[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't think this is actually a school. China-knowers feel free to correct me, but it seems like a public market or cafeteria with facial recognition for payment (probably through alipay or one of the other big players)

Here's a little background on facial recognition payment systems in China: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/china-releases-plans-to-restrict-facial-recognition-technology.html

They seem to have sprung up and become popular quickly, spread to other sectors (like apartment entry), and now the government is setting some limits on their use to serve the public good:

The draft did not specify the law’s requirements, but said businesses should not require people to use facial recognition to receive better services.

Building management cannot use facial recognition as the only way for people to enter or exit, the draft said, noting if individuals don’t agree to facial recognition, management should provide other “reasonable and convenient” methods.

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is this actually a school, though? the propagandist posting this didn't bother to check certainly (edit: and didn't even claim it specifically). It doesn't really look like one to me, and facial recognition would make a lot more sense as payment, not as school ID.

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

the clickbait worked (yes, it was a boeing, a 737-800)

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago

idk, this one doesn't seem that unhinged in the grand scheme of things. Like obviously the behavior was unacceptable, but I think its a position many pretty reasonable people could find themselves in.

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago

This is like 1 or 2 steps removed from the "functional medicine" fuckheads that my mom was introduced to a year or two ago and is now pretty into. Thankfully she's not at the point of eating red meat and butter and eggs exclusively but there's some kooky stuff in there and the fact that you can find licensed doctors promoting every fucking variety of horrible misinfo makes my blood boil

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

this fucking website is gonna be an absolute goldmine of horrible gamer/weeb takes isn't it? gamer-gulag

CW mentions of CSAMCompletely conflating drawn CSAM with "fanservice" repeatedly, insisting its fine because its just drawings and could have no impact on the real world, and the usual gamer/otaku takes on women in video games, etc.

Then I just decided to check their front page and see if there was more garbage, and immediately found an example of them complaining about their sexed up video game characters being sanitized by wokies or whatever for unrealistic body proportions, and the writer clapped back saying x character was actually based on a 3d scan of a real life model. A) that doesn't mean it isn't promoting an unrealistic beauty standard just because it isn't physically impossible. and B) I clicked through to the tweet source on that, and then to the account for the game it was promoting, and the character shown on the game's profile had thighs and asses and boobs like twice as big as the IRL model. Amazing work all around.

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

click the link icon in the OP (they aren't super obvious ik)

But here's the gist:

In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of buying bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting. In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times.

The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. The government also wanted the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the videos. The cops argued, “There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators.”

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

what is it with incredibly racist JAQoffs and having Pug in their name. Is this like an epic bacon narwhal thing?

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355562896577

or redbubble or one of those sites that just algorithmically generates custom merchandise that it can dropship

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago

Not to say there isn't tons of work to be done but "dingy looking" and ancient =/= unsafe and falling apart. Shit's still safer than driving a car, for example, and it's certainly falling apart less than the T in boston

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 55 points 5 months ago

Yeah I was gonna make the trashfuture joke about it being a t-slur detector but honestly its not even funny, this is horrible

[-] Hurvitz@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's time we talked about the fall of Paywalls

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