Elon Musk Haunted by His Lies: Begs Judge to Blame Someone Else

In 1993 I worked with some of the world’s best OCR scanners and various text to speech systems, as a volunteer in a program to help blind graduate students. By 1997 I was deploying industry leading speech to text at a major clinical and research hospital…. The technology and subject matter has been familiar to … Continue reading Elon Musk Haunted by His Lies: Begs Judge to Blame Someone Else

Twitter Announces Profit Plan Linked to Disasters. Heavy Tax Placed On Public Safety Accounts

The latest regressive Twitter idea is a tax on public safety agencies of nearly $50K per month to continue providing emergency notifications. On Friday and throughout the weekend, multiple National Weather Service (NWS) accounts announced that Twitter had removed their API access, which would disrupt crucial potentially life-saving automated emergency updates. The move came as … Continue reading Twitter Announces Profit Plan Linked to Disasters. Heavy Tax Placed On Public Safety Accounts

Ukrainians decisively reject Russian narratives of internal divisions

Here’s some context in a new Carnegie Europe report for the recent Russian Telegram star assassination. Established within the National Security Council in 2021, the Center on Countering Disinformation debunks Russia’s manipulative and misleading narratives, including through social media platforms. This is a formidable task as many of these platforms, especially Telegram, have become a … Continue reading Ukrainians decisively reject Russian narratives of internal divisions

Stanford is Using AI to Manipulate Political Controversies

It is important to acknowledge that Leland Stanford, the founder of Stanford University and former Governor of California, was a horrible racist monopolist who facilitated mass atrocities of Chinese and Indigenous people. Historians refer now to the Stanford “killing machine” that was purpose-built for genocide in California. His depopulation program, on the back of an … Continue reading Stanford is Using AI to Manipulate Political Controversies