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Real estate agents say listings asking for pre-IPO shares as payment are dubiously legal and "definitely a marketing ploy."
An hour before she was scheduled to appear in court, Wynd Kaufmyn and other Stop AI activists held a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where they discussed the trial, Guido Reichstadter's aborted hunger strike, and the disappearance of former Stop AI member Sam Kirchner.
The effort to save Market Match comes at a tense time for those working in food security: CalFresh is facing the largest funding cut in the program’s history, impacting 665,000 Californians beginning in June alone.
‘You can’t just say, I’ll sell my house for a thousand almonds, or, in this case, a thousand shares of OpenAI or Anthropic’
Market operators, food security advocates, and state legislators are scrambling to secure funding for the nutrition program that benefits 674,000 statewide
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SCOOP: Former employees at Mercor describe the hostile, litigious, "ridiculously stress-inducing" culture inside the $10B human data startup.
✍️: @cydhayes.bsky.social
At least nine bars in the Castro are collecting their customers' personal data with ID and facial scanners from Patronscan, a Canadian tech company that's been the subject of several privacy disputes since 2020.
Watching Elon Musk clench his jaw on the stand earlier this month, courtroom artist Lance Jackson couldn't help but think about cadavers.
“There’s this bank of muscles there around the lips that I found I could pull back,” Jackson said of capturing the tension in Musk’s face. "I think I got it."
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Former staffers offer a look inside the human data startup, where the hours are brutal, employees say they’re getting stiffed, and the CEO is a 23-year-old billionaire who wants to be Elon Musk
A handful of neighborhood bars have installed facial recognition devices that collect and share customers’ names, addresses, genders, and indiscretions with each other
Three trial veterans describe their approaches to depicting the rich and infamous during the Musk v. Altman trial
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Alex
The technology is bad .. the underpinning is the problem
The belief that because you “represent” a you don’t have to interrogate the hierarchy you use to engage has LONG been a problem
And the right is exploiting it.
And until that’s fixed we gone be here now .
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At least 3 gay bars in the historic LGBTQ+ district in San Francisco are using face scan tech, often without patrons knowing.
This data collection, especially as Trump admin are pushing to generate ‘lists’ of trans people, is highly dangerous.
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Several bars in the Castro are now using facial recognition technology that records a person's name, address, and even their gender.
