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#ElonMusk has sold #X ,his #socialmedia #company ,to #xAI ,his own #ArtificialIntelligence start-up. Why does that makes sense? Well, the two #Musk companies already share many resources. Especially, the AI models of xAI are already trained on #data posted by the X users who, thus, work for free for Elon. Merging both companies will also boost the use of #AI in X, for instance as far as individualized #publicity targeting and large scale manipulation of #publicopinion are concerned.


Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull The Plug On AI Fascism

„The Tech-Right is united, but less by their scattered reactionary ideologies, and more by their shared class interests. They want us divided, thinking we’ll fight each other over the scraps they offer us, or by generating the latest outrage on social media platforms they control.

We need to organize and build around our shared class interests, reaching across divisions, around common goals and struggles. We want homes for everyone. We want a livable planet for our children. We want control over our labor. We want to abolish the systems that are destroying us.

In the 1990s, anarchists, labor unions, anti-sweatshop activists, and environmental groups helped mobilize thousands in militant protests against corporate globalization, all under a Democratic president. Using decentralized networks, independent media, and affinity groups, they helped to create a growing movement, rooted in anti-capitalist analysis and direct action. We did it before, we can do it again.“

The oligarchs want a king. Let’s give them a peasants’ revolt instead.“

Via @igd_news
https://itsgoingdown.org/good-night-tech-right-pull-the-plug-on-ai-fascism/

#Technology #Data #SurveillanceCapitalism #Surveillance #Musk #Zuckerberg #Trump #Fascism #Protest #AI #KI


Don't let Google & co. take over our lives and spaces!
Fuck off #Google!

"Google steals and exploits our #data for profit and turned this behaviour into a norm. It also colonizes our physical spaces. Google canceled its plan for a ‘Google Campus’ in Kreuzberg, Berlin under pressure by the neighborhood; yet it continues its expansion worldwide.
As a decentralized network of people, we want to keep our lives and spaces free from this law- and tax-evading company and its peers, and oppose the dystopian future they offer.
More on our wiki....."
https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://search.fuckoffgoogle.net

#Surveillance #capitalism #Antirepor #Data #Privacy
big above the search bar it says Fuck off Google in different colours
then the search bar

below it says
"Results are sourced through a proxy from Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. to ensure that you do not share any personal or behavioural information with these companies. These results are "neutral", meaning they are not influenced by your profile (you are outside the "filter bubble" used to present you with ads you are more likely to click on...).

This service is brought to you by neighbours from Kreuzberg (Berlin) and an international group working together to drive a "Google Campus" out of our neighbourhood and Google (and its world!) out of our lives. Join us! (Our server does its best to protect your privacy: no logs are stored)."


🕸️ We are doing this conference at Media of Cooperation in June ... It is called THE DATAFIED WEB, and it will be a blast! Registration for #RESAW25 is now open. Please spread widely, and do not forget to check out the marvelous programme at https://www.datafiedweb.net!

Really looking forward to everything, especially the keynotes by @nthylstrup on "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" and @jwyg on "Public Data Cultures"!

#www #history #archive #data #AI #media
Registration open for RESAW 2025 The Datafied Web at Siegen University


Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data

Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if #Musk & #DOGE can’t access #Americans’ most sensitive #data
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/

"Dudek’s threat to block #SSA employees from using the agency’s #IT systems — a move that could halt #SocialSecurity payments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order"

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #Tech #News #US #USA
Headline from Rolling Stone:
Temper Tantrum
Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data

Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

by Andrew Perez
March 21, 2025


DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/weather-service-doge-cuts.html

"These cuts threaten your budget, too. #Insurance companies rely heavily on #data gathered by #NOAA and the #US Geological Survey to assess wildfire, flood, wind and other risks. Some firms are warning that any interruption in data availability could drive insurance premiums for customers even higher."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #USPol #Weather #Climate #News #US #USA
Headline and photo with credit.

Headline: 
DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong?

March 17, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET

Photo:
A collage of a photo of the Earth surrounded by blue-gloved hands holding stethoscopes on a static background.

Credit: Shannon Lin/The New York Times ...Illustration by Shannon Lin/The New York Times; source images by Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images, nisara Tangtrakul/Getty Images, nndanko/Getty Images, lusia599/Getty Images, herstockart/Getty Images


🥳 Congratulations! Dr. Julia Koblitz was awarded with the prize for the best poster at the SWAT4HCLS Conference.
For more information on the DSMZ Digital Diversity platform visit https://hub.dsmz.de/.

#DSMZDigitalDiversity #data #database #FAIRdata


Greenhouse gas #emissions in #Germany fell by 3.4 percent to 649 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in 2024 compared to 2023, #data published by the the German Environment Agency (UBA) showed: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/press/pressinformation/germany-on-track-for-2030-climate-targets


The power of voice (and our devices’ microphones)

• Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations •
Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers…..

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25051283-cmg-pitch-deck-on-voice-data-advertising-active-listening?ref=404media.co

#Amazon #Google #Facebook #data #Privacy #activelistening


Trump & Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the #Authoritarian Playbook

The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of #Corruption
https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-power-sharing-agreement

" #Trump has a novel power-sharing arrangement w/an unelected private citizen who is essentially executing a #HostileTakeover of the US #government to capture #data... & use our country as a laboratory for a new form of #authoritarian techno-governance that requires the wrecking of #Democracy"

#Musk #Tech #Coup #USPol #News #USA #US
Headline from Lucid:
Trump and Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the Authoritarian Playbook

The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of Corruption

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Mar 10, 2025


In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk

https://www.muskwatch.com/p/in-affidavit-former-social-security

"detailed how deputies for #ElonMusk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive #databases...

also warned that careless actions by Musk’s #Doge could lead to interruptions in #SocialSecurity payments."

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #USPol #USPolitics #Data #Privacy #News #US #USA
Headline from Musk Watch:
In affidavit, former Social Security official says DOGE is putting benefits at risk

by Caleb Ecarma
Mar 10, 2025


Trump's attempt to clean up after Elon Musk backfires

One question remains: What is the true motivation behind Musk's #DOGE project?
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/07/attempt-to-clean-up-after-elon-musk-backfires/

"What #Elon is after... All the LLMs have sucked in all the #data. Now they need more to have an advantage.

... #Government is the biggest trove of #information on the planet...

"why do you rob banks? Because that's where the money is. Why do you rob govt agencies? Because that's where the data is."

#Musk #Coup #Tech #USPol #News #USA
Headline:
Trump's attempt to clean up after Elon Musk backfires

One question remains: What is the true motivation behind Musk's DOGE project?

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published March 7, 2025 9:27AM (EST)


This Is Going Even Worse Than Steven Levitsky Expected
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-trump-brought-competitive-authoritarianism-to-america.html

"We’re pretty screwed...

The second thing I didn’t anticipate was the role of #Musk... frightening. We don’t know what he’s going to do with #data. And frankly, at least in democracies, I’ve never seen a concentration of #political, #economic, & #media power as vast as this.

[interviewer]And in an unelected official.

[Levitsky]]In an unelected official, right"

#ElonMusk #Doge #Coup #USPol #Politics #News #USA
Text from article(edited for length):
Many of the warnings in your essay have already turned into reality... Have things accelerated more quickly than you were anticipating when you wrote it? In other words, how screwed are we right now?

We’re pretty screwed. A couple of things are a little worse than I anticipated... Republicans... have been even weaker than I thought... Congress is basically shutting itself down in the wake of the executive branch usurping its power...

The second thing I didn’t anticipate was the role of Musk... That article drew on 20 years of research on competitive authoritarian regimes elsewhere in the world. The kinds of stuff we predicted, a lot of which has come to pass, are strategies that have been carried out in literally dozens of other cases. But Musk is pretty new. This is something that I don’t really have a model to understand. There’s a sort of technological frontier element to this that’s a little frightening. We don’t know what he’s going to do with data. And frankly, at least in democracies, I’ve never seen a concentration of political, economic, and media power as vast as this.

And in an unelected official.

In an unelected official, right. With the exception of really old-fashioned dictatorships like Somoza and Trujillo, or Mobutu in Zaire — the concentration of political, economic, and media power here is just stunning. That’s just never been seen in a democracy to my knowledge. So that’s really new territory.


Journalists once again parroting whatever law enforcement/governments say they're doing, aiding and abetting them in pretending that "criminals" and "bad guys" and "hostile nation-states" are the primary/only threat when really governments mostly just want themselves (and the corporations they approve of) to have a monopoly on terrorizing their own populations. There is a straight line between this kind of journalism and the general population's deep confusion about who is out to harm them. Credit to the journo for at least including some critical perspectives, but even those don't mention that police themselves *are* the threat.

"France is proposing a law to require encrypted messaging applications, including Signal and WhatsApp, and encrypted email services such as Proton Mail to provide law enforcement with decrypted data on request.

The law, which aims to provide French law enforcement with stronger powers to combat drug trafficking, has raised concerns among tech companies and civil society groups that it will lead to the creation of “backdoors” in encrypted services that will be exploited by cyber criminals and hostile nation-states."

The law also permits the use of spyware such as NSO Group’s Pegasus or Paragon to allow police to remotely activate microphones and cameras of mobile phones and computers, according to an analysis by the civil society group, La Quadrature Du Net.

It also extends the scope of algorithms, known as “black boxes”, which collect data on communications over the internet with the intention of identifying people suspected of criminal activity to authorise the collection of data for “combatting crime and organised crime”."

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619707/France-pushes-for-law-enforcement-access-to-Signal-WhatsApp-and-encrypted-email#:~:text=Law%20permits%20police%20use%20of%20spyware&text=Police%20will%20also%20have%20powers,the%20intervention%20of%20a%20judge

#Privacy #InfoSec #Data #Security #CivilRights #Encryption #BackDoor #Journalism #MediaLiteracy


🌟 See nested loops in action! I've shared some quasi real-world #RStats examples showing how to handle complex data structures effectively.

Explore the examples ➡️ https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-03-10/

#R #Data #Code #RProgramming #Programming #Loops #NestedLoops #Blog
# Inefficient approach (without pre-allocation)
result_inefficient <- c()
for (i in 1:1000) {
  result_inefficient <- c(result_inefficient, i^2)
}

# Efficient approach (with pre-allocation)
result_efficient <- numeric(1000)
for (i in 1:1000) {
  result_efficient[i] <- i^2
}


🌟 See nested loops in action! I've shared some quasi real-world #RStats examples showing how to handle complex data structures effectively.

Explore the examples ➡️ https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-03-10/

#R #Data #Code #RProgramming #Programming #Loops #NestedLoops #Blog
# Inefficient approach (without pre-allocation)
result_inefficient <- c()
for (i in 1:1000) {
  result_inefficient <- c(result_inefficient, i^2)
}

# Efficient approach (with pre-allocation)
result_efficient <- numeric(1000)
for (i in 1:1000) {
  result_efficient[i] <- i^2
}


🚀 Tired of NA values messing up your analysis?

Here are powerful R techniques to handle missing data like a pro:
✨ tidyr::drop_na() for quick cleaning
🔄 dplyr::coalesce() for smart replacements
📊 mice package for imputation
🎯 Custom functions for complex cases

Check out the full guide! #R #RStats #DataCleaning #Tidy #Stats #Blog #RProgramming #Data

https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-03-03/
A large R in a hyper futuristic city space scape from a 1970's perspective.


🚀 Tired of NA values messing up your analysis?

Here are powerful R techniques to handle missing data like a pro:
✨ tidyr::drop_na() for quick cleaning
🔄 dplyr::coalesce() for smart replacements
📊 mice package for imputation
🎯 Custom functions for complex cases

Check out the full guide! #R #RStats #DataCleaning #Tidy #Stats #Blog #RProgramming #Data

https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-03-03/
A large R in a hyper futuristic city space scape from a 1970's perspective.


Have I Been Pwned adds 284M Accounts stolen by Infostealer Malware. [⚠️HIBP is a Website that alerts Users about Data Breaches.⚠️]

HIBP founder Troy Hunt says he found 284,132,969 compromised accounts while analyzing 1.5TB of stealer logs likely collected from numerous sources and shared on a Telegram channel known as “ALIEN TXTBASE.”

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#AlienStealerLogs

#hibp #alienstealer #data #breach #it #security #privacy #engineer #media #tech #news


Friends. I’m honored to be part of a team who is archiving data being targeted by fascists: science, health, DEI, climate…all of it.

It’s exhausting, mentally psychologically. But totally worth it.

What @lavaeolus began is now a thriving group effort. There’s a core group of us working feverishly, but anyone is welcome to join us.

Learn how you can get involved:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/t/how-to-contribute/308

#Resist #Resistance #Fascism #Data #Archive #Science #Research #Climate #Development #Activism


Update. "Journalism organizations call for restoration of public data."
https://www.nasw.org/article/journalism-organizations-call-restoration-public-data

"Leaders of five #journalism organizations, including the National Association of Science Writers and representing more than 7,000 members in the United States and abroad, sent the following letter to the heads of eight U.S. federal agencies that have recently removed public datasets and databases funded by Americans’ tax dollars."

#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics


Update. "Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government #OpenData on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database."
https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

#Data #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics


🧵 …so viel zum Thema KI und deren Datendiebstahl. Wie jetzt der Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook, Instagram & Co), werden es andere auch tun. Auf deren Kommerz-Datenklau hatte ich oben schon hingewiesen.

«Mark Zuckerberg persönlich soll KI-Training mit Raubkopien erlaubt haben:
In einem US-Rechtsstreit um das Training von KI-Modellen sind Aussagen ans Licht gekommen, die Meta-Chef Mark Zuckerberg und seine Entwickler belasten»

©️ https://www.heise.de/news/Mark-Zuckerberg-persoenlich-soll-KI-Training-mit-Raubkopien-erlaubt-haben-10237115.html

#ki #facebook #meta #instagram #data #datenklau


DOGE's disastrous accounting
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/doges-disastrous-accounting

"the #data was littered w/duplicate entries, data errors, & items that demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal contracting process...

an analysis of the data... actual savings that #DOGE has documented is about $2.6 billion... less than 5% of the claimed total of $55 billion.

...What follows is a selection of the most egregious #accounting errors committed by DOGE."

#Musk #Trump #Coup #Corruption #News #US #USA
Text from article:
DOGE said it saved $232 million by canceling an IT contract. The actual savings was $560,000.

One of the entries on the DOGE website, first reported by The Intercept, claimed to save $232 million by canceling a technology contract with the Social Security Administration. The only aspect of the contract that was canceled, however, was "a project to develop an 'X' gender marker for the agency’s internal databases." That cancellation, part of a larger anti-trans agenda, will produce $560,000 in savings. The rest of the contract is unchanged.

Hundreds of millions in duplicate entries

Politico analyzed the data and identified "at least 14 instances where items are repeated, totaling $325 million in claimed savings." Among the duplicates was "a single $25 million item under the Agriculture Department" that was repeated four times. DOGE counted each vendor authorized to bid on the contract as a separate item. Actually, there are "only two finalized contracts from the vendors listed," and they have "been awarded less than $1 million."

A simple $8 billion error

About half of the savings initially listed by DOGE were based on the cancellation of "a single $8 billion contract for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency." The contract, however, was actually for just $8 million. Only $2.5 million had been spent under the contract in two-and-a-half years.

Misunderstanding the federal contracting process...


Outside Tesla in the Philly suburbs, the green shoots of an American uprising

Rage over unelected billionaire #ElonMusk sends protesters to #Tesla showrooms...
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/tesla-protest-philadelphia-elon-musk-20250223.html

"equal in fury to the other rallies over the shocking role that #Musk... has seized... The unelected South African native is overseeing massive layoffs & sending threatening emails to federal employees while his... dude-bro techies access citizens' personal #data"

#Resist #Resistance #Trump #Coup #News #USA
Headline and photo from The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Headline: Opinion
Outside Tesla in the Philly suburbs, the green shoots of an American uprising

Rage over unelected billionaire Elon Musk sends protesters to Tesla showrooms as America wakes up to the reality of our oligarchy.
 
by Will Bunch | Columnist
Published Feb. 23, 2025, 1:05 p.m. ET

Photo with caption: Protesters against Tesla billionaire Elon Musk's role in the new Trump administration rallied outside a Tesla showroom on Lancaster Avenue in Devon, Pa., on Saturday.
Credit: Will Bunch


Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To

#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/musk-doge-personal-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y04.9Xpj.G6bhZK21cNZh

#Musk is "exploiting vulnerabilities that are built into the nation’s technological systems, operating as what #cybersecurity experts call an #InsiderThreat...

Modern #digital systems supercharge that #threat by consolidating more & more #information from many distinct realms.

...reams of classified #data on a thumb drive."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #Politics #Government #Tech #Technology #News #US
Headline from the New York Times:
Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To

Feb. 21, 2025

Opinion
by Zeynep Tufekci