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digitalantfarmon Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network

Pretty sure this is satire. Pretty sure there are no "good intentions" here.

digitalantfarmon Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?

I hear so many people talking about this like there's literally no way about going around these issues.

Is it that unimaginable to use an alternative search engine like DuckDuck go? To use tor? To use a VPN? To disable javascript? To block ads? To put some IPs in your /etc/hosts? To use OpenOffice instead of Google Docs and MS Office? To use Proton Mail instead of Gmail?

These products even have nice user interfaces these days! Privacy isn't that hard. These companies offer a service for free (mostly). If you can't do it, I think it's mostly because you just don't care.

digitalantfarmon Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook

I'm 99% sure there's no way anyone would vote for him, regardless of anything.

digitalantfarmon Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous

That's the stuff of nightmares right there.

digitalantfarmon Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud

Guys, we're talking about some serious meme potential here.

digitalantfarmon Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

Reddit used to be a place where you could post links to anything on the internet (kind of like this place) and comment on it (without signing up with your email). Now it's place more like Facebook with algorithms based on your personal taste, geolocation, forced email, shadow banning, banning of politically incorrect subreddits, endless political posts and "Futurology" and "Uplifting" news articles. Free speech on reddit died a long time ago.