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by text0404 7mo ago
No, it was to show how unreliable those criteria are as OP pulled the conversation into racial/cultural determinism. Feel free to tackle the substance of any of my points.
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by text0404 7mo ago
As a case study, the Trump admin has done all those things (except the littering I guess) so I would say less likely since none of them have gone to prison. The poor and marginalized tend to be incarcerated at much higher rates for lesser c
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by text0404 7mo ago
My point isn't whether or not it's acceptable. It's that this particular source (and the fact that it was posted on HN) is an attempt to astroturf support for war for the HN audience. This is meant to manufacture legitimacy f
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by text0404 7mo ago
I'm asking for critical thinking skills. This two-sentence "article" is literally just a screenshot of a chart on NetBlocks (which does its own reports, FYI, of which this is not one). Iran International is a Saudi-funded mou
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by text0404 7mo ago
No, I'm pointing out that Google is a for-profit company that collaborates with governments. In the age of mass surveillance, we should dispense with idealistic notions of these companies somehow being forces for good and instead under
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by text0404 7mo ago
Flagged. Can we please not boost obvious astroturfing campaigns? [1] "According to The Wall Street Journal, "[some] journalists at Iran International have complained that management is pushing a pro-Saudi, anti-Islamic Republic li
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by text0404 7mo ago
Can you tell us a bit more about the gag orders? I find it fascinating that all the discussion about climate change has largely disappeared after LLMs became mainstream, and the idea that state actors may be suppressing data is equally fasc
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by text0404 7mo ago
> What I don't understand is why you blame Google for being forced They weren't forced. I linked to sources showing they voluntarily handed over the information. There is no resistance. > Have you ever seen the interface tha
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by text0404 7mo ago
Those numbers still scale whether you're talking about total or discretionary spending, which means science/grants are an even smaller fraction of the 3%. Why start cutting from the smallest piece of the pie? My point is that defe
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by text0404 7mo ago
You are aware that Google collects massive amounts of data and provides it to government and law enforcement without warrants [1][2], as well as working with the US and foreign militaries for legally-questionable ends [3][4]? [1] https:&#x
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by text0404 7mo ago
Ok, then let's address the 52% elephant in the room instead of making cuts to the 3%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni... Reducing defense spending by a fractional amount will have more
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Flock Flocked up: How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man's life(businessinsider.com)
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by text0404 7mo ago
Citation needed because all evidence to the contrary.
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by text0404 7mo ago
Sure. Just like Trump was an informant for the FBI on Epstein island.
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by text0404 7mo ago
I've witnessed plenty of derision towards liberal arts and humanities in the tech industry and here on HN. For some reason a lot of industry workers believe that STEM is all that matters and somehow their work exists wholly separate fr
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by text0404 7mo ago
There are many genuinely convincing reasons to believe that. The simplest is Trump administration aggressively asserting the importance and impact of Epstein's network, followed by excuses to downplay the impact and prevent release of
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by text0404 8mo ago
You're right, my apologies. I've edited the original from "Clearview AI was founded by white supremacists" to "Clearview AI was founded by people with close ties to white supremacy and even employed some." Than
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by text0404 8mo ago
SmartCheckr was founded/owned by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz. So they transferred the assets of a company they already founded/owned to another company that they founded/owned: "Clearview AI was founded in 2017 by
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by text0404 8mo ago
Nope. I meant white supremacist [1]. Notice I didn't say smart white supremacist. [1] https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5e8cc7922300005600169bd...
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by text0404 8mo ago
> People tend to behave if they know they are being watched People tend to behave in the ways that the people who own the surveillance apparatus want them to behave . This assumes that the people who own and operate the apparatus (often
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by text0404 8mo ago
"Garry's List" is just straight up AI slop. This is a window into the coming AI-enabled era of astroturfing from wealthy individuals for their pet causes.
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by text0404 8mo ago
Even more concerning is that Ring is partnering with Flock [1], which has been the subject of quite a bit of controversy recently [2][3][4], with the CEO lashing out at critics with inflammatory language [5][6]. [1] https://www.f
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by text0404 8mo ago
You nailed it. I'm pro-crime and I enjoy letting criminals get away because I'm a villain in a Marvel movie. Do you maybe want to consider that "I have nothing to hide" may be overly reductive and that crime, policing, a
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by text0404 8mo ago
Oh but they do [1][2]! It's very suspicious that you're being so uncooperative. I'm starting a Flock competitor and we sell our products to law enforcement and private businesses [3]. You seem to be against giving me this dat
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by text0404 8mo ago
> I have nothing to hide What's your full name and current address? Where do you work? What locations do you frequent in your day-to-day life? Who do you live with and spend the most time with? Can you please list their full names a
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by text0404 8mo ago
A lot of jurisdictions actually require the data to be public! For example, ctrl-f "download csv" on this page for central LA PD: https://transparency.flocksafety.com/central-la-pd- . Not all jurisdictions require
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by text0404 8mo ago
This is an excellent video documenting some Flock camera vulnerabilities by Benn Jordan, a security hobbyist/researcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY . It's a bit long, but worth it.
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by text0404 8mo ago
- Concentration of power in the executive, dismantling checks and balances - Hyper-nationalism and white supremacist messaging - Scapegoating of minorities - Attacks on the press - Attacks on constitutional rights - Militarization of police
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by text0404 8mo ago
This is just 4chan-level drivel. It's wild to witness the thin veneer of intellectualism dissolve under scrutiny. There's no "cunning trap" here, I asked you a simple question which you still haven't answered. And i
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by text0404 8mo ago
So instead of replying with ways that you think the movement could combat injustice, you've decided to make this personal? It's okay to say "I don't know," but you probably shouldn't pretend to speak with autho

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