#Tech Invasion

[familythings]

The Robot Watchdog: Is This the End of the Human-Robot Bond?

In a world where technology is advancing at lightning speed, it’s no surprise that robots are being integrated into nearly every aspect of our lives—especially the workplace. Some companies are taking things to a whole new level by employing robots to keep track of employees’ working time. These robots don’t just check in on how long you’re at your desk. They also monitor your productivity.…

[nando161mando]

The lib stasi is monitoring those with ''negative'' views of health insurance companies

[mudwerks]

(via Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | Ars Technica)

Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting facial-recognition data without their consent.

The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe," displayed after the machine failed to launch a facial recognition application that nobody expected to be part of the process of using a vending machine.

"Hey, so why do the stupid M&M machines have facial recognition?" SquidKid47 pondered.

The Reddit post sparked an investigation from a fourth-year student named River Stanley, who was writing for a university publication called MathNEWS.

Stanley sounded alarm after consulting Invenda sales brochures that promised "the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders" of every person who used the machines without ever requesting consent.

This frustrated Stanley, who discovered that Canada's privacy commissioner had years ago investigated a shopping mall operator called Cadillac Fairview after discovering some of the malls' informational kiosks were secretly "using facial recognition software on unsuspecting patrons."

Only because of that official investigation did Canadians learn that "over 5 million nonconsenting Canadians" were scanned into Cadillac Fairview's database, Stanley reported. Where Cadillac Fairview was ultimately forced to delete the entire database, Stanley wrote that consequences for collecting similarly sensitive facial recognition data without consent for Invenda clients like Mars remain unclear.

Stanley's report ended with a call for students to demand that the university "bar facial recognition vending machines from campus."

what the motherfuck

[techbonnie]

Every move I make my spine cracks like a popper, but its done!

inspired by the Drawfee Episode where they drew OTPs and that one person like drew a whole 15 panels on their OTP, about half way through I wanted to start drawing backgrounds and only some of them are shaded.

But please enjoy. I'm gonna go to bed.

[prince--esque]

Hot tip of the day! You can cook Vex Seekers like shrimp. Dont worry about the tingly sensations from the radiolaria, it just adds that extra kick to it.

[ellisnyeland]

writeblr intro

I'm Ellis Nye, and I'm a sci-fi and fantasy writer, with occasional elements of historical fiction, horror, and romance. Right now, I'm focusing on short stories.

Three of my short stories have been published:

Shelf-stable: "In a transitional post-post-apocalypse, Ada dreads the arrival of the witch who regularly visits her town." You can buy the issue of Solarpunk Magazine (@solarpunkmagazine on here) that it appears in here. You can see my posts about this short story here.

The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest: "A story about love and community in the midst of an apocalypse of planned obsolescence, framed as an obituary." You can go to this page to buy the entire issue, read the story for free here, or listen to it for free here. You can see my posts about this short story here. There's also a brief review at Reactor (WHAT!?) here, and one from Tar Vol here.

Invasibility: "Wouldn't it be funny if someone was out killing invasive plants in the woods and a space alien rocked up and asked what they were doing?" You can find it here if you're a Worlds of Possibility Patreon supporter, and you can buy the issue here without being a supporter. You can see my posts about this short story here.

(For whatever reason, my published short stories lean more towards the lighthearted/uplifting end of what I write. This is going to make the eventual publication of some of my other stuff really funny.)

I write:

Retellings--mythology, fairy tales, folklore, ballads, classic lit, and more

Small, quiet stories happening in the middle of the action

Dialogue-heavy stories

"Found fiction" (Archive of the Odd introduced me to this term and I love it!)

Disabled characters

Queer characters

Stuff that I hope makes you go "wait that was kind of fucked up" half an hour after reading it

Stuff that makes me cry

Stories that did, actually, come to me in a dream

Gross stuff

I'm very into worldbuilding, but my current focus on short stories tends to limit me there somewhat. I do plan to go back to writing novels, with an eventual focus on getting published, but that's not in the cards right now.

I have a tag for each story I post about, for example "story: deadname" or "story: in perfect light".

I also have a Bluesky with this same username.

[kply-industries]

OH GOD THERE'S TOO MANY OFF THEM

[wemlygust]

Locations of Secret Passage

Behind Waterfall

Behind grandfather clock

Behind office bookshelf that is full of leatherbound tomes (probably with unmarked or inscrutable spines that disguise the content entirely). This type of passage is opened by pulling a particular book or 3 out because it is secretly a lever. This probably involves gingerly hooking the top of the spine and tilting it out to a 45 degree angle.

Behind big painting

Through some random leafy foliage (outdoors only). You push the branches aside and this will reveal a dramatic vista.

in big walk-in wardrobe, behind clothes.

trapdoor in outdoor location concealed only by a thin layer of dirt and *maybe* also a rock

trapdoor under a rug

behind stone brick wall. Opened by tugging a candle wall sconce down to a 45 degree angle.

elevator goes to secret extra floor(s)

in ancient sandy tomb, behind wall, probably opened by solving a puzzle. Probably haunted by orientalist music and visual design choices that disregard all real context re. any particular culture and geography and art and musical traditions.

in your closet

behind or through mirror

in some random cave after solving a puzzle involving mysterious symbols or drawings and probably a map Honorary Mention: through shadows or puddles or portals or temporary not-usually-there door in wall or strange twisted liminal spaces/reality warping paths (only works with magic, often only for a particular ppractitioner and those they choose to bring with them, and therefore perhaps does not count as a secret passage. A true secret passage must be for all, if you can find it.)

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The experience is traumatic, but after a period of readjustment – "Right after the Invasion, if you didn't pay your air tax, you could be shown to the airlock without your suit", as the protagonist Hildy Johnson recalls in "Steel Beach" (1992) – the Moon, the largest of the colonies, becomes a post-modern

A smooth light of inconsistencies; a single Moon of many stories.

high-tech utopia, a pastiche of real and imagined pasts in which history no longer has a direction, the design of entirely new non-binary forms of genitalia is a reputable industry and tabloids provide regular news of the risen Elvis.

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

[meatriarchived2]

okay random thought bc im watching one of those like home i.nvasion cctv footage videos while eating dinner but like. trying to imagine tcsm occurring in a modern era of home security cameras etc being more easily accessible does make the entire idea of johnny being able to see easily break in & kill alot more difficult but really what im thinking about is just.

how downright fucking terrifying and vulnerable it'd make maria feel if she had a system set up in her apartment ( likely put in by danilo, he'd insist and do it whether she wanted them or not honestly ) and then started noticed small changes around the place - things getting moved just slightly. the lingering smell of unknown cologne. faint boottrails across the floor. juniper staring so intently at the front door, the hallway closet even - despite there being nothing there when maria checks it out. all to eventually peek at the footage and seeing an unknown man in her apartment, at all hours-

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[grassbreads]

Was the bravest woman in the whole wide world today (had to do tech support troubleshooting for customers at work while my intestines were actively trying to kill each other)

[obiwan]

what do you for a job?

gifs. staff pays me a generous salary, and I get a premium if it trends <3

[mowu-moment]

Mob Rule: Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree

My name is Mowu, and if there's one thing I hate as much as I hate rules, it's cards. What do you mean someone can play a card and mess with my stuff? We can't let them have any of those, and this hole in the sky that opened up behind me seems to agree. Welcome back to Mob Rule, a blogpost/article series about Rule Zero commanders, a unique(ly bad) deck tech around them, and what legendary creatures to substitute for them if the lawmages get too much on our backs.

Turning of the Handle

Since we've yet to have a colorless Praetor, there are three parts to Realmbreaker we get to focus on: mill, lands, and abilities. Mill is fairly straighforward: put cards in the graveyard. Colorless affords few great options, but enough good ones: Sands of Delirium, Whetstone, and Keening Stone all capitalize on our oodles of mana, while Ghoulcaller's Bell, Altar of the Brood, and Codex Shredder come down early to help our commander get rolling.

Spinning of the Grave

Mill goes hand in hand with graveyard synergies, and similarly has a few good pickings for colorless. A sampling of reanimation with Grimoire of the Dead and Portal to Phyrexia, a taste of big creatures with Bonehoard and Unlicensed Hearse, and a few funnier things like Myr Welder and Dermotaxi. While Realmbreaker takes its share of the lands, these cards pick up the creatures and artifacts that get milled in the process, so nothing is wasted.

Reaping of the Sown

Lands are harder to find additional synergy with, the only standout cards being Blackblade Reforged and Seer's Sundial. However, there are replacements for Realmbreaker should our tree be chopped down: Canoptek Scarab Swarm bombs a graveyard in exchange for a board full of tokens, Mirran Safehouse (ironic, I know) gives us the much of same potential outright taking the lands does, and worst comes to worst, we can twiddle our own thumbs with a Crucible of Worlds (along with a good package of sac-lands).

Spreading of the Tree

The greatest thing about ability copying, like the new Abstruse Archaic, is that it not only applies to our commander, but anything that might come attached to the realms we break (except mana abilities, but things like Inventor's Fair or Maze of Ith are still welcome). We also run some untappers like Voltaic Servant and Manifold Key to spread our infection a few more times each turn.

Staying of the Hand

We're a mill deck, so combat is nowhere near a focus, but we still need a solid package of creatures for the Vehicles and Equipment that we need for the strategy. To make some use of them, we're either taking creature-based removal, like Bladegriff Prototype and Steel Hellkite, or anything that can slow the board down, like Silent Arbiter and Rug of Smothering. If one had the budget, they could opt for a graveyard shuffler like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, as a failsafe if they mill themselves too much, but we won't do that today.

Replacing of the Commander

This time around, there are very few options for proper commanders as a whole, much less ones that can do anything for the strategy. There are two self-shufflers we could choose, but they won't do much from the command zone. If you want to make a point to your playgroup, I'd go for Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, as his exile ability resembles mill if you squint, and can make decking an opponent a viable strategy. If they're scared, Hope of Ghirapur works as a board-staller as well as a good body to hold Equipment (even if there's only four).

The full decklist can be found at https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/mob-rule-first-i-break-your-realms/ .

[mayra-quijotescx]

"'printer from 2004' 'loaded gun'"

That rather incriminating-looking duckduckgo search actually IS my villain origin story, in a way, because I was in a very particular mood about tech bro bullshit today and went looking for an image that encapsulated that mood.

The image is a screenshot that goes like this: "Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers/Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise."

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