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Episode 55: An ouroboros of crappy privacy
This week Audrey and I chat about Cambridge Analytica, anti-sex trafficking bill SESTA/FOSTA, Google News Initiative and more...
Episode 54: But this one involves a sheep!
This week Audrey and I chat about YouTube’s announcement to link to Wikipedia, the New Yorker’s profile of Reddit, Spotify and copyright law, and more. Enjoy! [03:53] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers![06:36] Hire Christie![07:06] YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia - The Verge[12:50] Phoebe Ayers on Twitter: "...It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor.....
Episode 53: If a travel coffee mug and an Instapot had a baby
This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon Alexa’s laughing bug, Google helping the military develop AI for drones, the crypto event that dosed its attendees with cannabis, and more...
Episode 52: The yak’s given up. We’re both taking a break.
This week Audrey and I chat about Palantir's predictive policing activity in New Orleans, Trustico's mishandling of private keys, the recent DDOS attack on GitHub, ProPublica's guide to authenticating email, and more...
Episode 51: I didn’t realize tweetdecking was a verb
This week Audrey and I chat about Twitter latest bot purge, infosec lawsuits, what the EFF says activists should keep in mind when using Slack, the magic of calendars, and more. Enjoy! [00:49] Call for Contributors for Issue 11: Love and romance – The Recompiler [01:47] Calagator 10th Anniversary Party [02:38] Conservative Twitter is freaking out over a reported bot purge - The Verge [10:23] Twitter Is Trying To Kill "Tweetdecking." Here's What You Should Know...
Episode 50: We already have many solutions for that
This week Audrey and I chat about AMP for Email, the legacy of JP Barlow, and the "House the Spied on Me." Enjoy! [03:55] Try Brave and support recompilermag...
Episode 49: Ottomottopoeia
This week Audrey and I chat about Waymo v Uber, Algorithmic Violence, and how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth. Enjoy! [00:57] Recompiler: Issue 9 (Hard Problems)[05:07] The Waymo v...
Episode 48: Wouldn’t it be cool if we knew
This week Audrey and I chat about the Strava's heatmap, a newish iOS app called Verena, a new Amazon patent to track hand movements of warehouse workers, and how ICE now has a contract to access nationwide license plate recognition date. Enjoy! [01:44] Recompiler Issue 9: Hard Problems[05:32] Recompiler Newsletter[06:04] Strava’s heatmap data lets anyone see the names of people exercising on military bases | WIRED UK [13:37] @timmathews: "On my deployments.....
Episode 47: Legitimizing a Shoplifting-like Behavior
This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon's new grocery store, adversarial audio hacks, and Twitter's Russian Bot email. Enjoy! [02:18] Issue 9: Hard Problems[05:51] Amazon’s New Checkout-Free Grocery Store Doesn’t Take Food Stamps[19:52] Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages - Business Insider[32:51] AI learns how to fool text-to-speech...
Episode 46: Well, actually, we are tracking people
This week Audrey and I chat about the new selfie feature of Google's Arts & Culture app; vaporware products, arbitrage, and other strange aspects of global eCommerce; and discuss user consent and the web browser. Enjoy! - [02:13] "This google arts and culture app is pretty amazing.": https://twitter.com/petewentz/status/952563946615025665 - [11:52] Google app that compares your face to art frustrates people of color: https://amp.businessinsider...