Your nose or…?

The queen B be pimpin’ the worker beeatches

Of course, make an anti-feature part of an integral part, which coincidentally also happens to handle personal files…

Great article! “education” … “risk assessments” … “early intervention” … Got to break their spirit while they’re young

It’s almost as if they’re seeking to replace these with technology. They’ve purposefully neglected social services and will continue to do so, to lower the bar for AI and grant themselves an excuse for the poor “substitute”. And this isn’t at all restricted to the UK, in The Netherlands we’re in the midst of it too: the same exact playbook. Modern surveillance cameras (like Axis’ for example) have NPU’s built in, or camera footage (even from legacy analog cameras, by use of encoders) is linked to either an onsite server, a cloud-service, or a combination of the two, facilitating the functionality. I hardly believe AI to be the limiting factor here, storage of footage is another story however. But I think they instead strategically place facial-recognition cameras, while the other cameras simply store abstractions from the footage. Of course if one of those cameras senses an event, which it recognizes might be of elevated relevance, it might store the raw footage. An example being: railways doing face-scanning for “depression detection”, instead of implementing ‘platform screen doors’ of course…

I’m not that up-to-date on my bat-lore, but I’ve always thought they were primarily active at night, and navigate themselves using sonar there. But perhaps eyesight is also complementary to sonar at night, or vise versa? Again, my bat-lore’s lacking

Photos, as in sonar depth maps?

McCormick, who Zuck noted would be focusing much of her energy on “partnering with governments and sovereigns to build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta’s infrastructure.”

Meta last week signed three new long-term contracts with TerraPower, Oklo, and Vistra for nuclear energy. Combined with the company’s existing commitments with Constellation Energy, the Social Network has now contracted for roughly 6.6 gigawatts of atomic power

It’s all just so soul crushingly in the open and shameless

Ah, the good ol’ revolving door politics

More eyes in the sky. It seems like even pigeons aren’t save from being replaced by technology…

I would suspect it expects to get nectar, only to be brutally violated in the process

Couldn’t agree more

Honestly, the tech seems quite impressive. But I wouldn’t touch Amazon-backed smart glasses, which “could also provide health insights, such as detecting dry eyes or monitoring posture”, with a ten-foot pole; especially when there’s also entirely passive bifocals and progressives.

India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures.

How does that sound promising at all? Especially when initiated by a government, previously having attempted to enforce government spyware, to be installed on all consumer smartphones. The following excerpts are from India’s proposed phone security rules that are worrying tech firms

Devices must store security audit logs, including app installations and login attempts, for 12 months.

Phones must periodically scan for malware and identify potentially harmful applications.

Defined to be potentially harmful by who? Right.

Phone makers must notify a government organisation before releasing any major updates or security patches.

We cannot approve of the security patch just yet, as we must first extensively exploit the vulnerability…

Devices must detect if phones have been rooted or “jailbroken”, where users bypass built-in security restrictions, and display continuous warning banners to recommend corrective measures.

Phones must permanently block installation of older software versions, even if officially signed by the manufacturer, to prevent security downgrades.

A large stone on a ramp, kept from rolling by a wedge, to be pushed out of position, by use of mechanical advantage through a lever, seems quite doable to me. You could even utilize a smaller initial stone to kick the wedge withholding a larger stone.

So with a healthy amount of skepticism? I agree, but would argue this extends to “reliable” sources too. Just because an author has established a trustworthy track record for themselves, doesn’t mean one should become less critical of future writings.

It becomes more apparent to me everyday, we might be headed towards a society, dynamically managed by digital systems; a “smart society”, or rather a Society-as-a-Service. This seems to be the logical conclusion, if you continue the line of “smart buildings” being part of “smart cities”. With use of IoT sensors and unified digital platforms, data is continuously being gathered on the population, to be analyzed, and its extractions stored indefinitely (in pseudonymized form) by the many data centers, currently being constructed. This data is then used to dynamically adapt the system, to replace the “inefficient” democratic process and public services as a whole. Of course the open-source (too optimistic?) model used, is free of any bias; however nobody has access to the resources required to verify the claim. But given big-tech, historically never having shown any signs of tyranny, a utopian outcome can safely be assumed… Or I might simply just be a nut, with a brain making nonsensical connections, which have no basis in reality.

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I don’t turn my face towards houses while I’m walking if I notice a doorbell camera

I do that haha… In all seriousness, I’ve recently quit my job as mailman, in part because of this. Year after year I saw the number of doorbell cameras increase, and so grew my discomfort of my job requiring me to expose myself, to these privacy-hostile situations. The worst case scenarios were semi-detached houses: since the doors to the paired addresses are right beside another. Between the entries there’s often (decorative) separation, requiring some acrobatics to shortcut to the next address. If the second address would have a doorbell camera, while requiring me to sidestep between the obstructions, I could either: A) face the door and have my face right up to the camera, or B) turn my back to it and spin back into position. I did the latter, and I HATED having to adapt my seemingly simple job to this extend, just to protect my dignity.

The Netherlands technically requires a sign which indicates camera surveillance, besides having to direct cameras in such a way that they cannot capture the public sphere. But have a guess at how much enforcement there is in this regard…

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