What Did the IRS Want With Your Selfies?, Lil Kalish, Mother Jones

Facing mounting bipartisan pressure, the Internal Revenue Service announced yesterday that it’s walking back plans to deploy facial recognition software to identify taxpayers.

… well, i have allowed Apple to use facial recognition to unlock my phone… it felt secure and easy on one level… but, this feels much more Orwellian to me… perhaps i should rethink it with Apple too?… especially since, at this moment, i can’t say whether we are heading for authoritarianism or not… something rather threatening to humankind lurking out there…

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I Am So Apalled

… from this article i learned about a website where you can upload a photograph of any woman, and it will feed you back a very credible nude image of that woman… it should be illegal, but guess what, it’s not…

… you can imagine the variety of malignant uses the website can be put to…

… interestingly (not surprisingly?), it doesn’t work at all on men, unless you want to imagine what they might be like as a woman…

… how low can we go…

… and on that note, i am off to walk, contemplate and make pictures…