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Weekend Edition 1: Facebook Ready For Midterms?
Weekend Edition 2 – Need a Burner Phone? & More
Weekend Edition 3: Instagram Fined, Google Gears Up & More
Weekend Edition 4: Microsoft Screws up Security, Quantum Internet is Coming, and More…
Weekend Edition 5: Ungodly Surveillance, Musk & Twitter and More
Weekend Edition 6: Meta Is Shrinking? Newsome Overreaches Again, and More
Weekend Edition 7: Will He, Won’t He? AI Bill of Rights? And More…
Weekend Edition 8: Musk Investigated By SEC, Chip Ban Working the Way It was Supposed to? And More
Weekend Edition 9: Ebola’s Back? Here we go with the Midterm Health Scare… and More.
Weekend Edition 10: Big Tech In Big $$$ Trouble
Weekend Edition 11: No More Big Data + TikTok Ban and More...
Weekend Edition 12 – Big Tech Go Down the Hole and More!
Weekend Edition 13 – Big Tech, Crypto, FDA Issues, AI, and More
Weekend Edition 14 – China Declares Victory, Meta Passes the Buck, and More
Weekend Edition 15: Elon Plays God, Zuck Whines About Apple, and More
Weekend Edition 16 – TSMC + Bidan in Arizona, Apple Privacy Woes, and More
Weekend Edition 17 – SBF Arrested, Bad Twitter Influencers, Congress Looks to Ban TikTok, and More.
Weekend Edition 18 – Wow, It’s Legal Now... Lol What Hath Been Wrought Over the Holidays?
Weekend Edition 20: ChatGPT Goes to School, Trump Back on Social Media & More
Weekend Edition 19: Crypto, AI, FAA, and Social Media Roundup
Weekend Edition 21: Barely Legal... lol like Google
Weekend Edition 22 – Lots More Big Tech Financial News and More...
Weekend Edition 23 – The AI Wars Are Beginning Now, and More...
Weekend Edition 24 – From AI to Revivals, It’s been a Helluva Week
Weekend Edition 25: Revival & AI This Week... #smh
Weekend Edition 26: Tiktok Ban Coming in US?
Weekend Edition 27: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
Weekend Edition 28: Everybody’s Struggling... Change is Coming & More
Weekend Edition 29: All Sorts of AI News, Financial Follow-up & More
WE 31: Violence, Banks, and AI, Oh My!
Weekend Edition 30: AI News and Moore
Weekend Edition 32: Bob Lee, Twitter Drama & AI for the Week
Weekend Edition 33: Elon, AI, Digital Hygiene Tips, and More
Weekend Edition 34: Holmes, Amazon, Elon, and Social Media, Oh My!
Weekend Edition 35: Bob Lee Killer Pleads Not Guilty, Air Travel & 5G, and More
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Weekend Edition 37: Holmes, Google, and AI News
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Weekend Edition 41 - AI Bonanza
Weekend Edition 42: No More Social Media Collusion?
Weekend Edition 43
Weekend Edition 44: AI Actually Stupid?
Weekend Edition 45 - AI, MS, SBF
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Weekend Edition 47: Fishing For Trump, Phishing, and AI Is Stupid ps 2
Weekend Edition 48: Black Hat 2023+
Weekend Edition 49: Malware, Autistic Hackers, AI, and More Big Tech Nonsense
Weekend Edition 50: Trojan Apps, Teams Now Separate in EU, NVIDIA News, AI, and Tesla Nonsense
Weekend Edition 51: Privacy, on the Rocks
Weekend Edition 52: AI Hype, Arm IPO, Security, Etc
Weekend Edition 53: AI All the Things & More
Weekend Edition 54: More AI Shenanigans, Elon World, and Internet for All?
Weekend Edition 55: Security, Elonworld, SBF Trial, and More...
Weekend Edition 56: Cyber Security, AI, Google Anti-trust News, and Misc
Weekend Edition 57: Whoa! Cyber Security, AI, and Tit-for-Tat from the CCP
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Weekend Edition 60: All Manner of Things
Weekend Edition 59: Now It's Microsoft's Turn...
WE 58 - Let's Roast Facebook
Weekend Edition 2 – Need a Burner Phone? & More
WE 2-1: How to acquire and manage burner phones (make yourself in essence, untraceable) This is either for major privacy wonks or someone like a regime-disapproved journo.
Why would you need one?
To possibly cut costs if you only infrequently use your phone, or to protect yourself from government prying if you are a die-hard conservative and regularly conspireto overthrow the governement or something (just kidding, mostly, on that one).
How do you go about obtaining one?
Decide your price point and desired level of functionality, then purchase a phone that fits you and your needs, then decide on a prepaid carrier to work with, based on where you need to have coverage, etc. Pay in cash. Any card you use is trackable.
How do you use it? Activate, pay in cash. Stay off of your apps, if the device is a “smart” one, and do not connect to any public wifi networks with that device.
Once you are finished using it, factory reset it, and if it is worth anything, resell it or trade it in.
Do you need one? I am privacy sensitive, but if I were really a hardcore privacy wonk, I wouldn’t make these videos, much less stream them, puttng my image and voice online. However, some may genuinely need them. I have a client who is a high profile attorney, and is an outspoken black conservative who is considering this method of keeping himself and his clients free of surveilance. He has had a phone tapped before, and does not want to deal with that again. He purchased one of my Liberated Phones to protect himself a bit more as he makes the switch away from Big Tech in his life, but even he questions the need for burner devices.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-burner-phone/
WE 2-2: AI-Generated Art Piece wins prize at a state competition
Colorado man uses the Midjourney Text-to-image generator to produce a digital art piece, which won first prize in its category in a state competition. Many are offended by this. Believing that he misled the udges as to the nature of how he produced the piece. An AI Text-to-image generator takes images, sometimes thousands, analyzes them, then, based on user prompts, generates an image. What the man did was curate the image pool that the AI drew from, and crafted the prompt to get it very close to what he desired to create, then finished it in photoshop after the AI did most of the work to produce the piece.
I see both sides of the issue here… on one hand, artists who spend their whole lives honing their skill and talent are rightfully scared that, like the automotive factory worker of 40-50 years ago, their skill and benefit to society could be replaced by a machine which can potentially, eventually generate perfectly, technically flawless and even beautiful art pieces. They possibly fear oblivion and irrelevance, so they lash out, calling this unfair or misleading. Ad for the techie side of me, I think that this is guardedly cool. The fact that someone coded this now publically available AI system which can analyze the data contained in the images a user feeds it, then, in concert with a refined prompt, can produce almost exactly what the user envisioned, is amazing. This is a nontrivial thing, you guys. The fact that it won that competition speaks volumes to how far these systems have come in a relatively short time. This is also scary. I am conflicted about this story. What do you think? Should he have been more transparent about the nature of how he produced the piece? Was it right for him to enter the competition to begin with? Let me know in the comments…
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332684/ai-generated-artwork-wins-state-fair-competition-colorado
WE 2-3: Washington State Guns for Being Named a Hydrogen Hub by the DOE.
Big Tech is squrely behind this, as both Amazon and Microsoft are lobbying for this, and “leading the way” with hydrogen powered fleets and factories in the Evergreen State. The fact that Big Tech lives in WA and is very behind these efforts should give us pause. When was the last time that one of these giants actually did something good for the rest of us or the environment without massive government pressure, whether coercive, such as thorugh legal or legislative means, or simply offering mega tax breaks? I can’t think of any.
What is this DOE (US Dept. of Energy) program? It set aside $8 Billion to encourage states to create infrastructure around Hydrogen to help move the country towards green energy. Hydrogen looks promising, but the problem is that the most common (and cheapest) option for producing the usable element is electrolysis, which requires abundant electricity to make work, and it has to be renewable electricity, so CA would be SOL on that. We use too much natural gas, which is allegedly not renewable… not gonna touch that one. Just keep this in mind as this becomes more mainstream, such as with vehicles like the Mirai from Toyota.
WE 2-4: Kid-Friendly Internet?
This week, the CA legislature unanimously voted to give themselves more power to censor the internet for the rest of us. Sorry if that sounds like a cynical reading of this article, but this is what it boils down to. Once the governor signs it into law, it will require any person or business which operates a website which could conceivably serve a minor to change at least some of their sites to be more privacy-conscious, making the settings more accessible to limit data gathering, so that it is easier to prevent your child from being approached by some random adult in a DM, as well as restructure the language of their privacy policies to be more kid-friendly, even to the point of stripping out ad revenue for kid-users, both for websites and apps, even down to admitting where they use addiction fostering tools to encourage kids to pay more attention to the app or site. In principle, I agree with the notion of tech companies not being able to do nefarious things with our kids’ data (even Google, retailers, and news websites), however, this smells like ore gov’t overreach to me. The other issue is how do they enforce this? There has to be a way to get something like this done without the State shoving its way ever deeper into everyday life. This bill is far too ambiguous and ambitious, in my opinion. Ambiguity and ambition do not play well together often…
https://www.wired.com/story/california-aadc-kids-privacy-age-checks/
WE 2-5: Good Guy Google?
Google commits to donating another $20 Million to expand/ support IT/Computer Science eduaction in the US. So they will keep giving grants to organizations with whom they have already worked to further the cause of improving CS education in our country. This feels sublimely self-interested on Sundar’s part, sure there is a veneer of wanting the US to be strong in the field, but ultimately, it is cheaper for them to hire from overseas anyway… ultimately, this move is somewhat confusing to me. I have to admit that it is hard for me to see anything genuinely positive in the things that these tech giants do.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23331954/google-computer-science-funding-grants-sundar-pichai
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