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silence7 OP , 4 days ago to In Person Activism in The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes

Not sure which group you're thinking of, but basically you need:

• large groups
• being visible
• nonviolent
• coordinated messaging and clear demands
• if possible, get the police to attack you (but not go kill your entire group, as may happen in authoritarian countries)

silence7 OP , 21 days ago to Technology in Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

Not in the same detailed minute-by-minute tracking of where you've been.

silence7 OP , 21 days ago to Technology in Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

They're also buying tracking data from phone apps, so you'd need to make sure you're not running any of those either.

silence7 OP , 1 month ago to solarpunk memes in When climate damage paralyzed traffic

A lot of engineering was done assuming that rainfall behaved the way it did in the past. That's not a valid assumption anymore.

silence7 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Disabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for others

The article is about a small number of congressmembers with speech and hearing disabilities.

silence7 OP , 1 month ago to Technology in Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

It's a gift link, so you shouldn't hit the paywall unless you've disabled javascript or are using a browser extension which strips off URL parameters

silence7 OP , 2 months ago to Technology in If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge

The value is that it shows people who aren't using EVs yet what's available

silence7 OP , 2 months ago to Technology in If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge

The ML tool is a summary of the directions. That's a plausible use of ML

silence7 OP , 2 months ago to Technology in If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge

The article says nothing about AI; just that EV charger location and availability is a feature being added to Google Maps.

silence7 , 2 months ago to Technology in Facebook removed every post linking to Kansas Reflector’s website, apparently in response to an op-ed about Facebook's censorship of climate-related ads

OP: If you're in Canada, Meta banned news there entirely

silence7 OP , 3 months ago to Technology in AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

Because it's a pain to go do (and was especially so in the film era) and it change what the photo conveys in a meaningful way.

Think of for example a photo like this, showing anti-civil-rights protesters in 1969:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/e8bd6a64-3b5f-414a-af20-bdd8cc3d8c90.webp

Blurring the faces would meaningfully obscure what was going on, and confuse people about who held what kinds of views.

silence7 OP , 3 months ago to Technology in AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

In the US, kinda sorta.

Advertisers are liable if they use your likeness to promote a product, imply endorsement, or otherwise make commercial use of it without your consent. This gives you the right to sue, which is worth absolutely nothing when you're dealing with a shady overseas shell company hawking fake Viagra.

News organizations, artists, and random private individuals can publish a photo or other image of you taken in a place where you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy without having to contact you or have your consent. This is important: think of trying to share a photograph of a public event, and having to track down people in the background, or create public awareness when you photograph politician committing a crime.

silence7 OP , 3 months ago to Technology in AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.

It's considered a civil dispute. You can sue to those using your face in an ad for monetary damages, which in practice means you're trying to sue an overseas shell corporation with no assets, and can't get anything, so no lawyer will represent you.

silence7 OP , 3 months ago to Technology in The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions

Yes, that's the hope. It's still more expensive than silicon cells. But this gives it a plausible path to commercial viability.

silence7 OP , 3 months ago to Technology in Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

On average, people junk cars at about 20 years. A few really do last longer, particularly if they're not driven daily.