ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

i have the red mist descend when people talk about Theory being a privilege unavailable to marginalized people when literal slaves, people being hunted to death by state apparatus, carpet bombed and starved by the empire regarded it as critical for it to be studied and understood as widely as possible

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project incentivizes a black market for biometric data taken from people in developing nations

May 18, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=sam-altmans-worldcoin-project-incentivizes-a-black-market-for-biometric-data-taken-from-people-in-developing-nations

Cherry on top: Arkham's referral links for this service are just Base64-encoded email addresses, meaning anonymous crypto people who are sharing the referral links have inadvertently revealed email addresses they didn't realize would be linked to them.

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Sam Altman, the CEO of #OpenAI, launched the biometrics-based #cryptocurrency Worldcoin yesterday.

#Worldcoin uses a proof of personhood (PoP) credential issued by a custom biometric imaging device called the Orb.

The device features a wide angle camera and a telephoto camera that capture a high resolution image of the human iris, and process it into a unique digital identifier.

By 2024, Worldcoin expects to make 1,500 orbs available in 35 cities globally to onboard users for free.

https://xkcd.com/2666/

#photography #Mosstodon

Looking closer at the Hexin case @hewittlaw highlighted yesterday:
https://www.scribd.com/document/661050859/Hexin-v-Schedule-A-Complaint

Is it just me or does the plaintiff have a § 113 problem here? (They allege that they have registered video and photo works, not PGS works.)

#DesignPatents #Copyright

Twitter Executives: We need you to hire back all the people you spontaneously fired.

Elon Musk: Okay, I will change Twitter's name to X.

Twitter Executives: Why?

Elon Musk: So we can tell all our ex-employees that they are actually X employees.

Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".

It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.

Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.

You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).

The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.

#x #Twitter #webdev #tech #web

lmfao

West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn03416_002/

confusion levels are 12% and steady

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Good morning engineers of Mastodon!

I hooked a motor up to the Lego Pac-Man hand crank, an astonishingly complex piece of technic gearing.

How long, in your estimation, can this run before failure? We’re 78 minutes in.

we're seeing sweetness levels at about 89%

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