pinboard April 22, 2021

• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/21/chauvin-verdict-opens-up-world-possibilities-will-we-squander-them/
  RT @Sulliview: The Chauvin verdict opens up a world of possibilities. Will we squander them? Smart analysis from ⁦@ThePlumLineGS⁩
• (400) https://twitter.com/birgitomo/status/1385224017376948227
  RT @ClaraJeffery: Ontario.
• FBI Says Chauvin Matches Profile Of Blue-Uniformed Killer Behind Hundreds More Unsolved Murders
  RT @TheOnion: FBI Says Chauvin Matches Profile Of Blue-Uniformed Killer Behind Hundreds More Unsolved Murders
• (400) https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1384922413247389700/photo/1
  RT @TheOnion: FBI Says Chauvin Matches Profile Of Blue-Uniformed Killer Behind Hundreds More Unsolved Murders
• Untitled (https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2021/video/general-video/technology)
  RT @stephr_wong: My Data Center Security video is a nominee for @TheWebbyAwards, celebrating the best of the internet!

  I need your help to win the People’s Voice Award🙏What better way to celebrate the internet than to vote for its backbone?😆

  Can I count on your vote?👉

• (400) https://twitter.com/stephr_wong/status/1385025987264450563/video/1
  RT @stephr_wong: My Data Center Security video is a nominee for @TheWebbyAwards, celebrating the best of the internet!

  I need your help to win the People’s Voice Award🙏What better way to celebrate the internet than to vote for its backbone?😆

  Can I count on your vote?👉

• The Infrastructural Power Beneath the Internet as We Know It – The Reboot
  Control over underlying tech infrastructure determines who benefits from it, raising the prospect of alternative ownership and profit models.
• The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
  Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
• Coronavirus vaccines followed speedy but safe path to Kansans' arms
  Basically they’re a "wanted" poster for the immune system. Here’s why the process that verifies effective and safe vaccines can be trusted.
• (400) https://twitter.com/FrankPasquale/status/1384993198418825221/photo/1
  RT @FrankPasquale: The important work of @mmitchell_ai & @timnitGebru on ethical AI included vital inquiries into the safety of self-driving cars for all (including minorities & the disabled). It’s chilling to see the internal power struggles to deflect it.
• Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
  RT @FrankPasquale: The important work of @mmitchell_ai & @timnitGebru on ethical AI included vital inquiries into the safety of self-driving cars for all (including minorities & the disabled). It’s chilling to see the internal power struggles to deflect it.
• Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
  RT @NicoAGrant: Google’s Ethical AI team publicly imploded after the ouster of its lead scientists, @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai. But for years, the Research division was rife with conflict stemming from how Google handles allegations of harassment, racism and sexism.
• Open Source on Mars: Community powers NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter · The ReadME Project
• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective
  Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russi…

  { whispering} …what this means is that Apple and Google could install Cellebrite-specific “malware” in their operating systems that would target only undesirable intrusions into iOS/iPadOS and Android… https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

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• ‘It is much worse this time’: India’s devastating second wave | Financial Times
  RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: a deep-dive into the situation in India, where a devastating second wave is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums, eclipsing global records as it goes

  250,000 new cases every day, and test positivity is soaring suggesting many are still missed

• (400) https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1384782949879517185/photo/1
  RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: a deep-dive into the situation in India, where a devastating second wave is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums, eclipsing global records as it goes

  250,000 new cases every day, and test positivity is soaring suggesting many are still missed

• (400) https://twitter.com/lreiley/status/1384597321091096580
  RT @byHeatherLong: This is a huge deal.

  All K-12 student lunches will be free through spring 2022

  I’ve written for years about "school lunch debt" that so many students rack up. Now no student will be turned away — or be shamed — for being unable to pay for lunch.

• (400) https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1384622849562873856
  RT @Sulliview: Exhibit A in the fact that ‘police said’ does not equal the truth, and should not be reported as such.
• Analysis of the human connectome data supports the notion of a “Common Model of Cognition” for human and human-like intelligence across domains
  The Common Model of Cognition (CMC) is a recently proposed, consensus architecture intended to capture decades of progress in cognitive science on mod…
  SOAR

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