A literalist takes things literally.
A kleptomaniac takes things, literally.
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Hopeless stooge of the creditor class.
Florida man/Birminghamster/Tuscaloser
he/him
@lionsrear @cycling @fedibikes That bar tape does look nice!
TIL that Vladimir Nabokov collected butterfly penises.
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For all you chilly folks out there this holiday season, here's a little Blue Christmas.
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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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D. Boon passed 37 years ago today. 22 December has been a consistently bad day for punk rock. https://youtu.be/FqUwtfIUEqY
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someone once asked me why i was so worried about the environment
i just said "i live there"
and they looked at me as if that fact had never once occurred to them
@elizarde @paparatti We have aluminum casement windows: single glazed, drafty, and conductive. It’ll be a chilly few days, but at least it never stays cold for long around here.
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@paparatti We’re looking at the teens in the next few days. WTF?
@elizarde yep, driving, voting, applying to college and all that…
Even organized himself a Friendsgiving dinner at our house. He’s accumulated a really great set of fellow misfit toys to hang out with
Just realizing that my 18-year-old has *never* gone to the mall to hang out.
As a Gen-Xer, I can’t even…
@lizlovesmusic Never had a class on the Dead, but did write a paper for a Law and Lit class about the Dark Star>Comes a Time from 7/26/72
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