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CEO of Creepy Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says He Has First Amendment Right to Billions of Photos Clearview

CEO of Creepy Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says He Has First Amendment Right to Billions of Photos

Hoan Ton-That, the CEO and founder of a face recognition company that he freely admits could help lead to a surveillance nightmare and a dystopian future or something, says he has a First Amendment right to scrape whatever images he damn well pleases off publ…
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February 5, 2020
Trump snubs Nancy Pelosi’s handshake offer at the State of the Union Nancy Pelosi

Trump snubs Nancy Pelosi’s handshake offer at the State of the Union

President Donald Trump appears to snub Nancy Pelosi's handshake offer on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Image: C-SPAn  By Tim Marcin2020-02-05 02:36:26 UTC President Donald Trump snubbed a handshake offer from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who extended her hand to the commander-in-chief as he prepared to deliver his State…
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February 5, 2020
Film News Roundup: Woody Harrelson Starring in Satire ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Food Industry

Film News Roundup: Woody Harrelson Starring in Satire ‘Triangle of Sadness’

February 4, 2020 6:13PM PT In today’s film news roundup, Woody Harrelson will star in a satire, Kaitlyn Dever will be honored, and the docs “Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band” and “Before the Plate” find distribution. CASTINGS Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean have signed to star in…
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February 5, 2020
Madonna Offers Her NYC Apartment to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: ‘Don’t Run Off to Canada’ The Queen

Madonna Offers Her NYC Apartment to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: ‘Don’t Run Off to Canada’

Madonna‘s door is always open for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. On Tuesday, the “Material Girl” singer, 61, offered her New York City apartment to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to rent out. Sharing a video of herself talking about the royal couple — who announced their decision to step back as…
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February 5, 2020
Twitter announces new policy to label or ban ‘synthetic and manipulated media’ Giphy

Twitter announces new policy to label or ban ‘synthetic and manipulated media’

Twitter has announced a new policy on manipulated and synthetic media, a category that includes a wide range of content such as deepfake video and other deceptively edited content. The new policy will ban faked media that could pose “serious harm.” As reported by The Verge, Twitter’s focus is on…
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February 5, 2020
Make America Affordable Again Feudalism

Make America Affordable Again

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has asked for comments on eliminating regulatory barriers to affordable housing. This is my response. Fifty years ago, housing was affordable everywhere in the country. The 1970 census found that the statewide ratio of median home prices to median family incomes was greater…
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February 5, 2020