“In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other student behind the project, use the glasses to identify several classmates, their addresses, and names of relatives in real time. Perhaps more chilling, Nguyen and Ardayfio are also shown chatting up complete strangers on public transit, pretending as if they know them based on information gleaned from the tech.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy
So how can I be certain this is really me posting this link?
Memorial service for my mother-in-law
Oops: “The vulnerability abused long-term conversation memory, a feature OpenAI began testing in February and made more broadly available in September. Memory with ChatGPT stores information from previous conversations and uses it as context in all future conversations. That way, the LLM can be aware of details such as a user’s age, gender, philosophical beliefs, and pretty much anything else, so those details don’t have to be inputted during each conversation.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." — Leo Tolstoy “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Michael Connelly’s short story “Christmas Even” tells the backstory of how Detective Harry Bosch came to know jazz musician Ray McKinzie, aka “Sugar Ray McK”. Bosch saw him in a USO performance on a hospital ship after Bosch was wounded in a tunnel exploration assignment. As a detective he’s able to reconnect with Sugar Ray as part of a case in which the musician’s property is recovered. As we listened I worked with MS Co-Pilot to generate an image of the scene, then manipulated it with filters in an app called BrushStroke, and did some cleanup in Affinity Photo. Is it art? I don’t know but I know that I like it. I also found a sax tune with the title The Sweet Spot, which is the song McK played in Bosch’s reminiscence. Since McK was supposed to be an Art Pepper sideman this tune is a little smooth and is played on soprano clarinet (McK blew alto) but I like it, too. #bosch, #jazz, #digitalart https://open.spotify.com/track/3JE96y9Cxf7VMubLSQQK9h 
Another one bites the dust…
Interesting notion. It would have to be October 1st and it will still look awfully desperate and phony https://www.dossier.today/p/october-surprise-what-is-stopping
Lynda Carter image manipulated with BrushStroke. Image source https://www.tumblr.com/celebrity-erotictriggers/761542166159015936/lynda-carter no original artist info given. 
Lynda Carter Triptych made with BrushStroke and Affinity Photo. Image source https://www.tumblr.com/celebrity-erotictriggers/761542166159015936/lynda-carter no original artist info given. 
Stoic Mental Health Counseling? That’s intriguing. Thanks for the follow!
At what point does the chatbot put the cage of rats on your face? #brainwashing #orwellian https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/12/1103930/chatbots-can-persuade-people-to-stop-believing-in-conspiracy-theories/
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You might like the Open Culture newsletter. I do. Here’s an example of its content: https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/david-bowies-songs-reimagined-as-pulp-fiction-book-covers.html
Hi, I’m a septuagenarian who’s been online since the 1990’s. I like to noodle with image creation and manipulation, and a bit with music as well. I’m currently learning to do so with AI. I consider myself to be a Libertarian. I heard about Nostr from a Reason.com article and decided to take it for a spin.
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