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Futurism
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Creepy App Used Stolen Pictures of Dead People to Train Its Facial Recognition Algorithm

Consider a new digital privacy fear unlocked.As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes, which claims to create biometric human "faceprints," has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.According to the report, Cher Scarlett, a software engineer and writer, made the discovery while searching the site for images of herself.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Conclusion To Series On The Dawn Of Everything - emptywheel

Posts on The Dawn Of Everything: Link
The Dawn Of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow has 525 pages of text.I've discussed 10 of the 12 chapters in the last 14 months, and it's time to move on.I'll conclude this series with a few ideas triggered by the book.1.The authors show that human societies didn't follow any particular pattern of change.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Counting Russia's War Dead, With Tips, Clips and a Giant Spreadsheet

The Russian soldier was named Dmitri Tsvigun.A table tennis coach from a small city in Siberia, he had volunteered to fight in Ukraine.But at age 30, he died from shrapnel wounds when a tank shell exploded near him in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Province on Nov. 20.He responded to a call from his heart to join the special military operation, said a short memorial article in a local newspaper on Dec. 8.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Veronica Nelson inquest: nurse and doctor give contradictory evidence on prison medical assessment

Two medical professionals who were responsible for conducting Veronica Nelson's medical assessment on her first night in prison have presented contradictory evidence at an inquest into her death.
Independent
2 years ago
Europe news

Ukraine appeals for Nato help as fears grow for eastern regions

Ukraine's foreign minister has appealed for help from the West as the country faces a battle for its industrial eastern regions after Russian forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv to regroup.
The Independent
2 years ago
Berlin

Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War

BRUSSELS - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is appealing to NATO to provide his war-torn country with weapons to help avoid further atrocities like those reported in the town of Bucha this week.
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Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

"Nothing is replacing human designers in our lifetimes" says commenter

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an opinion piece that claims "AI is putting our jobs as architects unquestionably at risk".In the opinion piece, AI author and Florida International University professor Neil Leach writes "architects urgently need to get to grips with the existential threat posed by AI" or risk "sleepwalking into oblivion".
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Washington Post: Trump campaign commissioned research that failed to prove 2020 election fraud claims

(CNN)A research firm commissioned by former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign team to prove his electoral fraud claims instead failed to substantiate his theories, the Washington Post reported Saturday.The Berkeley Research Group was commissioned to look into voting data from six states, according to the Post, and a source told the publication that the campaign team wanted about a dozen claims tested.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
France news

In a deserted courtroom, the grim details of the Nice atrocity go mostly unnoticed | Robert McLiam Wilson

In Paris, a trial is taking place concerning the 14 July 2016 attack in Nice when a man drove a truck into a crowd of families attending a firework display.The three-month trial, due to end in early December, is of eight associates of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel accused of assisting him in the attack, when a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Westpac fined $40m for charging fees to the dead

Westpac has been fined $40m for charging fees to more than 11,800 dead people, bringing the total the federal court has ordered the bank to pay in a string of misconduct cases brought by the corporate regulator to $130m.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

Satellite images of corpses in Bucha contradict Russian claims

Satellite images showing bodies strewn across the streets of Bucha have provided a rebuttal to claims by the Russian state that Ukrainian forces placed dead people in the town in "staged provocation" after Russian forces had already withdrawn.
www.aljazeera.com
2 years ago
Europe news

Ukraine retakes whole Kyiv region' as Russian troops pull back

Bodies found scattered on the streets as Russian troops withdraw from the capital to focus on southeastern Ukraine.
the Guardian
2 years ago
Europe news

Russian reporters in Ukraine: 'Every day I see dead and injured'

or years, Oksana Baulina did her best to stand up to Vladimir Putin's system in Russia, and was eventually forced to flee the country.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

Extraordinary' Review: The Power of Powerlessness

On paper, the new British series Extraordinary sounds like a barbed response to the superhero glut in our popular culture.Its heroine, Jen (Mairead Tyers), is defined by her lack of super: In a world where nearly everyone gains an unusual power when they turn 18, she's still waiting for hers at 25.But satire is not the only or even the primary objective of Extraordinary, which happens to come from inside the superhero-industrial complex its eight episodes premiere on Wednesday on Hulu, Marvel's corporate sibling.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

Image Alfred Molina in a scene from Three Pines.Credit...Amazon Three Pines' When to watch: Friday, on Amazon.Alfred Molina stars as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in this adaptation of Louise Penny's novels, which follow a detective in a small Canadian town who solves unusual crimes.How Canadian and unusual?
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Video reveals Plymouth incel' gunman's eight-minute rampage that killed five

Chilling footage showing a gunman calmly carrying a loaded weapon and then going on a killing spree in which he murdered five people has been revealed for the first time.Jake Davison, 22, is seen in the clips wielding his firearm as he strolls along a street in Plymouth, Devon, then indiscriminately shoots dead people at random, including a three-year-old girl pushing her teddy in a pram.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Europe news

Dozens feared dead after Russian strike on civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia

A civilian convoy of cars heading to pick up relatives trying to flee Russian occupied territory was hit by Russian forces near the city of Zaporizhzhia, with initial reports of dozens of dead and injured.
the Guardian
1 year ago
Europe news

Russia-Ukraine war live news: UN hails 'critical step forward' in resuming grain exports; Russia shells Mykolaiv, mayor says

The death toll from Saturday's Russian missile attack on the town of Chasiv Yar has climbed to 48, according to Ukrainian emergency services.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Washington Capitals

Giveaway in overtime lets Senators snap Caps' five-game winning streak

The Senators' Mark Kastelic crashes into Capitals goaltender Darcy Kuemper and defenseman Matt Irwin in the third period Thursday.(Nick Wass/AP) The Washington Capitals were a little more than five minutes from extending their winning streak to six games Thursday night.Then Alex DeBrincat and an almost comical overtime sequence turned a one-goal lead into a dispiriting 4-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators at Capital One Arena.
RMNB
1 year ago
Washington Capitals

Evgeny Kuznetsov takes responsibility for Senators' OT goal: 'Only dead people don't make mistakes, right?'

Evgeny Kuznetsov has been solid, if not spectacular, for much of the season while playing in a secondary role to offseason signee Dylan Strome.Against the Senators Thursday night, Kuznetsov was skating well and scored a beautiful unassisted goal in the second period - one of five tallies between the Capitals and Senators.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Russian Retreat Reveals Signs of an Atrocity in a Ukrainian Village

PRAVDYNE, Ukraine  First came small pieces of bone.Then a pair of arms tied at the wrists with rope.And then the shovel unearthed a skull with a bullet hole, mouth cracked open, teeth covered in thick, black mud.Even though scenes like this have been repeated across Ukraine wherever the Russians have retreated, the clump of villagers and police officers seemed stunned on Monday as they stood at the lip of a common grave in Pravdyne, a village near the city of Kherson.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

David Sedaris Is Coming and Wants to Know Where He Can Find a Dead Body

Look out, world, David Sedaris is back.After a long pandemic hiatus, the famed writer is returning to the road with a new collection of essays and he'll be swinging by the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Tuesday, November 22 for a reading.You may know him for The Santaland Diaries or  Me Talk Pretty One Day; or his new book Happy-Go-Lucky or 2021's A Carnival of Snackery, which just came out in paperback.
The Paris Review
1 year ago
Books

Encounters with Ghosts - The Paris Review

One Monday evening some five years ago, I walked into my first Spiritualist service.In those days, the New York Spiritualist Church held services roughly once a month in a broad-minded white-marble Methodist structure designed to hold some thousand parishioners.But the Spiritualists only filled the first few rows.
https://www.rogerebert.com/
1 year ago
Film

The Loneliest Boy in the World movie review (2022) | Roger Ebert

Oliver ( Max Harwood) isn't just socially awkward.
Portland Mercury
2 years ago
Portland

THE TRASH REPORT: Bad Celebrities and Good Animals (Also, Scary Animals!)

Happy Monday, and welcome to another edition of The Trash Report, where I rummage around the back alleys of the internet to turn another man's news trash into our reading treasure.
Independent
1 year ago
US politics

Donald Trump knew vote fraud claims in legal documents were false, says judge

Donald Trump signed legal documents challenging the results of the 2020 election that included voter fraud claims he knew to be false, a federal judge has said.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Europe news

A Mariupol theater troupe is back on stage with a homegrown Ukrainian play

Actors for the Donetsk Regional Drama Theater of Mariupol, on stage during a rehearsal for their play Cry of a Nation at the Uzhhorod municipal theater on July 14.
Independent
2 years ago
Europe news

Ex-UN prosecutor urges global arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

The former chief prosecutor of United Nations (UN) war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
www.aljazeera.com
2 years ago
Europe news

Ukraine claims to retake Kyiv suburb Irpin from Russian control

Irpin's mayor says the situation is still dangerous after weeks of Russian onslaught.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Anguish for partners of Mariupol's defenders as Russian assault goes on

"Holding up", wrote Denys Prokopenko, commander of Ukraine's Azov regiment, in his latest WhatsApp message to his wife Kateryna from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
The Independent
2 years ago
France news

France sends police and experts to Ukraine to get proof of Russian war crimes

France has sent a unit of police officials and forensic experts to Ukraine to investigate potential war crimes in the country by invading Russian forces.
The Independent
2 years ago
UK news

Ukrainian MP: 'I don't want my son to inherit this war'

A Ukrainian MP has said she fears "half-hearted compromises" will lead to her nine-year-old son having to fight another war with Russia when he grows up.
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