Old Political Notes and News Items

May 2024 - Jan 2025

Microsoft Recall; should we trust Microsoft?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns”>https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

S I T U A T I O N A L A W A R E N E S S - vision of how AI is going to transform civilization

https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf”

https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf

May 2024

The Ponzi spirit is still lying to people https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/04/sam-bankman-fried-guilty-verdict-explained https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/04/sam-bankman-fried-guilty-verdict-explained

The fight against VI continues

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/01/scarlett-johansson-artificial-intelligence-ad”>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/01/scarlett-johansson-artificial-intelligence-ad

Exploitation of children in the world of work still exists

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/greedy-corporations-are-behind-the-push-to-roll-back-child-labor-laws-become-a-grassroots-supporter-of-the-stop-child-labor-act-to-end-child-labor”

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/greedy-corporations-are-behind-the-push-to-roll-back-child-labor-laws-become-a-grassroots-supporter-of-the-stop-child-labor-act-to-end-child-labor

They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove ‘em

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/07/us-prison-books-magazines-ban-high-rate”>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/07/us-prison-books-magazines-ban-high-rate

Should all non-mainstream thinking be sanctioned and extinguished?

https://www.danas.rs/svet/slavoj-zizek-govor-sajam-knjiga-u-frankfurtu-autorski-tekst-za-danas/”

https://www.danas.rs/svet/slavoj-zizek-govor-sajam-knjiga-u-frankfurtu-autorski-tekst-za-danas/

Unions and workers are protesting, which solution is offered by Amazon?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/27/make-amazon-pay-black-friday-strikes-planned-in-30-countries-including-uk”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/27/make-amazon-pay-black-friday-strikes-planned-in-30-countries-including-uk

Is there privacy in the digital world?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in

The Department for Education is monitoring social media posts by staff from England for criticism of their policies

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-government-keeping-files-on-teaching-assistants-and-librarians-internet-activity”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-government-keeping-files-on-teaching-assistants-and-librarians-internet-activity

Daniel Bernstein warns that NIST is allowing the NSA to “deliberately” weaken encryption standards. Does NIST have an answer other than “Do you think they would do that?”, and should these institutions be trusted after Snowden?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2396510-mathematician-warns-us-spies-may-be-weakening-next-gen-encryption/”>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2396510-mathematician-warns-us-spies-may-be-weakening-next-gen-encryption/

https://www.theregister.com/2013/09/11/nistdeniesthatthensaweakeneditsencryptionstandard/”

https://www.theregister.com/2013/09/11/nistdeniesthatthensaweakeneditsencryptionstandard/

“When rich people convince themselves that they are rich because they are smart instead of lucky and ruthless, they misapply all their talents to areas outside their expertise.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/elon-musk-spacex-twitter-x-russia-ukraine”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/elon-musk-spacex-twitter-x-russia-ukraine

Personal data protection strategy(Serbia).

https://www.sharefoundation.info/sr/usvojena-strategija-zastite-podataka-o-licnosti/”

https://www.sharefoundation.info/sr/usvojena-strategija-zastite-podataka-o-licnosti/