🇫🇷 French police have an app to perform face recognition on anyone in the street, based on a database of 9 million photos. It's built by a German company.

https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/la-reconnaissance-faciale-deployee-a-grande-echelle-sur-les-telephones-des-forces-de-lordre

It's also exactly what ICE in the US is building with Palantir.

https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/

Except the French have been at it since 2020.

Bwahahahaha

KTLA: Bear wanders into KTLA reporter’s live shot while covering bear attack

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/bear-wanders-into-ktla-reporters-live-shot-while-covering-monrovia-attack/

#photobomb #bear #wildlife

The tech bros aren’t “saying the quiet part out loud” just now.

They were saying it with the demographics of their teams. They were screaming it with the demographics of leadership. They were being crystal clear when they fired people for pointing out the harms of language models trained on sexist, racist data.

international women’s day is about all types of women

young, senior, Black, white, fat, thin, short, tall, disabled, non-disabled, straight, queer, cis

AND TRANS

and if you think you can exclude ANY of us you can fix your heart or get in the sea

Spent a few hours making the first Cosmic Rays ✨  ✨

The constellations glow in the dark  

They'll be up in my kofi shop soonish.

Edit: aaand they're up for sale now! https://ko-fi.com/s/4cfbd810f5

#BrynnSews

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116184060048303307

Considering how often the NYT in particular does this, despite being frequently called out for it, I can only conclude that it is a very deliberate choice. It's not as if journalism schools don't teach about how the passive case is used to deflect and evade. So when a journalist who has graduated from a journalism school and possibly even won a Pulitzer uses the passive case this way, they do so intentionally to deflect and evade.