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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Go to pay the over-priced annual member fee for one of my professional certs. Web site can't add the renewal to its cart. AI chat bot "support" system is down and non-responsive.

Sigh.

Technology. :(

[addressing the shocked expressions at the dance after playing a wild heavy metal guitar solo]
Marty McFly: I g-guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna really misunderstand it.

Doing about as well as any other corporate "executive" I've worked for.

Mr. Bean punching Nazis in Indiana Jones.

improving movies with mr. bean: thread

A little message from our CEO and founder @andyhunter777.bsky.social ahead of Anti-Prime:

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

YouTube video by wildbaldmonkey Race For Your Life Charlie Brown Theme Song

I'm just going to say it: The theme to "Race for Your Life Charlie Brown" is 100% a class-A banger and I'm tired of us pretending it isn't.

#truthbombs #peanuts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xC...

This might be a good time to remind those of you that have a recent hole in their streaming budget that PBS has had its funding gutted. Just $5/mon for PBS Passport, their extended streaming service & library. Staggering amount of top-qual' content for pennies.

video.gpb.org/passport/lea...

#pbs

Controversial opinion: I don't actually think Hackers was all that great. Even ironically. It's not the worst movie out there, but it's not good.

Don't use a random VPN from the Chrome Web Store. Chose from one of our recommended providers instead:

▶️ privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

Why do i feel so hungry? Oh yeah, it's 2pm and all you've had to eat today is a bottle of water, a coke, and an aspirin. #verysmart #sosmart

Gonna blow some AI enthusiasts' minds with a Casio calculator watch that gets the math right every single time.

My parents are literally sitting here *arguing* over which Wendy’s to go to. It’s Wendy’s for Pete’s sake! Just go with whichever one has more Michelin stars and be done with it!

My parents are getting a new dog and refuse to seriously consider my suggestion for the name "Poopy von Farty-pants". So unreasonable.

Let me FTFY: "Holy *shit* does AT&T customer service suck"

Microsoft Recall Exposes Passwords and Banking Data! New tests reveal Microsoft Recall still screenshots sensitive data.

Uh oh, Recall did it again. 🤭

news.itsfoss.com/microsoft-re...

SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community."

So what you're saying is that they felt bad for sending the push, but not for hosting literal nazis. I see. www.usermag.co/p/substack-s...

"However, as an American company, Microsoft is subject to various extraterritorial laws that require it to transmit the data it hosts to the authorities without informing the user.” ANTON CARNIOUX, Microsoft's legal chief for France

Microsoft: "Your data is safe in Europe."

Under oath, Microsoft's legal chief for France: "No, I cannot guarantee that."

The truth is Microsoft’s marketing is lying to you.

👉 Read our comment "Digital sovereignty - a trend in Europe, sparked by Microsoft": tuta.com/blog/digital...

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Sure. 2am. Good time for a building wide fire (false) alarm. Grrrrrr.🤬

I asked ChatGPT what will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what it said to me:

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
STICK YOUR HAND IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

Just rewatched Labyrinth, as one does, and something new struck me: Brother gets taken, Goblin King and friends show up in her house. Reaction? Nothing. Not "holy shit magic is real", "OMFG goblins in my house", just nothing. I've seen bigger reactions to "we're almost out of cereal".

best accounts for a timeline cleanse?

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Sigh. Was this week not going poorly enough already? This is disappointing.

this kicks ass

Citizen Kane is the Citizen Kane of movies.

#braveopinion

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