Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.
A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. https://t.co/Cn2BvGc4xc
We live in a panopticon. Every day, we pick up our phones. The exact time is recorded. What apps we open, in what order, is recorded. Who we message first, and what we message, is analysed. Typing patterns.
Open social media. “Good morning! Based on 481 data brokers’ recommendations, here’s the content which maximises our internal tradeoff between preference discovery via ambiguity reduction and engagement to maximise usage time for advertisers. It doesn’t matter if you engage or not, if we can force you to see certain things that may or may not ruin your day.”
Apple watch. Yep, I’m still alive. Good thing my health data goes straight to reinsurers so they can more accurately predict my death.
Have breakfast. Smart fridge which automatically buys groceries on Amazon when it detects I’m running out of food? Lol. I’m glad i don’t have one of those, that sounds SCARY! I make a coffee using my nespresso machine. As I do, my electricity usage spikes. 1500W. Right on schedule, as the energy grid perfectly knows my consumption pattern.
Get in the car. Of course it’s not an electric car, they’re just selling data to China. But it is an automatic. Does it have a gyroscope which measures my acceleration, breaking and cornering? Does it measure my speed? Does it have a GPS and records everywhere I go? I’m not thinking about that right now. I arrive in to work. Sign in to Microsoft 365. Something something privacy policy accept. I’ve never heard of OpenClaw before. But if I had, I would wonder how it’s going to compete against Copilot when every single mouse movement inside Windows, and Office, goes straight to Bill and Melinda (</3). “Maybe that’s why Windows 11 is so buggy,” is what I would think if I noticed any difference.
Lunch time. Walk outside. Gyroscopic gait analysis? Yep. What am I eating for lunch? Idk. Does the independent corner shop’s payment processor detail exactly what item I’m buying? Oh, it’s integrated with their inventory management and accounting software? So my card is tied to the exact item I have for lunch? (12mg zyn and a wrap). Wow.
Afternoon. Bored. Heart rate is slow. Browsing. Cookies. This extension can read all your data. IP. MAC address. Click click click. Cloudflare. Metadata. Telemetry. Scripts running. Add to basket. Swipe that credit card!
Get home. Turn on Netflix or Amazon Prime. Or Apple TV. Or HBO Max. Or Disney+. Eventually it will just be an endless Sora generated fantasy so I won’t have to spend 40 hours a week binge watching all of these boring shows. I wonder if the machines get bored of watching me?
Always being watched. Who am I? Please verify identity. That’s a beautiful face you have there. Want to see how much it’s worth when we trade it on the open market?
Well, this is all external. But I’m still a human. Do my airpods measure my brainwaves via EEG? Please I just want to listen to Spotify. Emotional catharsis. Now THAT would be useful data.
I’m flesh and blood. What is a PCR test? Whole genome sequencing? Now I hope that I paid Somali scammers who dumped my samples and issued me a fake certificate. But who knows. My whole genome? That must be difficult and expensive to process. Right? I hope I won’t be expected to do this to operate my toaster every morning.
Who am I? I don’t know. But they do.
Pasta sauce company Prego is launching a device that listens to and records conversations at the dinner table
The device is designed to capture laughter, stories, and everyday moments that can be revisited
Nike admit 'bulging' £135 England World Cup shirts have a problem and 'fall short' of standards - after they employed AI for 'high-tech' design https://t.co/lOJBg1DlTy
The grim result of current UK building regs - such as British Standard 8213-1:2004, which requires that all windows be cleanable from inside by women aged 64–75 without the use of ladders or cleaning devices and without stretching.
It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves
Could we please receive clarity soon on whether we’re facing a period of temporary inflation or a civilisational collapse where we live in caves and eat weeds.
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