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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

WIRED
In Dwayne's part of the planet, anybody who wanted one could get one down at his local hardware store. Police men all had them, so did the criminals. So did the people caught in between.
- on guns, Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water & people buy it from us on a meter.”

- Sam Altman

As someone whose books were taken without permission to train OpenAI, I have a problem with this.

How can a company claim to own work it didn’t create & sell it back to us?

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills-2000732953

Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills

"Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend.

Gizmodo

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.

Whether real or fake, tyrants will utilize emergency events to consolidate power.

#WHCD #TimothySnyder #OnTyranny

We can spend all day discussing the Palantir / Alex Karp Manifesto but at this point it should be obvious that the most powerful tech influencers are dangerous, for the entire world and we need to actually do something to stop this.

“Americans are very lucky, because wherever they go to bring freedom… they find oil.”

— Italian journalist and satirist Michele Serra

#iran

Maybe in 2026 we can start to agree that "a complex algorithm selects content" is an editorial stance and platforms should be responsible to a certain degree.
A sickness in me
Constant pace towards the end
The need is stronger
This time the need is deeper
- master's apprentice, Opeth
Microsoft Teams is experiencing issues, with thousands reporting problems sending messages, including delays 🤣

"The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children."

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mag7myutmc2d
#UsPol
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