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  • Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War

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  • Fuckin A Man, CIA man

    Every time I hear that, I picture some guy stopping somebody else mid sentence when it comes on to be like "Wait, wait... you hear that? That's me!" And then blasting it at full volume while he sings along. I feel like that's had to have happened at least once or twice.

    TBF it is a very catchy song

  • New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report

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  • Somehow I missed that New Orleans had a secret partnership with Palantir for predictive policing starting around 2012 that was kind of revealed as a big scandal in 2018.

    Allegedly this has nothing to do with that... Allegedly... Absolutely nothing.

  • New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report

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  • That's what they're saying now, but apparently, an app was developed that allowed police to create a watch list of suspects, upload their picture, and use the cameras to constantly scan for the images. When they got a hit, police received a direct notification via the app

    Apparently much of this wasn't documented, but for whatever reason, the police captain decided in April to end it for the time being, so now it's back to the company notifying police, but they want city council to pass an ordinance so they can go back to police being directly notified

    https://wp.api.aclu.org/press-releases/208236

    After the Washington Post began investigating this time around, city officials acknowledged the program and said they had “paused” it and that they “are in discussions with the city council” to change the city’s facial recognition technology law to permit this pervasive monitoring.

    The ACLU is now urging the New Orleans City Council to launch a full investigation and reimpose a moratorium on facial recognition use until robust privacy protections, due process safeguards, and accountability measures are in place.

    “Until now, no American police department has been willing to risk the massive public blowback from using such a brazen face recognition surveillance system,” said Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. “By adopting this system–in secret, without safeguards, and at tremendous threat to our privacy and security–the City of New Orleans has crossed a thick red line. This is the stuff of authoritarian surveillance states, and has no place in American policing.”

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  • Yeah there's already at least one well known case. This article mentions it https://wp.api.aclu.org/press-releases/208236

    The use of facial recognition technology by Project NOLA and New Orleans police raises serious concerns regarding misidentifications and the targeting of marginalized communities. Consider Randal Reid, for example. He was wrongfully arrested based on faulty Louisiana facial recognition technology, despite never having set foot in the state. The false match cost him his freedom, his dignity, and thousands of dollars in legal fees. That misidentification happened based on a still image run through a facial recognition search in an investigation; the Project NOLA real-time surveillance system supercharges the risks.

    “We cannot ignore the real possibility of this tool being weaponized against marginalized communities, especially immigrants, activists, and others whose only crime is speaking out or challenging government policies. These individuals could be added to Project NOLA's watchlist without the public’s knowledge, and with no accountability or transparency on the part of the police departments

    Police use to justify stops and arrests: Alerts are sent directly to a phone app used by officers, enabling immediate stops and detentions based on unverified purported facial recognition matches.

  • New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report

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  • My immediate thought was that I'm sure they would just start weaponizing them to fight back so cameras could stand their ground.

  • New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report

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  • The WaPo article goes into a lot more detail: https://archive.ph/2fmW1

    It seems that the cops were basically uploading images of suspects so that the cameras in the city were constantly scanning for people who were wanted (like a mug shot or an image of somebody stealing something) and then if a camera picked up a match it would send police the location of the suspect on a map.

    Apparently Palantir was working with NOPD to secretly test predictive policing since 2012

    https://archive.ph/NxPbY

    The program began in 2012 as a partnership between New Orleans Police and Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm founded with seed money from the CIA’s venture capital firm. According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, the initiative was essentially a predictive policing program, similar to the “heat list” in Chicago that purports to predict which people are likely drivers or victims of violence.

    The partnership has been extended three times, with the third extension scheduled to expire on February 21st, 2018. The city of New Orleans and Palantir have not responded to questions about the program’s current status.

    Not sure that it actually did ever expire

  • New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report

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  • Or just wear a mask, saw a dude ride by me on a bike yesterday at like 11am in a skeleton zip up mask covering his whole head. Smart man.

  • College Degree

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  • Sounds like you're thinking of a way future. I'm not entirely sure we make it that far.

  • College Degree

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  • The GI Bill allowed soldiers that fought Hitler the opportunity to obtain the same level of education previously reserved for generations of the ruling class.

    That was the first real instance of DEI in America, and the ruling class has been doing everything in their power to take back their exclusive club ever since by dividing and conquering.

    I know people think Russia is trying to infiltrate the U.S. because the cold war never really ended, but I'm pretty sure we've been thinking about it backwards. I'm starting to believe that our elite knew they couldn't topple American democracy to regain power from within without making it too obvious, so they purchased/privatized post Soviet Russia so they wouldn't have to say the quiet parts out loud.

  • College Degree

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  • The Trump administration past: just about everybody in this administration has a college degree from an ivy league university, but it's ok because we're the ruling elite. It's time we took those academic "elitists" down a peg or 2

    The Trump administration present: You can wipe your ass with that degree and get a job working in a factory, like many of your parents did.

    The Trump administration near future: The economy is still shit because we wrecked it, automated or outsourced everything we could, and put all our eggs into one shitty AI basket that didn't pan out. Now there are way too many people with degrees competing for the few remaining jobs, most of which don't require a degree.

    Resources are becoming scarce, disease is rampant, American children are dying at an unprecedented rate, disasters can't be prepared for because we fired all the people that did that, and we keep pushing policies that increase unplanned pregnancies. In short, shit sucks but is mostly just going according to the original plan.

    All the immigrants have been rounded up and trafficked to El Salvador, so, who is left to act as the scapegoat for the ruling elite?

    You know why things are so bad in the very near future, America?

    "It's because the educated elite were rewarded for so long for being fiscally irresponsible and went into debt over useless college degrees. Now they're taking all the American jobs, they're eating the cats and the dogs, and they are milking this once great country for all its worth."

  • Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’

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  • Add to list of good ideas

  • Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’

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  • The end is nigh when Giuliani retrospectively seems a wise oracle by comparison.

  • Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’

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  • Somebody write that down on list of good ideas to rebuild society after the collapse jic any humans survive:

    1. Hold public officials to the same standards anyone else bad at their job would be held to. Make accountable for own words and actions?

  • Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’

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  • The Alex Jones defense. "Oh you guys thought I was serious? Lulz seems like that's kind of on you."

  • Kennedy sidesteps vaccine questions: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’

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  • Holy shit... This timeline is too dumb to ever be learned about in history books.

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI

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  • I think it could be life changing, but true progress will take time, like any tech. There's a reason most scientists know you can't just throw money at something and just make it work. That's why technocracy and the idea of chosen elite is so fucking dumb.

    Imagine if in the 80s we had just said ok, Steve Jobs did it. We're done here. We don't give any outside voices or ideas in tech a chance unless Jobs gives it the ok first. Imagine how much cool shit we would have missed out on if people hadn't just said fuck it I don't need all that money, I'll just make my own shit and make it work with what I have.

    Innovation and progress does not flourish in a neatly controlled box, and most people that don't just buy other people's work know that. That's the real reason people started pushing for DEI. Not just bc it was the "PC" thing to do. It helps bring new perspectives which then leads to new ways of thinking and problem solving.

    If you completely isolate AI you may get some cool shit but eventually if you just buy out the entire market to fit your singular vision you get repeating/boring and stale.

    I'm pretty sure they think they're at a point where if they just keep throwing money at it, it will just start getting creative and update itself, but when it's as unreliable as it is, I don't see that happening anytime soon

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI

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  • I'm not saying I believe its important, the president believes it's important bc Thiel has been funding him and making policy decisions since his first term, most people (myself included) just didn't notice it until the second one.

    The first time, he tried to promote AI deregulation while insisting we would retain American values that helped us be better than China's surveillance state, but then Trump lost power and Thiel lost 4 years of progress at the global AI table because of those values (democracy and the constitution). Now that he's gotten his seat back he's not going to risk ever letting it go. IF he ever intended to try to maintain or respect those values before, he certainly doesn't now.

    That is why the truth behind Trump/JD Vance/Adrian Vermeule's argument for a constitutional interpretation of strong executive authority needs to be made loud and clear.

    I cannot comprehend how anyone who is not already a billionaire could be dumb enough to support this, but let's just be honest about what you're supporting.

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI

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  • Bc you're paying attention and not sticking your head in the sand.

    It feels like it bc they definitely are. I'm in Louisiana and just woke up to find out news my corrupt Governor is being accused of scheming to install a new senator so that he can then have them resign and take both Senate and governor seats for himself.

    Report: President Trump and Gov Landry discuss U.S. Rep Julia Letlow as a potential challenger to Senator Cassidy in 2026 Republican primary

    One of several examples of how Landry and Trump seem to be scheming together to be as corrupt as possible

    Even for Louisiana that's a whole other level of corruption..not even the first Louisiana governor to do it, but the last one was in the 30s.

    The last governor that was this blatant about corruption also had a personal vendetta against my city and tried to take it under siege using the national guard

    Guess what else the current governor and his doge inspired task force are scheming

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI

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  • I agree, and as I keep trying to point out to people in the U.S., I'm pretty sure the reason Trump is not even giving GOP loyalists emergency disaster money when something happens in their state, is because there's nothing left.

    He literally put all of America's eggs in one basket because he (and Peter Thiel) thought/think if they just deregulate everything and keep throwing money at it as fast as possible they will win, and other countries will be coming to us to buy our AI.

    Tbf they are definitely planning to use it for evil, not to make humanity better, but I still don't see why anybody would buy AI tech from the U.S.

    I am wondering what happened in Brussels though, that made them say they're considering some deregulation.

    Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego