Harmonious Bosch

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

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This is the third time Ring has backed off of some Orwellian practice because of public outcry; in the two previous cases it went right back to the evil as soon as the uproar died down. There is no reason to suspect this will be any different.

Huda Ammori: "This is a.. victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain & in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history"

Tapping my multiple signs

Drone delivery firm Manna seeks permission to fly in Cork airspace Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) confirmed Manna as the beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operator that has requested permission to fly over Cork City

Sure thing, Bobby Drones.

"sources close to Manna stating that up to 50 new jobs are created in every suburb it expands to."

Could be as high as 50, could be as low as 0. Who's to know?

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how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

Messenger: [throwing message into the bushes] your excellency we would very much like to not be shot

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

No way are those benches making it into physical reality unless there's a full regime change inside DCC.

'The flim-flam man tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space' (New York Times)

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I've just realized. Banks used to be big imposing high street buildings because it gave people confidence they had money and weren't fly by night. A big elaborate website was the internet equivalent: proving someone had invested £ and was here to stay.

You can't trust that any more.

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

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Places like achill and Killarney that are impossible to find a place to live in create their own political consensus. cause the people who can't find anywhere to live there leave and the people who can are often landlords like MHR himself

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

As I said previously, a certain amount of respect is due to this lady for landing a gig in which she presumably gets paid an eyewatering amount of money to talk about whether sand has feelings.

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

I'm not sure KPMG, a company which does a lot of audits, has thought this one through carefully.

Helen Lovejoy 'Won't somebody please think of the children' image from The Simpsons.

As he's part of a government whose main principles appear to be cowardice, inaction and kowtowing to (mostly US) businesses I suppose it's not all that surprising he's landed on this as something to do.

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Brought to you by the same people who developed the twice-found-unlawful Public Services Card / MyGovID system, which will doubtless be kludgily attached to the age verification system.

Proposal to end Dublin Airport passenger cap approved The Cabinet has approved drafting the required legislation to end the passenger cap at Dublin Airport.

In 6 weeks, Minister O'Brien has fast-tracked LNG infrastructure, lifted the moratorium on data centres and the Dublin Airport passenger cap. All under the banner of 'strategic infrastructure'.

Irresponsible moves that lock us into climate havoc and US dependency.

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"Crawlers have been around for ten or even fifteen years" confidently says a man who clearly thinks he knows what he's talking about at the Oireachtas AI committee.

Something compelled me to make this

As Ireland secures Nitrates derogation, scraps airport limits and tries to scupper Mercosur trade deal, what a GREAT time to go to the EU with the béal bocht routine, begging to be saved from our own greed & stupidity yet again.

Ireland may enact age limits for social media even without EU agreement, says Simon Harris New digital wallet will represent ‘important first step’, says Tánaiste

Still not even the slightest attempt to explain how age verification for all, with all its attendant security risks, breaches of privacy and massive indiscriminate surveillance potential leads to children being safer online. Very much an underpants gnomes plan.

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A Collison or two?

My story yesterday; the Irish Times and I broke this now-international story and I am hoping he'll have some resolution and that this case will draw ever more scrutiny to the horrific conditions and circumstances in which so many detainees are held.