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Hilly @firhill40.bsky.social · 6h

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 36m

He really smashed the "make everything more expensive" button

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

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www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1h

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

www.wired.com

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 10h

i am a watch person and we are vile creatures but this is beyond the pale

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 2h

Also Bondi: And when we’re done with Antifa, we’re going after Bigfoot. No one’s gonna hide in the woods and keep scaring hunters, drunks, and crazy tourists on my watch.

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Len Smith @ignu.bsky.social · 21m

It's absolutely insane that a child killed himself with ChatGPT instructions and goading and Sam Altman's now pushing his addictive anthropomorphic bot to be sexual too.

This ghoul's name should be elevated to the most profane insult someone can sling.

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Emissary Janus @blacktonystark.bsky.social · 3m

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5m

The more yall talk the more I know why so many people around you get abused

Because a lot of you aren’t looking for solutions to terrible behavior just excuses so you can do it

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 4h

My absolutely fav thing is when right wingers insist we ‘stage’ calls at LBC (we never do. We invite on guests - as announced - but everyone else just calls in on the number we give out) because the people supporting their point of view sound too daft to be real.

Anything but introspect, eh?

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Max Overload @theoriginalmax.bsky.social · 23h

Convective cumulus cloud formation over islands...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

Not amazing . They eat and break bread with these people .

At the expense of the folks these people want to send to gas chambers, because lost in the looks shaming is how much they’ve said this in public to people

And they get rewards for it

Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 19h

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 21h

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 6h

A.I. generated videos are like dreams - you find your own fascinating and no one else gives a shit about them

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 2h

early 21st century americans were so modest that they would regularly censor their own feet in video and artistic depictions, and it was considered improper to expose your feet in public — dismissed with cries of "put those grippers away"

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Sylva Dragon @sylvadragon.bsky.social · 5h

I've always hated microsoft, but the more money grabbing they become the more I hate them. They are an evil greedy mega corporation with a very coveinient monopoly which lets them think they can tell everyone what to do. No-one tells me what to do, so get fucked microsoft!!

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4h

"Civilisations" crumble into dust around us, while we cling to our illusions that tell us human progress is inevitably linear. As it has done many times before, what is hiding behind the mask of "civilisation" & "modernity" has shown its full face.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1h

There are still medical educational tools in circulation that falsely teach that Black people feel less pain than white people & do no require anesthesia. In fact half of white medical trainees believe this bullshit.

We need to be eliminating bias, not outsourcing it to machines.

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Esme 🇭🇹🇨🇩🍉 @esmexo.bsky.social · 5h

When you see people of color joining ICE or even the military ( if y’all really wanna go there), it’s because the U.S. education system is working as intended. The media machine is working as intended. Everyone is susceptible to ws propaganda.

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 57m

The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

I can be shaking and sobbing in pain and have people swear it’s rage

When Apple launched its first Apple Watch

I had to give many of the demos to my lighter coworkers because it couldn’t read the my blood pressure

And I have one of the most common skin tones on earth

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

PainChek is one of these behavioral models, and it acts like a camera‑based thermometer, but for pain: A care worker opens the app and holds a phone 30 centimeters from a person’s face. For three seconds, a neural network looks for nine particular microscopic movements—upper‑lip raise, brow pinch, cheek tension, and so on—that research has linked most strongly to pain. Then the screen flashes a score of 0 to 42. “There’s a catalogue of ‘action‑unit codes’—facial expressions common to all humans. Nine of those are associated with pain,” explains Kreshnik Hoti, a senior research scientist with PainChek and a co-inventor of the device. This system is built directly on the foundation of FACS. After the scan, the app walks the user through a yes‑or‑no checklist of other signs, like groaning, “guarding,” and sleep disruption, and stores the result on a cloud dashboard that can show trends.

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Emissary Janus @blacktonystark.bsky.social · 20m

I mean the last 2 groups of people I would ever trust are white billionaires and Zionists, so yes the onus is on him to not prove he's an enemy of humanity.