16 years ago I was interviewed by a journalist who then added me on LinkedIn.
12 years later one of my client organisations was laid bare by that journalist.
I was made to understand that I was suspected by management to be "the leak", given that visible connection.
Data can harm erroneously.
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Companies are investing in automated recruitment systems that will turn out to be gravely unfair.
When, in five years, this is acknowledged, consultants will spend 10 years unsuccessfully trying to fix them.
Just my dystopian observation of the day.
Read The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann.
@silhelm Ha, wow! Thank you for sharing. âșïž
@lps There is definitely something rotten in the state of DC⊠this particular intent feels far-fetched but so does everything else I'm seeing so I won't contribute a rebuttal. đ
What people tend to forget about messaging services is that privacy isn't just about the content of your message. It is also about your metadata: the information about you, your message and your contacts.
https://axbom.com/signal-whatsapp/
#digitalethics #surveillance #signal #whatsapp
@angiebaby
D-oh, your fear, a growing fear
Ray, my laser-coupled gun
Mi, my face, now brace yourself
Fa(r), how long youâll have to run
Sew, to fix where you have bled
La, take note of challenged foe
Tea, Iâll drink it when youâve fled
Which will bring us back to d-oh, oh, oh, oh
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do, So Do.
[Lyrics by Per Axbom đ]
Did you know that there are many types of curiosity, and that the quick answers that 'AI' and the internet provide can be antithetical to deeper exploration, the exploration encouraged by Epistemic and Empathic curiosity.
Someone recently reached out to let me know they really enjoyed one of my 10-year old blog posts, about curiosity.
I love when this happens because it encourages me to revisit my thinking at the time and reflect on why I may or may not be living and acting in accordance with that mindset in the present moment.
Re-reading this reminded me to spend more time being curious. Really curious.
https://axbom.com/curiosity/
@alavi
Iâm not necessarily marketing it as good ROI, but making the point that the argument being used ("it only affects 1% of users") is invalid as it assumes that a statistic that is the effect of past decisions gives any indication of what that number would be after the work is done. The effort you put in, regardless of your ROI calculations and how large of an effort you decide on, will change the percentage.
Never mind that the statistic is often just completely made up and most organisations just donât know, adding the risk of making things worse and essentially kicking people out.
You canât say âitâs not worth making it accessible for only 1% of our usersâ. Thatâs a logical fallacy. And reveals a lot about your understanding of the subject area, and your value system.
If you had made it accessible to begin with, people with disabilities couldâve been 20% of your user base.
And it would have been better for 100% of your users.
#a11y #accessibility
Some reading this appear to think it's a post about the business case for accessibility. It's truly not. It's a post about a logical fallacy.
https://axbom.me/notice/As2j5afKHYztgqW8m0
I wasnât a fan of Iron Fist, so Iâve started putting together my own Marvel tv-series viewing order list. I found it hard not to include the movie Black Widow in there for context prior to Hawkeye. Though to be fair there should perhaps be more of that.
Not sure yet where to place She-Hulk and Ms Marvel, amongst Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Echo.
https://lab.axbom.com/s/d033677b-c816-41ad-9462-ba896d33e6e7
âAnd so you appoint, dismiss, judge and evaluate a data shadow, but the one who has to bear the consequences is a human being of flesh and blood."
â Kerstin AnĂ©r, in 1972
https://axbom.com/data-shadows/
Alaqua Cox as Echo (Maya Lopez) is stunningly good. And itâs her first acting gig!
Very impressive casting.
You should watch it before the new Daredevil if you havenât already. And Hawkeye before that of courseâŠ
#marvel
https://people.com/alaqua-cox-reflects-on-career-success-marvel-echo-after-being-bullied-deaf-and-amputee-exclusive-8424431
@steveportigal @metafilter I love watching these but damn itâs also nerve-racking.
@FeralRobots This made Totoâs Hold the Line play in my head⊠haha.
@jamesravey Ha, excellent. Love those bots. Reminded me of one I followed which looked at the profiles of people who tagged themselves with MAGA and pointed out when they had used the flag of Liberia rather than the United States.
(Especially dear to me as I was born in Liberia)
@EndlessMason Not far off, but my understanding is that a government backdoor generally insists on not letting you know who is entering or what they are taking part of.
I know you know this, but itâs "sneak peek", not "sneak peak".
Unless youâre suddenly discovering a new summit on a mountain, that deviously was hidden behind a cloud.
Or, you know, if a climax takes you by surprise.
PÄ förekommen anledning publicerar jag den hÀr teckningen igen.
En bakdörr kan vara minutiöst dokumenterad, ha begrĂ€nsad Ă„tkomst, innefatta en rad sĂ€kerhetsmekanismer och vara utvecklad med den bĂ€sta av intentioner. men det Ă€r fortfarandeâŠ
...en bakdörr.
«Whittaker explained how AI agents are being marketed as a way to add value to your life by handling various online tasks for the user. For instance, AI agents would be able to take on tasks like looking up concerts, booking tickets, scheduling the event on your calendar, and messaging your friends that itâs booked.
âSo we can just put our brain in a jar because the thing is doing that and we donât have to touch it, right?,â Whittaker mused.
Then she explained the type of access the AI agent would need to perform these tasks, including access to our web browser and a way to drive it as well as access to our credit card information to pay for tickets, our calendar, and messaging app to send the text to your friends.
âIt would need to be able to drive that [process] across our entire system with something that looks like root permission, accessing every single one of those databases â probably in the clear, because thereâs no model to do that encrypted,â Whittaker warned.»
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/
@Beantin @kolombiken
Theyâre off on mine now as well. Thanks for noticing this so quickly! Iâll likely never be in a hurry setting up a service again. đ
Iâm still evaluating alternatives though. Now looking at this for self-hosting, but of coure requires a server separate from the one where everything else is hosted.
https://statusnook.com