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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3h

I wonder if I can claim a Moflin for work purposes? Eg. It’s a non-verbal interactive tool for engaging with clients www.casio.com/us/moflin/pr...

www.casio.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3h

The other version of this prank I’ve seen recently is the “hot plumber here to fix the pipes/cut the lawn/fix the thing a husband promised to fix and didn’t”. And usurped male partners raging and sometimes threatening violence. It’s gonna end in murder

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

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The premise is simple enough: kids use Snapchat’s AI tools to create images of a grimy man in their home and tell their parents they let them in to use the bathroom, take a nap, or just get a drink of water. Often they say the person claims to know the parents from work or college. And then, predictably, the parents lose their cool and demand they kick the man out. The kids, of course, record the whole thing, and post their parents reactions to TikTok, where some of the clips have millions of views.

Where things go from problematic to potentially dangerous is when the prank carries on for too long and parents call the authorities. Calls of a home invasion, especially involving children are treated as high priority by police, so pranks like this tie up valuable resources and could actually put the pranksters in danger. Round Rock Police Patrol Division Commander Andy McKinney told NBC that it could even “cause a SWAT response.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

Who had “self-swatting” on their dystopia bingo card.

Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank

The AI #homelessmanprank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement.

www.theverge.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 6h

Travel is about to become part of the digital mass surveillance apparatus: predictive, automated risk assessments, iris and face recognition, automation that substitutes “human discretion” with “smart and consistent analysis”.

Automated fortresses everywhere

www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

Malaysia to roll out new system to track visitors, including airline passenger information screening

This comes on the back of various arrests linked with counter-setting activities at its borders. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 7h

www.instagram.com/reel/DJopB7X...

research_goes_slowly on Instagram: "Pretty little viruses,I'm in love with you...#virus #pandemic #research #joking #science #stem Thanks to my dear @alba_alaris @elsa…"

Pretty little viruses,I'm in love with you...#virus #pandemic #research #joking #science #stem Thanks to my dear @alba_alaris @elsatusqx for supporting my research...

www.instagram.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 7h

I do not want my dumb pun-riddled texts with my hot Swedish husband or stupid pet photos scanned by some nefarious AI to unclear purposes. As the husband said, the EU might as well open up all our personal mail and read it. No, thank you.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 7h

It's especially important for residents of Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Latvia to contact their MEPs because these countries are undecided. fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7h

it's broken containment people who have no idea who I am and no interest in reading the second, clarifying post in this thread which literally says "fuck no" are arguing with me without clicking, this is my life now, I can blame the subs but In the structure of this thread I did this to myself

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8h

Do not give him ideas…

Actually that’s not a terrible idea. He could meet his nanna at Bairnsdale and travel with her to Lakes Entrance

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 8h

Ovens River - runs through Wangaratta and all the way up to Bright where Kid cycled today

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9h

Just fed him a heap of carbs and sugar and protein plus electrolytes and magnesium

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9h

The “Dezi was here!” graffiti is on the Alpine rail trail at Everton and Eurobin

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe. He just asked if there’s something other than fruit he could have for dessert - I don’t tend to keep sugary food in the house, so I just did a drive through a fast food outlet to buy ice cream and apple pies

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 9h

A few photos from Kid’s bike ride today

Graffiti on a bike shelter: “Dezi was here!”

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran Mamdani hops on a Citi Bike and a woman heckles him, shouting “communist!” He responds, “That’s cyclist”