“How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

Spoken like a true sales/con artist. I can almost hear the brand guidelines poking through... Always mention safety before privacy, always treat safety as a given and privacy as the buffer zone in which to find compromise.

The compromise is how far each town chooses to go above security tier 0: emergencies with immediate threat to life or property.

• tier 0 is defined as covering 100% of law enforcement requests of all agencies with jurisdiction in the covered area.

Not again!

Damn you...

✊ Netanyanuuuu!!!

I love seeing the variety in the takes on how bad "India hot" spice level is.

My limited anecdotal experience has landed my white ass firmly in the camp of "do not fuck with the flavors of back home."

My go-to core memory on that one is going out for wings with a group of friends a long time ago. We ordered a half dozen of whatever the place's ridiculous triple-atomic or equivalent was. I want to say 500,000 scoville and they give you gloves to eat it with. I think the deal was something like White Guy eats one of the wings and Indian Guy eats the rest, after the latter had claimed in a friendly way that they wouldn't be too hot.

Long story short, Indian Guy eats all available wings and licks his fingers like it's honey BBQ. He liked them and said yeah they do have some spice. White guy ruined the entire rest of his day and suffered for his hubris!

Most of the rest of us (I think all of us were additional White Guys) tried a tiny little piece of a wing or even just a half drop of the sauce. The spot where that little bit touched my tongue was numb and tingly for the rest of the day, lol.

Some people just shrug off that capsaicin.

I love this poster.

Unfortunately I think it was just as relevant well before the AI craze of the past few years. Plenty of shitty humans were happy to create psychologically manipulative algorithms that care only about engagement.

They will literally make arguments for affirmative action and reparations as long as the beneficiary is a rich corporation instead of a human in need.

Yeah it's less like something new and more like "Thank you, ancient me, for deciding it was always a good policy to go heavy on the RAM."

Even if generated images originally could be traced to the training data, I think that maybe just maybe the shady gigacorps would have some incentive to remove or obfuscate the copyright & IP violation paper trail from their trillion-dollar toys.

Oooh excuse me, b- but did your apt just brush up against my pacman?

If we all work together and put our moves too it, we can prove to Michael that dreams CAN come true!

Oh no, I will be sure to keep an eye out for these scary vandals invading my peaceful town over these next few days!

I mean, you never know when a passionate young person needs a "thumbs up" to brighten their day and boost their confidence.

And in case any of them want to step to me, I can threaten them with all the old power tools I have in my house that they could learn to use.

Today is the first day for our school district. It's weird to start on a Thursday, but at least the kids get a quick first weekend.

I took note of this story because now is exactly the time of year I would expect to see these stories. There have been months of summer vacation in which some number of these perv glasses will make their way into the hands of minors. So we get a spike early in the school year.

The clankers will never sway me from my em dashes, my oxford commas, and my semicolons; they are my precious.