jkestner

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by jkestner 7d ago
I think they should’ve used the word ‘focused’. Everything else about the presentation says it’s a professional communication tool.
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by jkestner 7d ago
Bring back OS licensing, Apple!
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by jkestner 10d ago
“I kept trying to explain in between haymakers that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled on favorably as far as the courts.” - Luke O’Neil https://flaminghydra.com/the-end-and-after-2&#x2F
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by jkestner 10d ago
Axon (among others) has operations hubs for data fusion centers and other platforms for police like Evidence.com, so it’s an easy sell to departments. Communities are starting to pivot to the wider issue, but a reason that this issue found
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by jkestner 10d ago
Reminds me why a friend picked RCN over Comcast for his Internet. “They’re the more incompetent evil company.”
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Artificial Intelligence, Quote Unquote(penny-arcade.com)
1 points by jkestner 10d ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 15d ago
One of my favorite books is Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680936/turtles-termites-and-... ), basically the thesis of one of his students (and current MIT Media Lab professor) Mitch
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'Recent revelations' prompt Pflugerville to abruptly kill Flock camera access(mysanantonio.com)
23 points by jkestner 29d ago|1 comments
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by jkestner 1mo ago
Loved it. The earnest perspective of these monks can be very funny. Don’t know how to describe the rewarding prose except “chewy”, and this is a translation from Italian. Speaking of writing, the author’s extensive notes at the end are als
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by jkestner 1mo ago
The wonderful thing about Flock is that you also get to be watched over by all the outside police you don't trust.
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by jkestner 1mo ago
The body cameras that seem to make a difference are the ones we all carry in our pockets/purses. Axon cameras are nothing special, and the company is not neutral.
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by jkestner 1mo ago
They said “mostly”. AI solves 90% and then you solve the other 90%.
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by jkestner 1mo ago
The government is more directly accountable to me. The only way I have to influence what insurance companies do is through the government.
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by jkestner 1mo ago
BigCorp gives money to politicians and gets to depress worker wages because they can't leave — sounds perfectly sane to tie your insurance to your employer under capitalism.
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by jkestner 1mo ago
I read the letter as the CEO feeling pressure from his bosses to give opponents less ammunition lest he be replaced with "sober leadership". Flock truly has been their own worst enemy. We should anticipate a future where a more co
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by jkestner 1mo ago
Clearly, the stories in the press have hurt them, especially the police abuse. Requiring case codes is a good step, and proactively catching signs of abuse is a big change from "we're just an unopinionated tool; you should talk to
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by jkestner 2mo ago
A human must always be held responsible, but a tool must expose its limitations to enable human judgement. I put this in the same basket as Autopilot, which already fails with its name. I’ve seen too many cases where people intuitively trus
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by jkestner 2mo ago
I don't see where it says who's paying whom. Maybe the deal is that Palantir gets more personal data to throw in a national profile database.
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by jkestner 2mo ago
You will never find anyone who is against these cameras saying that they don’t reduce crime. Of course they do. Debatable. This is the first data I’ve seen that wasn’t paid for by Flock. https://atlpresscollective.com&#x2
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by jkestner 2mo ago
It’s currently the case in many US states: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084452251/the-vast-majority-...
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by jkestner 2mo ago
You mean, unpaid labor! I did the books for my mom's business through high school, which prevented me from being a complete disaster as an adult.
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by jkestner 2mo ago
Not super low. It starts to make sense around 1000 units. I’ve gotten runs of 2500 done domestically. But it is pretty hard to find domestic injection molders for consumer work - they will give you an FU quote at best because they cater to
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by jkestner 2mo ago
Anything can be a monopoly or not, depending on how you define the market.
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by jkestner 2mo ago
Yes. Someone's gotta create new grist for the LLMs so they don't Habsburg themselves.
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by jkestner 3mo ago
Now, I thought that going to a subscription model would give them the resources/motivation they needed to improve things regularly, and let us customers pay for just what we need. You're telling me the benefits only went one way?
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by jkestner 3mo ago
When you say "everything's working", have you updated since Canva took over? I haven't, after happily paying for the whole suite every time they gave me a chance. Just wary. At some point, not being a profit center for C
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by jkestner 3mo ago
If it bleeds, it leads. That is, our media has hyped up violence in society as it’s become more rare, and politicians use it to scare people into thinking we need to go back to the good old days.
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by jkestner 3mo ago
Like Europe, the US has a pastiche of laws across states and municipalities, and varying levels of enforcement. My state has laws protecting free-range children. You’re probably right that only in the US do people freak out over unaccompani
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by jkestner 3mo ago
I don’t think you can profile this as American. Are they conservative suburbanites? My kid walks to/from school longer than that. Many kids take public transit in big cities. Rural kids may ride a motorbike much further.
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by jkestner 3mo ago
My new venture-backed social network is called Wormtongue, no reason.

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