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A future sci-fi writers never could've imagined

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ZeroCool@vger.social⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Bozos

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    • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also akira.fandom.com/wiki/The_Clowns

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It seems that,

        1. The original OP did zero research
        2. Pondsmith is a prophet
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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Additionally: Los Payasos

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      • Brutticus@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shadowrun also has the halloweeners

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    • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Bozos

      They have been part of the core Cyberpunk TTRPG rulebook since the 1980’s.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also

      batman.fandom.com/wiki/Jokerz

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    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yo that’s actually pretty metal

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      • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also William Gibson wrote about foiling facial recognition with makeup over thirty years ago.

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    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also i think in Spook Country (but i’m not sure) he makes them use a t-shirt with an “ugly face” which is designed to disable facial recognition.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also Judge Dredd has clown folk who are essentially juggalos.

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  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some years ago, Pussy Riot put out information on how to use Makeup to confound face detection algorithms.

    On an unrelated note: This is probably going to be blocked in ML because I used the word “pussy”. I wonder why that instance has a problem with me mentioning that word. Could it be perhaps the name of a feminist anarchist group activity resisting domestic Russian oppression? No, I’m sure that’s a coincidence.

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    • problembasedperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it’s because there’s no sex in the USSR.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AFAIK .ml doesn’t automatically block comments containing slurs, they only automatically block slurs from being posted by their own users.

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      • Monstera@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it’s being rendered to us, let me test one that I know is on the filter:

        removed

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m on ML and can read your comment without a problem. Let’s see if I can type it.

      Pussy Riot

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      • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m surprised! Good to know, ty.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        says Pussy riot in the mirror 3 times as the clock strikes midnight

        nervously waits

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, .ml blocks all words potentially used as slurs so people don’t mention one band, lol

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      • joe_cool@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not true. Here is the regex doing the blocking: slur_filter_regex: lemmy.ml/api/v3/site

        It’s not exactly secret.

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Turns out animals’ camouflage including background matching, disruptive coloration, shadow elimination, counter shading, counter illumination and others are there to prevent optical recognition.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What we didn’t know was that Zebras evolved to defeat AI comera recognition.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’ll also need a silly walk to defeat gait recognition

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well that’s why they set up a ministry to manage the silly walks, to make sure they complied with gait recognition before they were used.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe the whole point of Monty Python was to sketch out ways that humans could behave that would confuse and hugely thrown off machine learning algorithms.

        Talk about “poisoning the well” with AI training, all you have to do is 65% make completely normal and rational intelligent choices and the other 35% be completely illogical and inscrutable. Any algorithm trained on you then, no matter how smart you are or how valuable your knowledge is, will be totally batshit crazy and unreliable. :)

        I would say maybe John Cleese is an alien trying to save us, but Cleese is a dick and I would hope Aliens were much more open minded than he is.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bonus: Also helps avoid detection by sandworms.

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      • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Walk without rhythm.

        It won’t attract the worm

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    • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure this could be negated with flowy clothing that contains adversarial patterns. At least for a while.

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Like a big, flowy skirt that has a bunch of legs all over it

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    • onion@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      livescience.com/heartbeat-laser-scan-pentagon.htm…

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  • cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I met a juggalo once and he was a racist Trump supporter who steal scrap metal from construction sites for meth money.

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    • ZeroCool@vger.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sucks. I worked with a few when I was younger and knew a couple others in high school too, and my experience was the opposite. They weren’t exactly Rhodes scholars lol, but they were open-minded, kind, and dependable colleagues. Juggalos have a reputation for being trashy, and it’s something they proudly embrace, but I’ve found them to be generally harmless. I think just about every fan base these days has to deal with its share of racist Trump supporters who steal scrap metal from construction sites for meth money…

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      • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My buddy and I were just talking about this. Juggalos get a lot of shit, but my experience is that they are one of the most accepting groups around. It doesn’t matter if you’re a PhD or are stealing copper out of abandoned houses, if you show up with some clown makeup and fire poi, juggalos are down to clown.

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      • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        all I know about juggalos is that magnet meme and this episode of tv

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unfortuantely, I think just about every fan base these days has to deal with its share of racist Trump supporters who steal scrap metal from construction sites for meth money…

        If you live in the US (or UK) you live in a collapsing society being suffocated and held in place by neoliberal austerity politics that purposefully shuts down the possibility of any genuine systematic reform that isn’t in the direction of fascism.

        In that environment people are going to resort to taking meth and stealing scrap to survive, as society is literally trying to kill them and there is no rational hope to be found for things to change. Are these people druggies, are they sketchy? Are some of them maga heads? Yes, but I think it is important to always recognize the conditions that lead desperate people to act in desperate ways when we discuss the repulsiveness of said desperate acts of non-violent crime.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Chiming in with another juggalo friend who was an incredibly good hearted person. Ended up going to jail for “assaulting an officer” by trying to pull a cop off of someone during the George Floyd protests. I lost touch after that.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        sigh meanwhile the cop has still got a cushy job and probably goes home every night to get drunk and hit their spouse because that is statistically as far as we can tell what 25-45% of cops do based on difficult to predict statistics that rely on cops snitching on their own illegal behavior (so logically it is probably much higher as hard as that is to wrap your head around).

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  • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    I don’t think so.

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    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not doing facial recognition though, that’s a reverse image lookup. It’s a lot easier to find an exact match for a photo.

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      • ZeroCool@vger.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shhhh they think they’ve outsmarted the shitpost. Let’s just let ‘em have this one. They could probably use the win.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exploitable

      Replace top clown with normal person to show it finding that Juggalo

      (Apparently that’s Violent J, next to his buddy… Shaggy 2 Dope)

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I presume the facial recognition would be trying to match against faces without the makeup.

      If you always use the same makeup pattern, then I guess it can latch onto that like anything else, if trained to do so.

      Also note that facial recognition tries to break down a face into discrete “pieces” so it can match a face in profile against the same face from the front. In your example the image is visually similar because they are both exactly the same angle, no ‘facial recognition’ involved. If it can’t figure out what a cheekbone is, what a nose is, generally what a ‘face’ is, then that would count as fouling the facial recognition because it would be unable to use a reference facial database.

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  • Yggnar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean it’s close. The Cyberpunk ttrpg was released in '88 and ICP’s first album dropped in '89.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To some degree or another, all of them were insane, with about a third of them firmly in the grip of cyberpsychosis.

      Wow! So, they really are an insane clown posse.

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  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As an enjoyer of most of icp, this makes me laugh.

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    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      YO WERE MY DARK CARNIVAL INVERTEBROTHERS AT

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    • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      MWCL

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      • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        MMWCL!

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  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bring back the Juggalos! I’ve been saying it for years. We need them now more than ever.

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    • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s nice being able to see people talk about icp like this thread without being nasty about it tbh

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      • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not a fan of the music, but I’d rather be surrounded by authentically deranged weirdos than an endless sea of yuppies.

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      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Love the worst band in the world, fam.

        If nothing else, they’re an inspiration for just doing your own thing artistically. Fuck the critics, just make some shit you’re passionate about, make it available to find its audience, and connect/bring in other folks who want to do the same.

        IMO, they created/solidifed an entire genre of music, and some of it’s better than what they put out (for example,I like Twiztid more - but they wouldn’t be what they are if it wasn’t for ICP and Psychopathic Records)

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They never left…

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      • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Around where I am you don’t see them much anymore. I think between the Fentanyl and the COVID they got hit hard.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Incoming novel featuring Dazzle camo face paint

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      goddamn you, i was going to make a joke about this, now i’m legally required to be mad at you for it!

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    • pkmkdz@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Abracadabra boom shacka dae I’m Violent J, and I’m back like a vertebrae

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    • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      vertebra is the singular form of vertebrae

      which does not rhyme with day but rather dee or die

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  • don@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh, the tweet the article referenced is five years old, I wonder if there’s been any advancement in facial recognition in that regard

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    • hellfire103@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Last I heard, the CCP did a bit of social engineering and got a load of TikTokkers to post videos in juggalo makeup in order to retrain their facial recognition software.

      I don’t recall if it was successful, but it happened.

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WE’VE GOT A THEORY

    ABOUT MAGIC

    AND MIRACLES

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Machine can never take our Fago. Woop woop.

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  • Beanedwizard@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll pass. Violent J is a huge nonce

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly other than just extrapolating out what technologies will facilitate the rise of dystopias (while being weirdly obsessed with the aesthetics of dystopias to the point of it being dysfunctional to the objectives of the narrative and fiction) what have sci-fi writers actually meaningfully imagined about the future in the western canon?

    For all the mountains and mountains of sci-fi books and tv shows written I am not sure there is actually much to show for it except endless descriptions of how colonization, war and authoritarian power will be facilitated by future technologies (in a way that superficially claims to be subversive but is really just technology porn politics be damned).

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    • onion@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you checked out Stanislaw Lem? Solaris is pretty interesting

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Batman Beyond knew.

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  • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fucking magnets. How do they work?

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s how the Juggernaut collective started

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate this so much.

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  • Sorgan71@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reverse transmission had this

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No I can’t unsee Henry Rollins with Juggalo makeup in Johnny Mnemonic

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  • egeres@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The closes to this I can remember rn was the movie oblivion, where humans used masks to distort their voice? Not sure about the logic behind that, pretty sweet visuals tho, the UI design was sick

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