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blobjim
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Rite Aid facial recognition misidentified Black, Latino and Asian people as ‘likely’ shoplifters
Same stuff as having a million reasons cops are allowed to stop you that are all just a synonym for "you're black". Everything in this country is some form of beating around the bush in terms of stated reasoning.
Rite Aid facial recognition misidentified Black, Latino and Asian people as ‘likely’ shoplifters
They're gonna end up having to do the thing from movies and video games where the camera actively aims at people and shoots infrared light to do a LIDAR scan of people's faces to process. And it's gonna be so slow that they will install checkpoint gates where you have to stand there while it scans your face. And they're gonna have an AI robot lady voice (so they don't pay any royalties) say beep boop you're clear to go.
Rite Aid facial recognition misidentified Black, Latino and Asian people as ‘likely’ shoplifters
No to White Aid, yes to White Out!
And nobody should really expect otherwise anyways. I kind of have to roll my eyes at people who think this type of thing is even worth wasting breath complaining about. A government is always going to surveil, spy, control, etc. It's on activists for doing nothing to resist it.
If someone tells you "the Soviets or Chinese or whoever are so sneaky and dystopian spying on everyone" you can bring it up how it's the same with every government. You can mention these new actions the US govt takes. And new types of surveillance. But beyond that, they're going to implement whatever they want.
I guess most activist orgs know this, because nobody really wastes their time trying to organizationally oppose this stuff on a legal basis. I guess that's not entirely true, but you get my point.
There are plenty of ways to be less surveil-able if it matters to you as an individual (which it should if you're an activist of any sort).
Idk, it's kind of sad how unprepared it seems like orgs are with this stuff (not that I'm even involved with any). Back in the day (i.e. the 19-whatevers), people probably would have taken actual precautions to protect their own privacy and that of their orgs. Nowadays, people are using Google Drive and gmail and US web hosting providers and so on (I'm very guilty of this myself). Like there's barely even an attempt at not providing the US govt with every little detail about our lives. Not sure how much of it is just ignorance or exceptionalism or something.
the states should have no say who is on the ballot
I don't think that's really objectively the one way it should work. Why should people that represent millions of people have to be directly voted on by millions of people? Even just in terms of electoralism, that isn't democracy. There is no way you can reach a consensus or most popular choice because millions of people can't agree on something or even communicate. It's hard enough coming to an agreement with input from a group of 30 people.
If anything, you could do the opposite and break down the election of electors into multiple levels of hierarchy, and let each elector vote based on their own political position.
That would ultimately be more like the USSR or China or Cuba, etc.
I think the "flattening" of US "democracy" is more about the fact that it's all a charade so why spend the effort on having tons of elections. Yes it would make sense to just have individuals vote directly for the president, out of simplicity. But that wouldn't make it much more "democratic" other than better reflecting the popular vote that we all think of it as being based on.
Isn't that just traveling to Latin America?
We need to do that "AI generated Republican trained from images of every Republican politician" but for every political representative in the world.
a bit of a strawman since I think a lot of nobody "libertarians" will say they're against a number of these things. But only because the whole "ideology" is fake.