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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    Japan supermarket chain uses AI to gauge staff smiles, speech tones in quality service push (South China Morning Post).

    Called ā€œMr Smileā€, it was developed by the Japanese technology company InstaVR and is said to be able to accurately rate a shop assistantā€™s service attitude.

    It has also been designed with ā€œgameā€ elements that invite staff to improve their attitude by challenging their scores.

    The company said its goal was to ā€œstandardise staff membersā€™ smiles and satisfy customers to the maximumā€.

    Thanks I hate it

    Press release here: https://www.aeonretail.jp/pdf/240701R_1.pdf or here: https://www.instavr.co.jp/news/aeon-retail-smile-2024-07-01/ (Lots of big words so I didnā€™t try to read it)

    InstaVRā€™s English website here: https://www.instavr.co/

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      What if instead of making robots better we just made interacting with a real person indistinguishable by demanding they conform to arbitrary metrics that the brain-slugs that control our minds think look like genuine human warmth and kindness?

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      Previous workplace merged with a US company that among other things offered ā€œsentiment analysisā€ for call centers - the software was supposed to detect if someone was upset or irate. Could be used to help employees deal with irate customers, but could also detect if an employee was rude or stressed. Same software could be used to ensure employees used certain stock phrases like ā€œwelcome to InitTech, how may I help you?ā€

      Point is, tech has been used to enforce conformity since well forever.

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      @cstross

      Looks like someone took the wrong lesson from Quantum of Nightmares!

      Edit: Enjoyed the book, btw. Felt weird about shopping for groceries for most of a year afterward. A++