"And remember, kids: companies aren't our friends" (EN: English)

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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."

TIL that the reason we know how much water is in a human body is because in WWII, Japan would take POWs, weigh them, then bake them alive until the corpse had no moisture left, then weigh the remains. [source, comments]

Good Idea: #Unplugust

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/to-be-happier-take-a-vacation-from-your-smartphone/

From Tomorrow until the end of August, the ministry will go dark.
Please react to this message with a 👍 if you will try
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Rules?
No scrolling, no screen games, no youtube, no netflix, no AI

FAQ:
What about messengers?
Yes to communicate, not to have your friend send you memes.

What about work?
Tutorials, and AI for work sure, but no bored Hacker-News scrolling or alike

Song of the Day 2️⃣➕️😊: https://youtu.be/2NnSF3XnvXM?feature=shared

Digital detox or #Unplugust however you wanna call it, I'm trying to take a break from my most time consuming apps (like TG, Insta, bluesky and others) on my smartphone this month. I might post something here and there if I find it relevant. But the overall amount will be significantly reduced. So...thanks for all the fish. ✊🏾👋🏽❤️

Song of the Day 🌊😵: https://youtu.be/-u7UDXYVhUc

Song of the Day 🕊🔫: https://youtu.be/lg_PmZ2S_3Y

Song of the Day 💣💀🏚: https://youtu.be/ldH9EyOf7Xk

"From inception, the engines—“the principles on which all modern computing machines are based”2—were envisioned as tools for automating and disciplining labor. Their architectures directly encoded economist Adam Smith’s theories of labor division and borrowed core functionality from technologies of labor control already in use. The engines were themselves tools for labor control, automating and disciplining not manual but mental labor.3 Babbage didn’t invent the theories that shaped his engines, nor did Smith. They were prefigured on the plantation, developed first as technologies to control enslaved people."

I first listened to this Dimmu Borgir album on my discman. I was marching for more than 30 kilometres through the forest at night already. The combat pack weighed heavily. We were still a few kilometers from the barracks. As we left the forest and walked through a clearing, the beginning of this song rang out. You could see the dawn in the sky. For a split second, it felt like the entire weight of the world fell away from me.
Never in my entire time in the army did a song seem more fitting than this one at that moment.
Song of the Day 😵🔥: https://youtu.be/c-GCs8ee5bU?feature=shared