I WISH some dude making a 6 figure sponsored my art

This also goes for so many other places in the world. Think of the worst, shittiest, most "dangerous" place you can think of, and people still manage to LIVE there, not just survive.

I have a non-small number of friends who have lived internationally, most will say the same.

Update on the VISA situation. More calls and email botting are needed.

This is pretty cool

UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum | Human Rights Watch

"The United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge. The asylum minister, Angela Eagle, said that the decision was because this experimental technology is likely to be the cheapest option.

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AI face scans were never designed for children seeking asylum, and risk producing disastrous, life-changing errors. Algorithms identify patterns in the distance between nostrils and the texture of skin; they cannot account for children who have aged prematurely from trauma and violence. They cannot grasp how malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and exposure to salt water during a dangerous sea crossing might profoundly alter a child’s face.

These AI systems’ inability to explain or reproduce results further erodes a child’s right to redress and remedy following wrongful assessment, while creating new privacy and non-discrimination risks.

The UK government has repeatedly and illegally subjected children seeking asylum to abusive conditions by wrongly classifying them as adults."