aspect-rei asked: This whole discussion makes me remember the private videos of Hitler and how they tend to make people uncomfortable because we've practically been taught to only see him as a monster.
Imagine basilisks specifically designed to crash these algorithms: abstract-blocks-of-black-and-white-for-heads that, like the QR codes of old, carry a hidden message in their patterning, only it’s a payload, a virus that shreds the system of anyone who tries to capture it on camera, the natural evolution of anti-face-detection camouflage. Imagine things that don’t even have faces, that don’t have an equivalent and easily-cataloguable part; people who deliberately wear mass-produced, identical android bodies, the Guy Fawkes masks of the future.
It’s a thing! Turns out, people would rather not look stupid than not be caught by facial recognition.
Somehow they look exactly like you would expect cyperpunk protagonists trying to avoid detection by facial recognition software to look.
This is exactly everything I expect futuristic cyberpunks to look, at least the faux-80′s idea of what the future would look like.
The idea is usually to try and break up or obscure the T that your eyes, nose and mouth make. And lets face it, if a computer can’t make a match, a human can still go over the tapes and go “Yes that’s a person” and do facial matching the old-fashioned way.
In fact, trying to obscure your face can and often does raise red flags (the general feeling among people outside of the “absolute privacy must be absolute” crowd is that you don’t go to THESE kinds of lengths unless you are hiding something). Sure, that’s profiling, but it’s profiling with a rational basis as opposed to a bigoted one.
Best way to have privacy in public is to blend in. Look unremarkable. Look unimportant. Don’t do anything rash, sudden, or illegal. If you want your privacy in public (which is, by definition, the least private place in the world), you have to look like the kind of guy who has nothing going on. Oh, and don’t be an A-list or B-list celebrity.
The lady on the bottom left would NOT be able to hide from facial detection. The T is unbroken and even helpfully highlighted.
I would just wear the guy fawkes mask when committing crimes.
rants on tumblr of people screaming “HOW DARE THEY HUMANIZE THESE SCUM!”
Newsflash: People who do scummy things are still human and in fact do scummy things for a reason, so maybe instead of calling them scum like they already know they are, maybe they NEED to be treated like human beings???
because apparently no one else fucking wants to, so why should they bother considering acting like one?
Aaaand this is why I want to be a criminal psychologist
To remind these branded ‘monsters’ that they are humans, and that there’s at least SOMEONE out there who’s willing to give a shit about why they’re doing what they’re doing.
I’m not so sure about Donald Trump…
Well ok not EVERYONE can be saved but politics and celebrities are a whole different league of psychological fuckery that I’d rather not touch
you have all these cartoons taking place over a single summer, which is apparently enough time to have countless adventures and to form strong new friendships, but i remember summer vacation never being longer than a mere six weeks
American summers are 3 months long. Long enough to have a few adventures but nothing too crazy.
Due to the evolution of bacteria with respect to our bodies natural defense mechanisms, traveling forward in time could kill you, and traveling back in time could kill everyone.
I never thought about this but it makes perfect sense.
Hypothesis: The level to which a fandom produces serious, dark, or gritty content is inversely proportional to the level of seriousness, darkness or grittiness of the source material.
This guy I was talking to was saying how women play sports just as well as men, and he said, “One time I was reffing a womens softball game, on the full moon, and -“
And I was like, ” Why does it matter that it was on the full moon?“
and he was like “Well, you know, the full moon… women on the full moon"
and i was like ‘I don’t get it'
and he was like “Periods"
and he thought all women just get their periods on the full moon and i just thought it was really funny that he confused women with werewolves.
