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Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares." (futurism.com)
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[–] 18 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

You write just one book about a labyrinthine bureacracy and people use your name to curse organisational dysfunction forever.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 hours ago* (5 children)

    A situations like this makes me use a form of Malapropism one would expect of a Dickensian society to bring about almost Orwellian situation. Makes you wonder when someone will use Chekhov’s Gun before it all gets Bowdlerized. Alas this Machiavellian paragraph is reminiscent of a Lovecraftian creature.

    But seriously, that paragraph above reads like the scene in Blackadder when they meet the writer of the Dictionary.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    Poor Machiavelli too. Everyone goes on about how he faked his death and “dark triad” traits, and he was just some bloke taking the piss out of the government.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago* (3 children)

    I think that guy might have been trolling. He was imprisoned by the Medici family, amd then ended up writing a book to give advice to the princes? I think it could have been intentionally bad advice, especially after reading Sun Tsu.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago*

    I'm actually wandering if what he wrote in his book wasn't exactly what the Prince already did.

    Because that sounds just like the greatest way to arse kiss a powerful person without being too crude and obvious, in order to get yourself a rich patron.

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