Lostinlodos has demonstrated over years to argue in bad faith on this site. They are a willing participant in the transnational white power movement and will gladly subvert the marketplace of ideas.
All their arguments are in bad faith. Do continue, if you enjoy trading blows with him on this forum, but you will not change his mind, and he will not further this or any conversation, but reiterate old, long-disproven arguments in a form of online gish gallop.
This is a known tactic in the drug war by dealing houses that have been successful who install reinforced doors that can't be simply breached (and bars in windows, etc.)
SWAT teams respond with extra breaching explosives, enough to blow the door right off, and when that fails, they'll blast the bars off the windows before they flashbang and clear.
(An old war-time trick is to leave the front entrance gaping open but leading into a well-defended killzone. For some reason, enemies fixate on getting through the killzone and not breaching the perimeter some other way.)
All these tactics have given way to a much cheaper alternative: Bribing the local police and retaining a good defense lawyer. That way, the coming attack is forewarned, the contraband is reduced, and prosecutors get a minor conviction that is undone in short order, but makes press and shows he's doing something to fight the drug trade. This has been the go-to tactic since the bootleggers of prohibition.
We do still see fortress drug-houses, but those defenses aren't for the police, but for rival syndicates, as they can't be bribed, and intend to massacre everyone in the house. Black market competition is rough.
If we're actually interested in the welfare of kids, there is an immense list of things that could really improve US children's lives.
~ Universal children's healthcare is on the top of the list.
~ Making sure they get meals. We even begrudge them school lunches. We should stop doing that.
~ Making sure the parents are paid enough that they don't have to work / commute 60 hours. Being a latchkey kid figures largely into the basket case I am today. Let's not repeat the cycle across any more generations maybe?
Now, why is it that we have a tuckfun of CSAM from Russia (especially circa early 1990s)? The USSR failed, and the infrastructure collapsed, and the streets were lousy with six-year-old to tweens openly willing to do sex work for a meal. Curiously, the US knew about it but didn't send food, rather we sent reporters to create news stories about how awful it is.
Nowadays, Russian porn has a reputation like Swedish porn in the 70s, and not all adult talent is as old as they claim to be. Kinda like Tracy Lords. Tons of the stuff is still in distribution.
So one of the things the US can do to make sure kids aren't faking their age to use OnlyFans to do sex work is provide them alternatives like social safety nets. You know, welfare. Every welfare queen is someone not committing crimes to eat.
My point is, the whole premise of EARN IT is bullshit, as it was with FOSTA and SOPA. It's like calling a clearcutting bill The Healthy Forests Act
Wait, didn't the Minneapolis Police Department spark a giant controversy mid 2020 about relentlessly killing an American citizen?
Weren't there bunches of BLM protests on which police routinely bombarded with anti-riot ordnance? Also riots and arson which were parallel to but often not directly related to the BLM presence?
Wasn't there a whole big nation-wide protest, even leading to the DHS sending LGMs to Portland and taking people off the streets without explanation?
Didn't Minneapolis decide with a majority vote it was going to abolish, or at least defund the Minneapolis Police Department, starting a conversation about defunding the police nationwide, and at least providing alternative response services, since the police usually just rob or kill people?
Did that whole defund the MPD thing get walked back?
Wasn't 2021 worse than 2020 when it comes to officer-involved homicide?
Aren't police forces nationwide, including Minneapolis getting even more money and free surplus military gear, that President Biden signed off on without hesitation?
(Unrelated but now law enforcement also has robot dogs with rifles being used on US soil)
There's a story (it may be apocryphal) that Sigmund Freud took in a patient who complained that he's hungry, and so Freud had a meal prepared for him.
Similarly, in 21st century psychiatric treatment, therapists need to look at causes in a patient's life, and invites them to make a stress inventory someone who is depressed and anxious isn't going to be helped much if they spend forty hours a week in a toxic work environment, can't get proper nutrition and are only averaging thirty-five hours of sleep a week. In that case, the therapist can only help the patient cope well enough to make the steps to escape their toxic regimen.
This is the survive to thrive model.
Likewise, I suspect there's a difference between people getting stressed out due to tabloid news (id est, celebrity break-ups; candy-marketing character redesigns; children's books with controversial messaging) as opposed to people getting stressed out about real news (the global tilt towards human habitability ending by 2050 may be irreversible by 2030; there's PFOA in the water everywhere; the government plans to only facilitate the escalating trends of officer-invoved violence towards American civilians; the US about to drop trillions on another war while kids starve on the homefront)
Yes, our capitalists want to use SSRIs the way Russia uses vodka, to keep workers working despite intolerable conditions, but they don't work that way. Likewise, the internet publicizing the lousy underbelly of the industrial machine and corrupt institutions is a benefit, a first step towards changing establishment so that it's not ruining lives and treating human beings as expendable.
Yes, we humans are able to look at the chaos and decay for so long before we lose hope, and our society needs to train people at an individual level to regulate their news-intake the way they regulate their Netflix-binging, beer consumption or shopping sprees. But when it comes to the gross unmanaged failures of our society, there's benefit to everyone knowing about it, so that those with ideas can relay them to those with power to implement change.
If administrators can't tell the difference between evidence of crime and students expressing their tastes, that's an argument to give them even less access to the lives of students, let alone use spyware to invade students' privacy.
School administrations in the US have a long, established history of disinterest in the welfare of the students, rather to either shuttle them directly into prisons or mold them into obedient solders to fight wars for plutocrats.
When the society decides that the welfare of kids are the first order of business, and they have the right to choose what future they get to live in (rather than to perpetuate the status quo of the present) then maybe administrators should have more influence, but right now they're banning books and persecuting the victims who present video proof of their own bullying. Right now they're freaking out about CRT even when CRT is only being introduced at the collegiate level.
Right now our schools are glorified prisons less interested in educating our kids than indoctrinating them so that society can blame them later for being too lazy. And until that changes, our overreaching school districts seeking to peer deeper into students' lives can fuck right off.
Feel free to consider a career other than faculty. I'm sure one less faculty that regards our students as natural-born criminals can only improve the situation.
This reminds me very much of the Dotcom affair, given that Dotcom's estate was raided to collect him.
As he noted early on in the proceedings, he drives to work routinely. His movement patterns are not random or concealed, and if they wanted to arrest him without all the tactical theater, it would be easy enough to do so at his work parking lot.
Rebecca Watson provides context to the Walgreens stores closing in San Francisco, borrowing some bits from Corey Doctorow.
A poop app isn't surprising given the homeless problem of San Francisco, what is due partially to a number of NIMBY obstruction efforts regarding recovery non-profits and low-income housing, perpetuating the problem of homeless to stay homeless.
Let's all remember that homeless people are still people, id est actual human beings while the businesses and property owners they annoy are still fighting tooth and nail to not be obligated to provide their own employees a living wage and enough to actually pay rent in the Bay Area.
And that leads to people who are homeless and employed at the same time joining with all the crazies that Governor Reagan long left to be swept up by the SFPD.
So when you get to specifics like poop apps and closing Walgreens stores, the US totally bought the tickets to ride this train. People with attitudes like yours, btr1701, willfully chose policies to create the current situation and then blame it on crime.
It's not wrongdoing against the state, though, not the County of San Francisco, or California or the United States, but an annoyance to people who see other people as a problem. It's really difficult for those of us who are not hard-lobbied officials to sympathize with large corporations even if they're being pillaged by vikings and pirates when they've been relentlessly fleecing the rest of the system for decades.
Walgreens in San Francisco can burn the fuck down for all I care, and maybe someone will put a co-op in its place that will recognize homeless people as human lives.
To be fair, I've noticed a reverse marketing strategy works on me: Now that you've played our game for free, you can buy this token cosmetic to show support
I received Deep Rock Galactic as a birthday present and was impressed enough with the game to go ahead and get the supporters upgrade (which gave me some cosmetics and a swanky badge).
The American dream since the 1980s (maybe since the 1849 Gold Rush) has been to find the Bronze Ring or Genie of the Lamp and exploit the snot out of it for personal gain, maybe even to become emperor or a billionaire or President of the United States.†
We even have whole runs of speculative fiction in which a charming but sad boy finds a magical alien or something and has adventures, sometimes seeking his fortune (or at least getting laid).
But yes, when the NSA and our National Security departments have all respectively decided to actually ignore national security concerns rather to bolster the power and wealth of their own, it's no surprise the technology abused by them would ultimately trickle into the private sector to be used by other interests.
† This is a much more satisfying explanation of how George W. Bush and Donald J Trump got elected than the Electoral College and SCOTUS shenanigans.
At this point I've only seen ho used as colloquial slang for whore. It has its own problems, between Santa's laugh, the humorous slang for the Hostess product. Whoopi Goldberg's company is One Ho Productions
Whenever I've read hoe it was referring to the gardening tool...unless it was in a rant or screed rife with misspellings and apostrophes used in plurals rather than possessives. In that case, I still read it as a farm tool because it amuses me.
The solution in my opinion is to descandalize sex work. Especially considering ours is an economy fit to drive workers to desperation.
In the meantime, our moderating systems are not only going to have to monitor for a continuous run of slurs, but will also have to watch for misspellings, intentional or otherwise. I've only heard of simps around August.
This reminds me of the whole rainbow parties thing which made the news in the...nineties? A long time ago. News was delivered by TV rather than internet.
The premise was a teen sex party in which the girls would wear different colored lipstick before fellating the boys, who'd then get to compare rainbow stains.
In the You're Wrong About podcast Sarah Marshall notes some of the logistics problems, including deciding which girl gets to wear green lipstick, and then assuring each girl only performs to specific depth and doesn't stain anyone else's work. It seemed like enough trouble to take all the fun out of the sex part of a sex party.
I believe this was discussed on the Tipper Gore versus Heavy Metal episodes (Part 1, Part 2) but I've listened to the series a lot and may have guessed wrong.
But a recurring point throughout the You're Wrong About podcast series is our moral guardians making shit up from whole cloth about what teens / gangs / wolves / clowns / compact cars are doing to bring an end to society, and then pressure our legislators to pass laws based on their assertions. It's the Malleus Maleficarum forever in a loop.
A lot of porn-screening AI finds sand-dunes very sexy. In the meantime, there was a study team that figured out how to convince scanning software how to misidentify things by adding an overlay of something else.
Both of theses specific issues may or may not have been compensated for by later tech, but it's going to be an ongoing race.
And if the government doesn't care about false positives, well, rather than using the overlay to make CSAM look to AI like a sports car, one can make a sports car look to AI like CSAM, and then make sure the image finds its way to the phone of political enemies.
The FBI has been mandated by order of congress to track officer-involved homicide since before the new century. It's not new news that the FBI as an institution is resistant to full transparency on the matter.
I suspect the FBI's database techs have orders to forget any incident they can justify forgetting, id est if there's no other immediate external record they can find for it.
The FBI's database is not intended to be a definitive source. It's a place the back-the-blues can go to get low estimates that bolster their arguments.
This smacks a lot of the way official counts of drone strike casualties in official reports are lower by orders of magnitude than the ones reported by independent sources at the times they were happening. Piles of dead children don't look good for the CIA or the US Army. The latter has a long tradition of understating casualties. The former has a long tradition of lying to congress, the White House or anyone who dares question what its doing.
Similarly, piles of dead non-whites looks bad for the Department of Justice, so the FBI is motivated to create an official story as well, and it, too will undercount the dead.
But wait, there's more:
It's expected that a lot of police-involved killings are not successfully uncovered by private data spiders looking to track them. Local provincial precincts are notorious for shoddy record keeping, to the point that we can't accurately track the cause of most homicides. (Most are officer-failed-to-care.) Since CSI isn't tracing where bullets come from or if heart attacks and DOAs were really heart attacks and DOAs (rather than officer-smash-puny-suspect). So some officer-involved deaths take their secrets with them to the grave.
The numbers I read were similar to rape statistics, between 20% and 70% of officer-involved homicides going unreported (and undetected).
The problem is law enforcement in the states is lousy with forensic tools that are used to raise suspicion (and establish probable cause) where there was none. Yes, trick pony dogs may be spoiling actual law enforcement tools like bomb sniffing dogs in airports, and two-dollar field drug tests which are used to turn powdered sugar into cocaine, or human ashes into heroine are serving to spoil the actual process by which drugs might be detected through chemical analysis. (Not to mention chemical technicians at labs fudging test results to drum up sales.)
But US law enforcement can't help themselves, especially now they're for-profit and are not watching for actual wrongdoing but money they can seize and underclasses they can justify summarily executing. They like their position as inquisitors and licensed highwaymen.
If there was a chance to restore the US and state police services back to the duties of investigating major crime and keeping the peace, then we might consider trying to create a set of regulations to re-legitimize forensic tools so that they're used within the confines of reasonable search and police aren't relying on false positives to seize suspects (or their stuff)
But again, here in the states, we have more legal analysts looking to circumvent regulation than we have ones looking to create fair regulation, and the process of sewing up the loopholes is going to have more civilian casualties than denying police access to any resources without explicit approval by those who are supposed to be mindful of civil rights.
The situation in the US is bad. On the precipice of a fascist uprising bad given that the police unions are entrenched in the transnational white power movement. I'm scared that, like Trump and his MAGAs they'll turn to insurrection once the system deigns to take away enough of their QI and decides to start prosecuting police-involved violence as actual crime.
This smacks of the police just not liking a civilian's... attitude and searched for something in the book to throw at him.
There wasn't anything certain. But the civilian asserted his rights and didn't appropriately lick the fascist jackboot, so the officer instead threw the process at him, expecting the courts wouldn't care or world uphold his superiority.
The officer was correct in this assumption, and now the civilian is jolly sorry for offending a law enforcement officer and an agent of the fascist police state.
If you're on Facebook, spend a year defacing your own page with false information before getting off, so that when you close your account, none of the data has been accurate for a few iterations.
If the US actually took the fourth amendment seriously, a device that could detect tiny traces of contraband in a big private area would be considered an unreasonable search on its own.
...let alone such a device that yields over 50% false positives (over 90% near some racial minorities), cannot be easily read except by self-proclaimed specialists and yet is still used frequently to justify probable cause.
It's distressing enough that dogs are used to justify warrantless searches (not even merely justifying starting a warrant-obtaining process). Really dogs should be retired from law enforcement work considering they're as accurate as police psychics. And barring that, a warrant should be required for the sniff, itself.
You can't negotiate with the fascist movement.
Lostinlodos has demonstrated over years to argue in bad faith on this site. They are a willing participant in the transnational white power movement and will gladly subvert the marketplace of ideas.
All their arguments are in bad faith. Do continue, if you enjoy trading blows with him on this forum, but you will not change his mind, and he will not further this or any conversation, but reiterate old, long-disproven arguments in a form of online gish gallop.
Security Lock Door Barricade
This is a known tactic in the drug war by dealing houses that have been successful who install reinforced doors that can't be simply breached (and bars in windows, etc.)
SWAT teams respond with extra breaching explosives, enough to blow the door right off, and when that fails, they'll blast the bars off the windows before they flashbang and clear.
(An old war-time trick is to leave the front entrance gaping open but leading into a well-defended killzone. For some reason, enemies fixate on getting through the killzone and not breaching the perimeter some other way.)
All these tactics have given way to a much cheaper alternative: Bribing the local police and retaining a good defense lawyer. That way, the coming attack is forewarned, the contraband is reduced, and prosecutors get a minor conviction that is undone in short order, but makes press and shows he's doing something to fight the drug trade. This has been the go-to tactic since the bootleggers of prohibition.
We do still see fortress drug-houses, but those defenses aren't for the police, but for rival syndicates, as they can't be bribed, and intend to massacre everyone in the house. Black market competition is rough.
Children's welfare issues
If we're actually interested in the welfare of kids, there is an immense list of things that could really improve US children's lives.
~ Universal children's healthcare is on the top of the list.
~ Making sure they get meals. We even begrudge them school lunches. We should stop doing that.
~ Making sure the parents are paid enough that they don't have to work / commute 60 hours. Being a latchkey kid figures largely into the basket case I am today. Let's not repeat the cycle across any more generations maybe?
Now, why is it that we have a tuckfun of CSAM from Russia (especially circa early 1990s)? The USSR failed, and the infrastructure collapsed, and the streets were lousy with six-year-old to tweens openly willing to do sex work for a meal. Curiously, the US knew about it but didn't send food, rather we sent reporters to create news stories about how awful it is.
Nowadays, Russian porn has a reputation like Swedish porn in the 70s, and not all adult talent is as old as they claim to be. Kinda like Tracy Lords. Tons of the stuff is still in distribution.
So one of the things the US can do to make sure kids aren't faking their age to use OnlyFans to do sex work is provide them alternatives like social safety nets. You know, welfare. Every welfare queen is someone not committing crimes to eat.
My point is, the whole premise of EARN IT is bullshit, as it was with FOSTA and SOPA. It's like calling a clearcutting bill The Healthy Forests Act
Minneapolis again?
Wait, didn't the Minneapolis Police Department spark a giant controversy mid 2020 about relentlessly killing an American citizen?
Weren't there bunches of BLM protests on which police routinely bombarded with anti-riot ordnance? Also riots and arson which were parallel to but often not directly related to the BLM presence?
Wasn't there a whole big nation-wide protest, even leading to the DHS sending LGMs to Portland and taking people off the streets without explanation?
Didn't Minneapolis decide with a majority vote it was going to abolish, or at least defund the Minneapolis Police Department, starting a conversation about defunding the police nationwide, and at least providing alternative response services, since the police usually just rob or kill people?
Did that whole defund the MPD thing get walked back?
Wasn't 2021 worse than 2020 when it comes to officer-involved homicide?
Aren't police forces nationwide, including Minneapolis getting even more money and free surplus military gear, that President Biden signed off on without hesitation?
(Unrelated but now law enforcement also has robot dogs with rifles being used on US soil)
So things are worse off since George Floyd?
Ugh.
Could have used a grammar pass. Sorry, all.
Maybe we should address some of the problems?
There's a story (it may be apocryphal) that Sigmund Freud took in a patient who complained that he's hungry, and so Freud had a meal prepared for him.
Similarly, in 21st century psychiatric treatment, therapists need to look at causes in a patient's life, and invites them to make a stress inventory someone who is depressed and anxious isn't going to be helped much if they spend forty hours a week in a toxic work environment, can't get proper nutrition and are only averaging thirty-five hours of sleep a week. In that case, the therapist can only help the patient cope well enough to make the steps to escape their toxic regimen.
This is the survive to thrive model.
Likewise, I suspect there's a difference between people getting stressed out due to tabloid news (id est, celebrity break-ups; candy-marketing character redesigns; children's books with controversial messaging) as opposed to people getting stressed out about real news (the global tilt towards human habitability ending by 2050 may be irreversible by 2030; there's PFOA in the water everywhere; the government plans to only facilitate the escalating trends of officer-invoved violence towards American civilians; the US about to drop trillions on another war while kids starve on the homefront)
Yes, our capitalists want to use SSRIs the way Russia uses vodka, to keep workers working despite intolerable conditions, but they don't work that way. Likewise, the internet publicizing the lousy underbelly of the industrial machine and corrupt institutions is a benefit, a first step towards changing establishment so that it's not ruining lives and treating human beings as expendable.
Yes, we humans are able to look at the chaos and decay for so long before we lose hope, and our society needs to train people at an individual level to regulate their news-intake the way they regulate their Netflix-binging, beer consumption or shopping sprees. But when it comes to the gross unmanaged failures of our society, there's benefit to everyone knowing about it, so that those with ideas can relay them to those with power to implement change.
Differences between tastes and crime
If administrators can't tell the difference between evidence of crime and students expressing their tastes, that's an argument to give them even less access to the lives of students, let alone use spyware to invade students' privacy.
School administrations in the US have a long, established history of disinterest in the welfare of the students, rather to either shuttle them directly into prisons or mold them into obedient solders to fight wars for plutocrats.
When the society decides that the welfare of kids are the first order of business, and they have the right to choose what future they get to live in (rather than to perpetuate the status quo of the present) then maybe administrators should have more influence, but right now they're banning books and persecuting the victims who present video proof of their own bullying. Right now they're freaking out about CRT even when CRT is only being introduced at the collegiate level.
Right now our schools are glorified prisons less interested in educating our kids than indoctrinating them so that society can blame them later for being too lazy. And until that changes, our overreaching school districts seeking to peer deeper into students' lives can fuck right off.
Feel free to consider a career other than faculty. I'm sure one less faculty that regards our students as natural-born criminals can only improve the situation.
A show of force
This reminds me very much of the Dotcom affair, given that Dotcom's estate was raided to collect him.
As he noted early on in the proceedings, he drives to work routinely. His movement patterns are not random or concealed, and if they wanted to arrest him without all the tactical theater, it would be easy enough to do so at his work parking lot.
Closing down storefronts due to crime
Rebecca Watson provides context to the Walgreens stores closing in San Francisco, borrowing some bits from Corey Doctorow.
A poop app isn't surprising given the homeless problem of San Francisco, what is due partially to a number of NIMBY obstruction efforts regarding recovery non-profits and low-income housing, perpetuating the problem of homeless to stay homeless.
Let's all remember that homeless people are still people, id est actual human beings while the businesses and property owners they annoy are still fighting tooth and nail to not be obligated to provide their own employees a living wage and enough to actually pay rent in the Bay Area.
And that leads to people who are homeless and employed at the same time joining with all the crazies that Governor Reagan long left to be swept up by the SFPD.
So when you get to specifics like poop apps and closing Walgreens stores, the US totally bought the tickets to ride this train. People with attitudes like yours, btr1701, willfully chose policies to create the current situation and then blame it on crime.
It's not wrongdoing against the state, though, not the County of San Francisco, or California or the United States, but an annoyance to people who see other people as a problem. It's really difficult for those of us who are not hard-lobbied officials to sympathize with large corporations even if they're being pillaged by vikings and pirates when they've been relentlessly fleecing the rest of the system for decades.
Walgreens in San Francisco can burn the fuck down for all I care, and maybe someone will put a co-op in its place that will recognize homeless people as human lives.
Sometimes Pirates Don't Pirate
To be fair, I've noticed a reverse marketing strategy works on me: Now that you've played our game for free, you can buy this token cosmetic to show support
I received Deep Rock Galactic as a birthday present and was impressed enough with the game to go ahead and get the supporters upgrade (which gave me some cosmetics and a swanky badge).
Pirates gonna pirate, except when they don't.
Pirates gonna pirate
Paying customers get screwed by DRM...
Paying customers learn to pirate.
Pirates gonna pirate.
The American Dream
The American dream since the 1980s (maybe since the 1849 Gold Rush) has been to find the Bronze Ring or Genie of the Lamp and exploit the snot out of it for personal gain, maybe even to become emperor or a billionaire or President of the United States.†
We even have whole runs of speculative fiction in which a charming but sad boy finds a magical alien or something and has adventures, sometimes seeking his fortune (or at least getting laid).
But yes, when the NSA and our National Security departments have all respectively decided to actually ignore national security concerns rather to bolster the power and wealth of their own, it's no surprise the technology abused by them would ultimately trickle into the private sector to be used by other interests.
† This is a much more satisfying explanation of how George W. Bush and Donald J Trump got elected than the Electoral College and SCOTUS shenanigans.
Farming implents and sex workers
At this point I've only seen ho used as colloquial slang for whore. It has its own problems, between Santa's laugh, the humorous slang for the Hostess product. Whoopi Goldberg's company is One Ho Productions
Whenever I've read hoe it was referring to the gardening tool...unless it was in a rant or screed rife with misspellings and apostrophes used in plurals rather than possessives. In that case, I still read it as a farm tool because it amuses me.
The solution in my opinion is to descandalize sex work. Especially considering ours is an economy fit to drive workers to desperation.
In the meantime, our moderating systems are not only going to have to monitor for a continuous run of slurs, but will also have to watch for misspellings, intentional or otherwise. I've only heard of simps around August.
Adults want teens to not have any fun
This reminds me of the whole rainbow parties thing which made the news in the...nineties? A long time ago. News was delivered by TV rather than internet.
The premise was a teen sex party in which the girls would wear different colored lipstick before fellating the boys, who'd then get to compare rainbow stains.
In the You're Wrong About podcast Sarah Marshall notes some of the logistics problems, including deciding which girl gets to wear green lipstick, and then assuring each girl only performs to specific depth and doesn't stain anyone else's work. It seemed like enough trouble to take all the fun out of the sex part of a sex party.
I believe this was discussed on the Tipper Gore versus Heavy Metal episodes (Part 1, Part 2) but I've listened to the series a lot and may have guessed wrong.
But a recurring point throughout the You're Wrong About podcast series is our moral guardians making shit up from whole cloth about what teens / gangs / wolves / clowns / compact cars are doing to bring an end to society, and then pressure our legislators to pass laws based on their assertions. It's the Malleus Maleficarum forever in a loop.
False positives
A lot of porn-screening AI finds sand-dunes very sexy. In the meantime, there was a study team that figured out how to convince scanning software how to misidentify things by adding an overlay of something else.
Both of theses specific issues may or may not have been compensated for by later tech, but it's going to be an ongoing race.
And if the government doesn't care about false positives, well, rather than using the overlay to make CSAM look to AI like a sports car, one can make a sports car look to AI like CSAM, and then make sure the image finds its way to the phone of political enemies.
This is not surprising.
The FBI has been mandated by order of congress to track officer-involved homicide since before the new century. It's not new news that the FBI as an institution is resistant to full transparency on the matter.
I suspect the FBI's database techs have orders to forget any incident they can justify forgetting, id est if there's no other immediate external record they can find for it.
The FBI's database is not intended to be a definitive source. It's a place the back-the-blues can go to get low estimates that bolster their arguments.
This smacks a lot of the way official counts of drone strike casualties in official reports are lower by orders of magnitude than the ones reported by independent sources at the times they were happening. Piles of dead children don't look good for the CIA or the US Army. The latter has a long tradition of understating casualties. The former has a long tradition of lying to congress, the White House or anyone who dares question what its doing.
Similarly, piles of dead non-whites looks bad for the Department of Justice, so the FBI is motivated to create an official story as well, and it, too will undercount the dead.
But wait, there's more:
It's expected that a lot of police-involved killings are not successfully uncovered by private data spiders looking to track them. Local provincial precincts are notorious for shoddy record keeping, to the point that we can't accurately track the cause of most homicides. (Most are officer-failed-to-care.) Since CSI isn't tracing where bullets come from or if heart attacks and DOAs were really heart attacks and DOAs (rather than officer-smash-puny-suspect). So some officer-involved deaths take their secrets with them to the grave.
The numbers I read were similar to rape statistics, between 20% and 70% of officer-involved homicides going unreported (and undetected).
Re: Re: Warrants should be necessary for ANY dog use.
The problem is law enforcement in the states is lousy with forensic tools that are used to raise suspicion (and establish probable cause) where there was none. Yes, trick pony dogs may be spoiling actual law enforcement tools like bomb sniffing dogs in airports, and two-dollar field drug tests which are used to turn powdered sugar into cocaine, or human ashes into heroine are serving to spoil the actual process by which drugs might be detected through chemical analysis. (Not to mention chemical technicians at labs fudging test results to drum up sales.)
But US law enforcement can't help themselves, especially now they're for-profit and are not watching for actual wrongdoing but money they can seize and underclasses they can justify summarily executing. They like their position as inquisitors and licensed highwaymen.
If there was a chance to restore the US and state police services back to the duties of investigating major crime and keeping the peace, then we might consider trying to create a set of regulations to re-legitimize forensic tools so that they're used within the confines of reasonable search and police aren't relying on false positives to seize suspects (or their stuff)
But again, here in the states, we have more legal analysts looking to circumvent regulation than we have ones looking to create fair regulation, and the process of sewing up the loopholes is going to have more civilian casualties than denying police access to any resources without explicit approval by those who are supposed to be mindful of civil rights.
The situation in the US is bad. On the precipice of a fascist uprising bad given that the police unions are entrenched in the transnational white power movement. I'm scared that, like Trump and his MAGAs they'll turn to insurrection once the system deigns to take away enough of their QI and decides to start prosecuting police-involved violence as actual crime.
Can't beat the ride.
This smacks of the police just not liking a civilian's... attitude and searched for something in the book to throw at him.
There wasn't anything certain. But the civilian asserted his rights and didn't appropriately lick the fascist jackboot, so the officer instead threw the process at him, expecting the courts wouldn't care or world uphold his superiority.
The officer was correct in this assumption, and now the civilian is jolly sorry for offending a law enforcement officer and an agent of the fascist police state.
He'll wear kneepads from now on.
If you're not on Facebook, don't get on.
If you're on Facebook, spend a year defacing your own page with false information before getting off, so that when you close your account, none of the data has been accurate for a few iterations.
Warrants should be necessary for ANY dog use.
If the US actually took the fourth amendment seriously, a device that could detect tiny traces of contraband in a big private area would be considered an unreasonable search on its own.
...let alone such a device that yields over 50% false positives (over 90% near some racial minorities), cannot be easily read except by self-proclaimed specialists and yet is still used frequently to justify probable cause.
It's distressing enough that dogs are used to justify warrantless searches (not even merely justifying starting a warrant-obtaining process). Really dogs should be retired from law enforcement work considering they're as accurate as police psychics. And barring that, a warrant should be required for the sniff, itself.
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