Aaron Parecki

TLDR; The Chinese state crediting the use of face recognition for its role in enabling populist measures and strong privacy protections against corporate abuse mean relatively high levels of Chinese consumer support for face recognition technology in daily life.

In reality, it's just a form of parallel construction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

TLDR, in China, phone tracking is the secret sauce that makes face recognition for law enforcement effective- because then you can reduce the size of the data set you're matching against.

ooh that is so much fun

I know twitter’s/the internet’s favorite pastime is to shit on Apple, but they don’t do this nonsense. PC manufacturers selling bargain machines at a ~$500 price point has skewed perception too. A $1k MacBook Air outperforms these machines and has virtually no bloatware

What pedestrians look like across Europe

I support cool indie games as much as I can because I remember what happened when nobody played Glitch and eventually the developer decided to build Slack instead so now we all have to waste entire years of our lives mired in a never-ending sea of dull, depressing conversations

Of that’s nice!!!

Wow I did not expect this celebrity divorce story to get even crazier but this truly shocking revelation from the former dog walker blew me away: https://bit.ly/3gll84C

4 - Make a “To-Don’t” List - This is a list of things that you shouldn’t do, no matter what. For me, this list includes things like checking my email first thing in the morning, working on the weekends, and checking social media frequently throughout the day.