TRASHFUTURE - *PREVIEW* L’histoire de Melody McClurg

Episode Date: December 15, 2023

For this week's bonus, it's full-court press of useless tech: reactionaries' trying and failing to turn Elon Musk's ultra gen X large language model transphobic; Wes Streeting getting dazzled by an app in Singapore, and a surveillance tech company riding the wave of teen vape interdiction and kicking people out of public housing. The name of the podcast isn't ironic.  Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/lhistoire-de-94695056 *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

That is sort of a lot of a tech ethos, right? It's very much been about like telling anyone that stands in your way to go fuck yourself and in a particular period of time where they had access to infinite money, but was very much possible. There are lots of story. I think like there is a,

so much of like the contemporary history of San Francisco is built on tech guys telling people to go fuck themselves. And so there is an instant, this is like one of the first instances for these types of guys where they can't really get away with that And so and if the best you can do is call someone a nimbian. It's just like Well, you know and again the sort of whole like online offline kind of debate I can only imagine like the people in this town hall as he's calling them nimbis as being like what the fuck

How do you respond to that? Well, this is the thing. It's a weird culture mismatch because as much as these guys are all like crypto Nazis in San Francisco, they're also immersed in a deeply like semi-autically liberal world view. And so in San Francisco, the worst thing you can call someone is a nimby, right? That's their end what you can't do.

You can't do that. Like, it's thrilling. Cool. Thank you. I knew that would do something, see. No, but seriously, you cannot call someone an enemy of progress in San Francisco because everyone gets very, very happy. You go to somewhere and like rural California where everyone is like two degrees to the

rise of Hitler and they go, yeah, of course. Of course. Why would I want shit in my backyard? That's my yacht. I need to build a Goon cave in. Exactly. That's the point. And no one knows this. The N and Nimby stands for enemy of progress. That's right. I mean, seriously, all of this stuff is just going gonna break on the rocks of like, retaries in Vacaville who are just like, no, I don't want this. Ceramic is undeterred, saying that he and his silicon Fallybacker's quote, might be eyelist, idealistic,

and we might be stupid, but we're definitely trying to build something. This is just the pitch deck again. This is just a fucking like Silicon Valley San Francisco pitch deck where it's like, listen, we're creators, we're innovators, we're moving fast from the breaking things, and if you don't where it's like, listen, we're creators, we're innovators, we're moving fast and we're breaking things and if you don't like it, well, this is how the future gets made. These people don't give a fuck. They're not interested,

like no sale. I am but a simple country comedian, but I feel as though including we might be stupid in your pitch is probably not a great start. That strikes me as a gimmie. Stupid, a much more forgivable thing to be in those circles, you know? Yeah. We might be stupid, but we are going to build a city is something that I, okay, I'll put it this way. Before we started doing this podcast, I never knew how many people we might be stupid, but we're definitely trying to build a city would apply to way more than you would think.

That's a lot. It really is a lot. Uh-huh. Uh, ceramic also said, uh, he believes his arguments are working on a silent majority. Quote, we expected this reaction and I'm beginning to like it. Residents are beginning to realize there's a lot of depth in the plan and that we're not bullshitting anyone. This is the kind of like, uh, it's actually good that I'm trickering and owning you kind of impulse.

Oh yeah, this is a man who is smugly shitting his pants and suggesting that he's triggering you with the smell. A lot of real lunatics often say they're supported by silent majority, which is pretty convenient because you know, think about silent majority as you don't hear from them very well. It's a good thing that they're telling us. Otherwise, how we know that silent majority

supports you on ceramic. Well, they don't respond to surveys. I've tried. All right, all right. Very tight-lipped. The shine is on the majority. The shine is on the majority. Anyway, anyway, I want to go on to our start up before we finish by hearing from West

reading. Oh boy. It's called Verkader, V-E-R-K-A-D-A, and it is one integrated physical security platform. For a caterer. Okay. Is it a padlock? No, no, no. No, much more surveillance.

Do you find people in nicking your way, protein, out of your gym locker? Of course. Of course. A solution for you. It's a camera. Got to be a camera, surely. Yeah. Everything's a camera now.

Yes. Is it primarily a camera, or is it something that be a camera, surely. Everything is a camera now. Yes. Is it primarily a camera or is it something that has a camera in it? So I would say it is a web of linked cameras that talk to one another and interpret what they see. Ooh, AI, it's person detection on CCCV cameras. It goes a little further than that, but that's basically it. Oh God.

It says, imagine all your building is... AI person to target, the AI person targeting and assassination on CCCV cameras. Well, imagine all your building and security products in a single cloud managed platform accessible from anywhere on any device. Our mission is to protect people and property. Okay.

So, it's fine. There's already tons of apps like that. Was founded by three former computer scientists from Stanford University, who recognized the need for a more intelligent and user-friendly video security system. The company's mission is to modernize the world of enterprise video security by building intelligent, easy-to-use systems that make organizations safer and more efficient. To achieve this, they developed a range of AI-enabled security cameras in software that leveraged the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to write businesses with a more effective and efficient security solution.

So all of this sounds pretty standard right this is. Yeah, this has been coming down the pipes for a while you know fine it's bad. One of the there is a few elements to it that make it worth discussing all carry on. a few elements to it that make it worth discussing. I'll carry on. One of the key features of vacated security systems is their use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to analyze video footage and real time

this is for a press release, which enables the system to detect unusual or suspicious activity, such as unauthorized access, theft, vandalism, et cetera, et cetera. And also can recognize and track individuals, vehicles, and objects making it easier for businesses to monitor their facilities.

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mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's campaigns. This data also was used by businesses. While this guy was stealing your way protein, he stopped off to look at one of the ads. The only thing I can think of, this sounds a lot, this isn't, I hate that I have to come to this, but it sounds a lot like that surveillance thing in one of the Nolan Batman films where the movie Freeman character is just like, this is too much for me, man, I'm out. And we can do the patriotic for a really good reason, one time. Yeah, yeah. And so, and I don't know how that went,

but it was like a sonar type of thing where there were lots of, and it worked on like lots of different people's cameras. It's not quite like that, but it's giving off, at least everything in the press releases, sort of giving off something that is like, this guy watched the dark night and was like, hey, that's a cool thing.

Mr. Wayne, I don't think you should know who was jacking off anyway. I'm not going to let anyone down. I don't think that's a power any vigilante that you should have. So basically, think of the British government, they should have that. They should. Yeah, vigilante, they're a government. Yeah, well, they're trying to, they're doing more of a pre-cog type thing. Well, they're trying to stop you jacking off before you start.

Yeah. Yeah. I love the conservatives are sort of accidentally doing creeping sherry or on themselves. This is great. It's more than one way, but perhaps something for another, yeah. Yeah. It's true. Yeah.

No porn, no jacking off. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no porn, no, no jacking off. Yeah, it's gonna be no, no music, no, I gotta be closing the cameras for markets. I can't even get non-standard schools because, you know, there's no teachers left. So, so, so this is, think of this company as a, it sells a, a bunch of AI-connected security cameras that you put all over your business. And then it's just constantly is giving you a feed of information. Now, you can connect all the gun caves. This would not be interesting in itself, except I was looking into them. And I saw that there's been quite a bit of press about them.

This is from TechCrunch, even from the Washington Post. Now, do you want to hear about how unsafe it is or do you want to hear about how it is being used horrifyingly or do you want to hear about the Verkeda teen vaping survey? The vapes first, please. So because everyone, every one of the things I've noticed is that most most of these companies, what they really want to do is they want to get in and they want to turn on the big government money pipe, right? They want to turn on that big tap. So, Briccada basically releases an annual teen vaping survey to try to scare schools into putting cameras in the bathroom.

Awesome. How big is the like teen vape detector sector that we keep running into it? You know, I don't know, but team Vapet detector sector is also very, very fun to say, very proliferous. You know, so I feel like it's quite easy to detect teens vaping. Someone I, someone I know works in a school and she said that for a while, they were like wondering where all of these yearnines kept disappearing to and they couldn't track them down. And then they just noticed clouds of vape smoke billowing from a building site next to the school. And they sent like one of the teachers over there. And it was just like all of

the Innines just sat in their vaping. Yeah, just like where is the smell of like tapenard coming from? Yeah. And it can start as child has been vaping. Well, they, they, they, they say stuff like they have like the oldies standard pictures of like you know like a sad child like hiding in the school bathroom You know like children are avoiding going to the bathroom because of other students vaping Which being being bullied by vapes. Yeah, they say taking back control of the bathroom is critical to tackling the vaping of the What water sentence what a madlibs fucking sentence that is.

55% of teachers noticed a rise in bathroom requests from students who are known vapors. So now the war on the bathroom is like on two fronts. There's a gender front and now there's the vape front. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And the female terrifying the most is a trans woman who can do really cool vape tricks.

And the female terrifying the most is a trans woman who can do really cool vape tricks.