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Oh, that's true, but I'm talking about the direct face scan they do at the security line, which you have the right to opt out of.

There's still a big difference between security camera shots at a distance with random lighting and a specifically designed face scanning camera pointed directly at your face from two feet away with good lighting.

All of the detrimental effects of using AI tools and all of the unethical ways in which training data is collected for them are valid reasons that anyone with any sense should object to their use, regardless of whether those effects are directly the result of any specific circumstances. There are more than enough problems that all of this crap can and should be generally maligned and universally avoided until the companies responsible for it fix their shit.

If you are not a conscientious objector then you are complicit in the damage being done.

All of it.

Don't drink that...

Residential solar cost per MWh is much more expensive than other sources, because many small generators is a more expensive (but more resilient) way to build power production.

Grid-scale solar plants are one of the most cost-effective ways to generate electricity. Only wind turbines are competitive in cost per MWh, and the real-world cost of any installation depends on the specifics of the particular installation (land value, insolation, wind patterns, scale, etc).

This too shall pass

Plus a bit where a kid found a big pod in the forest, got really excited, brought it back to the village, and rolled it down a hill against another kid's pod while shouting "Now this is pod racing!"

One player gave me two middle fingers for that. I regret nothing.

Four hours wasted on a side story just to deliver a terrible joke is how you win D&D.

TSA has been scanning people's faces at security checkpoints for several years now. I've been opting out every time because I figured building a facial recognition database was the end goal.

they can't say that because they don't have a photo match that people aren't citizens.

Sure, sure, until they start doing it and no one stops them.

Yeah, that won't save you from this kind of bullshit.

The most important and accurate part of this whole article is the very last paragraph:

“Cloud seeding is just another gimmick in a series of similar unscientific ideas, like smog towers, suggesting that flashy interventions can substitute for serious, structural solutions,” Gani and AchutaRao wrote.

These are the people that want to eliminate encryption so they can read everyone's messages in the clear. This implementation of message scanning is about two steps away from thought crime.

These are just authoritarians with a fetish for surveillance state bullshit, justified by "think of the children!"

AI is mass surveillance

AI is identity theft

AI is privacy invasion

AI is built on theft

AI use leads to cognitive decline

AI is responsible for multiple child suicides

AI is environmental destruction

It is not possible to be an ethical user of AI tools at present. If you use them you are contributing to and complicit in the problems they create, which vastly outweigh any short-term convenience benefits. If you use AI tools you are participating in a destructive system.

Do your own work.

The DecapiCone:

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Hilarious.