Alalalalalavin 🙉 @alvin@kosmos.social

Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Product

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249?mod=trending_now_pos2

Shit, just learned about this Vietnam war Massacre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

Thailand's disappeared Karen activist Billy and the burned village https://bbc.in/37t4g24

A long one but real mystery

‪The mystery of Dyatlov Pass - In the dead of winter, a group of nine Russian students disappeared in the remote Ural Mountains. https://bbc.in/36W5ov2 via @BBCNews‬

The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money.

10 sailors paid with their lives. https://propub.li/350cEV3

been watching this series of “evolution of evil” https://youtu.be/WxaWmqgmJxs all these histories of evil leadership and influences to the people just chills me to the bone.. 🥶

e.g. subscribe to Facebook for free/money, Facebook subscribe to you in order to use your data (paid of course). unsubscribe anytime to lose access, any personal information retrieved in reidentification has a serious penalty

maybe in the future - companies should not be allowed to keep our personal content online for longer than certain period i) you can have your online storage and hosted/owned by yourself ii) saves space and energy if we take our personal thing offline iii) you can buy server/storage like you buy a part of a server land, forever/99y is yours. iv) or you can donate/sell your personal info/life for for-profit/research purposes. v) turn personal thing to blog/content for contribution to the internet

Just learned that this guy ‪@vilvaathibanpb‬ did 6 talks in meetups in October 2019, crazy dev! but yea it was interesting hack and tell today hosted by @prisma about #graphql, interetinb example of WS subscription! keep up the good hack!🤓

Went to a meetup hosted by @XAIN_AG, evangelize about federated learning, interesting.. it’s a good first step, a bit like differential privacy, also chicken and egg problem about “open” data and improve tech about ML (from the discussion and I think)

My god, Sous-vide is amazingggg!

#til the metaphorical side of “Hotel California”, always heard about this song in live music places and sometimes sick about it but good to know..

“You can check out anytime,
But you can never leave”

Hadi: ML was adopted by YouTube/Facebook in 2017 removed many important contents/evidence, many of these documents are useful for court to identify criminal offenses

https://858.ma/ - An archive of resistance

@benthanaa @disruptberlin #activationdnl

@syrian_archive founder shares about his work and challenges

@syrian_archive @disrupt_berlin #activationdnl

Interesting projects done by Joana Moll http://www.janavirgin.com/

1. The dating brokers https://datadating.tacticaltech.org/
2. The hidden life of amazon user https://www.janavirgin.com/AMZ/

#activationdnl @disruptberlin

#activationdnl @disruptberlin

#coldness

#berlin

In Berlin, stickers on the toilet wall sometimes looks like a design showcase. Important thing: the toilet is sparkling clean, even the wall looks chaotic. love the chaos