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Posted by speckx 7 hours ago

Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)(consequence.net)
193 points | 101 commentspage 2
beau_g 5 hours ago|
It would be interesting to first create a taxonomy of juggalo face paint patterns a la aruco markers/April tags, then see if a sufficiently large crowd of juggalos could be used to calibrate cameras
nailer 4 hours ago|
> a sufficiently large crowd of juggalos

Some kind of gathering of the Juggalos?

hackitup7 6 hours ago||
I'll make sure to wear my Juggalo makeup the next time I visit China to avoid their face scanning technology. That'll surely help me blend into the background.
wr639 4 hours ago||
So maybe they may be smarter then they get credited for being. Probably not. But now anyone feeling uncomfortable about facial recognition tech now know what they can do to combat it if they chose. One question. Can you get thru the airport and onto a plan wearing the makeup?
mixmastamyk 3 hours ago||
Sounds like a lot of work. Are Groucho glasses effective, perhaps with obscured lenses?
refulgentis 7 hours ago||
Clickbait, it’s a couple tweets microwaved and the 3rd paragraph is “well, except for modern facial recognition”
everdrive 7 hours ago||
This feels like the real-life equivalent of that old Family Guy joke where Peter is with a squad of dudes in Vietnam but is dressed like a clown. He says something to the effect of "You guys are stupid. They're going to be looking for army guys." Outside of the absurdity of the situation, the joke is that the guy dressed as a clown obviously stands out even more.

Juggalo makeup might block some facial recognition tech, but you also paint a huge target on yourself.

teddyh 5 hours ago||
There’s an xkcd: <https://www.xkcd.com/1105/>
jpsouth 5 hours ago||
I genuinely believe there's an xkcd for everything. I was only reading about the creator, Randall Munroe a few days ago and he's clearly very talented.
fer 6 hours ago||
>covering features impacts accuracy of feature-based classifiers

More new at 9. Plus it's from 2019.

stotemoat 2 hours ago||
Whoop whoop!
pgporada 7 hours ago||
Whoop whoop
schmeichel 7 hours ago||
Where my Juggalos at??
NickC25 7 hours ago|
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, sitting behind the resolute desk. That person wears more makeup than some of the performers on RuPaul's Drag Race.
1-more 4 hours ago|||
Detroit rap rock neatly broke along the prevailing political tendencies in the US

1. Kid Rock is the MAGA candidate. This makes sense: he was the scion the owner of many car dealerships and grew up in a house with an apple orchard and a horse stable but claims to be salt of the earth focused on kitchen table issues and also endless moneyed personal delight. Great article on the 2023 NADA convention, btw: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...

2. Juggalos went lumpenprole left. Bad optics, problematic past statements, ultimately proudly unsophisticatedly populist

3. Eminem made "awfully hot coffee pot" and Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann went apeshit for it. MSNBC lib.

_doctor_love 1 hour ago||
I'm not sure if I totally agree but this is an amazing breakdown.
1-more 29 minutes ago||
The thing about Eminem is that I would have just as easily lumped him in with South Park Man-bear-pig style "actually it's square to care about politics" but "awfully hot coffee pot" having already made "Mosh" put it over the edge.
nathan_compton 6 hours ago||||
Don't sully the good name of Juggalos this way.
garciansmith 5 hours ago|||
"By the time Presidents Jay and Dope were elected, western civilization had officially fucked itself over forever, and I think everyone knew it." https://homestuck.com/006765
lucasay 7 hours ago||
I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems. A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.
saalweachter 6 hours ago||
It's not actually an oversight or training failure; as one of the six societies which secretly rule the world, the Juggalos simply demand to be exempt from facial recognition.
atomicnumber3 6 hours ago||
Juggalos, bronies, 9th doctor fans, billionaires, royals (baseball team), and royals (landed nobility)?
saalweachter 5 hours ago||
In _Inside Job_, it was Juggalos, the Illuminati, the Catholic Church, Cognito Inc [the main feature of the show, kind of the Deep State], the Atlanteans, and the Reptoids.
amanaplanacanal 5 hours ago|||
I'm wondering how well the Zenni optical ID guard coatings actually work.
stackghost 6 hours ago||
It's likely that e.g. wifi-based gait analysis can be deployed to defeat this.

The only saving grace is you can't run that against video surveillance footage.

fc417fc802 5 hours ago||
But you can run video-based gait analysis against video surveillance footage. You can also index physical fingerprints other than the face.

Maybe I should start wearing a hazmat suit with an opaque faceplate whenever I leave the house.

Findecanor 7 hours ago|
(2019) ... but sadly increasingly relevant.
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