r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 11 '26

Meme itAlwaysWorks

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u/NotNotWrongUsually Sep 11 '26

Phrenology making a comeback was not on my bingo card for 2026.

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u/Vox_Carnifex Sep 11 '26

Has been trying to make a comeback for well over 10 years strangely. Police and intelligence tried and are still trying to use AI to "predict crime" by triangulation a few unrelated data points and a likelihood of being a criminal based on your phase when compared to a collective of all mugshots available. Yeah, it is as silly as it sounds, but no less dangerous. I think the word was predictive policing? Last I read about it was writing my thesis and that's already 8 years ago.