Toronto from the ISS. Very detailed picture - from our short stay 21 years ago, it all looks very familiar!
I really can not emphasise enough that facial recognition technology should be illegal.
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 Meta’s 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...
The Heritage Foundation is deluging the government with FOIA requests meant to identify employees who have said words like "climate change" in emails and chats so they can be purged when Trump takes office www.propublica.org/article/have...
The conservative think tank has filed thousands of public-information requests, clogging the pipeline at federal agencies in an apparent attempt to find employees a potential Trump administration woul...
Also, the first question the dudes promoting any new tech should be asked is "Have you thought about the ways this might be used to harass, intimidate, or stalk women, and what measures are you taking to prevent that from happening?"
Maybe I am just an out-of-touch old grump (maybe), but I have a hard time believing that a large number of people are really going to go around wearing these. www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/01/1...
Recent demos of smart glasses from Meta and Snap have shown off some impressive visuals. But the brains are the thing.
been saying this for a decade: buy hard copies of anything you love, even if all that's available is a dvd or a cd or something, because you cannot fucking trust a landlord
"We’re living through an age of mass deletion, a moment when entertainment and media corporations see themselves not as custodians of valuable cultural history, once freely available, but as ruthless maximisers of profit." @zachschonfeld.bsky.social
The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld
This is an important and clear analysis of how the 2024 election will change access to abortion, fertility treatments and other reproductive health care across the U.S. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...@tanyalewis.bsky.social
The presidential candidates have vastly divergent records on and plans for protecting access to reproductive health care, including abortion and IVF
This isn't perfect but there are some actual numbers here. I can also tell you that Iowa residents have seen 30% increases in water bills and 20% increases in electricity bills as a direct result of the chat gpt plant's gluttony. www.kcci.com/article/ai-t...
Few people in Iowa knew about its status as a birthplace of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, before a top Microsoft executive said in a speech it “was literally made next to cornfie...
