Cancellation in Tech and Culture
We had a great conversation this week with our guest Harry Bergeron about cancellation, and how his service Pluribus protects content creators against it. If you missed it live, you can LISTEN here:
Daring Bits
IRS Gets the O’Keefe Treatment - The IRS is targeting you and your small business by spying on your bank accounts without a warrant, courtesy Biden’s Department of Justice.
The Sound of Your Fingerprints - US and Chinese researchers can successfully reconstruct fingerprints using just the sound of users swiping their touchscreens. How long before this becomes surreptitiously embedded in the proprietary tech we all use?
Bluesky Federalizes, Decentralizes Moderation - Bluesky, a decentralized social network, has opened up federation, allowing anyone to run their own server. Notably, the social network decentralizes content moderation by employing “composable moderation”, which manages content at different layers of the Bluesky network, and alleviates pressure on server operators to block other servers (defederate).
Robot Overlords
Google’s DEI-Bot, Gemini - Gemini’s inability to generate images of white people is Google’s gift to meme lords everywhere. Gemini’s secret DEI sauce
Groq’s Real-Time Promises - Groq is making chips that massively speed up AI processing by using on-chip Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM), obviating the need for expensive memory calls that make current processors so slow. This paves the way to generating sophisticated AI output in real time, like Sora’s high-quality videos, or immersive virtual reality worlds.
