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Facialized: Clearview AI's Hoan Ton-That Abuses Human Semantics, Thiel FB
by grarpamp 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/10/tech/clearview-ai-ceo-hoan-ton-that/inde… Peter Thiel, who sits on Facebook's board was an early investor in Clearview. Facebook, Thiel, and Ton-That all declined to comment on whether Thiel knew about how Clearview was downloading Facebook data and that it was against Facebook's rules. Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That's startup, Clearview AI. First came a front-page investigation in The New York Times, revealing Clearview has been working with law enforcement agencies to match photos of unknown faces to people's online images. Next, cease-and-desist letters rolled in from tech giants Twitter, Google and Facebook. Lawmakers made inquiries and New Jersey enacted a statewide ban on law enforcement using Clearview while it looks into the software.

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Cryptocurrency: Lulz, Halvening, TickTock, DNS Blocks Rout dotCOM Monopoly Scam
by grarpamp 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Widespread adoption and use by peoples and biz is not large enough yet, so fudbears were able to sink the $10k party in a failboat of lulz after only one day. And hardly any solid privacy coin, or crosschain DEX, or no-history UTXO db, or txrate, exist yet either. Fundamentals before price! Halvening in three months going to make BTC BCH inflation even less than USD printing... will be hard for even retarded WallSt banksters and naysayers to keep from filling their bags. MEP Godfrey Bloom - Busting Balls on Monetary Policy !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGxfrWaqP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAGeM-Lt2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ewGvLKgQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbLFo02jlH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkR8Mz_ytI https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQcJLtVXYAAbIx-.jpg What time is it in coinland... https://www.qwant.com/?q=cryptocurrency+clocks https://www.qwant.com/?q=cryptocurrency+calendar https://www.redbubble.com/shop/cryptocurrency+clocks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22272966 ICANN-Verisign dotCOM pricefixing rentseeking monopoly scam sparks launch of distributed blockchain DNS tech to route around... https://www.namecheap.com/blog/icann-allows-com-price-increases-gets-more-m… https://docs-beta.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns/ https://handshake.org/ https://ens.domains/ https://www.namecoin.org/

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Learn Python the NSA Way
by grarpamp 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

(U) FOUO^W Lesson 01: Introduction: Your First Python Program https://nsa.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/comp3321.pdf

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"The worship of billionaires has become our shittiest religion"
by Razer 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

"Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something other than fully human." > “Money as a measure of value,” Marx tells us in Capital, “is the necessary form of appearance of the measure of value which is immanent in commodities, namely labour-time.” Money, then, is for Marx a form of sedimented time. But if this is true, then having one billion dollars (or pounds, or whatever) takes one completely beyond all human time. > One billion dollars is far, far more money than anyone could realistically spend, on their needs, within the span of a human lifetime. If you have one billion dollars, you are completely shielded from all ordinary human concerns: Never again will you know hunger, or lack shelter, or suffer from inadequate medical care. Of course, there may very well be lots of comfortable, middle-class people who will also be lucky enough to never know those wants again, but the difference is that the billionaire is isolated even from the possibility of experiencing those wants. They are like the Christian who has been saved from despair in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death, who is eliminating the possibility of despair at every moment. If you have in your possession one billion dollars, then almost literally anything you desire — anything anyone might possibly conceive of desiring — can be yours, just as soon as you happen to desire it. But with no real friction between desire and reality, how does wanting even function? Can someone who lives like this even be said to know desire, anymore, at all? > And just as nobody can spend a billion dollars in their lifetime, nobody can earn it either. People have taken to saying “every billionaire is a policy failure”, because that sort of money makes nakedly obvious the truth Marx tells us about all wealth accumulated under capitalism: that it’s part of a process that is only possible because the people who own the means of production are, effectively, stealing it from their employees," Reasons why you should kill a rich pig as soon as possible >> https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people/ Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Next-Gen, Ultra-pixel Video Game Console Announced: Playing Outside
by Zig the N.g 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Next-Gen, Ultra-HD Video Game Console Announced: Playing Outside https://babylonbee.com/news/next-gen-ultra-hd-video-game-console-announced-… ... Playing Outside has high-definition graphics, unlike anything you've ever seen before, incredible framerates, and high-resolution textures all the way down to the atomic scale, according to a spokesperson.

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CNN: China's massive security state is being used to crack down on the Wuhan virus
by jim bell 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

CNN: China's massive security state is being used to crack down on the Wuhan virus. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/asia/china-security-police-wuhan-virus-intl-…

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Cryptocurrency: Music
by grarpamp 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

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NBC News: Baltimore To Use Police Surveillance Planes In Controversial Pilot Program | NBC Nightly News
by jim bell 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

NBC News: Baltimore To Use Police Surveillance Planes In Controversial Pilot Program | NBC Nightly News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teaM2GpRAFM

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Chinese tabloid jokes about thermal cameras seeing farts amid coronavirus outbreak
by jim bell 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/04/chinese-tabloid-jokes-thermal-cameras-seeing…

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Engadget: Bug prevents Windows 7 users from shutting down their PCs
by jim bell 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Engadget: Bug prevents Windows 7 users from shutting down their PCs. https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/09/windows-7-shutdown-bug/ Jim Bell's comment:From the article: "You don't have permission to shut down this computer". Should people do things to Microsoft employees that "they don't have permission to do"?

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