Adam E. Williams | #RoadmapForSuccess
Leader. Visionary Strategist. Incisive Tactician. Entrepreneur. Old World Dreamer. New World Geek.
Month: June 2020
Month: June 2020
History of racism, police brutality and a pandemic led to an ‘extraordinary moment’ – #history #police #racism #BlackLivesMatter #blm #brutality #noracism #noviolence #pandemic | #RoadmapForSuccess
To understand the unprecedented moment we’re in, activists, organizers and scholars are looking back at its historic underpinnings, parsing the dynamics of the moment and envisioning where it might take us next.
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OpenAI will start selling its text-generation tech, and the first customers include Reddit – #openai #text #tech #customers #reddit | #RoadmapForSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Research lab OpenAI, which started as a nonprofit with the goal of mitigating the potential harms of artificial intelligence, has announced its first commercial product: an AI text-generation system that the outfit previously warned was too dangerous to share. OpenAI’s work on text generation attracted much acclaim after
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Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law – #microsoft #facialrecognition #pricaxy #laws #congress #US #police – #RoadmapForSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has followed competitors Amazon and IBM in restricting how it provides facial recognition technology to third parties, in particular to law enforcement agencies. The company says that it does not currently provide the technology to police, but it’s now saying it will not do so until there
Read MoreWatch “I am Not Your Negro” – #learning #amazon #prime #blacklivesmatter #blm #georgefloyd #jimcrow #noracism #noviolence | #RoadmapForSuccess
https://watch.amazon.com/detail?asin=B01MR52U7T&territory=US&ref_=share_ios_movie&r=web
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Black Lives Matter group in Seattle meets with Mayor Durkan, calls for general strike and march – #Seattle #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #MayorDurkan #GeneralStrike #June12 #noracism #noviolence | #RoadmapForSuccess
Black Lives Matter Seattle – King County is calling for a statewide general strike and silent march on Friday, June 12, the group announced Saturday.
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Pushing for change, activists and first-time protesters come together in Seattle – #Seattle #activists #protesters #GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #noracism #noviolence | #RoadmapForSuccess
The day’s events in Seattle drew regular activists and first-time protesters, all determined that the killing of George Floyd, whose last moments came with his neck under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, now propel the nation in a new direction.
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Instagram says sites need photographers’ permission to embed posts – #Instagram #embed #photographers #copyright #intellectualproperty #IP | #RoadmapForSuccess
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Instagram says its terms of service don’t grant websites a sublicense to embed other people’s posts. Ars Technica reported yesterday that Instagram’s policies “require third parties to have the necessary rights from applicable rights holders,” according to a company spokesperson. “This includes ensuring they have a license
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Slack partners with Amazon to take on Microsoft Teams – #Slack #Microsoft #Amazon #Teams | #RoadmapForSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Slack is partnering with Amazon in a multi-year agreement that means all Amazon employees will start to use Slack. The deal comes just as Slack faces increased competition from Microsoft Teams, and it will also see Slack migrate its voice and video calling features over to Amazon’s Chime
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Instacart tweaks tipping system after tip-baiting outcry – #instacart #tipbaiting #tweak #system #shopping #coronavirus #COVID19 #AloneTogether | #RoadmapForSuccess
Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Instacart is adjusting how it handles customer tips following the announcement last week of a congressional inquiry into the practice of tip-baiting, in which Instacart allows customers to promise big tips for shoppers only for those customers to later rescind the tip after the order
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Yelp is adding a new tool to easily search for black-owned businesses – #Yelp #tools #search #BLM #business | #RoadmapForSuccess
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Yelp is launching a new tool to allow businesses on the platform to identify themselves as black-owned, CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced in a blog post Thursday. Customers will be able to search the Yelp app for black-owned businesses they want to support. Over the last week, Yelp
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