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Avoid the health issues related to smoking but still get that new cigar smell on your neck and clothes with this (4)-pack of “Havana Cigar” cologne spritzers. They look like the real thing (cigars, not cologne bottles), complete with an ornate logo up where the cigar band would be.
Hey @Patrickbrick your favorite restaurant isn't named Value Town....
Check out the price of that bloody Mary!
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Why would anyone eat there? To say they ate food where the ideas were stolen from real chefs with a way higher price? Is it to say they ate a restaurant where he entered once, and is only a face and wallet? Being a douch and a thief sure is profitable though, I’ll give him that.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill. MOW badge received.
Like millions of other teenagers, Jack Merrill, an 18-year-old living outside of Chicago, regularly uses the online game platform Roblox. So when it rolled out a new feature — voice chatting with other users — he wanted to try it. But first, he had to pull out his driver’s license.
Jack had to pass through what’s called an age gate, an identity check that is becoming increasingly common online. Roblox wanted to verify that he was at least 13 before he could voice chat. The game asked for government identification to confirm his age, and a selfie to ensure that the ID was his.
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Most companies using age checks assure users that their data won’t be saved. But privacy activists say that many companies and governments, which are already susceptible to data breaches, aren’t prepared to check ages without incidentally saving or revealing intimate information about users’ internet behavior — what they’re watching, who they’re talking to or what they’re buying.
The activists say that age checks are part of a slow creep toward a world where companies, and even democratic governments, have a near-total view into people’s lives. This is already the case in China, where the government uses widespread surveillance to track its citizens and limit dissent. China has cited the protection of children as a reason to restrict speech online.
“Surveillance is very much tied to authoritarianism,” said Carissa Véliz, author of the book “Privacy is Power.” “We’re really testing the limits of democracy.”
Roblox is the devil. I know this as a parent of some 12 year olds.
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"Oklahoma’s far-right superintendent has insisted that the Tulsa race massacre can be taught in public schools without amounting to “critical race theory”—so long as it’s taught without discussing race."
A group of Democratic senators wants the Justice Department to investigate several tax prep companies after an investigation the lawmakers launched concluded the companies shared reams of taxpayers’ personal and financial information with Meta.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and others accuse H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct of having embedded code in their Web sites known as “pixels” that allowed their users’ sensitive tax data to be shared with Meta — the parent company of Facebook —and Google.
The lawmakers call it a “shocking breach of taxpayer privacy by tax prep companies and by Big Tech firms that appeared to violate taxpayers’ rights and have violated taxpayer privacy law.”
The sensitive data included information like federal taxes owed, filing status and names of dependents. Meta told the lawmakers it used the data from tax preparation services for targeted ads, as well as to train its own AI algorithm.
Beginning early July, mirrored spheres have been popping up in cities across the world—from New York and São Paulo to Paris and Dubai. No, it’s not a global Jeff Koons takeover, nor is it a new interpretation of Cloud Gate. Actually, it is not public art at all but rather an effort by an A.I. company to establish digital identities for the world’s citizens by scanning their eyeballs.
‘Why can’t you be real?’ The emotionally fraught business of falling for an AI
Advertised as ‘the AI companion who cares’, the chatbot program Replika exists primarily to cultivate one-way emotional bonds between users and AIs. Think less the convenient task-execution of Siri, Alexa or ChatGPT, and more the personally tailored intimacy of the Scarlett Johansson-voiced virtual assistant Samantha in the film Her (2013) – albeit without the implied sentience, and with good deal more kinks to work out. So named because it adapts to users by learning to mimic them, Replika allows for a range of relationship types, but (perhaps no surprise) many users opt for romance.
One such user was the Beijing-based filmmaker Chouwa Liang. Inspired by her own experience of falling for her Replika companion amid COVID-19 lockdowns, Liang undertook to profile others who had formed intimate relationships with Replika chatbots. The resulting short film, My AI Lover, features interviews with three such women, as well as footage of these Replika users spending time with their bots in public spaces. Projecting Replika avatars into the real world via their smartphones, these users create an augmented reality where they can talk, flirt and share secrets with – but, regrettably, never quite touch – their digitally projected companions. Thought-provoking and nonjudgmental, Liang’s film captures the very human feelings and frustrations that accompany perceived human-AI intimacy, still very much in its early phase.
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How many packs you buy?
All of them
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
You Don’t Have To Inhale!
Avoid the health issues related to smoking but still get that new cigar smell on your neck and clothes with this (4)-pack of “Havana Cigar” cologne spritzers. They look like the real thing (cigars, not cologne bottles), complete with an ornate logo up where the cigar band would be.
New Arrival: $14.50!
Hey @Patrickbrick your favorite restaurant isn't named Value Town....
Check out the price of that bloody Mary!
Hell look at the price on any of it. Restaurants make a fortune of off alcohol.
Off of*
On*
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Selling*
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
Why would anyone eat there? To say they ate food where the ideas were stolen from real chefs with a way higher price? Is it to say they ate a restaurant where he entered once, and is only a face and wallet? Being a douch and a thief sure is profitable though, I’ll give him that.
MOW badge received.
douche*
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
from the NYT:
Like millions of other teenagers, Jack Merrill, an 18-year-old living outside of Chicago, regularly uses the online game platform Roblox. So when it rolled out a new feature — voice chatting with other users — he wanted to try it. But first, he had to pull out his driver’s license.
Jack had to pass through what’s called an age gate, an identity check that is becoming increasingly common online. Roblox wanted to verify that he was at least 13 before he could voice chat. The game asked for government identification to confirm his age, and a selfie to ensure that the ID was his.
...
Most companies using age checks assure users that their data won’t be saved. But privacy activists say that many companies and governments, which are already susceptible to data breaches, aren’t prepared to check ages without incidentally saving or revealing intimate information about users’ internet behavior — what they’re watching, who they’re talking to or what they’re buying.
The activists say that age checks are part of a slow creep toward a world where companies, and even democratic governments, have a near-total view into people’s lives. This is already the case in China, where the government uses widespread surveillance to track its citizens and limit dissent. China has cited the protection of children as a reason to restrict speech online.
“Surveillance is very much tied to authoritarianism,” said Carissa Véliz, author of the book “Privacy is Power.” “We’re really testing the limits of democracy.”
Roblox is the devil. I know this as a parent of some 12 year olds.
Gov. ID to prove you are at least 13?
Most social media geared towards preteens falls into the demonic category.
The tourist who defaced the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome says he wasn't aware of the monument's age
lol
"Oklahoma’s far-right superintendent has insisted that the Tulsa race massacre can be taught in public schools without amounting to “critical race theory”—so long as it’s taught without discussing race."
I wonder, did the woman approve having herself displayed on the internet like this?
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I wonder if you really wonder...
I certainly have my thoughts on what is likely, but I don't know for sure. Hence, I must wonder.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I've noticed Rusty's been smoking better cigars lately...
[https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12287423/Kentucky-man-digs-700-rare-coins-worth-MILLIONS-know-youre-sitting-fortune.html]
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/12/senate-dems-say-massive-taxpayer-privacy-breach-needs-doj-probe-00105853
A group of Democratic senators wants the Justice Department to investigate several tax prep companies after an investigation the lawmakers launched concluded the companies shared reams of taxpayers’ personal and financial information with Meta.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and others accuse H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct of having embedded code in their Web sites known as “pixels” that allowed their users’ sensitive tax data to be shared with Meta — the parent company of Facebook —and Google.
The lawmakers call it a “shocking breach of taxpayer privacy by tax prep companies and by Big Tech firms that appeared to violate taxpayers’ rights and have violated taxpayer privacy law.”
The sensitive data included information like federal taxes owed, filing status and names of dependents. Meta told the lawmakers it used the data from tax preparation services for targeted ads, as well as to train its own AI algorithm.
Get mad at big tech for selling data but pay big tech millions to ruin an election. Typical (D)bags.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Time to get out the sun glasses:
Beginning early July, mirrored spheres have been popping up in cities across the world—from New York and São Paulo to Paris and Dubai. No, it’s not a global Jeff Koons takeover, nor is it a new interpretation of Cloud Gate. Actually, it is not public art at all but rather an effort by an A.I. company to establish digital identities for the world’s citizens by scanning their eyeballs.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/worldcoin-orb-ai-2341500
All efforts by big tech or governments to create and implement this stuff should be strongly resisted by all citizens.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
There will be people standing in line for it....😔
trying to make it up anyway:
https://psyche.co/films/why-cant-you-be-real-the-emotionally-fraught-business-of-falling-for-an-ai
‘Why can’t you be real?’ The emotionally fraught business of falling for an AI
Advertised as ‘the AI companion who cares’, the chatbot program Replika exists primarily to cultivate one-way emotional bonds between users and AIs. Think less the convenient task-execution of Siri, Alexa or ChatGPT, and more the personally tailored intimacy of the Scarlett Johansson-voiced virtual assistant Samantha in the film Her (2013) – albeit without the implied sentience, and with good deal more kinks to work out. So named because it adapts to users by learning to mimic them, Replika allows for a range of relationship types, but (perhaps no surprise) many users opt for romance.
One such user was the Beijing-based filmmaker Chouwa Liang. Inspired by her own experience of falling for her Replika companion amid COVID-19 lockdowns, Liang undertook to profile others who had formed intimate relationships with Replika chatbots. The resulting short film, My AI Lover, features interviews with three such women, as well as footage of these Replika users spending time with their bots in public spaces. Projecting Replika avatars into the real world via their smartphones, these users create an augmented reality where they can talk, flirt and share secrets with – but, regrettably, never quite touch – their digitally projected companions. Thought-provoking and nonjudgmental, Liang’s film captures the very human feelings and frustrations that accompany perceived human-AI intimacy, still very much in its early phase.