Over 100 bands and musicians boycott arenas and venues that use facial recognition tech!

YES! YES! YES!

My favorite quotes from the article was the line that it was "morally corrupt"!!!

Bands include Rage Against The Machine and Boots Riley!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/07/02/0140223/100-bands-including-ratm-boycott-venues-using-facial-recognition-technology

FYI, Rolling Stone is really pushing for subscribers and has a limit on how many articles that you can view free. To bypass this, open a Private Browser Window and copy/paste the URL into it.

Tacoma TB Tammy consents to home treatment, released from jail

She spent 22 days in jail in a negative pressure room and will now go home and supposedly be treated. She is required to allow health workers and law enforcement into her house, the former to witness her taking her meds. I have no idea if this is a daily dose.

She's not allowed to travel except for medical visits, and the health department will arrange transport for those. Anything else, and she's likely to end up in jail again.

Gee, her going back to jail - what are the odds of that happening? Aside from an almost certainty.

The one thing the article did not address was whether she began treatment while being held.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/06/woman-who-went-on-the-lam-with-untreated-tb-is-now-out-of-the-slammer/

Google says: All your words are belong to us

Over the weekend Google updated their Terms of Service to say that they'll scrape everything they can see online and use it to train their AI systems.

From the article: "...the company reserves the right to scrape just about everything you post online to build its AI tools. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot."

Now, there's something very important here. Google is not talking about words that you've posted on Google servers, like Gmail or Spaces or whatever. They're talking the ENTIRE World Wide Web. Facebook. Restaurant reviews. Blogs. Etc. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.

And it wouldn't surprise me in the least if they ignored robots.txt block lists. Odds are the only thing that'd keep them out is passworded areas, and they know some ways around those.

Remember when Google announced that their corporate motto was "Don't be evil"? How I laughed at that! Didn't people realize that it was a hipster ironic statement? There was an unprinted subtext that followed: "... as long as it doesn't get in the way of us making a bazillion dollars and ruling the universe."

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486