Hannah Copestake @internetnerdgrl@mastodon.lol

Happy Glorious 25 May, comrades!

Here's to Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg.

#pratchett #Glorious25ofMay #howdotheyriseup

Facial recognition AI is another area of tech that gives me the ick. It has issues around surveillance and civil liberties and especially race. The databases they use to train the AI are very biased to white faces. Applications which pretend they can judge emotions, capability or trustfulness are straight up futuristic-phrenology. It's using your phone camera as a pair of calipers. And now this:

(Keep wearing masks, folks)

#AI #FacialRecognition #tech #ethics

https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai-fined-7-5m-for-illegally-using-images-of-brits-scraped-from-online-12619574

My god, I agree with something in the FT! The moral case against crypto:

#Crypto #CryptoCrash

https://www.ft.com/content/446e0e6a-6858-4e33-a6cf-8c2e302dc75d

I am going back to God's Own Country for a bit and am using 'tidying up' as an excuse to shovel handfuls of mini pretzels into my mouth and finishing the last of the wine before I leave. An excellent tactic, I'm sure you'll agree.

#Holiday #Tidying #Wine

Are there dinosaurs hiding in the magic sinkhole forest?? I must know!!

#dinosaur #forest #discovery

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/chinese-sinkhole-hidden-ancient-forest-b2081590.html

Briefly went on the Birdsite, saw a 'socialist' nitpicking a speech and tone policing a fabulous activist, got cross, logged off.

Twitter really is built around addictive anger...

#Twitter #Birdsite

Happy for Ukraine. Their song slapped and their outfits were cool.

I hope Putin is pissed off. I hope all the crank conspiracy theorists backing Russia are pissed off too.

We stand together.

#eurovision #Ukraine

Eurovision has quite an ominous occult energy this year and I'm here for it

#Eurovision

Protest Roe V Wade TODAY in Edinburgh at US Consulate on Regent Terrace, 2pm!

#edinburgh #ProChoiceProtest #BansOffOurBodies

I'll be glad if crypto becomes unviable. It's a nasty, grifting ecologically destructive system designed to make a tiny minority rich.

But I feel really sorry for all the ordinary folks who've gotten pulled into it, hoping to escape the misery of late stage capitalism. Who will give them hope now?

#crypto #cryptocrash

We've been looking in the wrong place for God - they were in a Big Hole all along!

#Archaeology

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-mystery-rock-archaeologists-b2075729.html