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If you ask someone that do smoke why they do that, they would say that it takes |
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the stress out, and they feel calmer. |
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So, why don't we recommend anyone that suffers from stress or anxiety to smoke? |
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The reason is: Even if smoking indeed makes people feel calmer and less |
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stressed out, the amount of damage it does to their health is worse than those |
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Lost? Why would I mention that? |
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The reason is that I feel recommending Google things is akin to suggest people |
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Let's start with Andy Rubin. Rubin was the CEO of Android Inc, and became a |
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manager on Google after the later bought the former. But in 2014 [Rubin left |
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Google](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rubin), receiving a good package of |
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$90 million. But why he left the company? 'Cause, apparently, he was involved |
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in sexual harassment to another Google company. Why "apparently"? 'Cause Google |
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had a policy of "arbitration", in which no employee could take another employee |
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to court, but an arbitrator would judge the thing. And, because Google was |
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responsible for pointing the arbitrator and everything happened "in house", |
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allegations and counterclaims are known only to Google. If Rubin did or did not |
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harass someone sexually is something that we can be sure (although the timing |
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is a bit... awkward). |
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But if everything was made behind closed doors, how do we know about it? |
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Exactly because arbitration was in the cards and people didn't want important |
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people to get some "bad press" and that's fucking wrong, [some other employees |
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organized a walkout](https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-11-06/google-employee-walkout-tech-industry-activism), |
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in which people would get into and then not work. Good thing it worked and |
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arbitration was taken out of the equation; harassment now would go to court and |
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bad actors would actually be exposed. |
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All good now? Not quite. After organizing something to protect -- let's not |
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hide things here -- women working in Google, [the organizers started getting |
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retaliations](https://www.vox.com/2019/4/23/18512542/google-employee-walkout-organizers-claim-retaliation). |
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One example was Meredith Whittaker, which being an AI research, got reassigned |
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to another project and stop working on the AI ethics (and oh boy, do we have |
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more shit coming in that "AI ethics" topic). |
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One step forward, one step back. |
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But maybe you're not a woman and really don't care how Google employees are |
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treated, so you ignore all that 'cause you get free photo storage. |
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In 2015, Google released a new feature on their Google Photos suite: Automatic |
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tagging. No more having to go through all your photos to mark them as "mum" or |
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"car" or even "Barcelona". It's all automagical! Except that, for some reason, |
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if you're a black person, Google Photos would mark you as a "gorilla". Quite |
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offensive, right? No worries, Google said the problem was the algorithm and |
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said it would be fixed. Their fix? Remove the tag "gorilla" -- so, they didn't |
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*fix* it per se, the algorithm would still recognize black people and gorillas |
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as being the same thing, but wouldn't have a tag for it. |
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Hangouts XMPP syndication |
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Chrome: don't remove Goog cookies |
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Chrome: ad blocking API; uBlock Origin removed from store |
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Chrome: Sabotaging other browsers: |
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https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1074782772470910976, |
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https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/youtube-speed-faster-google-chrome-mozilla-firefox-microsoft-edge-1889651 |
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Chrome: Remove user software |
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https://www.ghacks.net/2018/01/20/how-to-block-the-chrome-software-reporter-tool-software_reporter_tool-exe/ |
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Android 4.2.2: AppOps (2013); semi-funcional in 6.0 (2015). |
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https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/googles-dangerous-monopoly-based |
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GCP: Metadata for 30 days. |
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Basecamp ads complain: |
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/google-paid-search-ads-shakedown-basecamp-ceo-says.html |
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AMP: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50432080: Sham site; gets money by |
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copy'n'pasting news from other sites, get ad revenues. How is that different |
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from AMP showing content without ever reaching your site? |
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https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/ |
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Genius: Watermarks in lyrics. |
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Project Nightingale: Google accesses trove of US patient data (Google has |
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gained access to a huge trove of US patient data - without the need to notify |
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those patients - thanks to a deal with a major health firm.) |
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YouTube is updating their Terms of Service on 10 December, 2019. It presents an |
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awful possibility for the future of creators on the platform. It seems they |
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will be able to terminate your channel if it's "no longer commercially |
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viable."; in other words, wherever they feel like. |
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YouTube: Forced monetization |
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Gmail capturing purchases, without any warning (which tells more about how |
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"permissive" their terms are than anything else). |
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Paying climate denials to avoid having to moderate content. |
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filters aggressively mails from personal servers |
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(https://mastodon.sdf.org/@julienxx) |
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https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-December/104502.html |
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Amnesty International: Facebook and Google are a threat to human rights: |
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https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/21/facebook-google-amnesty-international-human-rights/ |
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/google-culture-war-escalates-as-era-of-transparency-wanes |
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https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking |
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https://www.engadget.com/2019-06-26-google-employees-protest-san-francisco-pride-parade.html |
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https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1141838179936243714?s=21 |
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https://www.mic.com/p/gmails-confidential-mode-isnt-as-private-as-it-seems-according-to-experts-18136277 |
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https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-google.html |
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