AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
Bombshell new reporting from 404 Media found that Flock, which has its cameras in thousands of US communities, has been outsourcing its AI to gig workers located in the Philippines.
After accessing a cache of exposed data, 404 found documents related to annotating Flock footage, a process sometimes called “AI training.” Workers were tasked with jobs include categorizing vehicles by color, make, and model, transcribing license plates, and labeling various audio clips from car wrecks.
In US towns and cities, Flock cameras maintained by local businesses and municipal agencies form centralized surveillance networks for local police. They constantly scan for car license plates, as well as pedestrians, who are categorized based on their clothing, and possibly by factors like gender and race.
In a growing number of cases, local police are using Flock to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents surveil minority communities.
It isn’t clear where all the Flock annotation footage came from, but screenshots included in the documents for data annotators showed license plates from New York, Florida, New Jersey, Michigan, and California.
Flock joins the ranks of other fast-moving AI companies that have resorted to low-paid international labor to bring their product to market. Amazon’s cashier-free “just walk out” stores, for example, were really just gig workers watching American shoppers from India. The AI startup Engineer.ai, which purported to make developing code for apps “as easy as ordering a pizza,” was found out to be selling passing human-written code as AI generated.
The difference with those examples is that those services were voluntary — powered by the exploitation of workers in the global south, yes, but with a choice to opt out on the front-end. That isn’t the case with Flock, as you don’t have to consent to end up in the panopticon. In other words, for a growing number of Americans, a for-profit company is deciding who gets watched, and who does the watching — a system built on exploitation at either end.
AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents
The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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Had an issue with an update and had no networl access after reboot. How many kernals can be available in grub?
Still pretty new to Linux, I'm on Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS and had some issues with updates through the updater with errors and so I did sudo apt update/upgrade instead. Something went wrong and had errors, and after a reboot I had no internet access, Ethernet or WiFi, and no options to connect to anything. Running sudo lshw -c network showed unclaimed networks.
In case anyone has a similar issue, I fixed it by:
1. Reboot, spam shift to get into grub
2. Advanced options
3. Recovery mode for the lower number kernel
4. Enable networking
5. Fix broken packages
My question is about number 3. There were 4 kernel options, 2 normal with a recovery for each (I can't remember the specifics but one had 37 and the other 36). I selected recovery 36 as it was the older kernel. Is that amount of options (2 for each kernel) normal or can I create more? Like 37, 36, 35, 34, etc.
I was in panic mode since this PC is for work, and thought it might be nice to have more older kernel options if possible. I've also learned my lesson and am currently running Timeshift.
It's been a long time since I used Ubuntu, but at the time I did I recall running into issues keeping too many old kernels. They were stored in a fixed space folder (or maybe partition?) that was like 100MB and sometimes wouldn't clear out automatically, so I remember this. May not be relevant now, but if it is, space in the storage folder is the limiting factor so you would need to change that. If it IS a partition, then you would need to deal with all that is involved with that.
edited to add that my current OS only stores three or four as well. I have never really dived into it.
The Quest for Reasonably Secure Operating Systems
The Quest for Reasonably Secure Operating Systems
I never worried on Windows about security as much as I should have, it just so happens I've been lucky to have never been hit with ransomware. By the time...yazomie > tech
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Another step up is the confidential computing project. Requires hardware that supports it though, which sucks, but takes the virtual hardware concept and adds multi key memory encryption on top.
Remember though security without a threat model is just paranoia, so what level of hoops and investment you need really depends on what your threats actually look like.
I personally love containers and Macsec. It limits most of my concerns. I want to mess with confidential containers next, which is to say lightweight VMs in containers with memory encryption set, but thats all future to me. The irony is that I then I have to figure out attestation better for those machines since from the host they are black boxes.
iOS 26 doesn't offer privacy settings at all for "Home" app
It appears that even if you don't have the app installed, it is in Settings > Apps. But there's no option at all, to customise its privacy settings.
Downloading the app also doesn't let you customise its privacy settings. In fact, the app then disappears altogether from the privacy settings! It doesn't even appear anymore in the "Hidden Apps". Removing it again however, shows the app popping up again in the settings.
What's more, it's deliberately erroneously labelled as "Start Screen" when you don't have downloaded it.
Ridiculous. One more reason to go to a Fairphone or something like it.
However, you can edit it... but very cumbersomely, only by going to Settings > Siri > App Access ... and then suddenly, you see the app!
This seems like it's straight up illegal.
If by “privacy settings” you mean controlling what system permissions the Home app has, you’re out of luck. It’s a semi-default app and may be more deeply embedded into iOS than is apparent.
If you’re trying to control what other apps have access to HomeKit data, you can find that in Privacy & Security.
Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
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key trick is that it uses edge detection to make a smooth pixel art image
here's an example without edge detection
and here's with it enabled
edit: I spent way too much time on this, but figured out how to make the edge detection method produce sharp images
[2024-10-27] OpenZFS new deduplication mechanism and why you still may not want to use it
OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
OpenZFS 2.3.0 will be released any day now, and it includes the new “Fast Dedup” feature. My team at Klara spent many months in 2023 and 2024 working on it, and we reckon it’s pretty good, a huge step up from the old dedup as well as being a solid ba…despair labs
Linux kernel version numbers (Greg Kroah-Hartman's blog)
Linux kernel version numbers
Despite having a stable release model and cadence since December 2003, Linux kernel version numbers seem to baffle and confuse those that run across them, causing numerous groups to mistakenly make versioning statements that are flat out false.Greg K-H (http://www.kroah.com/log/)
The blog post is confusing, but the image is very clear.
5.2.0 was released.
Then 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, and 5.2.6 were released as stable updates. Pretty straightforward.
After 5.2.0 came out, normal development continued toward the upcoming 5.3.0 in Linus’s mainline tree. As bugfixes for real problems (crashes, data corruption, build breaks, security issues, etc.) were written and merged into mainline, a subset of those fixes was then backported to the 5.2.y stable branch and released as 5.2.1, 5.2.2, and so on.
In other words, there is a separate 5.2.y branch, but most of its changes are not developed there first. They are developed in mainline (the code that will eventually become 5.3.0 and beyond) and then cherry-picked back into 5.2.y as “stable” bugfixes. There is no “merge 5.2.x back into 5.3.0”; instead, stable only takes fixes that are already in mainline.
This means that any fix you see in a 5.2.y release should already be present in the mainline code that leads to 5.3.0 (or replaced by an equivalent fix there). So when you move from 5.2.6 to 5.3.0, you should not lose any of the bugfixes you were getting from the 5.2.y stable series.
If semantic versioning is:
MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner
PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes
then I think that would be on like 3.77.0 or something right now. Not terrible, but honestly prefer it to be like the major upped in the new year every year. It is about 43 years old,so 43.x in 2026. Would be easier to know how old a kernel release is without looking it up.
Would be easier to know how old a kernel release is without looking it up.
I concur, but it would be much easier to make the major version the current year (as many projects do, and Linux should imo) rather than the whole project's age at the time of a release.
Linux is only 34 years old, btw.
(Mexico) Continuing Neoliberal Policies Over Farmers’ Demands
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6980341
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This article by Arturo Huerta González originally appeared in the December 2, 2025 edition of La Jornada de Oriente*, the Puebla edition of Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of* Mexico Solidarity Media*, or the Mexico Solidarity Project.*On November 26, 2025, the country’s President stated that “there is no money to pay what the farmers are demanding ” and that “you can’t promise what you can’t deliver.” The government has indicated that “the producers’ request to set a price far above the current market value for all national corn exceeds the government ‘s financial capacity ” and that the farmers ‘ demands “must be adjusted to budgetary availability, as public finances have limits.”
This rhetoric is the same as that of the neoliberal presidents who have governed us since the 1980s. By limiting public spending relative to revenue, the government seeks to curry favor with international rating agencies , the International Monetary Fund, and the national and international financial sector. This has led to a reduction in the size and participation of the government in the economy and a neglect of growth objectives for the productive sector, such as job creation, which the population demands. It is a crime to cut public spending in a context where the economy is not growing and the demands of large segments of the population are not being met.
It should be noted that a sovereign government has no financial limits. Financial resources are available. It’s simply a matter of amending the Organic Law of the Bank of Mexico so that it can purchase government debt directly at a low interest rate. This would allow the government to expand its spending and investment to meet the demands of farmers, promote the substitution of agricultural and manufactured imports, and generate employment. This would not be inflationary, as it would increase production, reduce the foreign trade deficit, and generate revenue to cover debt payments. The government could also reduce funding for failed projects such as the Maya Train, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec train , and the Dos Bocas refinery, and allocate those funds to support basic grain producers, a strategic sector essential for ensuring food self-sufficiency in these areas.
Upon learning of the demands from Mexican farmers, US congressmen sent a letter to the US chargé d’affaires stating that he must defend US agricultural exports to Mexico, as it is their primary market. If the Mexican government agrees to continue importing these products, it will continue to favor US producers at the expense of domestic producers, further jeopardizing self-sufficiency and increasing Mexican dependence on foreign imports.
The government says that the requested guaranteed price of 7,200 pesos per ton for corn is far above the market price and that absorbing the difference is very costly for the government. The problem is that the national price should not be set based on the open market, determined by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, as this has led to cheap imports displacing domestic production and jeopardizing food self-sufficiency in basic grains. This not only affects agricultural producers but also increases the foreign trade deficit and makes the economy more dependent on capital inflows, which requires setting high interest rates to stimulate them. This, in turn, increases the cost of servicing debt for the government, businesses, and households, and restricts investment, spending, and economic activity.
Farmers are not mobilizing to defend any privileges, as the government claims ; they are demanding the implementation of policies to boost Mexican agriculture and advance food self-sufficiency. Therefore, they are demanding an end to importing basic grains, the provision of affordable credit, and the establishment of fair prices for these products.
The government refuses to do so for fear of inflation and devaluation, which would affect the financial sector, which requires low inflation and currency stability to safeguard its capital. Since the economy lacks the conditions to lower inflation, given low productivity and production lags, it has resorted to stimulating capital inflows to lower the dollar’s value and thus imports in order to reduce inflation. All of this benefits the financial sector and producers from the US and other countries who flood the domestic market with their products at the expense of displacing national producers and without implementing policies that promote economic growth.
The government must work for the benefit of the country, not against it. Domestic production and employment must be incentivized , even if this seems more expensive in the short term, because it would boost economic growth and employment, reduce the foreign trade deficit, and provide workers with income to cope with higher prices. This would prevent the current practice of lowering inflation to benefit the financial sector and US producers of imported goods, which has led to a decline in our industry and production of basic grains. This, in turn, has stifled economic growth, increased unemployment and underemployment, and lowered the population’s standard of living.
The government opposes the farmers’ request to remove staple grains from the USMCA trade agreement because it fears the US will impose further restrictions on Mexican exports to that country. Upon learning of the demands from Mexican farmers, US congressmen sent a letter to the US chargé d’affaires stating that he must defend US agricultural exports to Mexico, as it is their primary market. If the Mexican government agrees to continue importing these products, it will continue to favor US producers at the expense of domestic producers, further jeopardizing self-sufficiency and increasing Mexican dependence on foreign imports.
The President said that “we must be very responsible about what can and cannot be done,” and in this regard, it must be said that economic policy must be responsible in order to satisfy the demands not only of agricultural producers, but also of those who clamor for well-paying jobs, just enough to address the growing poverty and crime plaguing the country. To achieve this, the government must abandon budget cuts and ensure that the central bank serves the growth of the productive sector and employment. Furthermore, trade liberalization must be reviewed, and protectionist policies implemented to favor domestic production. If the government does not increase investment and spending to boost private investment, production, and employment, and if the central bank does not lower interest rates, the economy is headed for a crisis.
Without growth in production and employment, there is no growth. Neoliberal policies must be abandoned . If the government fails to meet the needs of the population and continues to act in favor of the interests of the US and the financial sector, economic and social problems and discontent among affected sectors will worsen, leading to increased protests.
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El gobierno privilegia mantener las políticas neoliberales, en vez satisfacer las demandas - Alternativa Económica
El gobierno ha señalado que “la petición de los productores de fijar un precio muy superior al valor actual de mercado para todo el maíz nacional rebasa la capacidad financiera del gobiernoArturo Huerta González (La Jornada de Oriente)
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Is Europe ready to pull the trigger? Officials whisper about dumping US treasuries if Trump cuts Ukraine deal
Is Europe ready to pull the trigger? Officials whisper about dumping US treasuries if Trump cuts Ukraine d
European governments US Treasuries: European governments are considering a radical economic strategy by possibly selling off US Treasury bonds to counter a feared Trump-Putin agreement that could jeopardize Ukraine's security.Shreya Biswas (Economic Times)
i was going to say something like this.
it's like eisenhower's threat to eden but in reverse and just as empty; they'll never threaten profits or capital and they've also made themselves even more depended on the us.
Florida governor designates Muslim rights group as terrorist organization
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating one of the country’s most prominent Muslim civil rights groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as a “foreign terrorist organization,” becoming the second high-profile Republican governor to do so in recent weeks.
CAIR's Florida chapter announced a lawsuit challenging the order at a Tuesday press conference in Tampa, where Hiba Rahim, the chapter's interim executive director, called the order "defamatory and unconstitutional."
The U.S. government has not designated CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, but President Donald Trump last month began the process of doing so for certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan.
The Florida order instructs agencies to take action to prevent CAIR from receiving any state contracts, employment or funding.
CAIR was founded in 1994 and has chapters in nearly two dozen U.S. states.
Army begins to reshape its acquisition enterprise along portfolio lines
“We will leverage taxpayer dollars in a more accountable, flexible and deliberate manner to maximize their value across capability portfolios,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during an address at the National War College. “We will shift funding within portfolios’ authorized boundaries swiftly and decisively to maximize mission outcomes. If one program is faltering, funding will be shifted within the portfolio to accelerate or scale a higher priority. If a new or more promising technology emerges, we will seize the opportunity and not be held back by artificial constraints and funding boundaries that take months or even years to overcome.”
In that address, Hegseth credited the military services with laying the groundwork for some of the reforms he wants to make department-wide. And the Army started its implementation work last month, naming six new “portfolio acquisition executives.” Each of those PAEs will oversee different “capability areas” with programs managed by what had, up until now, been called program executive offices (PEOs), and will now be called capability program executives (CPEs).
Army begins to reshape its acquisition enterprise along portfolio lines
Former program executive offices are starting to realign their organizations under the new "capability portfolio executive" construct.Jared Serbu (Federal News Network)
Uncovered: Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
New Investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.Consumer Reports
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Uncovered: Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
New Investigation found that some grocery prices differed by as much as 23 percent per item from one Instacart customer to the next. In an inadvertently sent email, the company calls one pricing tactic “smart rounding.”
Instacart’s AI-Enabled Pricing Experiments May Be Inflating Your Grocery Bill, CR and Groundwork Collaborative Investigation Finds
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.Consumer Reports
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Brigitte Macron faces criticism after using sexist insult about activists
The scene filmed on Sunday showed France’s first lady in discussion backstage at the Folies Bergère theatre in central Paris with actor Ary Abittan before a performance he was about to give.
The previous night, feminist campaigners had disrupted his show, wearing masks of the actor bearing the word “rapist” and shouting, “Abittan, rapist!”
A woman in 2021 accused the actor of rape, but in 2023, investigators dropped the case, citing a lack of evidence.
Before Sunday’s performance, Macron is seen in the video, published by local media Public on Monday, asking him how he was feeling. When he said he was feeling scared, Macron was heard jokingly responding, using a vulgar expression in French, “If there are any stupid removed, we’ll kick them out”.
Brigitte Macron faces criticism after using sexist insult about activists
The French first lady’s team says she had intended to criticise a feminist group’s ‘radical method’ of protest.Al Jazeera
Best multi player steam setup?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39957209
Hello lemmings, I've once again come for your advice. I've built a sff system with a dual boot bazzite os. This will be mostly for my kids playing games and media serving from Big picture in the living room. I'm trying to figure out the best way to set up the accounts. Ideally it would be as close to a console experience as possible but I want to make sure each kid can save their own progress. What's my best option here? Does everyone need their own os account that signs them into steam properly? I've never set up a system for multiple users before.Edit: details
Edit: thanks for all the feedback! I'm leaning towards single system account with multiple steam accounts. Now I just need to figure out how to keep myself signed in on steam so I don't have to put my PW in every time. Thanks a ton!
I'd go with different system acounts. That way their savegames are guaranteed to stay separate.
That's because on PC most games just care about the system user when determining the savegame folder, and don't care about steam accounts.
So, what I'd do is to:
- Give each their own system account
- Set up Gamescope as a session: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam…
- Configure the Display Manager to use that session for their users (In GDM, for instance, it's enough to manually select it once on login - GDM remembers the last-used session per user)
- Profit
If your kids are only going to be using big picture mode in steam, then one system account will work. The steam deck only has one system user with the ability to have multiple steam accounts and that works great for multiple users, from my experience.
For anyone interested in a great dual use system for regular desktop use and a console-like experience, I recommend checking out nixos and jovian-nix:
jovian-experiments.github.io/J…
I'm using it on my main PC and it works incredibly well to mimic the steam deck experience using a full desktop on nixos 25.11
What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better?
Hi Linux Lemmites. Recently finished up school and started working full time and kind of miss working on personal projects. I’m looking to try to make something in rust and try out gpui if I can figure it out or maybe egui. I also want to make something maybe even a handful of people would actually use as I find that motivating, so I ask what would actually be useful to you?
Edit: thank you all very much for the input, I think that maybe doing something akin to a “settings+” would be a fair target for me for a n initial project. If I make anything interesting I’ll make another post in this sub.
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Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Officers at the large immigration detention camp located at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas are allegedly mistreating detainees, with accusations including beatings, sexual abuse and clandestine deportations of non-Mexican nationals into Mexico, according to a coalition of local and national US civil rights organizations.
In a 19-page letter, addressed to senior government officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Fort Bliss military command, the coalition accuses officers at the immigration detention facility on the base, called Camp East Montana, of being “in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections”.
The advocates called for the immediate closure of the camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held in a complex of tents.
“In light of these abuses, we urge the end to detention of immigrants at Fort Bliss,” said the letter signed by eight organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Humans Rights Watch, Estrella del Paso, the Texas Civil Rights Project and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.
Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being heldLorena Figueroa (The Guardian)
China’s robots—from 'factory brains' to vacuums that can pick up your socks—are crushing the competition
China’s robots—from ‘factory brains’ to vacuums that can pick up your socks—are lapping the competition
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.Nicholas Gordon (Fortune)
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(ADC) “Smartphone, dopamina e dipendenza: il mio ESPERIMENTO di 7 Giorni”
Caspiterina, De Concimi ha cacciato fuori questo esperimentino pazzo 2 settimane fa e io me l’ero perso… l’ho scoperto solo stasera per caso: 1 settimana senza lo smarfonino (o smarfonone, nel suo caso) per capire se è possibile vivere senza. Non tanto in senso di pratica universale del mondo, perché purtroppo al giorno d’oggi l’avere […]
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(ADC) “Smartphone, dopamina e dipendenza: il mio ESPERIMENTO di 7 Giorni”
youtube.com/watch?v=yKM4mMAxtE…Caspiterina, De Concimi ha cacciato fuori questo esperimentino pazzo 2 settimane fa e io me l’ero perso… l’ho scoperto solo stasera per caso: 1 settimana senza lo smarfonino (o smarfonone, nel suo caso) per capire se è possibile vivere senza. Non tanto in senso di pratica universale del mondo, perché purtroppo al giorno d’oggi l’avere ed usare costantemente uno smartphone è qualcosa di praticamente forzato dall’esterno, sia dalla società che per certi versi dagli Stati, e con ogni anno che passa la possibilità di poter rimanere senza in tal misura si fa sempre più sottile, quindi non è questo il punto del video… Il suo discorso è più che altro sull’abitudine, la dipendenza, e queste minchiatine qui. 😳
È un caso spassoso che, come la sua sfida sia stata di 1 settimana, così io stasera — dopo aver trovato appunto per caso questo video, che credo abbia qualche spuntino di riflessione, e quindi mi è venuta la voglia di postare — stia scrivendo qui dopo 1 settimana intera che non tocco il fritto misto… E beh, di un caso si tratta, perché io non ho affatto mandato a fanculo il telefono, ma semplicemente sono evidentemente a corto di olio, quindi è difficile friggere. (In altre parole, l’anedonia mi distrugge, e quindi col piffero che esce qualcosa da scrivere qui, di lungo e sensato… ma, anche oggi pomeriggio ho applicato il mio fix vietato, e dunque stasera ho la voglia di fare le cose, che wow… però non divaghiamo.) 🙏
Lui avrebbe voluto fare proprio una settimana senza Internet, ma non è riuscito a giustificare il prendersi una settimana di ferie (che sarebbe la conseguenza logica di una tale scelta per lui, visto che il suo lavoro non è raccogliere i pomodori), quindi ha ripiegato sul semplicemente mettere via lo smartphone pieghevole fantastico moderno che ha, e ritornare ai tempi antichi del suo vecchio cellulare Nokia, mettendo la SIM in quello e non usando più lo smartphone per niente; se non per i codici della banca (e zio merdone, le banche e le loro app!) e per registrare pezzi di vlog. 👌
Cosa ne può mai venire allora fuori da questa cosa? Boh; per lui, che può fare a meno di avere certe app molto distraenti sul cellulare (incluse alcune che, nonostante ciò, avrebbero un giustificabile scopo lavorativo, come YouTube Studio; quindi non parliamo solo di minchiatine), decidendo quindi di levarle da lì, allocandole solo al PC e a tempi della giornata più controllati, avendo così un potenziamento dell’attenzione e sprecando dunque meno tempo durante tutti i giorni e quindi nella vita… e, per chi guarda, invece, veramente boh; nel senso, dipende. 🍇
Io, in realtà, grandi problemi con il telefonone in questo senso non sento di averne… ma non tanto perché ne ho in realtà di ben più gravi in altri sensi—ehm, volevo dire, non solo perché non è la prima volta che sento queste cose; quanto più per il fatto che innanzitutto il mio uso dello smarfonone è abbastanza diverso dalla media delle persone della mia generazione (che, le statistiche lo dicono, è comunque quella più fissata), e poi perché tante misure riparative o preventive dell’abuso dello smartphone sono per me normalità da tempo… per una semplice questione di miei gusti e tendenze, in realtà, lol. 😊
Alla fine del video, Alessandrone suggerisce alcune cose effettivamente utili, che per me infatti non sono nuove. Piattaforme social che non aggiungono praticamente nulla alla mia vita non le uso (ma in realtà, curiosamente, come ho già detto, se le iniziassi ad usare non riuscirei ad acquisire l’abitudine; mi scoccerei naturalmente e smetterei senza farci caso)… Il telefono certamente non è il mio unico robo di battaglia, e anzi, a casa non ho davvero tanto la voglia di usarlo quando posso fare qualcosa ugualmente o meglio dal PC (come scrivere)… E beh, a me le notifiche danno proprio fastidio dentro (ma questa sarà altrettanto la potenza del mio autismo), quindi le uniche che permetto al telefono di ricevere in qualsiasi momento sono chiamate ed SMS, nient’altro (mentre, sul tablet, praticamente zero). 😈
In realtà, però, devo ammettere che dei problemi di abitudini zombi li ho pure io, a riguardo… e quindi sì, assolutamente evito di tenere collegamenti rapidi a cose che apro di continuo senza motivo, altrimenti è la fine, ma mi trovo a dover ogni tanto cambiare anche la disposizione del drawer delle app o altre cose di questo tipo, perché sennò non basta… Ma, questo non è tanto un problema di dopamina, visto che mi accorgo che per me pure il fottuto Alt+Tab sul PC è compulsivo; proprio nel mentre di scrivere questo post, l’ho premuto non so quante volte… e l’unica finestra che ho portato in foreground è stata la mia cartella Download rimasta aperta da poco fa, non una app con meccanismo da slot machine. (E no, impostare la scala di grigi non mi aiuta con ciò.) 🥴
Boh, complessivamente l’esperimento è gnam, e… io non lo farei, perché ehh… francamente, a me, lo smartphone, quando serve serve. Se voglio annotare qualcosa devo farlo, e idem se voglio cercare sul web delle robe, o se ho da scattare delle foto e persino modificarle al volo, nonché attuare rapidi momenti di sysadmin e programmazione in giro, visto che un tablet sarebbe troppo grosso e dunque non potrei portarlo ovunque… Però, allo stesso tempo, non è assolutamente la fine del mondo se in un certo momento non posso aprire Pinterest o Telegram per guardare (e pigniare…) i miei memini; basta che ho un manga da leggere, o una console per giocare, e riesco tranquillamente a non morire. (…E sì, sto implicando che se non ho la possibilità di scrivere quando voglio è improbabile io possa sopravvivere; ma insomma, se esplodessero gli smartphone domani userei il 3DS, e se esplodesse tutta l’elettronica del pianeta userei la carta.) 👍
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Glauber Braga é expulso do plenário após ocupação da Mesa Diretora
Glauber Braga é expulso do plenário após ocupação da Mesa Diretora
Congressista foi levado por policiais legislativos para fora do plenário após protesto contra possível cassação.Congresso em Foco
China completes 35,000-ton heavy-haul train group operation test, world’s first-of-a-kind
China completes 35,000-ton heavy-haul train group operation test, world’s first-of-a-kind
The world's first 35,000-ton heavy-haul train group operational test was successfully conducted on the Baoshen Railway in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Monday.www.globaltimes.cn
Can DSA Hold Mamdani Accountable? Its Co-Chairs Respond
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100% Success Rate: All 32 Paralysis Patients in China’s Brain–Computer Interface Clinical Trial Achieve Brain-Controlled Grasping
100% Success Rate: All 32 Paralysis Patients in China’s Brain–Computer Interface Clinical Trial Achieve Brain-Controlled Grasping
This article reports the groundbreaking results of China’s NEO wireless minimally invasive brain–computer interface trial, where all 32 paralyzed patients achieved successful at-home brain-controlled grasping.pandaily.com
Segal Secrets: docs reveal Antisemitism Envoy's big pay day - Michael West
Where Winds Meet: Why China's Wuxia RPG is Winning Over Global Gamers
Where Winds Meet: Why China's Wuxia RPG is Winning Over Global Gamers - RADII
We look at how the epic Chinese RPG published by NetEase is challenging Western critics while captivating players worldwide.Mandy Wong (RADII - Transcend boundaries)
Can people not understand definitions that are longer than 5 words?
I dont understand why people on lemmy are trying to remove the meaning of every specific word related to politics, leaving a million synonyms of the same general thing and no word for a specific ideology
Nazi still has meaning today, but that doesnt stop people from calling any right wing extremist a nazi
Also, whats the point of creating more synonyms?
Your only complaints are:
- "It's icky"
- "ai sucks"
- The image itself is generated, rather than artisinally created
The first 2 are non-points to begin with, and the latter is an incomplete point. Again, there is absolutely no reason why this image needs to be artisinally created. Had OP used wordart and grabbed a stock image online for the background, it would have had the same amount of human input but no AI, yet you wouldn't be calling it into question.
Nobody present is trying to tell you that AI can replace artists making art. You're making the same mistakes the Luddites did in blaming machinery for the ills of capitalism, rather than capitalism itself. The same argument was had when digital art became mainstream over hand-drawn art, and when cameras came into being. Neither digital art nor cameras have replaced traditional art, nor can they, but that doesn't mean digital art and cameras don't have legitimate use cases.
AI has limitations that AI fanatics lie about. AI also has use-cases that people try their hardest to deny. Marxism helps us understand that AI can never replace traditonal art, but can absolutely be used for things like agitprop or stock images.
Requiring that communists spend hours on artisinally producing what is ultimately a disposable image meant to agitate and spark conversation just for you to acknowledge the message is wrong. From a human perspective, requiring this artisinal agitprop in order to acknowledge the point being drivin is deeply anti-human and instead individualist.
Your only point is:
- If it supports my ideology it's inherently good
No.
My point is that technology that eliminates labor is useful, and correctly analyzing where it's useful and where it isn't is important. It is better to save time where we can, such is the purpose of technology that amplifies what labor creates.
Any leftist of any sort should be dedicated to improving technology and production so that we can fulfill the needs of as many people as possible with as little labor necessary. AI can't replace art, but it can certainly help in cases like this, small disposable agitprop memes for sparking discussion (like we are having now).
This is why it's important to have a dialectical materialist outlook and not an idealist one. Metaphysics isn't helpful.
What is the actual difference in output in the use-case here? What changes about the message if this meme was artisinally created, especially if you couldn't tell? This is why it's important to discard idealism and to embrace materialism, idealism adds confusing baggage that clouds our judgement.
Further, it is working. Every other top-level comment is a discussion of the content of the post, not the fact that it was generated.
The difference is whether we're engaging with one another collectively or being engaged by a machine in isolation. If we couldn't tell the difference we would be "cooked" and it would be "so over" as the kids say. This is why it's important to care about the human element, freebasing materialism has apparently caused you to dismiss your fellow man as confusing baggage
Further, this (thankfully) doesn't seem very well-recieved, I would say in large part because it is thoughtless, souless, trite, mechanized slop. It's making a room full of countercultural system-smashers who would otherwise agree with at least the general sentiment stop and think that you suck too
As I said, OP could have grabbed a stock image and wordart and made the exact same image. Is it still intrinsically bad? We interact with machines and use tools all the time to shortcut processes that used to be artisinal. Taking photos of people instead of drawing them by hand did not erase the desire for portraits, but it added the ability to shortcut photography for times where applicable.
As for where you're getting the idea that OP's image isn't well-recieved from, I have no idea. Your top comment is at time of writing 50% upvoted and 50% downvoted, and everyone else is talking about the content of the image. Saying we are "cooked and so over" without further elaboration isn't a point either.
I'm not dismissing my fellow man, especially because I am fighting for the right of tool usage that alleviates artisinal labor from areas it doesn't need to be.
I explicitly said, over and over again, that AI can never take the place of art. OP clearly did not like the idea of hand-drawing agitprop, and so used a tool to shortcut to the final product. I don't see art as a burden to be alleviated, and made the case that AI can exist alongside art without replacing it, just as photography didn't replace hand-drawn portraits.
If you're going to deliberately ignore what others are saying to you and instead make up brand new strawmen to attack, do you actually care about human expression or is this just a trend of emotional reaction?
Top Brazilian Official Warns Trump of 'Vietnam-Style' Regional Conflict If He Attacks Venezuela
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A top Brazilian official is warning President Donald Trump that a US military attack on Venezuela could easily spiral out of control into a "Vietnam-style" regional conflict.
Celso Amorim, chief foreign policy adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said in an interview published on Monday by the Guardian that a US military strike on Venezuela would inevitably draw nations throughout Latin America into an armed conflict that would be difficult to contain.
"The last thing we want is for South America to become a war zone—and a war zone that would inevitably not just be a war between the US and Venezuela," he said. "It would end up having global involvement and this would be really unfortunate."
Amorim added that "if there was an invasion, a real invasion [of Venezuela]... I think undoubtedly you would see something similar to Vietnam—on what scale it’s impossible to say."
While acknowledging that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is disliked by many other South American leaders, Amorim predicted that even some of Maduro's adversaries would rally to his side in the face of destabilizing military actions by the US government.
He also predicted that anti-US sentiment would surge throughout the continent in the event of an invasion, as there is still major resentment toward the US for backing right-wing military coups during the Cold War in Chile, Brazil, and other nations.
"I know South America," he emphasized. "Our whole continent exists because of resistance against foreign invaders."
The Trump administration in recent weeks has signaled that it plans to launch attacks against purported drug traffickers inside Venezuela, even though reports from the US government and the United Nations have not identified Venezuela as a significant source of drugs that enter the United States.
The administration has also accused Maduro of leading an international drug trafficking organization called the Cartel de los Soles, despite many experts saying that they have seen no evidence that such an organization formally exists.
Trump late last month further escalated tensions with Venezuela when he declared that airspace over the nation was "closed in its entirety," even though he lacks any legal authority to enforce such a decree.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that Maduro is remaining defiant in the face of US pressure, as he is refusing to go into exile despite the threat of an attack on his country.
According to the Post's sources, Maduro's inner circle of allies "shows no signs of imminent collapse," even as he has limited his public appearances and beefed up his personal security amid fears that he could be the target of an assassination attempt.
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Trump Claims Venezuelan Airspace Is Closed in Latest Illegal, 'Dangerous Escalation'
"Even if unenforced, Trump’s declaration functions as an improvised, extralegal no-fly zone created through fear, FAA warnings, and military pressure," said the anti-war group CodePink.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
it's the one we've created for ourselves thanks to self re-enforced propaganda.
remember this the next time someone tells you that you MUST vote democrat or republican.
Basic Glitch
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •I have to give the broligarchs credit for always somehow managing to leave me stunned. Every time I learn some unbelievable bullshit like this, it's like falling in hate all over again.
As we leave the stagnation of society behind in the ruins of regulations and democracy that only held us back, and the technocratic elite steer us full speed ahead through this "Renaissance" we are truly blessed to be forced to live through, the line between technology and magic continues to blur...
Or maybe it's just 700 sweatshop workers in a trenchcoat. Who's to say?
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recursive_recursion
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Looks like fraud will be on the rise as AI tech's just not worth the investment but pretending to use it still reaps in the investments.
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AI's regressed to now
Alright I'm gonna take a gamble and say that it looks like the AI bubble collapse is basically here.
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in reply to recursive_recursion • • •But it's especially infuriating that this company has received so many government contracts from ICE and all over the U.S., and in some cases literally just gone into towns and put cameras up without permission. Then refused to get around to taking them down in some cases, so towns just started covering them up with trash bags.
Its like an entire business model where some creepers with a cardboard box pretend lemonade stand just decided one day to start selling pretend AI instead. And we just let them? Who fucking signed off on this?
Who is it that even helped them get their foot in the door in the first place? Who was the coked out billionaire who apparently just fucking picked their name from a list he glanced at for 5 minutes on his way to rehab? Somebody needs to find that person, and we all need to be allowed to give him a swift public kick in the ass.
recursive_recursion
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Hold on my dude,
I never said I'm for this surveilance bullshit.
Fuck AI and Fuck ICE.
At the same time please take the time to read and interpret comments properly as you're directing your justified rage at the wrong person.
Basic Glitch
in reply to recursive_recursion • • •Wait, what? I was just making a joke.
Unless you are the coked out billionaire? In that case I would like to know what you were thinking when you vouched for these people.
I was just pointing out it's definitely going to contribute to the bubble popping, but it's even worse than other AI companies bc it was mainly government contracts (which means they'll probably still be getting funded for the foreseeable future even while other companies go under).
It's insane they were ever allowed to receive a government contract for tech that didn't even exist, so I would just really like to know how that happened? Like legally how could this have happened if not for somebody in some position of power helping these people get their foot in the door.
Lost_My_Mind
in reply to recursive_recursion • • •FINALLY.
phaedrus
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •symbolic serpent with its tail in its mouth
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Basic Glitch
in reply to DickFiasco • • •The main thing flock is really supposed to do is capture and match pictures of license plates at different locations. It's not even complex.
So how tf did they get the green light for the first government contract if they never even had that capability?
DickFiasco
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Basic Glitch
in reply to DickFiasco • • •The history of the organization seems very odd
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Sa…
What?? How did a detective use it to solve a crime? Who was he? And based off of this one dude you all 3 just quit your jobs??? What??
Then we just jump ahead to 2022 and these cameras that didn't even work had raised over $380 million in venture funding?
Then by the next year they were being used to sub for actual police due to a shortage of police officers?
So they just go from the Hardy Boys help solve a mystery in Georgia in 2017 and then suddenly by 2023 Marc Andreesen (big surprise) is suddenly funnelling millions into their business.
Oh, good, this citation will probably help make clear what the fuck actually happened between 2017 and 2023:
Flock Safety. "Media Kit: Our Founding Story". Flock Safety. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
American license plate recognition company
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in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Yeah I don't understand how a private company deploying cameras on the side of roads is even legal.
Does that mean I can build solar powered raspberry pi units with cameras that do the same thing and pepper them around the country without question?
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in reply to ThePantser • • •OldQWERTYbastard
in reply to Basic Glitch • • •It's not legal where I live, but that didn't stop me from fighting back.
I'm not down with this surveillance state we're moving into.
License Plate Blur Cover | Camera Stopper
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in reply to Basic Glitch • • •The whole world knows already that Us companies are doing such sh*t all the time.
But it never ceases to surprise me how Us americans themselves suddenly cry "scandal" as if they hadn't known already that their companies are doing such sh*t all the time.
DickFiasco
in reply to Zwuzelmaus • • •Basic Glitch
in reply to Zwuzelmaus • • •I mean there are legit companies doing good work that get passed over all the time.
How did these 3 guys get hundreds of millions in government contracts for a product that didn't even exist.
And not only did it not exist, they were demanding everybody let them violate their privacy so that their non-existent product could "end crime."
I'll just come out and say it, the "scandal" imo isn't the company was a fraud part. The scandal is that people within the government wanted so badly to amp up surveillance and the police state within the U.S. they just went ahead and dumped all this money into A.I. that didn't actually exist because "A.I. is already here and it will fix everything, and even if you don't want it, too fucking bad."
Like it was never that the government thought A.I. tech was that important, or the future, or whatever bullshit. They've just realized the tech industry allows them the ability to spy on people, control information, and make a shit ton of money doing it.
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in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Basic Glitch
in reply to myfunnyaccountname • • •I mean, there is actual "AI" tech that exists, and isn't just people working in sweatshops, like this:
deeplabcut.github.io/DeepLabCu…
It's just kind of difficult to get consistency between trials, and reliability seems to boil down to completely eliminating variability. So kind of useless outside of a lab setting (as is).
I tend to feel like it's more trouble than it's worth and too unreliable (as is) to usually bother with it, but I know people who are just fellow lab rats (not broligarchs) and are super devoted to getting AI to work for their projects. Like most sectors in this country, even science is being forced to embrace AI. Regardless of if it actually makes sense for your line of work or not, the expectation is get it working or face the chopping block, and there are definitely people who are trying their hardest to really get this shit off the ground (because the alternative is be prepared to be out of a job for being obsolete).
This is also why it's kind of surprising to learn that even "AI" that's simply comparing license plates from one camera to the next, is actually just due to human slave labor.
So, do any of the broligarchs receiving these huge contracts actually believe that eventually they'll get AI to work once enough data and money is dumped into it and the little people at the bottom figure out all the kinks for them?
Or is it just that everybody at the top acknowledges this is a dead end, but once you're in the secret club at the top of the food chain, and you're making ridiculous amounts of money, your incentive is just to keep your mouth shut, keep making money, and fuck the consequences because once society collapses you'll get to be kings of your own little monarchs anyway?
If it is the second, and nobody at the top really believes AI is going anywhere, then what are all the giant, energy sucking data centers that are being built across the country actually for?
Welcome! 👋 — DeepLabCut
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in reply to Basic Glitch • • •Still have to think to coordinates actions but the coding is mostly done by IA.
Basic Glitch
in reply to Diurnambule • • •But if the broligarchs don't actually expect to ever get any of this "AI" shit actually working, then what is the end game?
Obviously the majority of people are only in it to make quick money, but what about the psychos at the very top who are directing policy and building these giant nuclear powered "AI" data centers?
If Thiel/Musk/Zuckerberg don't actually have the expectation that "AI" will eventually work itself out, then it won't matter how money the rich (but not broligarch rich) Wall Street bros and bankers dumped into the "AI" boom.
It won't be like the .com boom and the Internet, because it doesn't actually exist. If the economy completely collapses, and dollar becomes worthless currency, the "money" the average rich asshole hoards away after investing in the 2025 "AI" boom, will have about as much value as monopoly money.
Meanwhile the fucking Bond villain billionaires like Thiel (who have been dreaming of this exact scenario for over 20 years) hold all resources (including a recently purchased uranium mine).
So, "hypothetically," if that was Thiel's endgame, and the "AI" jig is up, then they no longer have to pretend they're trying to develop artificial intelligence or AGI. But they do already hold control of most resources, have mass surveillance capabilities, and each broligarch owns one or more of these giant supercomputers/data centers that have been built in cities all over the ~~U.S.~~ world and soon in outer space.
In this totally fictional scenario, once the dollar collapses (likely followed by all of society collapsing along with it), what do the broligarchs actually use their giant nuclear powered "AI" data centers for?
AI or no AI, they're currently being built all over the country, so what is their actual purpose?
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