Both Facewatch and Sainsbury's point to the software's "99.98% accuracy" – but Rajah suspects the margin of error is higher and has questions about the dataset behind this claim, and if it is representative of a range of body types and skin colours.
99.98% looks good to a layman, but that number is meaningless in reality.
Is that 0.02% error false positives or false negatives, or both?
Also, 0.02% means 2 in every 10,000. I don't think it takes long for 10,000 people to go through the doors of Sainsburys every day, considering the UK population is about 65 million and they're a nationwide company. Once this is rolled out nationwide they're going to have constant false flags.
Sanewashing is the act of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make them appear more acceptable to a wider audience. The term was initially coined in online discussions about defunding the police in 2020, but it has come to greater prominence in critique of media practices relating to Donald Trump in the 2024 United States presidential election.
But hey, who cares about tarmac, exhaust fumes, tyre microplastics, brake dust, and potential oil leaks and debris from accidents in a nature reserve and area of special scientific interest?
In the photograph I noticed there's water either side of the road, so I looked it up on a map and it's such a dumb fucking stretch of road. Of course the sea will take it!
Why waste money rebuilding it over and over when they could make an inland road that serves the same route?
HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]
The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4] He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.[5] Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend, an effect Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.[6] It has since gained further resonance in the social media era in 2025 in the U.S.[7]
The pride I never had, the nationality that I never feltSaddam was bad, and the American's even more soThey made me grow like i was missing part of my torsoBut I never picked up a grenade in my gardenI never saw people I love die starvingI never saw my family die through many years of sanctionsWhile the rulers family lived in palaces and mansionsNever had a family member kidnapped for a ransomI never lost a friend to violence that was randomBombings, occupation, torture, intimidationA million dead people doesn't equal liberation
Fuck. Something just clicked in my head. So it seems to be that many homophobes are closeted homosexual, denying it to themselves or whatever.
In their mind, is being gay a choice because they themselves have chosen to repress it, to pretend to be straight? Sometimes for years, decades, or their entire lives! Therefore, by that logic, that's why they don't seem to understand when called out for making shitty choices, because "the gays" have also made shitty choices (in their view).
99.98% looks good to a layman, but that number is meaningless in reality.
Is that 0.02% error false positives or false negatives, or both?
Also, 0.02% means 2 in every 10,000. I don't think it takes long for 10,000 people to go through the doors of Sainsburys every day, considering the UK population is about 65 million and they're a nationwide company. Once this is rolled out nationwide they're going to have constant false flags.
Scumbag oppressive tactics by a scumbag company.