the morning light hit my stove’s greasy backsplash in just the right way to reveal a finger-traced drawing of a dick ’n’ balls spraying a few fingertip-dots of jizz.
Us mere mortals can only dream of writing this perfect, for indeed here we have an example of prose from an artist at the pinnacle of the form.
I think it’s hilarious that his praise of prose contains errors, perhaps intentionally, but pointing out the irony of such errors causes people to react negatively with down votes.
It’s like you’re the only one who got the joke and everyone else is mad they didn’t understand.
One group that doesn’t love this technology is sex workers. The software can’t credibly discern between real escort ads and sex-trafficking-disguised-as-escort ads, meaning consenting adults often get swept up in its surveillance. In fact, a recent study funded by the Department of Justice found that police regularly mistake certain “red flags” in escort ads — like 24/7 availability or the use of specific emojis — for signs of trafficking.
That Thorn uses Amazon’s facial recognition tool is especially contentious. Research by MIT and the ACLU has shown that it falsely identified people of color, and the company itself has banned police departments from using Rekognition, except in trafficking cases through software like Spotlight.
In 2011, a public-awareness campaign for DNA featured Donald Trump, Jamie Foxx, and the slogan “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls.”
Donald - "they just let you do it" - "beauty pageant dressing room" - Trump
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Kutcher and his first wife, Demi Moore, founded an organization called DNA in 2009 after watching a Dateline special
Combine this with Kutcher not knowing Masterson and scientology numerous trafficking accusations really illuminates how unserious they were about the program.
This was always just a PR move for Kutcher, so he doesn't care if he is doing damage to legitimate sex workers. Much like FOSTA/SESTA, it's real easy for anyone who wants to boost their image, lawmakers included, to play the hero as you take a "protect the children at all costs zero tolerance" stance and handwave away the harm you do "helping".
That Thorn uses Amazon’s facial recognition tool is especially contentious. Research by MIT and the ACLU has shown that it falsely identified people of color,
No, what the ACLU did was knowingly leave the default setting of 80% confidence and do a “surprised” face when they got almost exactly 20% false detections.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
Amazon even responded to their claims criticising the lack of proper setup for such a complex system. But the ACLU’s excuse was that it was the default setting, so they just used whatever it came with out of the box.
So all they managed to prove is that the default setting isn’t adequate for accurate identification, and has nothing to do with what the system is able to do when correctly configured.
Edit: I see I’m being downvoted for stating facts.
Is there any evidence to suggest that law enforcement agencies have these complex systems properly configured? I’ve seen plenty of articles talking about minorities being arrested after some facial recognition software misidentified them. Claiming that the ACLU isn’t using the software properly doesn’t mean that anyone else is using it properly.
You’re talking about something else entirely. The ACLU’s argument is “these systems are so bad we can’t rely on them” and your argument is “law enforcement may not have them configured correctly”.
One of those is factually false.
That being said, every FR system is built differently, and have their own advantages and considerations. But from what I’ve seen in the news over the past few years is almost always a policy and procedure failure. At some point between using a photo of such low quality that it shouldn’t be used to the verifying officer looking at the source photo and recognizing the current suspect are different people, something broke down.
I’m actually astonished at how bad the average person is at comparing photos of people. Just look up the conspiracy nonsense these flat earthers go on about regarding the Challenger accident. They are convinced that each person that died are actually still alive and living under a new name. Then they show their evidence and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Sure, these people are similar enough that they could fit a verbal description, but when you actually compare features it’s so easy to see they’re all different people and can’t be the same.
I know it’s like that with some cops, because I know some people in emergency services that have been taking FR courses. They told me that so many departments (fire, police, 911 dispatch, forensics, etc) are being trained on it. And not for the software, it’s for physically identifying people. With this tech and these false arrests I guess it’s come to light that some people, cops or not, lack the fundamental ability to see minor but critical differences in facial anatomy.
Ultimately, whatever a computer system says, a person is making the final decision to arrest these people. This is where the issue lies.
Edit: I guess downvotes mean “I don’t like that you’re right” here also. I worked in the FR field for almost a decade. I’m familiar with the topic.
I haven’t been homeless, but I’ve been desperately broke and unemployable. I lived on a limited income that didn’t stretch the entire month. All my dishes had broken and I couldn’t save enough to buy new ones cause I had to keep buying paper plates for my meals. My mother bought me dishes for xmas and it was one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever received because it freed me to start saving a little bit each month.
It costs more to be poor than it does to be rich. It’s a never ending cycle. You can’t go to CostCo and bulk up on frozen foods if you have no electricity to keep them frozen.
I don’t know how we can simulate conditions for everyone to understand the plight of homelessness. I’d want anyone and everyone who thinks that homelessness is just people making bad choices and being lazy, to go live in a tent in 30F/0C weather for a week getting kicked out every other day and try to hold down a job.
I only had time to read the start, but the author’s friends did not prioritize and make any time for their social lives outside their kids. You see this with highschool or college students that get their first serious relationship: they completely fall off with their friend group for months or forever.
When you start a new phase of your life it can be seductive to give it all of your time and not make room for anything else. Going to college, new job, marriage, babies, etc. And if that’s what you want: great! But you owe it to the rest of your life to let them know or they’ll figure it out and grow annoyed and less likely to try to reach out.
This’ll be a problem when you eventually have the time to take a step back and realize you’ve dropped all your connections. Your friends may not want to try reconnecting with someone who had no notion of sharing any time.
Now this isn’t to say a newborn doesn’t demand all of your time: it absolutely does. But with today’s ability to connect, it’s really on you to make sure you keep occasionally connections going and you don’t flood them just with your new baby or whatever. I have a friend with a 7mo old and while they dropped off a lot, we never lost contact with them via online messaging and they made a big effort to still get together. Even if it was just coming over and having delivery. Or eventually going out to baby-friendly restaurants and having longer board game nights. It can be done, you just have to prioritize it.
I think when you’re used to clubbing or hanging out in bars it’s probably hard. By the time my friends had kids (I was the last one in our group) we had long graduated to home visits and playing boardgames (i.e. gotten old) with little or no drinking involved. Certainly it reduced the number of times we saw each other, but overall the relationship didn’t feel changed.
For my friends and I (not bar people), hangouts still changed when they had kids because now the choice is hang out at my place or hang out at theirs…with the kids. I have to “compete” for my friends’ attention until the youngins go to bed and then we have to be quieter as to not wake them up.
Yea, when I hang out with my friends that have kids it’s always just a constant stream of interruptions where they have to step away from whatever it is we’re doing and go deal with one of the children. Which I understand, kids take priority, but it’s definitely worse than before when we could just focus on having a good time. There’s also the fact that a lot of time they’ll invite me over and I don’t go because I’m already stressed from work and I don’t have it in me to deal with their children on top of it. If the kids weren’t there I’d have no problem going over.
I feel that, I don’t have kids and I’m not planning on ever having them. And most of my friends did. The dynamic obviously changed overnight and reaching out to them feels very one sided at the moment. I understand obviously, but it’s never gonna be the same. The idea of having the parents get a sitter for an evening is nice, I should try it someday.
Sounds rough. I’m in a weird opposite basket. I feel like less than half of my friend group has kids, and now we’re in our 30’s/entering 40’s so it seems it’ll stay that way.
It’s weird because, the way this article is phrased, it feels rare.
Anyway, I’m sure reaching out feels one sided for some of us. But I don’t think anyone minds it. Those reaching out want to foster the relationship, those being reached out to always welcome it.
Agreed, skaters have been outcasts since the old days. When you're already shunned by society, you're not very likely to shun people different from you in turn. Its the same situation in the punk rock scene.
I worked for a billionaire once, on a ranch doing housekeeping. I didn't do work on their house normally, but reflecting after reading this, and them being "left leaning," they didn't have any idea of humanity. For me, the job was fine, but I can see now that I was just a number at best.
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