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Tech companies are shaping the rules governing AI(arstechnica.com)
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‘Game of Thrones’: I was an extra in that King's Landing crowd scene(latimes.com)
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by geephroh 8y ago
Funny that there isn't much vitriol directed at Canadians who overstay their visas, despite the fact that they represented the top slot in DHS's own data.[1][2] [1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/housto
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by geephroh 8y ago
Go Roadrunners!
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4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video(arstechnica.com)
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by geephroh 8y ago
Came to post this, too. Sounds like he led a full life of boundless curiosity. Really inspirational.
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by geephroh 8y ago
I think the article makes a pretty persuasive argument for the relevance: "It matters all the more now. On May 14 of last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1992 federal law that had forbidden states from legalizing sports gamb
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by geephroh 8y ago
Postman was ahead of his time. Also worth checking out is his 1985 book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business." Can't say we weren't warned...
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by geephroh 8y ago
"Ask Me About Amazon" -- City of Seattle
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Facial recognition “creeps people out,” new bill would bar SF cops from using it(arstechnica.com)
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by geephroh 8y ago
Bummer -- sold out already...
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by geephroh 8y ago
My group is part of a coalition organized by the Washington chapter of the ACLU. We have been engaging both Microsoft and Amazon about their surveillance technologies and AI/ML offerings. ACLU-WA, in collaboration with the Northern CA
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by geephroh 8y ago
My organization is Densho. We are a civil rights education and digital archive focusing on the history of the WWII Japanese American incarceration experience.
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Oren Etzioni: “Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and How”(cacm.acm.org)
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by geephroh 8y ago
I would recommend reading Oren Etzioni's piece in this month's Communications of the ACM, "Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How."[1] He lays out some very specific, practical ways that regulation
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by geephroh 8y ago
This is a laudable first step in advocacy for real regulation of a technology that already has huge impacts on privacy and civil society. I was in the room for one of the meetings with Microsoft's senior leadership as a representative
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by geephroh 8y ago
For anyone who wants to mess around with Face API, MS has a simple python implementation along with a sample desktop app here: https://github.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Face-Python
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Pioneer of Central Washington cryptocurrency boom falls on hard times(seattletimes.com)
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by geephroh 8y ago
"Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Bribed With a Can of Sardines"
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by geephroh 8y ago
It has nothing to do with the technology -- it's all about the land. Dunno how long you've been here, but my brother-in-law grew up in Eastlake when the I-5 corridor and ship canal bridge were under construction. There was a sever
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by geephroh 8y ago
> CC should really be renamed to 'Corporate Continuation' (or abbreviation changed entirely). 'Corporate Co-option' or 'Cash Capture' might also be appropriate...
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Hydropower utility to hold public hearing about new cryptocurrency user rates(lakechelannow.com)
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by geephroh 8y ago
Dunno -- I'm still emotionally scarred from dealing with JIS, S-JIS, EUC, etc. in the early 90s. Anyone else remember Ken Lunde's fugu book....?
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by geephroh 8y ago
You might also try some Abe Kobo, who had a heavy influence on Murakami's writing. His 1970 "Inter Ice Age 4" is a really interesting sci-fi-ish novel involving global warming, supercomputers, and genetic engineering.
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by geephroh 8y ago
+1 - thanks, ddsaso! Worth digging into the thread just for this.
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by geephroh 8y ago
They don't have their own client offering, but super-easy to roll your own with their B2 cloud service. There's support for backblaze targets in duplicity, hashbackup, restic and rclone -- my org uses it as a special remote for gi
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by geephroh 9y ago
Tempura is 16th century "Japanese/Portuguese fusion" cuisine. http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170808-the-truth-about-jap...
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by geephroh 9y ago
Sounds like you might enjoy Annalee Newitz's _Autonomous_ ( https://www.techsploitation.com/#/sciencefiction/ )
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by geephroh 9y ago
I wish I had three hands so I could triple face-palm.
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by geephroh 9y ago
Copperworks in Seattle is complete end-to-end whiskey. They brew their own wash (the co-owner Jason Parker was the first brewer at Pike in the late 80s/early 90s), distill and age everything in-house. It's all their product.

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