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.
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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Me: I made chicken fried rice from sctratch using a recipe from an actual chinese chef. In a real wok! Kids: Oh Wife: I kinda like it better than the stuff from our regular place. Me: My work's done here...
For pity's sake, software people, PLEASE put back the boundary markers around windows, between frames and so on! I just spent five minutes trying to resize a window. Light gray and light gray on light gray, with not a single line.
Attorneys for a couple charged with driving to a police station with an HSI agent in their car dispute the government’s account of the incident. A judge released both from jail pending trial.
They went into schools looking for "illegal immigrants", armed and ready for violence. In a school. While the kids were there. So they could be hurt or killed should violence have occurred.
One of these days they're going to get people killed doing this shit!
ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.
They terrorize the populace by stomping into homes and schools, wearing in many cases no identification or uniform, and often masked to conceal their identities. They are literally Stasi.
TFW you game the company's systems and find the actual direct phone number of the IT guy who has been ducking your messages for 3 freaking days via the "approved" method instead of just clicking a button to approve the request.
Millions of people all over the world looked at each other and went "My life is shit. So instead of voting for someone who could actually make it better, I'll vote for someone who'll make someone else's life even worse!" and then proceeded to vote for their local fascists.
It feels almost like a biblical morale that the president who mocked another president for being sleepy, is now filmed every week falling asleep at meetings.
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
his every accusation is a confession. Sleepy, crime family, hiding in basement, stealing, high treason, war criminal, betrayal, tax evasion, ... I wouldn't be surprised, if he was actually born in Germany and falsified his birth document.
When the time comes, they are going to try to "Weekend At Bernie's" Trump's arse, you watch. Occasionally, he'll be out on the golf cart somewhere riding around.
I don’t think he is well and stress has definitely gotten to him. It’s not a job where you can relax and Trump’s age, diet and health has worked against him.
For them, politics is just a game where the only goal is to win. For them, there are no morals in politics, and it would be as absurd to them as applying morals to winning in a board game.
They can still accuse their opponents for moral failings, because that’s part of the game.
Shit people, idioms only work if we all agree on the definitions!
After nearly 200 years of "Out-Of-Pocket" meaning "Paid for it yourself", some ignorant bonehead mashed "Out of office" together with it, and now all of corporate America says "Out-of-pocket" when they mean "unavailable".
Culturally it important? No, of course not. Am I irrationally furious every time I spend time during a meeting looking like an idiot because I have to translate before I can reply to your ignorant ass? Yes.
Am I the only one who gets a little subversive thrill every time I type in my unnecessarily required birthdate as January first, 1970, knowing that somebody, somewhere, someday, maybe an AI, is going to expend a lot of effort trying to determine if a) that's my actual birthday, b) there's a bug in their signup processing, or c) I somehow hacked the web form to let me submit it without the date filled in?
Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
I’ve been blogging for over a year now, which is a big exciting accomplishment for me! And yet, it wasn’t until this week that I stopped and thought about how weird the word blog is. It…
Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
Unus Nemo
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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.