#116 - Privacy Violations, Malaria Vaccine Rollout, and Building Bridges!
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In the News
💬 Google’s new AI assistant that’s built into its native Android messaging client will likely be able to read all private messages.
🕵️ In other privacy violation news, the NSA is buying commercially available data on Americans’ internet browsing records.
🦟 Last Monday marked the beginning of a historic public health campaign: the first widespread vaccination effort against malaria with the new RTS,S vaccine, aiming to deliver over 600,000 doses in the first sprint.
🌍 A new report shows how over 160 million people across the African continent gained access to the internet since just 2019.
Opportunities
We like big job boards and we cannot lie, especially when the opportunities listed are in carbon capture and storage orgs. Check out this massive list and see if any are applicable for you or someone you know.
“Compiler is a small, woman-owned software consultancy. Compiler helps service-oriented government agencies build open source, human-centered, secure, agile solutions to support the delivery of government services that increase equity of opportunity. Our team specializes in building software applications around data for operations support and performance management including: data standards development, data engineering, data cleaning, extract transform and load (ETL) workflows, custom application programming interface (API) development and integration, data integration, data pipelines, data analytics, and data science. Our team’s subject matter expertise in transportation, housing, and homelessness provides depth and quality to the services we design and the applications we build.” They’re currently looking to hire a software engineer based in LA or remote.
Relentless is a company looking to expand the voter population by graph-based social inclusion. “Relentless is an organizing company focused on unlocking political power through relational organizing. Our flagship product, Rally, is a social graph, power-mapping tool, and program management platform that makes running scaled relational programs simple.” They’re currently seeking to hire a product manager.
Bridges to Prosperity is hiring a technical support specialist to help their mission of expanding mobility around the world and connecting communities that have been historically isolated due to poor infrastructure. In their words, “Bridges to Prosperity envisions a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Rural isolation is a root cause of poverty, and we believe that connection is the foundation to opportunity. We build bridges to better lives in rural communities. With a sophisticated data collection and evaluation program, we’re able to prove that the value and impact of our work is sustained long after the opening celebration.”
What We’re Watching
A super interesting Statecraft piece on trends in immigration policy.
Here’s a cute little device that tells the time in a poem using AI.
The world’s largest EV manufacturer, BYD, now needs to build its own ships just to get its cars to faraway places.
This paper co-authored by one of our favorite tech leaders, Meredith Whittaker, argues that terms like “open” in corporate speak (including OpenAI) are way over-used with no substance behind them.
Quotes We Love
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
- Assata Shakur
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