Notices tagged with amazon

Amazon's Facial Recognition Creates Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People
https://jezebel.com/amazons-facial-analysis-program-is-building-a-dystopic-1835075450

#surveillancecapitalism #policestate #dystopia #amazon

It amazes me all the alarmism over the Amazon Fires lately. As someone who is a huge advocate of the environment and eco-friendly policies even I can easily dismiss the alarmism on this one with a little research.

Before I say what I'm about to say on this I want to point out, climate change is real, deforestation is a big issue, and the loss of life here (human and otherwise) deserves mourning.

With that said a few things.
1) This fires are not unusual in number or size in any way. Forest fires throughout the amazon and the rest of the world occur at this magnitude every single year during the dry season. In fact if we look at the past 15 years this year is not particularly high in any way.

2) Forrest fires, both intentional and natural are in fact good for the planet and eco system assuming their scale is not unusually high (which these are not). In fact they are BETTER than not having fires. The reason for this is forrest fire produce extremely nutrient rich soil that causes very fast growth the following year with high density. Sinc enew forests produce more O2 than old forests this is a good thing. Furthermore the ecosystems are evolved to need forest fires. Many trees can only spread their seeds during a forest fire.

Being a Data Scientist I feel compelled to back this up. I can think of many sources I could use from showing the fire map time lapse for the last 2 decades or other visualizations. But I think the best summary is the graph I attached to this post. You will see total CO2 emissions in brazil due to forest fires. This data is up to date as of this week. It is evident that the total mass of fires is not unusual high relative to the past 15 years. In fact it is actually much lower than the average during the previous decade.

#Amazon #AmazonFires #Science #DataScience #Facts

#Amazon Requires Police to Shill #Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

Orlando cancels #Amazon #Rekognition program, capping 15 months of glitches and controversy
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/07/18/orlando-cancels-amazon-rekognition-capping-15-months-of-glitches-and-controversy

It's #Amazon Crime Day

Be sure to boycott Amazon
Whole Foods Market
Abebooks
Alexa
Zappos
Audible
Goodreads
IMDb
Washington Post
Twitter
etc

Jeff Bozos exploits workers and sells ReKognition to cops (and potentially ICE in the future).

Some #Amazon Echo Data is Being Kept Indefinitely, Even After Deletion
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/amazon-keeps-echo-data/

#Amazon's Facial Recognition Creates Dystopic Future For Trans And Nonbinary People
https://jezebel.com/amazons-facial-analysis-program-is-building-a-dystopic-1835075450

#surveillancecapitalism

"AWS in Plain English" takes #Amazon's brand names for their cloud computing services and clarifies their purpose in a few words: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english

#AWS #AmazonWebServices #CloudComputing

I'm so annoyed right now. I very intentionally bought something off #Newegg instead of #Amazon, and it got drop-shipped from Amazon Prime.

"Anyone who thought the digital revolution would remove so called “gate keepers” are painfully wrong."

"This is your value gap. Nearly 50% of all recorded music streams only generate 7% of revenue."

https://thetrichordist.com/2019/01/29/2018-streaming-price-bible-per-stream-rates-drop-as-streaming-volume-grows-youtubes-value-gap-is-very-real/

#StopArtistExploitation #Streaming #Music #Spotify #YouTube #Apple #Amazon #Tidal #Pandora #Deezer

#Amazon’s facial-recognition #surveillance technology is supercharging local policing in Washington County, #Oregon
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-facial-recognition-technology-is-supercharging-local-police/

#HIO #PDX

#Amazon utilise un #algorithme pour licencier automatiquement ses employés https://www.journaldugeek.com/2019/04/29/amazon-utilise-algorithme-licencier-automatiquement-employes/

#Amazon just acquired Canvas Technology, a Boulder, Colorado-based #startup of #autonomous #robotics for factories and warehouses. #kiva #vc #automation #afgam

https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/amazon-acquires-autonomous-warehouse-robotics-startup-canvas-technology/

Fun fact: #Amazon urls completely ignore the human-readable part in the middle, as well as all the tracking junk tacked-on at the end. The only thing that matters is the ID after the /dp/ part of the url. So, you can do, for example,

www.amazon.ca/all-natural-lube/dp/B00406WQLQ/

www.amazon.ca/best-book-of-all-time/dp/0142437239/

www.amazon.ca/omg-super-kawaii/dp/B0042VIZOG/

(urls pasted without leading https:// for comedic purposes)

RT @TheHackersNews@twitter.com

New high severity "RunC" vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) lets attackers escape #Linux container to gain root access on host machine

https://thehackernews.com/2019/02/linux-container-runc-docker.html

Affected Systems/Services → Docker, Kubernetes, Debian, Red Hat, #Ubuntu, Google Cloud, #Amazon AWS and more

by @Unix_Root@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/1095247997263335424

We forgot to expire the domains of some of our development servers, so our manager got a little confused as to why our dev servers were serving a 404 not found page from the BBC. That's because we're both hosted on #AWS. This isn't the first time this has happened.

The internet is a wacky place, and it's all in #Amazon's backyard.