"Our officers know what the Constitution is, they know what right and wrong is, and they know when people are being targeted, and that's what they were."
I take this statement very seriously. I mean, if *anyone* knows what targeting people of color looks like, it sure as hell is the cops!
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been pulling guns on off-duty officers of color while illegally demanding their citizenship papers.
Given the recent explosion in numbers of innocent citizens murdered by those who purport to be government in places like Iran, West Africa, Isreal, and Michigan, I wonder: Do the anti-gun nuts still think normal, innocent people shouldn't have any way to defend themselves?
Do you really think that ICE could possibly be this nonchalant about violating citizens' rights in a city with 80-90% gun ownership?
In case you were wondering how bad a dystopian corpo-police state the US has become, my metropolitan area has less than 200,000 people, and this is what its map looks like just for the License Plate Cameras from one corporation!
Your phone spies on you. Your computer spies on you. Your TV spies on you. Your "assistant" spies on you. Your fucking vacuum robot and refrigerator spy on you! Sure there are technical solutions for many, but are *you* sure you caught them all? I'm sure as hell not!
Maybe encrypted mesh networks will work, I dunno... But if we don't stop this soon, we'll all exist in a dynamic hellscape designed to forcibly squeeze every last bit of money, attention, information, and life out of you!
You’ve seen the footage. ICE Agents demand she gets out of the car. She accelerates the SUV. Shots fire, and within hours, the internet decides the verdict. ...
"When officers are vilified, demonized, or used as political props, it fuels hostility, emboldens bad actors, and puts lives directly at risk." - Cool. Cool. And also, when officers do insane fucking things that anyone who isn't *trying* to excuse them can see, and people die or get permanently injured, that also puts lives directly at risk. But hey, I get it. The blue fraternity only actually gives a shit about officers. The rest is just a job
The East Wing was over a bunker. Excavation took way too long for the job. They switched to a "hardened infrastructure" architect during construction. The contractors are the ones who built underground datacenters in Israel...
I've had a bit of a realization. If the Trump regime has decided the "antifa" kids are their mortal enemy, and the antifa kids stand against fascism, what does that mean the regime think of themselves as?
The Trump regime has declared themselves immune to prosecution for any law-breaking. They now have no controls at all on their behavior, paving the way for the inevitable fascist government they've been trying to build.
Why do the worst people always look like just an average Joe? This murderous prick could be the Dad of one of my kids' friends, and I'd never have given him a second thought. Monsters need to come with signs...
I do not believe it should even be an option to not make public the actions of any officer. Except during investigation, after that it should all be fully accessible for review by any citizen.
Listen, America, after reading the Donald's latest remarks about how he plans to cancel elections and rewrite the Constitution, I've come to a realization. In 10 years, this disrespectful jackass will be dead, one way or another. The only real question left is whether the men standing over his grave are giving it a NAZI salute, or pissing on it. If you dumbfucks decide to wake up and make the right choice, give me a call. I'll drink a couple of 2-liters of Mountain Dew on the ride over....
I have read that there are 9 or more instances just like this in the last physical year. This is not a new level of violence for them, it is their status quo. In fact the officer in question that murdered (in my opinion) this innocent lady also murdered (in my opinion) another victim in Chicago recently.
note: Be advised I have not fact checked this. There could be more or less events I am unaware of.
Twenty-five years ago, when Republicans *and* Democrats were panickedly calling for passage of the completely unpatriotic "Patriot Act", I warned them. I railed against them for voting for a bill they hadn't read. I showed them the text where it was mostly taking away our civil liberties and privacy, but not actually doing anything to protect us.
The worst thing it did was define terrorism as breaking *ANY LAW AT ALL* with the intent of influencing the public. Any law. Intent. Stop and think, I said, how easily a lawyer or law officer could use any random facts about you to establish "intent", not even for protesting (which PS, is defined as terrorism if you litter or commit any other trivial offence while doing it, because you're trying to influence the public), but for literally anything, like jaywalking.
Well, congratulations, Republicans and Democrats, here we are:
As she drove away from ICE officers, she "weaponised her car" in a "domestic terror attack", Noem said.
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Twenty-five years ago, when Republicans *and* Democrats were panickedly calling for passage of the completely unpatriotic "Patriot Act", I warned them. I railed against them for voting for a bill they hadn't read. I showed them the text where it was mostly taking away our civil liberties and privacy, but not actually doing anything to protect us.
The worst thing it did was define terrorism as breaking *ANY LAW AT ALL* with the intent of influencing the public. Any law. Intent. Stop and think, I said, how easily a lawyer or law officer could use any random facts about you to establish "intent", not even for protesting (which PS, is defined as terrorism if you litter or commit any other trivial offence while doing it, because you're trying to influence the public), but for literally anything, like jaywalking.
Well, congratulations, Republicans and Democrats, here we are:
As she drove away from ICE officers, she "weaponised her car" in a "domestic terror attack", Noem said.
You know, when all those assassins failed to murder Trump, I thought it was for the best, what with murder being wrong and all. I'm beginning ro realize that the turmoil might have been worth it, if it meant we wouldn't have to live under this fascist dictator...
In which the ignorant weasel in charge decides to eliminate actual heroes to prevent comparison, then does it the stupidest way possible as publicly as possible...
Pete Hegseth cuts the pension and strips Senator Mark Kelly of his military rank, because he — a democrat— had the audacity to disagree with the Trump regime.
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing, "Humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the new equilibrium of human nature."
If "the new equilibrium of human nature" is code for worthless, mind-numbing garbage that is clogging up any and all human interaction, then I guess we agree!
I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn
I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn vim on my machine into a full blown IDE (not that it was not already). There are many practical implementations of AI that does and will enhance all of our lives. That does not mean I support corporate server farms trying to inject AI into all aspects of our life, need or want it or not. On the other hand I do not feel that it is fair for people to be judging AI for what corporations do. Should I judge fire for what arsonist do? Should I judge antibiotics by their current abuse in agriculture?
It is an old technology that we have been working on for decades. With great success in recent decades. It is not SLOP it is valuable technology when used appropriately. AI should not be held accountable for the way corporation misuse it for monetization. Corporations should be held accountable for their actions. Not the millions of developers that have diligently worked to hone a technology that is quite valuable.
There is nothing wrong with using vim-plug. It just does not do anything for me as I write most of my own plugins. The main reason to use vim-plug is for keeping plugins updated. Today, that is moot, as even tpope has not updated a vim plugin in over 4 years. I tend to hard fork the plugins I like best and maintain them myself. So a plugin manager is not required.
Yes, with low ram your options are rather limited. I find it is best to train your own LLM though that requires a significant GPU. At the very least an RTX 3060i or equivalent. You just have to be careful what open source, or your own source you train the LLM on. As there are a lot of low quality projects. Train with a bunch of low quality code, get low quality suggestions.
Though I mainly use AI for an Intel-sense level of auto completion. Having an AI write actual code is very risky. With anything even slightly complicated you are bound to do more debugging than it is worth. It would be less effort to just write it from scratch yourself.
I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Ports on a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.
I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Ports on a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.
In budget build you would likely be better off with P100 They have the Pascal architecture v. Kepler. More recent but still weakly supported. It out performs the K80 using less power as well.
It's two hours after the family's return from a week-long New Year's vacation. In thhat time, I've cleaned dog pee off the floor, both kids have had meltdowns and the entire contents of a jelly jar has filled a refrigerator shelf.
It's just amazing, the number of newspeople and pundits who suddenly know what the word "Tranche" means, now that the Epstein Files have been partially released...
OK, hear me out: Current experiments seem to be producing skin-based(pressure or vibration) remote object detection for blind people. If it works, lets make them superhuman by plugging their devices into things like car radar systems, active radar sets, or topographic satellite data!
The man in charge of all the apparati of power in the US never finished a construction on time *or* paid his subcontractors the full amount agreed to. What could possibly go wrong?
Đe English language once had an alphabet đat actually represented its sounds. It's past time we fix this. I propose the letter Đorn ("Thorn", Đ, đ) as the first back-substitution.
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I do not believe it should even be an option to not make public the actions of any officer. Except during investigation, after that it should all be fully accessible for review by any citizen.