Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

A Las Vegas family called police to report two giant aliens in the backyard. https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/las-vegas-family-claims-to-see-aliens-after-several-report-something-falling-from-sky/ #Nevada #UFO

"The air quality is unhealthy for everyone," declares Fairfax County, #Virginia. https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/air-quality-alert

Today I was on NPR Marketplace talking about Prince's decision (30 years ago today!) to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol on his 35th birthday. I tried to get to the cultural & political context. (at 5:30) https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UY5KecU8FJM0fC1FKZJ7z?si=d8de5dc6bbdb4a2d

5) During this work, we discovered the scanning for known CSAM was broken on Twitter. We notified them and it got fixed.

6) Due to this work, Instagram discovered that their system for accounts being reported for child exploitation was broken and that tickets were being closed without resolution. That has been fixed.

7) Instagram has started taking down thousands of accounts related to this work.

8) We will be encouraging a cross-platform collaboration on SG-CSAM via the Tech Coalition.

I need to thank my incredible colleagues and co-authors, @det and @Noupside, and our Stanford colleagues (and bosses) Professors Jeff Hancock and Nate Persily for their support in doing this kind of difficult research.

We have built a bunch of systems to reduce the risks of doing child safety work in academia, including CSAM detection across our entire intake pipeline. We are happy to share these with other academic groups. I'm at stamos@stanford.edu.

ICYMI: I wrote about Chris Licht - and a pervasive worldview among self-proclaimed “moderate” elites that always naturalizes existing power relations and only accepts the status quo as reasonable.

The Status-Quo Fundamentalism of the “Moderate” Arbiters of Reason:

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-status-quo-fundamentalism-of

5th grade gym report card... tough but fair

Good morning~ ✨

I hear Apple released a bunch of new machines... but no new chips for Macs, so getting the GPU driver to work on everything should hopefully be easy! ^^

Twitter is the fourth most hated brand in the US after Fox News, FTX and the Trump Organization. A truly impressive degree of brand destruction in less than a year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/most-hated-brands-in-america-trump-organization-ftx-fox-corporation.html

In my first story for Texas Monthly, I wrote about @paul and @mark, founders of @tapbots, whose livelihoods were threatened when Twitter unceremoniously revoked their app Tweetbot. Now, they’re betting their futures on their latest creation @ivory, a third-party client for @Mastodon.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-tweetbot-developers-fighting-twitter/

Libraries are the best!

“An email to Twitter returned an automated reply with a poop emoji.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-management-idUSKBN2XN3WY

FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras

Amazon agrees to Ring and Alexa settlements but didn't admit violating any laws.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-amazon-ring-workers-illegally-spied-on-users-of-home-security-cameras/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

We're hiring someone to lead mozilla.social

Making this space safe and welcoming for all people is of utmost importance to us, and it starts with a product leader who is dedicated to driving positive change.

We're looking for people who are passionate about transforming online participation and enabling an engaging social experience that prioritizes health, safety and inclusivity. Please share with your networks and anyone who comes to mind!

#hiring #jobs
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/5082141/

FTC announces it has reached a $25 million settlement with #Amazon (market cap: $1.24 trillion) for its Alexa app keeping childrens’ voices and geolocation data for years and using it for its own purposes. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/ftc-doj-charge-amazon-violating-childrens-privacy-law-keeping-kids-alexa-voice-recordings-forever

In a new @epi report, Josh Bivens makes the case that Industrial policy and policies to rebalance labor market power are strong complements, not substitutes.

Full report:
https://www.epi.org/publication/industrial-policy/

This is "looking through the wrong end of the telescope" shit, but the last place I saw web development as incompetent as Bluesky was several SNAP-enrollment websites built by the lowest bidder:

from reddit /TIL: #TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries

https://www.harrisnecklandtrust.org/amelia-s-song

The astonishing mimicry and hidden beauty of the Indian Leaf Butterfly (Kallima paralekta). Their wings allow them to mimic a dead leaf when closed, helping them hide from predators.

Video credit: _melissa_yung_/ig