Is support for perhaps the most important battle western civilisation has faced in decades really on equal terms with building a wall?
The thing is, if #Ukraine loses, the #western#alliance will have forfeited the #trust that those yearning democracy, equal rights & freedom from tyranny have placed in it.
If the west loses trust, there goes our push for anti-racism too. If the global south chooses Russian & Chinese style, it won’t matter a damn.
Newly joined William G. shared with us upon joining as an assoc. member that the "free software movement makes softwares trustable and free." Thank you for your support! #LearnLibre#Freedom#Trust#Privacy#UserFreedom
On the occasion of the #dropbox fiasco Simon Willison raises the debilitating issue of (lack of) #trust in the so-called #ai industry.
I think he is being naive about the amount of spying that goes on on mobile. Maybe Meta doesnt do it in the in-your-face way others do, but most people have dozens of popular apps from various operators (I have witnessed first hand live conversation showing up as ads minutes later).
The "tech" industry right now is a moral cesspool.
Not to mention that #Microsoft ditching the #Kinect on the #XboxOne is a serious breach of #trust towards #GameDevs which now have to deal with an even more fragmented platform than the #Xbox360.
Good article about #trust , #AI and the role of #government
"We need government to constrain the behavior of corporations and the AIs they build, deploy, and control. Government needs to enforce both predictability and reliability.
That's how we can create the social trust that society needs to thrive." https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/ai-and-trust
@ljrk@lexd0g and no, #PGP fixes the #trust issue to one only needing to trust one person at a time and not some corporation to be a front for some cybercriminals and OS/Browser vendors to do their due diligence...
Call me paranoid but I only trust people, not orgs or corporations!
Recently, Matthew shared with us, a fascinating article by Mark Burgess: "Balancing priorities in the cyborg age," it sheds light on the profound interplay between trust and security in today's tech-driven world.
If you own an Alexa, you might enjoy its integration with #IFTTT, an easy scripting environment that lets you create your own little voice-controlled apps, like "start my Roomba" or "close the garage door." If so, tough shit, Amazon just nuked IFTTT for Alexa:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
But when we hear about remote killswitches in the news, it's usually part of a PR blitz for their virtues. Russia's invasion of Ukraine kicked off a new genre of these PR pieces, celebrating the fact that a #JohnDeere dealership was able to remotely brick looted tractors that had been removed to Chechnya:
A poll in the U.S. shows a large majority of Americans who heard of artificial intelligence have very little or no trust that companies will use the technology responsibly.
"Only 32 percent of respondents in a Gallup survey indicated they trust the mainstream media 'a great deal' or 'a fair amount.'
At the same time, 39 percent said they have no confidence in the media — a figure that marks a new high and is up from 27 percent in 2016, Gallup found."
@mmasnick, Randy Lubin, and Leigh Beadon developed this really fun game, exploring the difficult choices and tradeoffs involved in managing a trust and safety team.
I was immediately hooked and ended with these scores:
“That's what it is, this isolation-- #trauma, folks unable to access the safe and social circuitry in their brains because they never learned how to use that shit since everyone around them is dangerous.
“Some people CAN unlearn that, but it's not easy, and every betrayal and incident of abuse puts another weight on the scales”
Embracing Trust: Navigating the Complexities of Relationships went wrong! (www.amazon.com)
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