Chill Wind

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Old and vain. Proponent of the chocolate and cheese diet.
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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Amazon is being sued over Ring's "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI facial recognition to identify and remember people who walk past Ring doorbell cameras. A Virginia resident filed a class action alleging the feature collects and stores biometric data on passersby without their consent. Ring is optional for the homeowner. Nobody who walks past their front door opted into anything. This is the same company that settled with the FTC in 2023 for $5.8 million after a former employee used Ring cameras to spy on female customers in their bedrooms. Amazon denied wrongdoing.

My Take
This feels like the car data story all over again. You don't own a Ring, you've never agreed to any terms, but the camera labels you by name every time you show up at a friend's house or drop off a package. A facial recognition database built one doorbell at a time, and the people in it never had a say.

Amazon has been here before. An employee used Ring cameras to watch customers in their homes. Law enforcement got access to footage without proper consent. The Super Bowl lost dog feature activated entire neighborhood camera networks. Every time, there's backlash, a small fine, a quiet rollback, and the cameras stay right where they are. Ring has millions of units on American homes, all pointed at the sidewalk. The homeowner chose to install it. You just chose to walk your dog. And now Amazon's AI knows your name and your route. I don't know how many times the same company has to get caught doing the same thing before the penalty matches the behavior.

Hedgie🤗

[leah @tendyourgarden8]

a couple days ago I saw a building that said “library” outside so I went in looking for books and found zero books in the process but some other cool stuff instead

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Did I miss the statements of support from other news organizations (or journalists?) for Pelley or do they reserve performative outrage for things like having their unfettered access to the Pentagon removed?

[Jonathan Richie @JRichieTX]

The New World Screwworm very well might be in Texas now, USDA says.

This comes just one day after USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins pushed back on information released by Texas Rep. @donfortexas saying that there had been NWS sightings 1 mile from the border.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

New York officially has become the first US state to mandate disclosures for AI-generated people in commercial advertisements, effective June 9, per ABC

[Chill Wind @1Chillwind]

@foxnewspolitics Yeah? So what?

[Chill Wind @1Chillwind]

@cub527 ❤️

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

OpenAI is absolutely cooked. This is loser language. You can’t be four years into the bubble saying “yeah our customers have a huge issue with how expensive our business is.” You just raised $122 billion! You can’t say shit like this!

https://t.co/1uKEEpSS03

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump signed an executive order reclassifying about 8,000 senior federal workers and making it easier to fire them for any reason, despite criticism that the move would politicize the civil service. https://t.co/DCuIRVEv6d

[Chill Wind @1Chillwind]

@forsythhomes @EricLDaugh @FBIDirectorKash @FBI LOL, Biden kept the same FBI director that Trump appointed during his first term.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Analysis: When the Trump administration announced its controversial legal fund popular with Jan. 6 rioters, it also gave President Trump immunity from any potential tax crimes for any taxes filed up to now.

It’s “a legal absurdity,” said one expert. https://t.co/BG8ipZyMiv

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Well done @Alexbrowder_ being the first high school student in the world to be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering Russian corruption. You should be very proud

[Nicholas Nehamas @NickNehamas]

NEW: Staff at an ICE facility in Louisiana mistreated immigrants, including one incident where an officer stabbed an inmate in the hand with a pen, the Homeland Security inspector general found. The watchdog's report provides a rare and candid look inside an ICE detention center.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Trump’s Iran war drains US oil supplies to lowest level since 2004, per FT

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

They’re cooked

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Texas barbecue joints are closing due to skyrocketing beef prices, particularly brisket, which is a staple on the menus. Inflation, tariffs and labor shortages all play a role.

Even the state's most celebrated restaurants are struggling to remain open. https://t.co/l2lYkI1tg2

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Met a young person who can't find a job bc of AI. His mom is sick and needs home care. He drives Uber to pay rent, but is barely getting by. I told him the White House pool is going to be longer than skyscrapers and he burst out crying. "Thank you sir," he said, "I needed that."

[Chill Wind @1Chillwind]

@NAFOteacher ❤️❤️❤️

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

En arrivant au Brésil et en étant témoin de l'esclavage de près, Charles Darwin écrivit :

« Près de Rio de Janeiro, ma voisine d'en face était une vieille dame qui possédait des vis-pouces avec lesquelles elle écrasait les doigts de ses esclaves. Dans une maison où j'avais séjourné auparavant, un jeune serviteur mulâtre était, chaque jour et à toute heure, insulté, battu et pourchassé avec une fureur capable de décourager jusqu'au plus vil des animaux.

J'ai vu un enfant de six ou sept ans frappé à la tête avec un fouet (avant que je puisse intervenir) parce qu'il m'avait servi un verre d'eau légèrement trouble...

Et ce sont là des actes commis par des hommes qui prétendent aimer leur prochain comme eux-mêmes, qui croient en Dieu, et qui prient pour que Sa volonté soit faite sur terre !

Le sang bout dans nos veines et nos cœurs s'emballent quand nous songeons que nous, les Anglais, et nos descendants américains avec leurs cris fanfarons pour la liberté, avons été et sommes encore coupables de cet énorme crime. »

(Charles Darwin, Le Voyage du Beagle)

[Chill Wind @1Chillwind]

@CrimeWithBobby Very strange.