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Mikeal Beland
@mikealbeland.bsky.social
creative director, consultant, artist, designer, published photographer, filmmaker
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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-...

Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers

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...

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Ccari.bsky.social

he was good at the vet so he gets dog ice cream

tricolor blue-eyed Australian shepherd looking at a cup of dog ice cream I'm holding in front of the camera
tricolor blue-eyed Australian shepherd licking the ice cream cup
tricolor blue-eyed Australian shepherd biting the ice cream cup
tricolor blue-eyed Australian shepherd stealing the ice cream cup
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SCOTUS has not been formed by the consent of the majority of American voters since 2000. Has it always been that way? Everyone keeps saying the system is bad, but I think it’s just rigged.

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DEearhart.bsky.social

Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "Trump lied with vigor and so he is the victor. Sign of a degraded democracy. #Strongmen is a chronicle of professional liars who performed beautifully and had a sophisticated sense of stagecraft, just like Trump does now."

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Authoritarian activation + low-info voters = that voting environment. 😞

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A few comments don’t look good. Did he blow it or is that just habitually online commentary?

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These are the people trying to drag us into a new Dark Age. Anti-science religious fanatics.

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Ssardonicus.eu

'Technocracy’, Winsor McCay, 1933

a giant mechanical monster devouring the city
this is the devouring monster invented by technocracy
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DLdjlavoie.bsky.social

"Tech companies, faced with the most powerful computing innovation in a generation, are running around like kids who just found their dad’s gun." EXCELLENT piece on the thoughtless AI Gold Rush by CNN's @amorrow.bsky.socialview.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/171...

Tonight: We should all listen to Jeff Goldblum, just as a rule. Let's get into it.

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Mikeal Beland
@mikealbeland.bsky.social
creative director, consultant, artist, designer, published photographer, filmmaker
37 followers128 following321 posts