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"Detecting High-Functioning Autism in Adults Using Eye Tracking and Machine Learning"

From the abstract:
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...These results confirm that eye-tracking data can be used for the automatic detection of high-functioning autism in adults and that visual processing differences between the two groups exist when processing web pages.
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My first thought was "how would this be used in horrible ways?"

Of course, the lowest-hanging fruit is always capitalism—profiling, advertising, risk-assessment.

Then my partner brought up Gattaca, and with RFK's eugenicist hard-on for "eradicating autism", a government database of autistic individuals doesn't seem too farfetched a use case (he's already pushing for one, and it'd be easier to get someone like Zuck to incorporate the detection method into one of their video apps than to try to do it via medical record requests).

Though, to be fair, potentially leverageable neurodivergence, disabilities, and disorders are likely already part of Meta's algorithms 🤷🏼‍♀️

Any which way, this seems like another AI "solution" that's more likely to create problems than it is to solve any.

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9

#Autism#AI#Dystopian
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PrivacyDigest

#Voters Reject President Trump's #Dystopian Plans for "Public Safety"

President Donald #Trump has been pushing mass #deportations , aggressive law enforcement measures, and a sweeping expansion of the death penalty as the path to public safety— all while cutting the very programs that actually make communities safer.

Voters aren’t buying it.
#takeover #publicsafety

aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/

American Civil Liberties Union · Voters Reject President Trump's Dystopian Plans for "Public Safety" | ACLUWe’re on the Hill this week telling Congress to fund real solutions
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JL Lycette MD, author🩺📚

Happy #book release day to THE ENEMY’S DAUGHTER by Melissa Poett!

This #YA reimagining of Tristan & Isolde is set in a #dystopian world woven w/magic—and it's available now across Canada & the U.S. wherever #books are sold!
Already gaining buzz, it's been selected as a much-anticipated spring read by CBC Books, Brit+Co, Yahoo, & Indigo and is part of the Book Sparks Summer Reading Challenge that starts now!

My Goodreads review:
goodreads.com/review/show/7140

An image of the book cover for The Enemy’s Daughter by Melissa Poett
#bookstodon#romantasy#ReadingCommunity
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Michael

“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.

Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.

One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.

michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/r

Michael Joseph · Review - Release by Marie Sexton
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