Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
1w ago
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Increasingly, identity is a raw material that scammers, spammers, and even platforms can remix without your permission — unless you show up to claw it back.
At the same time, for the majority of people, encryption is a protective technology. Activists, sex workers, LGBTQ users in authoritarian states, people discussing reproductive rights in post-Dobbs America, and journalists and their sources are among the many groups that benefit from being able to talk in private.
Devevillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.
Who wants mass surveillance? Only the Epstein class. The robot's point was that billionaires often build powerful surveillance technologies while simultaneously going to great lengths to maintain their own privacy.
The paradox of Jason Lee—to me, The Enemy, at least—is that he is a celebrity who openly invites fans to come hang out with him on a regular basis, but who also has historically remained a notably private person.
3mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
