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Ed G.
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The duty of the Opposition is to oppose. - Benjamin Disraeli
Michael BuschToday in the cyberpunk dystopia.
Yet again:
The next "AI" winter really cannot come soon enough.
QT 404 Media @404media.co
2026 March 25
WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.
https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/
Simple Sabotage Field ManualA state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.
RetI had Eno's "The True Wheel" stuck in my head the other day, and suddenly I could hear it as a cover version by the B52s.
Pierson/Wilson: Looking for a certain ratio
Fred Schneider: Someone must have left it underneath the carpet
Pierson/Wilson: Looking up and down the radio
Schneider: Uh, oh! Nothing there this time
And so on.
You're welcome.
Eniko FoxHave you ever picked a lock?
edit: a practice lock is any lock that you were picking purely for practice which was not securing anything. a lock in the wild is a lock that was in place to actually secure something (love locks count)
yes, a practice lock
yes, a lock in the wild
no
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Void Chickenget in, loser. we're teleporting to the waffle house
Yes, *that* dawn personI got in rather later than usual last night. This is what greeted me. #caturday #catsofmastodon #disappoint
Reid 
Iván Sánchez Ortega@reiddragon Oh, I assume you know about that 2021 story about ML models applied to photographs of rulers next to a potential melanoma.
When subject to independent reviews, computer vision models for cancer diagnosis have an astonishingly high rate of failure.
https://civio.es/sanidad/2025/07/03/mole-or-cancer-the-algorithm-that-gets-one-in-three-melanomas-wrong-and-erases-patients-with-dark-skin/
When subject to independent reviews, computer vision models for cancer diagnosis have an astonishingly high rate of failure.
https://civio.es/sanidad/2025/07/03/mole-or-cancer-the-algorithm-that-gets-one-in-three-melanomas-wrong-and-erases-patients-with-dark-skin/
Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin
The Basque Country is implementing Quantus Skin in its health clinics after an investment of 1.6 million euros. Specialists criticise the artificial intelligence developed by the Asisa subsidiary due to its “poor” and “dangerous” results. The algorithm has been trained only with data from white patients.