evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Of course Niantic used Pokemon Go for location training on autonomous weapons, but we weren't worried because it was just a fun game that got people outside.

Of course Snapchat and Instagram used filters to train facial recognition, but we weren't worried because it made our selfies look better and that puppy tongue was so cute.

Of course 23&Me was building a blood quantum database, but we weren't worried because we were curious about our background and it was just harmless fun.

We've been training a surveillance apparatus beyond the wildest dreams of any dictator this whole time.

We weren't worried because it's not like a bigoted authoritarian regime would rise and start abusing it, right?

...right?

40 bucks off marketplace. Needs a 4mm flat drive belt (on the way from aliexpress) but bodged it with 2x 1mm square belts for the time being. Looks and sounds sick

a few more IR shots, again at 550nm+ #photography #infrared

Gotta admit, I’m glad they’re stripping Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center while he’s still alive and coherent enough to feel the burn.

This is fine

Office has a censor filter in internal comms to replace swear words with other terms. Added a rule changing "AI" to "my cat", so we get "According to my cat..." and "I asked my cat and it said..."

Via Everyone Hates Elon, London:

Imagine having enough wealth to end world hunger 166 times over but you chose not to (and chose to incite violence instead)

#EveryoneHatesElon #FuckElon #USpol #TaxTheRich #immigrant #racist #ukpol #HateSpeech #ChildPorn #BelfastRiots #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #ElonMusk

KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited.

One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence.

KPMG have now withdrawn the report in full.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3828e92-4961-4b39-84f0-c42f33be3c3f

Sometimes you have to rotate a password. So it's vital that you don't use a ambigrams for security purposes.

#Security #LowQualityAdvice

I'm stepping into the cesspit of asylum politics on Jenny's Bench.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Wading-Into-The-Cesspit-Of-Immigration-Politics-R5T5219ELL

Support my work if you can.

Number 4 is so many companies right now, sadly.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

You can rebrand a phone.
You can paint it gold.
You can rewrite the marketing.

But when you put it next to an HTC U24 Pro in a CT scanner, the disguise falls apart pretty fast.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro

Oh No, Rebordacao, Hand Embroidery, 2023

#Art

519) Squeezebots. Run together to hold hands, get bored, run apart again, then run back together, coincidentally producing music at the same time. #SmallRobotsRemastered

If the plan is to reduce immigration by turning the UK into a miserable rundown racist hellhole no one wants to live in then yes, I suppose politicians & media may well be succeeding

#Meme #Humour

Gonna say the pivot of GitHub to an offline-first company is impressive

518) Stitchcountbot. For counting your stitches when you're knitting or crocheting. #SmallRobotsRemastered