science fiction writers and casually inventing Google in a letter from 1953