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.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 day ago:
Once they’ve dismantled all progress made towards equality, and they control all the resources again.
People think this is a new fight, but it’s really the same one that we’ve been fighting forever. We just got too comfortable, and thought we couldn’t lose so much progress so quickly.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 1 day ago:
“we’ve come to realize that people knowing stuff is real problem for our agenda.”
- Comment on Trump points to Louisiana as global artificial intelligence hub with Meta data center 2 days ago:
- Comment on Trump points to Louisiana as global artificial intelligence hub with Meta data center 2 days ago:
“The president’s statement is proof"
This is how you know when somebody is either lying or legitimately has no idea what they’re talking about.
- Trump points to Louisiana as global artificial intelligence hub with Meta data centerfinance.yahoo.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 5 days ago:
It’s so easy to underestimate positive reinforcement, but it can make a big difference.
Personally, I don’t mind receiving a compliment sandwich as long as the compliments are genuine, and the criticism is constructive.
I can tell when people are doing it, but still appreciate the effort when it’s done right. There are probably better strategies to use, but definitely prefer that to the ultra negative shit on everything management style. I had a boss like that for ~2 years, and it just made every aspect of work so miserable.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 6 days ago:
But just the blood infusion thing right? Pretty sure all the other stuff is true
150 is probably way too young in his opinion. He’s moved in to transhumanism
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 6 days ago:
I think there’s a reason the right keeps their base only as informed as they need them to be. Most of them have no clue what truth is anymore. It honestly takes a trusted person on the right saying something is going on to even make people start questioning things.
Like without Theo Von and Joe Rogan actually asking some questions about reality, I honestly think nobody on the right would have thought twice about Palestine and Epstein would have slipped back into the abyss like before.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 6 days ago:
I got the sarcasm. I was just stating that in addition to whatever information they get from notes, I worry they will target people for even allowing their children to receive or seek gender affirming care.
Like they have been arguing for years that allowing your child to begin hormonal therapy before 18 equates to child abuse (while also arguing physical and psychological abuse is your unquestionable God given right as a parent).
And I agree, they start with a focus on hormone blockers to get their foot in the door bc they know their base will support that.
Then it very easily becomes oh well we also need to have access to all the information about any child that has seen a doctor for things like ADHD.
When I say I’m beyond not thinking worst case scenario, I just mean I don’t think there’s really a scenario where this is somehow something everyone shouldn’t be worried about.
There’s always a canary in the coal mine that becomes the scapegoat they use to get their foot in the door. Somehow people didn’t see that was the case with immigrants despite all the warning signs. They argued shit like this was overblown fear mongering.
Now they’re moving the goal post a little further, and I don’t give a fuck if people want to tell me I’m crazy or fear mongering. They don’t fucking deserve the benefit of the doubt. They never did.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
100% and as always they boil it down to “well even if all that other stuff is true, it’s for the safety of children.”
Yet we have fucking confirmation that exposing networks of wealthy and powerful pedophiles is not on the agenda. Those people are untouchable. Those people are also the ones that we are handing complete control over to.
So who tf are we really protecting children from by doing this?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 6 days ago:
Don’t parental controls exist for a reason? Can’t you just block VPN use on individual devices like an additional parental control rather than making everyone that uses a VPN prove they’re not a child?
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 6 days ago:
I mean also the fact that they’re targeting youth specifically. I worry they will try to remove kids from homes and claim that parents who allow kids to transition are harmful to their own children.
I’m just beyond not thinking worst case scenario at this point.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 week ago:
Become home of the extra free and brave? /s
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 week ago:
Palantir creates platforms for data.
This is creating a platform that allows somebody to access every piece of data in one centralized location.
So example, when somebody is determining your social security payment (if that even exists in the future) they(or more likely AI) might be basing that decision not just on data relevant to income but also on something like a personal social credit score based on every piece of available government data related to a person over their entire lifetime.
Did you get flagged as suspicious while flying bc of 9/11. Did something end up on your record by complete mistake? In this centralized data base you could have all kinds of real and incorrect details associated with you (or even other people like friends, family, neighbors, coworkers) used to discriminate against you. Data becomes destiny.
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- Comment on Police rule out using Live Facial Recognition on Surrey Street 1 week ago:
How?
They’ve literally been asking for more crime cameras be installed to fight crime since a resident was murdered. “It’s not in the budget.”
More on duty police? “Sorry, it’s just not in the budget.”
Live facial recognition tracking system that doesn’t exist anywhere else and can be used to collect data and create a giant AI database with data from every civilian it tracks. That data can then coincidentally be used to train AI models and enhance profits for companies like Palantir.
“Yeah we should be able to swing that in the budget.”
Basically the exact same story is happening in the U.S. city where I live. We have a boil water advisory every other week, we have terrible roads, and awful schools but somehow the city has the budget to update our cameras so we will become the first city to test this out.
After Palantir already secretly used our city to create and test their predictive policing model (which still fucking sucks btw).
Oh also Palantir happens to be currently working with the U.S. government to create a giant database of every citizen.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial facial recognition ordinance in New Orleans — for now 1 week ago:
Not in the clear for sure but when so much is terrible small pieces of good news can make you feel a little better.
- Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial facial recognition ordinance in New Orleans — for nowwww.nola.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Pritzker, taking aim at Trump, crypto ‘bros,’ signs laws to regulate digital currency industry, crypto ATMSchicago.suntimes.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It’ll Help ICE. 1 week ago:
I’m not opposed to the technology. An aid for prosopagnosia would actually be an excellent use of this tech.
But, yeah one individual using it as an aid vs an increasingly authoritarian government creating an entire surveillance network to track people is some bullshit.
I hate when people claim that something like that is inevitable, and if you disagree, then you’re anti-tech or inhibiting progress. Society is supposed to control technology, tech isn’t supposed to control society. If we’re not dictating how the tech is being used on us, then one powerful individual or group of individuals is using tech to control us.
I try not to put pictures of my kid’s face on the internet. Now every time we leave our house, somebody is going to have the ability to save images of my kid to a database, and track out movements around the city. I have no way of knowing what they actually do with those images once they’re saved, and who all might be accessing this system and database.
Knowing for a fact that our government caters to and protects pedophiles and trafficking networks, how can anybody expect me to just accept this as inevitable progress, and not fight like hell to stop it from happening?
- New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It’ll Help ICE.boltsmag.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools 2 weeks ago:
The headline is a bit misleading. They’re having AI write police reports for them based on AI analysis of body can footage, and once an AI hallucination is in an established report it can be hard to remove from the record. So extremely dangerous and extremely dumb. Which is par for the course as the dumbest evil billionaires continue to drive this country to its destruction.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on UK police treated to 10 new LFR vans in fresh expansion 2 weeks ago:
That’s awesome! There were some sunglasses I saw that did something similar but they were very expensive
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on What Does Palantir Actually Do? 2 weeks ago:
Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
It blows my mind that the role of Michael Kratsios during Trump’s first administration as CTO has been basically ignored by the media.
He was brought into the White House by Thiel to help the president with “technology issues.” He is quoted in interviews as early as 2017-2018 saying the administration was trying to gain access to protected government data in order to train AI.
Thiel was planning for government data to be ready for Palantir to use ~8 years before the current administration began handing Palantir billions of dollars in contracts and giving employees military rank.
Kratsios is now science advisor for the POTUS, but still somehow barely receives press coverage. The rare coverage he does receive is never critical. Do you remember the big scary Elon Musk is running the White House, stealing our data, and we should all be terrified media narrative?
Musk was only executing the plans Kratsios made during the first Trump administration, and he stepped down as soon as Kratsios was confirmed by the Senate.
It’s like we can state the obvious, “This could be a way for an authoritarian regime to destroy civil liberty.” But nobody will just come out and say “Peter Thiel has already built a platform that will allow an authoritarian regime to destroy civil liberty and crush dissent. He started planning it nearly a decade ago, and Michael Kratsios is the flying monkey who has made it possible for him to build it.”
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 15 comments
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- Comment on Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance 3 weeks 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.