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Because Facial Recognition Tech Just Isn’t Sketchy Enough, Cops Are Now Running Searches Using AI-Generated Faces

1 year 7 months ago
Facial recognition tech is probably improving as time goes on. Given enough providers, controversy, and individuals who definitely want this tech to stop being so terrible at correctly identifying women and minorities, anything is possible. Rather than wait for the tech to catch up to the promises made by promotional materials, cops are apparently moving […]
Tim Cushing

T-REX “Makes Hard Decision” to Solve Overly Complicated Legacy of Organization Names

1 year 7 months ago

For those aware of T-REX's history of operating under many names, the potential for confusion around their name seems patently obvious. So, it comes as no surprise that the organization chose today, the First April of the Month, to rebrand the organization.

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Jonathan Allen

Lunchtime Photo

1 year 7 months ago
This is a meerket peering out from its hidey hole at the LA Zoo. They're cute little things, but I suppose they'd rip your arms off if you tried to touch one, wouldn't they?
Kevin Drum

A new kidney test is still racist. It just harms a different race.

1 year 7 months ago
Every month I get a big pile of blood tests. Here's one of them: This result happens to be from May 26, 2020. A year later the "Non Black" designation suddenly disappeared. Why? Well, there's now a note that says "GFR estimate is by the CKD-EPI 2021 equation." I never noticed that before, but today ...continue reading "A new kidney test is still racist. It just harms a different race."
Kevin Drum

Texas Court Famous For Judicial Shopping Decides It Can Ignore Judicial Conference’s New Policy Against Judicial Shopping

1 year 7 months ago
Apparently, everything really is bigger in Texas, including the audacity of federal judges who think they’re above the rules. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the Northern District of Texas has decided that new judicial shopping rules just don’t apply to them. Because that would make it harder to win culture war fights. But if […]
Mike Masnick