Well yeah, there’s a reason the government isn’t allowed to police political speech.

My niece was raised in a house with a large dog and several cats. When they visited another home that had a small dog, she called it a cat.

The only people worried about racism are those that don’t grasp the technology being used. This isn’t a computer looking at a photo. This is an IR camera mapping IR dots on a surface. It doesn’t matter what that surface is. Certain formations (eyes, nose, mouth) are looked for, but the color or even texture of those…

Racism requires holding a belief that one or more races are superior to one more other races and acting with intent on that belief. Technology can’t be racist, it doesn’t hold beliefs, it’s incapable of holding beliefs because it is not sapient. At worst, technology can be intentionally racially discriminatory by…

I billion Images does not necessarily mean 1 billion different people. I’m positive multiple images were used for the each individual used.

If you’re using structured light (from a battery powered device, no less), it is not possible to not be seen as “racist” unless you intentionally degrade the performance of your system for some users to make it fair.

How are people still not getting this? They did not claim to have permission for all 1 billion images. Here’s the EXACT statement, emphasis added:

Yeah I honestly can’t wait to see where this fails. It’s going to but Apple will defend it.

By taking a billion images maybe? It’s not a billion people, it’s a billion images. 1 person times 1 billion images of that person still equals a billion images.

“Racist” ... ok then, that term is now pretty much meaningless.

Only the IR and depth sensor images were gathered with consent. The sentence structure they used makes that pretty clear.

This isn’t a racial bias issue, it’s a light level/crappy camera issue. The previously mentioned cameras didn’t recognize dark faces because they were crummy cameras in non-ideal light situations. Apple won’t have this issue, because they’re using more than one type of sensor, one of which doesn’t require visible…

I'm off to misgender all of the characters on the U.S. Acres entry.

If "Kill" isn't Nermal, then to hell with you people.

The Man in the Yellow Hat is totally dating Professor Weisman, but the show is about George, so you only see stuff from the monkey's point of view.

she used to appear in the comics pretty regularly. like in the early 80s.

It seems Binkley has replaced Hodge-Podge, which is a bit ominous.

I would presume that they fell prey to that which fells all bassalopes - clogged arteries (unless Hodge-Podge's rabbit DNA fixed that unfortunate genetic trait).

he's not buckling to anything. he made kind of an airheaded comment in one interview one time. literally every other statement, interview response, cartoon, movie, or comic or whatever over the past almost 40 years has portrayed Garfield with a male identity.

I was always confused more about Nermal.