I’ve updated my cryptocurrency paper trained word2vec model. Web interface now has a concept explorer in addition to the analogy interface.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) July 20, 2019
(new model is also slightly better trained)https://t.co/ottqm3NwfS pic.twitter.com/GlMLDRuIYp
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1152624460865794050)
What most concerns me about Libra is the potential for further marginalization. People locked out of the financial system, unable to pay rent because a status update flagged them as a sex worker; unable to access healthcare because Facebook thinks their identity is fraudulent.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1142117424159850497)
“We misjudged the separation of technology and politics”
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 14, 2019
I can’t think of a more perfect summary for the continued social failures of infosec. They have clearly learned nothing of value. https://t.co/vGb3al6Ain
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Can’t wait for a cryptocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook. https://t.co/C4FymDjtFw
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 14, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1139429913922957312)
There is a low production quality Australian spy comedy film called DEBS where the main character has a lesbian affair with the hot villain. In the end she quits spy school to run away with the villain to be a gay artist.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 4, 2019
Bitcoin is the DEBS of money.https://t.co/mheNuExdQb
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You have a right to subvert systems of oppression;
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) May 1, 2019
to live without dead time;
to kill the cop inside your head.
You don’t need to ask permission to gain access to your limited time;
to punch back against abuses;
to build a better world.
Happy May Day
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Ever had one of those bugs that makes you want to study really hard, apply to grad school, get a doctorate in physics, spend the rest of your life in deep research, invent a time machine, go back in time, kill Charles Babbage and prevent the computer from coming into existence?
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) February 13, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1095518556463099904)
Science is just magic we understand.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) December 30, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1079255881672417280)
If we have to live in the cyberpunk dystopia it’s going to at least have metadata resistant sex toys.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) July 14, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1018023842332045313)
Just to be very clear, I want to live in the open-source hackable networked sex toys queer cyberpunk world, and not the late-stage capitalism, private espionage, corporate controlled cyberpunk dystopia.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) July 14, 2018
I realize these are probably gonna be the same place.
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Decentralization = Distribution of Power and Control
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) July 10, 2018
You can distribute your architecture across as many different layers and entities as you want, but if authority is concentrated in a single entity then the system is centralized.
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Privacy is about consent, not about hiding. https://t.co/BibSVb9aga
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) July 3, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1013983506555232256)
Given an adversarial environment I don’t believe you can maintain strong - decentralized - consistency AND have timely confirmation between arbitrary parties AND scale up to a large number of nodes/transactions.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 24, 2018
Pick 2.
(fwiw I hope this is wrong, but I don’t see how)
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There is a principle of Defensive Decentralization: when besieged, a well constructed decentralized system will further decentralize.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 11, 2018
The corollary of which is: A well constructed decentralized system will identify & attack emergent centralization.
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There is a n Emma Goldman quote for everything.
— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) June 1, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1002662312119947264)