I’ve spent my life writing science-fiction novels that try to convey some of the strangeness of the future. But I was still shocked by how much had changed, and how quickly.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlWealthy L.A. Schools' Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan's - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Indigenous Futurism idea: Native peoples returning to urbanized areas and helping the land reclaim them after settlers all die of a perfectly preventable pandemic. https://t.co/omCB8u0QBX
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the change that struck me seemed more abstract and internal. It was a change in the way we were looking at things, and it is still ongoing. The virus is rewriting our imaginations. What felt impossible has become thinkable. We’re getting a different sense of our place in history. We know we’re entering a new world, a new era. We seem to be learning our way into a new structure of feeling.
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The Anthropocene, the Great Acceleration, the age of climate change—whatever you want to call it, we’ve been out of synch with the biosphere, wasting our children’s hopes for a normal life, burning our ecological capital as if it were disposable income, wrecking our one and only home in ways that soon will be beyond our descendants’ ability to repair. And yet we’ve been acting as though it were 2000, or 1990—as though the neoliberal arrangements built back then still made sense. We’ve been paralyzed, living in the world without feeling it.
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Wearing a mask won't stop facial recognition anymore - The coronavirus is prompting facial recognition companies to develop solutions for those with partially covered faces | Abacus - 0 views
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expanding this system to a wider group of people would be hard. When a population reaches a certain scale, the system is likely to encounter people with similar eyes.This might be why most commercial facial recognition systems that can identify masked faces seem limited to small-scale applications
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Many residential communities, especially in areas hit hardest by the virus, have been limiting entry to residents only. Minivision introduced the new algorithm to its facial recognition gate lock systems in communities in Nanjing to quickly recognize residents without the need to take off masks.
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SenseTime, which announced the rollout of its face mask-busting tech last week, explained that its algorithm is designed to read 240 facial feature key points around the eyes, mouth and nose. It can make a match using just the parts of the face that are visible.
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Elise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski - The Brooklyn Rail - 0 views
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During the entire history of America, the US has not been at war for 17 years. That's incredible, mainly because if you talk to people who maybe aren't that much that interested in history, they would say, “That’s crazy. What are you talking about? There’s no war.”
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Our relationship with war and how our country functions in the world is so warped and twisted. Every time the word “war” is introduced into the cultural discourse, you know that it is already corrupted. That's why it’s paired here with “back to normal,” because it's another combination of phrases that stood out…Everybody keeps talking about things getting back to normal. Then the pronouncements that this is a war and we’re fighting an invisible enemy. It just seems so disturbing really because what that means is that we're about to start doing things that are ethically questionable. To me, what was happening is that the pronouncement was made so that anything goes, and there's no culpability, nobody will be held responsible for making any decisions whatsoever because it was war and things had to be done.
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if I think about how “war” has been used strategically in this context of COVID-19, it doesn’t feel like rhetoric that was raised to be alarmist, but almost to be comforting. That this is a familiar experience. We have a handle on it. We are attacking it like a war. War is our normal.
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