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aramis87

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  • Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real

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  • Honestly, fingers and movement have been two of the telling signs of AI photos and video for a long time. Just like they've used captchas to crowd-source house numbers for their maps, and vehicle information and street infrastructure for their attempts at self-driving vehicles, they're now crowd-sourcing data for AI images and video.

    Plus they'll get geo-information on your location, and video of your immediate area - like the inside of your house. They've had code that processes images and gives feedback on the people in the photo, their likely income and interests, and suggests ads targeted to those people. With geo-location, fingerprinting your phone, and now pictures of the inside of your house, they're really dialing in on their surveillance and ad databases.

    Not saying that the opportunity to build facial ID banks isn't a bonus. But don't discount the opportunity to spy inside everyone's homes, and to improve their ability to literally generate their own version of reality - or to produce "evidence" disproving your reality to everyone else.

  • Senate passes bill to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes

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  • That's what I'm guessing, that each LLC is only allowed a certain number of units, or there's a limit on the number of different types of units which will only lead them to re-name each type of unit to something else. It's no longer "single family homes" but "one unit housing with land". Or it limits the amount of "affordable housing" they can buy, but then they just change what's affordable, or only build luxury houses - like everyone wants affordable, economical cars these days, but all you can buy are expensive, gas-guzzling SUVs.

  • Senate passes bill to lower housing costs and restrict Wall Street from buying homes

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  • That it's gotten this far with this many votes means that investment firms have already placed language into the bill that will let them continue to buy up houses by completing a few additional low-effort steps.

  • Kennedy Center says it isn't required to reschedule shows after judge blocks 2-year closure

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  • A bunch of artists have severed connections with the Kennedy Center. I would assume most would refuse to play there until Trump's hand-picked sycophantic Board is cleared of all the trash.

  • Introducing Critter!

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  • You can't just drop this and not tell us about this impossibly dumb rule you made years ago.

    Also: welcome home, Critter!

  • 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots

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  • A lot of sidewalks in major cities don't have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc. And suddenly you're being asked to give up one piece of space that's supposedly reserved for you, to yet another 'move fast, break things, get permission later' techbro "innovation" that no one's asked for.

    There's no regulation over them, no standards that they have to follow or how to behave, no way for the public to specifically identify a robot when they encounter it in public (like, say, your robot ran into my car or whatever).

    I'd only allow them if each robot carried a certain amount of insurance, was registered and had some kind of license plate, had turn signals (I don't know if they do, the ones I saw didn't), had limited operating hours and locations, were forced to move aside for humans, etc - basically make them the absolute lowest priority thing on the streets and sidewalks. Streets, bike lanes, sidewalks, subways, etc, were each built for specific forms of human movement. If techbros want to introduce a new type of system, they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots), instead of just blatantly overloading already-stressed public infrastructure.

  • The Democratic Base Is Angry. Is the party paying attention?

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  • Be the change you want to see.

  • Blue-collar white voters are, for the first time, seriously doubting Mr. Trump’s handling of the economy.

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  • 54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

  • Minnesota Trade Unionists Among Those Targeted in Federal Indictments of ICE Observers

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  • First they came for the trade unionists ....

  • TIL There is a pink Kryptonite that makes Superman gay or effeminate

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  • The Superman fan wiki says

    Pink Kryptonite is a type of Kryptonite that seemingly turns Kryptonians more feminine or queer. This type of Kryptonite only made one appearance in comics and was used as a satire of the plots of Silver Age comic stories featuring some strange new form of Kryptonite.

    In an animated short, True Colors, from the animated series Justice League Action, its effect was changed to switch the gender of the Kryptonian under its effects, due to the more family-friendly nature of the show.

    So, boo :(

  • Muslims at Texas GOP Convention told to leave party, country

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  • I have no Idea what he was thinking.

  • White House UFC fights delayed due to weather

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  • Apparently it's just the bonuses (the headlines made it sound like the entire fee), but I still wouldn't be happy:

    The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced on Friday that it will pay bonuses to fighters in a form of cryptocurrency issued by [a] Trump family business

  • White House UFC fights delayed due to weather

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  • Honestly, if I was one of the fighters, I'd've quit the moment they told us we weren't getting paid in real money but in Trump crypto instead.

  • The void stares back

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  • The void is hungry and wants chimken.

  • Judge rejects last-minute bid to pause removal of Trump’s name from Kennedy Center

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  • edit: so, there was a severe thunderstorm watch+warning, and the crew weren't going to go up on the scaffolding due to the possibility of lightning. They're currently working on additional scaffolding.

    It's after 5pm, there are no workers, and nothing's been taken down, so I doubt it'll happen today. They'll issue a citation to someone - probably the head of the Foundation, unless she can divert the blame to someone else - and they'll have mealy-mouthed excuses as to why it couldn't be done on time. They'll likely give her an extension; if she misses it, she'll be called into the carpet and scolded (again). There may be a fine way some point, but I suspect she'll have the Kennedy Center pay for it, so she won't care.

  • Opera company demands $17 million from Kennedy Center in explosive lawsuit

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  • Among the allegations is a claim that [...] money from a fund containing bequests and donations intended for the opera had been pledged as collateral for a line of credit. The Kennedy Center sharply rejected the claims, maintaining that those funds indeed belonged to the Kennedy Center itself.

    In a statement to the Times, spokeswoman Roma Daravi argued that the relationship with the opera company had been a financial drain on the institution for years. Citing calculations from an outside accounting firm, she said the opera had “accumulated a $72 million deficit to the center” during the period it operated as an affiliate.

  • Trump bristles over leaked details of deal that appear to favour Iran | CBC News

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  • "They're not reparations! It's -- it's -- umm, it's an investment fund!"

  • Trump calls off latest threats to strike Iran, cites breakthrough in talks to end the war

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  • We bombed a civilian water supply (pretty sure that's a war crime, not that they'll care), they've completely shut the Strait, Trump threatened a massive strike threatening to seize some oil/infrastructure - best guess was Kharg Island. Now that's off, again - at least not until he gets his late night drug fix and riled up by Fox.

    Hunh. You know how he keeps flip-flopping on what he's planning to do? I wonder if that's because there are different news/opinion hosts on the weekends.

  • Trump claims he tanked economy on purpose: 'I love the inflation'

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  • Man is asked about inflation and says the hit to the stock market was worth it. The man literally does not understand inflation.