Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
Paul Sutton
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Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
Welcome to mastodon, hopefully you will find the sort of content you are looking for.
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This is great. Postal delivery vehicles do a relatively small number of miles in a day and then return to a central facility every night. Obvious candidate for electrification https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/1220-usps-intends-to-deploy-over-66000-electric-vehicles-by-2028.htm
The west fell for their promise of doing things differently big time didn't they.
Please explain why around 450 British lives were lost retaking the country and then keeping security while a new government was built only for our political elite to make the biggest error and allow the Taliban back in.
At the same time the British abandoned many of the translators who helped them to the mercy of the Taliban
What was all the sacrifice for?
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Why is it that 99% of the time someone is asking for "a simple answer to a simple question", I have to ask them to more-fully specify their question?
It's like, "I can *probably* give you a simple answer to a well-defined question or I can give you a heavily-caveated and multi-pronged reply to a poorly-defined question."
Ah, the good, old "conservation of complexity" problem.
@explorergrace@mastodon.nz @theadmin
I think it is also good practice to know who your instance admin is, and how to contact them.
Could be a problem both technical or with another user, suggest a feature or another reason the admins are here to help.
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Video of the train derailment in Collegedale - originally posted on facebook, but I prefer twitter links still.
This massive oversized concrete girder is being delivered to the new road project to the upper left of the prior overhead shot. In fact, that appears to be the truck entering the work zone.
Huge delay incoming. These are supposed to be escorted loads. Just absolutely devastating overall besides the 2 reported injuries.
mh+, new job
Congratulations and wish you success in your new role.
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mh+, new job
I just got and accepted an offer to become a junior embedded software engineer! It took family, mentors at my company, people on Twitter when I belonged there and also many kind people on Mastodon.
@PHolder, I specifically was able to draw on the unit testing discussion and my attempts at C programming from advent of code during our interview. I can’t thank you enough!
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STATEMENT: Harrowing incident at Madison Square Garden shows why lawmakers should ban the use of facial recognition in all places of public accommodation, such as bars, restaurants, and venues https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-12-20-breaking-madison-square-garden-uses-facial-recognition-to-bar-mom-from-attending-christmas-concert-with-her-daugher
@team Is this in New York USA, or a place with the same name in China / North Korea or Russia ?
I know the answer but it is the sort of thing you would perhaps expect in dictatorships not democracies
So is this Fraudulent, ?
@ACM Welcome to the Fediverse.
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Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!
Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.
You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg
Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!
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Here I am with happy face in the Yukon winter wonderland after the -40 cold night, the power outage and no heat. Weather people said it felt like -50. I am smiling or at least trying to 😀. I am loving the frost on my beard too. I am dispatching joy to you as well 🧡
@erinfulmer We all need to stand together for a common cause and goal.
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me, reading trending:
Wait, people are telling artists *not* to self promote? What is wrong with you?
Artists: Self promote away! Promote all the self!
Isn't the purpose of education to look at , and discuss topics that are not all rosy and nice, to look in to good and bad stuff and debate, discuss and develop critical thinking skills?
@gwensnyder agreed, hence as we get better content on here, we should attract more followers etc.
Hopefully a slower process so as a network we have time to adapt, and cope with a steady stream of new users.
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If we want people to move away from centralized platforms (and we should), the way we do that isn't preaching the technical superiority and expecting that to win hearts and minds.
Folks on social media aren't looking for the best tech, they're looking for tech that helps them access community with a minimum of friction.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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