again you can see that Gavin Newsom is trying to be more of a centrist, which I define as trying to be a Republican without going all the way.

Well, according to MIT Technology Review, there is a new technology that police might be using soon that doesn't use facial recognition but it can still recognize people. So without, because there's a controversy about using facial recognition, it's too intrusive. But apparently they can now, there's a technology that can identify people maybe less accurately but it can identify people by their attributes like body size, gender, hair color, and style of clothing and accessories instead of their face.

So this made me think that criminals need their own AI consultant because imagine you were a professional criminal. It used to be you just had to understand the current situation because it never changed much. But AI is changing so much about how the law enforcement people can do their job. It's like in order to be a professional criminal, you're going to need your own AI consultant.

You know, it's like all right, you're gonna have to start changing your clothes for each crime because if you wear the same clothes, they're going to identify you quickly. Now how many of the criminals will be aware that, how many of them read the MIT Technology Review to know that law enforcement can identify them by their style and their clothing and their accessories? It also says gender, but let's be real, it's men. I think the gender part's the least important because it's always men doing the serious crimes.

Anyway, so crooks, you better dress differently.

In related news, there's a rumor that is not confirmed and might not be true, but Reclaim the Net is saying that Meta has these new glasses, these Ray-Ban glasses. You probably saw Zuckerberg wearing them. And they're sort of limited in what they can do at the moment, but one of the things they're thinking about maybe possibly adding is facial recognition.

Now I don't know about the legalities of that, etc. And it's not a confirmed thing. It's only a, well, we think they're probably looking at it. But isn't that the most valuable feature? I mean if I said to myself what is the point of having these cool magic glasses that can help me, I don't know, hear things and see things and do things? Wouldn't the number one thing be to tell you more about other people so that you can remember their names? Like and that you can instantly know what you have in common. You can know if they're dangerous.

It would be super intrusive and the people who are being identified would hate it. But boy, it would be the single most useful thing you could have if you could have it. And then you'd see some people that if they even saw you walk in the room with those gla