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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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You resting soon?
Just checking.

Let’s change the perception of
and access to
rest as a luxury
to what it truly is,
a necessity.

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Just a reminder that tomorrow morning at 10am Pacific we’re live-streaming with @anu1905 ! Join us as we crochet a resistor and talk about electronics and also her gorgeous moon phase and period-tracking calendar PCB! m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhbQjyE

@hasmis I have one but I left it at home by accident. :-/

Of course I made some homemade artisanal bread while I'm down here helping my brother out; his oven is a little different than mine. This looks burned in the image but in person it's not bad; still I think his oven is around 3 minutes faster than mine.

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In a moment of inspiration as privacy folks prep for CPRA & SCC updates at the end of the year, I decided last week to gift my team a modified book, re-titled: "'Twas the Night Before Privacy Updates"

I made a customized version for each person on the team. Here's what I wrote:

@bradanlane of all the things I've been called "boring" isn't one of them!

Waiting at the Atlanta airport for my brother and his boys; he's got them for a few days and I'm helping out:

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Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

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I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

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Seasonal reminder: Alcohol is a completely legal drug that destroys lives, relationships and families. Don't make it hard for people who are trying to stay sober to enjoy festivities and functions.

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This Thursday, 12/22 10am Pacific we’re welcoming @anu1905 to the livestream! We’re going to talk electronics, craft, activism, and crochet a resistor pincushion (a good place for all those misc thru-hole resistors on your desk!) Join us! There’s a materials list in the YouTube description if you’d like to crochet along with us, good for beginners!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhbQjyE

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