Theo Watson

@theowatson
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Interactive installation artist. 
Co-founder of Design I/O (2020 National Design Award winner). 
Co-founder of open source toolkit: openFrameworks.
https://design-io.com || https://openframeworks.cc

Since 2008, CAN has defied big tech’s dominance, nurturing a global network of artists, designers, educators, hackers & makers—proving alternative networks not only exist, but flourish!

CAN is funded by its members. It is run by humans for humans. It operates entirely without machinic automation, without algorithmic curation or filtering, and without a content publishing system where the users do all the work.

Made some Szechuan #chili oil from the last of my Thai Dragon #chilis. Holy moly it’s good.

If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/

While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

#Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy

Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”

Ex-staffers tell Reuters about internal image sharing: “We could see their kids.”…

Ars Technica
@TheNudeSurrealist I didn’t like the start of Wizard Knight and the language felt too basic but I think it’s an intentional part of the story. As the book progresses the language changes quite a bit. Still prefer Latro and Solar Cycle though.

It's stupid of me, but I started the SOLDIER trilogy and I forgot how much Gene Wolfe slaps, yo. Ladro is basically Severian on steroids. He can't remember a damn thing from the day before and relies on the scroll that we're reading to live. MEMENTO in ancient Greece, you might say. But then you've got Wolfe writing about all this with his careful refined hand. This totally makes up for the bad novel run I had.

#books #genewolfe

@edwardchampion yeah, I flew through the first two books of Latro. Just so good. The last chapter written by Pindar is just so 👌.
Latro might be my favorite Wolfe character.
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@404mediaco little painful listen to you guys diving into 3D printed / ghost guns and then basically admit you haven’t done any research on the subject.
The reason they are a problem is that only one part of a gun is restricted to background checks / gun registration. All the other parts ( barrel etc ) can be purchased without background checks, so ghost guns are functionally equivalent to real weapons but don’t exist in any registry. Used by people who can’t legally buy or want no record.
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