Uber driver friend sent me this. Last night in San Francisco. Uber took 80% of the fare.
William Fitzgerald
6,791 posts
William Fitzgerald
@william_fitz
- PSA: Don't let any Google docs setting be: "Anyone on the internet with the link can view", they're scraping these docs for AI.
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextA representative for Google confirmed to Business Insider that simply changing the share settings to "anyone with the link" did not mean that a document was "public" and would be used for AI training. businessinsider.com/google-docs-pu… - one of the guys who writes the algorithms for chatGPT: $1.9m a year the people who clean up after him: less than $2 an hour
- Replying to @william_fitzWhile you’re here, please donate to @BYACBalochistan who are doing great work to provide relief to flood survivors in Balochistan: Paypal: paypal.com/pools/c/8MLWfN…
- I wrote an op-ed in @techreview about the moment we’re in regarding AI & the military,& the need for a sustained campaign (incl whistleblowers) to stop the mass assassination program its enabling in Gaza. Tks @DanRaile for help w/draft & @mat for edits.
- You gotta watch this. YouTube Music workers were speaking at Austin City Council yesterday to call on Google to engage in fair negotiations with the union when they received an big update. "They just laid us all off" "Effective immediately"
00:00 - Big vote today at Activison - about 20 QA workers are voting to unionize. "the Raven workers would form the Game Workers Alliance, the 1st union at a major North American video game publisher." story features @_TechJess, workers, @CODE_CWA
- 1. Google was found to charging for ads that weren't delivered to advertisers. On a massive scale. 2. Google denied the research and WSJ reporting. 3. Google is now refunding advertisers. sounds like healthy monopoly behavior
- Google SVP and eighth employee out here discussing the merits of buying and selling people.
- I met my wife @sanasaleem the last time Pakistan had such bad floods. In 2010 over 20 million people were displaced. As a result of this years floods, 30+ million are displaced. 1,000+ dead. At the time I was working for google and led their govt relations in Pakistan 1/
- took me 6 yrs but 1st time i admit to leaking info about the maven contract. it took me 10 yrs to speak about the snowden stuff, so progress. there's an urgent need to stop what alex karp & eric schmidt are doing. workers organizing is how we do it. technologyreview.com/2024/05/10/109…
- I met this Haitian family in Oakland at a food bank last wk. Dee* is 8 months pregnant. Their journey here included stepping over 47 bodies in the forest btwn Colombia & Panama. They're sleeping on the floor of a cramped apartment. Plz give if you can.
- Hours later a NYT profile of Google's top lawyer describes him as a "steady hand". Very steady of lawyer for company who's mission is to "organize the world's info & make it universally accessible & useful" to block public access to biggest antitrust trial of the century.Google opposes public access to the Google antitrust trial that starts next week. At a pre-trial hearing, one procedural question is whether the public gets to listen in via Zoom. The government said yes, Google said no, the judge is undecided.
- When I worked on the google policy team Joshua Wright was the primary "third party authenticator" the antitrust team would rely on to give quotes and advocate for Google's point of view.Two women lawyers have told Law360 that former Federal Trade Commission member and George Mason University law professor Joshua D. Wright abused his power in order to engage them in sexual contact. law360.com/articles/17104…
