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Stainless Steel Rats

“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”

― Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat

The latest version of the MapQuest App has a layer that will show the locations of various smart surveillance cameras. It's good to see the occasional tech company remember Silicon Valley's old subversive roots. (The latest version finally supports Android Auto, too.)

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AI Tab Clearing...

• An AI-powered recognition tool called Raven lets the cops pick an address from interior photos found on AirBnB and Zillow.


• AI-powered robots roam the aisles in LA grocery stores, scanning the shelves and automating inventory. Employees are worried. What do you want to bet that within a year or two the 'bots will also be loaded with facial recognition patterns of "known shoplifters"?


• AI researchers taking up smoking to virtue signal to each other their belief that AI will come up with the cure for cancer soon.

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Tab Clearing...

• Consumer price index continued its steady climb in September.


• Blue check? Nah, AI deepfake.


• Using your data to charge you more.

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Memes for the Middle of the Week!

Verklempt.

I realized I hadn't seen the smiling happy couple in their little Citroën 2CV all year. The last time I think I got a photo of them tooling by was sometime last summer (obviously the car being probably garaged for the winters, here north of the Ohio river in the land of road salt.)

One of my internet car friends who lives in the Netherlands commented on the front license plate and so I googled it on a whim and... Oh, my heart. Truly this man is the Final Boss of Wife Guys.

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