Experts say Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, AI research
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Been reading Careless People over the holiday weekend, Sara Wynn-Williams' memoir about her time at Facebook — and it's full of fascinating nuggets.

We all know the people who run tech companies don’t let their own children use screens. But here’s a twist: even senior staff at Facebook apparently hate using the platform. They rarely post. Imagine building something you can't stand to use...

"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin

"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >

https://www.youtube.com/live/xkIDep7Z4LM?feature=shared