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by glenda 5y ago
Saying “I live next to a cop” doesn’t provide much proof either. I think a big issue is that in the US people aren’t willing to acknowledge how blatantly corrupt ALL politicians are. People are really caught up in the tribalism of the two p
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by glenda 5y ago
The fact that the police are often the ones issuing the press passes seems like a serious conflict of interest: why would they give passes out to news outlets that are critical of their departments? They have almost nothing to gain from doi
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by glenda 5y ago
It sounds very similar to a “police riot”
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by glenda 5y ago
Exactly, we have shown these people that no matter what they do we won’t hold them accountable. That needs to change otherwise we’re headed somewhere I don’t want to go.
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by glenda 6y ago
An issue I see is that the public data police departments put out is often only what they choose to, meaning any analysis of that data is potentially biased to an unknown degree. I suppose adding FOIA data into the mix could improve that, b
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by glenda 6y ago
Another issue I’ve noticed is that many people have taken freedom of speech to mean “everyone needs to listen to what I say”
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by glenda 6y ago
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/07/31/wikipedia-bios-for-wo...
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How the LAPD and Palantir use data to justify racist policing(theintercept.com)
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by glenda 6y ago
The police chief in Detroit said their facial recognition system had a 4% success rate. Presumably this means that 96% of the time they were targeting someone with absolutely no relation to the actual crime. What a complete waste of time an
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by glenda 6y ago
In my experience working with Facebook developers has been a total pain in the ass when it comes to open source. They request all kinds of features with no intention of helping and are quite aggressive about it. That kind of behavior puts a
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by glenda 6y ago
Intelligence operations against your own citizens is a serious reason to have an issue with those organizations. It’s not just a personal preference.
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by glenda 6y ago
They are a threat to liberty because they are used to perform surveillance and intelligence gathering on American citizens. Before the Snowden revelation this kind of behavior would have been considered criminal.
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by glenda 6y ago
I think what’s specific to Palantir is their insistence on working with only organizations like DHS and law enforcement. Intelligence data fusion centers are used to compile data from various agencies and they’re stocked with tools like Pal
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by glenda 6y ago
Palantir is a real threat to liberty, I am surprised to see so many “freedom” types support them. This update illustrates how important control is to the founders.
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by glenda 6y ago
The financial infrastructure that Coinbase is working on brushes up against the lines drawn by the law in many countries. Working with Bitcoin could be seen as a somewhat political act in itself.
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by glenda 6y ago
It sounds like you’re making excuses for the world as it is. The OP is right though. These aren’t things we have to live with just because Steven Pinker said the world is better off now than before... We are in control of our environment to
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by glenda 6y ago
Police departments and city governments are plagued with corruption, you cannot expect corrupt institution the be capable of fixing itself.
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by glenda 6y ago
This poll is either disingenuous or misguided - what percent of black Americans want better social services? The call the defund the police doesn’t end with taking money from the police, the goal is to be able to provide more specific servi
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by glenda 6y ago
The more I look into the history and tactics of modern policing the more this becomes apparent. Police are willing to use broken machine learning technology because it “works for them” - they don’t necessarily care about accuracy they just
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by glenda 6y ago
I’m aware, but that’s pretty different from the purpose and structure of modern police departments. Edit: After reading about the Romans a bit more, it does sound similar. I still hesitate to agree with the assertion that police predate dem
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by glenda 6y ago
The first police force was created in the early 1800s, the concept of democracy pre-dates that by thousands of years.
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by glenda 6y ago
As long as they stay quiet about any internal issues.
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by glenda 6y ago
I would be proud as a founder to know that I am able to contribute to provide services and infrastructure for my country.
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by glenda 6y ago
We are seeing that companies with profits don’t necessarily mean that they’re paying their fair share of taxes. Organizations that are able to provide important services, even at a loss, deserve further investment.
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by glenda 6y ago
That may be the case depending on the opinion you've expressed but that also seems like a conversation between you and your employer at that point.
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by glenda 6y ago
It truly depends on what the opinion being expressed is. I think this is where our conversation begins to fall apart because there are cases that warrant an angry mob, but usually not. Personally, I think this is a phase because people will
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by glenda 6y ago
You're still free to write whatever you want, no one is taking that away. However, just because you have something to say doesn't mean that I or anyone else has give it the time of day. I am also free to respond however I'd
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by glenda 6y ago
Exactly, we need way more political parties with direct representation. However, power seems to do a great job of consolidating itself so that won't be an easy task.
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by glenda 6y ago
I don't think there is such a thing as responsible use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement. The technology is certainly not robust enough to be trusted to work correctly at that level yet. Even if it was improved I thin
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by glenda 6y ago
There is an expression that says "the state has a monopoly on violence" - the government has no issue using violence to get their way, in fact, the essentially have no other tactics. And that's exactly why everyone decided to

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