If Trump wins, god forbid, I really need Americans to cut the āwell, guess weāre doomedā crap and learn from what people in other authoritarian regimes have been doing online for a very long time
It's important to realize how long scientists have warned those in power. Climate change is not somebody's fault for not recycling beer cans. It's the result of a fraud against the public by corporations who have flooded the zone with bribes and misinformation.
My Mum worked for the census office for a while but knew she couldn't continue due to that. And yes, she also had times when banks wondered if she needed permission from her husband to manage her own money
What a slap on the face to those who fought so hard to get more in to the National curriculum as it is. Ffs. #mobsky
By limiting the syllabus to events post-1788, the NSW Education Standards Authority indirectly sends students the message that Australiaās āhistoryā began at colonisation.
D'you have to write essays or documents of some sort? Does the process of writing -> editing -> rewriting help you say things more clearly or help your thoughts be more structured? Do you sometimes have to re-think because you realise what you've written isn't very convincing? Etc
Similar to their admiration for Russia
I don't think it's likely, just a funny thought ;P
Wonder if Musk retreats from Aus & bans X access from here, similar to what he did in Brazil? Probs not, but it'd be funny to watch
Facial recognition in smart glasses to dox people? Yeah, a bunch of us warned shit like this was going to happen, and it's going to enable some really bad shit. We need to fundamentally reconsider what constitutes "public" and "private" in our society, and we need to have done it several years ago.
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
The technology, which marries Metaās smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
This piece from last year is about the need to tell stories of ordinary women in STEM. Since it came out, my niece had a scarily similar experience when her first grade teacher told her to 'pick something shorter' when she said she wanted to be an entomologist! š§Ŗš©āš¬ lithub.com/how-women-an...
Career Day at kindergarten wasnāt going well. Worksheets splayed across the tables, each with a suitable illustration waiting to be colored with crayons: fireman, postman, doctor, vet. I had gone tā¦