AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance 4 days ago:
Its hard to ignore that the hunger and poverty seems to be a direct result of (or at best enabled by) totalitarian thirsty companies receiving large government contracts and their shareholders who run governments.
- Comment on As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel 4 days ago:
Thiel taking diligent notes on how to start WWIII.
Topics for next year’s discussion:
•How to rebrand your authoritarian axis. •Deregulating nuclear safety to power AI: How the West finally kicked its fossil fuel habit. •Have the 99% really earned autonomy? •Global organ harvest and the path to immortality for the chosen elite.
Nobody wants to call him out bc they’ve already accepted the future. If anyone in the U.S. actually cared about stopping genocide wouldn’t they be demanding the U.S. stop giving billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir, and that any government official investing in genocide be forced to step down?
- Comment on As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel 5 days ago:
- As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvelwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
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- Comment on UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum 6 days ago:
Companies that tested their technology in a handful of supermarkets, pubs, and on websites set them to predict whether a person looks under 25, not 18, allowing a wide error margin for algorithms that struggle to distinguish a 17-year-old from a 19-year-old.
AI face scans were never designed for children seeking asylum, and risk producing disastrous, life-changing errors. Algorithms identify patterns in the distance between nostrils and the texture of skin; they cannot account for children who have aged prematurely from trauma and violence. They cannot grasp how malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and exposure to salt water during a dangerous sea crossing might profoundly alter a child’s face.
Goddamn, this is horrible. Imagine leaving shitty AI to determine the fate of this girl :
[‘Psychologically broken,’ 8-year-old Sama loses her hair](www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna168939
As her family ran from shelling at their tent camp in Gaza, Sama shook in fear, screaming that she didn’t want to die. But now she tells her mother, “Mom, I want to die.”
Though she still has both her parents and all her limbs, Sama Tabeel has lost almost all of her hair due to the unbearable stress of the war. “I am terrified of the shelling,” she tells NBC News from a camp in Khan Younis. She covers her bald head with a pink bandana she rarely takes off and passes time by playing with a doll whose hair she can braid, while longing for her own.
- Comment on UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum 6 days ago:
Bc they’ve already sunk too much money into it thinking that if they fed it enough data it would suddenly become intelligent enough to develop superintelligence, and nobody wants to admit it is likely decades away from being what they advertised (if it ever reaches that point at all).
Their solution is to just keep throwing more money and data at it until they eventually make it work, or they kill us all trying. Which do you think will happen first?
- Comment on Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluation 6 days ago:
The U.S. wants to be China, even if it means repeating the same mistakes and destroying any semblance of civil liberty. We’re on a fast track, and they don’t care who they hurt or what rights they violate as long as they can feel like they won.
- Kratsios: NIST needs ‘to go back to basics’ on standards for AI, not safety evaluationfedscoop.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 1 week ago:
Then they decide to get makeovers or permanent eyeliner like that’s supposed to make up for all the other weird shit?
- Comment on Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 1 week ago:
Timeline of predictive policing and facial recognition surveillance in New Orleans:
~2012-2018: Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
2015: Meet The Man Who Runs New Orleans’ Entirely Privatized (And Controversial) City Surveillance System
2017: ProjectNOLA plans to expand crime camera network, work more closely with New Orleans officials
2020: New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other surveillance tech
May 2025: Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
June 2025: City camera technology not useful for facial recognition: Project NOLA founder
Lagarde says he believed a proposed new ordinance would “free up NOPD to tap the Project NOLA network without concern” as needed.
June 2025: Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison
Palantir, long criticized for its role in powering ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids and predictive policing, is now poised to become the brain of Trump’s surveillance regime. Under the guise of “data integration” and “public safety,” this public-private partnership would deploy AI-enhanced systems to comb through everything from facial recognition feeds and license plate readers to social media posts and cellphone metadata—cross-referencing it all to assess a person’s risk to the state.
- Comment on Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 1 week ago:
It’s just a worn out cliche the GOP has been using against blue cities for decades now to pretend that the only explanation for crime in cities can be boiled down to Democrats not cracking down hard enough.
That’s the narrative control justification for this authoritarian bullshit. It doesn’t matter what the actual circumstances are behind the numbers, just throw out a statistic and stoke fear.
- Comment on Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 1 week ago:
It’s shady as fuck and part of a very long and convoluted story. This guy’s private surveillance company popped up in New Orleans in the middle of a secret partnership with Palantir.
It’s also confusing bc as of the city council meeting on 6/30, NOPD said they wanted the ordinance to use facial recognition tech in their own crime cameras (separate from ProjectNola).
Yesterday was supposed to be the day the ordinance was discussed, but the city council meeting was just cancelled with no notification and no information provided.
NOPD argues the ability to use real time facial recognition tracking in their system would at least give them more control bc they knew that ProjectNola was already working with the state police and ICE.
Except as of today, a state law kicks in and it becomes illegal for police to refuse a federal immigration order or “hinder” (yes it’s definitely intentionally vague what exactly that means) federal immigration.
There also seems to be contradicting evidence about how separate the city’s own real time crime camera program and ProjectNola are.
- Comment on Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance 1 week ago:
K… keep simping for big brother.
Every city will have it’s justification soon enough, so good luck with that. It’s just more efficient for the government to be able to track you in real time. Crime goes down real quick, especially if you stop believing a violation of civil liberties is a crime.
Bc after all, how could a government that is run by criminals be commiting a crime when they make the laws?
This is fucked up for so many reasons, but to me the fucking creepiest part of this, is knowing this is the same group of people that are protecting a sex trafficking ring of elite pedophiles.
They love to justify not having any regulations to hinder this technology by reminding people it can be used to find missing children. But it also has the potential to exploit children.
If the government can track anyone in real time, including children, with no oversight, how the fuck do we know the wealthy elites that often purchase the government through campaign donations won’t also be tracking children in real time?.
Even if you didn’t have one million reasons and growing every day, not to trust the people running the government. Even if some of the most hated broligarchs in the U.S. hadn’t already been given government positions, military rankings, and top clearance.
With zero oversight and accountability, how the fuck can you be sure that only the government will have access to this system?
- Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillanceepic.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 1 week ago:
It was an ICE agent at a protest. Not condoning throwing rocks at anyone but have you seen videos out of Portland?
ICE has been brutalizing the fuck out of protestors, especially in Portland. I would like to say I would never do that, but if I saw an ICE agent using unnecessary force against a friend or my family for peacefully protesting (which I’ve seen happen to multiple people, and that shit is definitely not ok) I cant honestly say I would react in the most calm and level headed way either.
They do directly address this in the article though, and the main issue is not so much that they used the technology, but again the fact that there is no oversight or regulation for its use.
Catherine Crump, a professor at UC Berkeley Law School who leads a law, technology and public policy clinic, said the use of facial recognition technology in this particular case was “as justifiable as it gets.”
“That said, it’s really problematic that we’ve done as bad a job as we have in this country at regulating the use of technology like this; there should be clear rules of the road,” Crump said.
She pointed out flaws in facial recognition technology, citing research that’s shown it to have racial bias in being worse at identifying Black people and other minorities.
“We need safeguards to ensure that this powerful technology is used in a way that advance legitimate law enforcement interests, but that stave off possibilities of abuse," Crump said.
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 1 week ago:
This would be infuriating no matter what, but the hypocrisy of ICE wearing masks and all the bullshit about accountability for everybody “except me and my frenz bcuz we’re too busy making America so great to worry about the rules” makes this all so much more fucking ridiculous
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 1 week ago:
I’m sure once every human is replaced by shitty automated AI the entire process will become smoother than our darkest nightmares can imagine.
Book your flight. Hop into your driverless taxi, and if you survive the trip to the airport, use the facial recognition option to breeze right on through security within minutes (assuming your the right color of passenger) without even taking off your shoes.
No need for air traffic control, flight attendants, or even pilots. You can can walk straight on to the overcrowded plane, settle in, put on your headphones and sleep mask, then nosedive straight into the ocean without ever having to acknowledge another human being. Until the rude asshole sitting next to you suddenly bothers you with some stupid shit like “Oh God why aren’t the oxygen masks dropping? That used to be automatic! Our father who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name…”
You roll your eyes and put your headphones and mask back on to enjoy the soothing sounds of autotune AI generated parody songs you made on the ride to the airport. What the fuck that guy even talking about anyway? You don’t know and you don’t care. You didn’t pay for first class to have some rando kill your vacay vibe. You take a deep breath (but there’s no oxygen) smile and settle back in, knowing that soon you will reach your final destination.
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 1 week ago:
You think this ends with superintelligence for us all? Is that why you’re building an underground doomsday bunker and tunnel in Hawaii?
- Comment on Airlines urge senators to reject bill limiting facial recognition 1 week ago:
the air industry groups said the law was a “step backward” and that facial recognition technology made security screenings far more efficient.
There’s that word again. Is there anything that can’t be justified by efficiency?
It never is, never has been, and probably never will be very efficient to slow down and consider the brand new set of issues created by efficiency. You’re just standing in the way of progress, and that’s tomorrow’s problem anyway. Let them figure it out. I’m sure they’ll come up with an efficient solution.
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- FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protesterwww.kgw.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 1 week ago:
True, they will always play the victim even as they’re hurting and exploiting people they see as less than. Don’t allow them to have any evidence of credibility.
I think his idea of hell would probably be having to lower himself to the standard of living most people would consider normal and comfortable. Having to learn to actually survive day to day if he were to find himself suddenly without a cent of the money he was born into and all future wages and earnings garnished to pay the people he has harmed, would probably be a fate worse than any hell he could imagine.
I know there’s no justice and there is pretty much no chance of him ever facing any sort of proportional punishment or consequence for his actions. But, if I could make it happen, having to suddenly learn to survive with the rest of us mortals in the society he has helped create, in his late fifties, wondering how he will even afford something as basic as healthcare while his body rapidly ages from stress and gradually falls apart, after a lifetime of unimaginable privilege, unable to go anywhere or do anything he enjoys without being recognized and having people curse his name. That would be the fate I would wish on somebody like him.
- Comment on Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international 1 week ago:
I think that’s becoming a universal norm unfortunately. Governments don’t seem to be at all concerned if the policies they implement do or don’t please the people they are supposed to represent anymore, so who are they pleasing?
- Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa internationaldpa-international.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 1 week ago:
That’s why I feel like people need to be aware of this, and understand there are Republicans and Democrats taking Thiel’s money.
It doesn’t matter how he gets there, this is his ultimate goal. He would prefer the far right Nazi way, but if he has to hide behind a moderate Democrat he’ll do that too.
Ro Kahnna is definitely setting himself up to run for president in 2028. Either that or possibly vice president to Gavin Newsome. Newsome also has taken Thiel money in the past.
Thiel’s private Uranium mine just happens to be in the home state of Thomas Massie, the Republican who is teaming up with Kahnna to take on the Trump Epstein files in a bipartisan tag team.
I’m glad they’re exposing rich pedophiles, but don’t give them fucking brownie points when it’s clear they’ve been sitting on this shit the whole fucking time. The same with Vance going to Rupert Murdoch before all of this dropped.
They definitely could have exposed Trump before he even ran for president the second time, but they didn’t bc this is just part of their evil bullshit plans. This is just a game to them, and the people who have been hurt and exploited mean nothing. Fuck these evil pieces of shit. All of them.
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 1 week ago:
I just mean victimhood is usually the go to for far right assholes, especially the ultra wealthy ones who have the money and influence to spin the truth into whatever they want. Like you leave them no choice but to be even more evil the next time.
I could totally see whoever comes in his footsteps saying some shit like, “You saw what they did to Thiel. I had to crack down to protect myself.”
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 1 week ago:
He really does just look so much more relaxed and carefree. Like one picture says 1000 words and tells the story of the life that could have been had he followed his heart rather than becoming a murderous dictator.
Theil looks roughly the same, but with a fun captains hat.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen Putin look that happy IRL. He’s glowing
