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Frédéric Jacobs
Frédéric Jacobs
@fj@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/114024334222739130

Think of the folks at Palantir who built this.
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

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JesseBot
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@jessebot@social.smallhack.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@fj Could you please add alt text to this image? There are blind and low vision users that rely on this to understand what a post is. Right now, a screenreader will just show this as "image" with no explanation of what it is.

Here's some alt text you can use:

A photo of person person of color in their car being scanned with a phone app to analyze his face via a facial recognition app that says "searching face".

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Frédéric Jacobs
Frédéric Jacobs
@fj@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@jessebot thank you for the very descriptive alt text which I adopted! Posted it a bit too quickly 😔

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Calentura
Calentura
@Calentura@mastodontech.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The german administration and police can‘t wait to use it.

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Omnivore
Omnivore
@Ralph@hear-me.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj

ALT TEXT:

A gloved hand holds a smart phone showing the face of a man in a car.

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EndicottRoad59
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@EndicottAuthor@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj Racial profiling.

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Gyroplast
Gyroplast
@Gyroplast@furry.engineer replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj
There's a lovely German word for such people: Schreibtischtäter.

A bit tricky to pronounce to integrate it into everyday modern American English, but seeing the need for succinct call-outs rising, please consider establishing it as a new loan word.

There's more what that came from, too!

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Bradley M. Kühn
Bradley M. Kühn
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj

Thanks for mentioning _IBM & the Holocaust_ earlier this year & again. I've mentioned that book in talks for years — not just for its content, but for the meta-issue: #IBM's (relatively successful) PR campaigns to keep the book & its research marginalized.

>20 years later, $PLTR does not even *need* to use PR to discredit those documenting Karp's willingness to do evil with code (if the price is right). It's just widely considered standard operating procedure in Big Tech. 😩

Cc: @cwebber

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Anthony David
Anthony David
@adavid@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj

I was about to mention IBM, then I scrolled down. History is certainly rhyming 😢

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Atrapado🌴🍫
Atrapado🌴🍫
@oatrapado@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj

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swggrkllr3rd
swggrkllr3rd
@swggrkllr3rd@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj Not just palantir, Silicon Walley oligarchs in general. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214229728-owned

Goodreads

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Lo…

 A “devastating” (Nation) examination of how a cabal of…
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Rupert V/
Rupert V/
@rupert@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj [Peter Griffin skin color chart.jpg]

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Wilfried Klaebe
Wilfried Klaebe
@wonka@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@fj I guess at least some of them would not see the problem at gunpoint.

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