Johnny Johnson

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Worth thinking about how John Fetterman's position polls at 5% among Democratic primary voters and AOC's polls at 75%

Half these people are unrecognizable as characters we should feel anything about. Give me Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s smoking skeletons over them

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

School is basically the only age you won't go to jail for decking a dumbass, perfect time to teach 'em actions have consequences.

If more racist fools had gotten a knuckle sandwich or twelve for their bullshit earlier on in life, we'd have significantly fewer Problems right now.

sigh

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Absolutely. This similarity to “mentalists” in particular is described and explained in great detail here:

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Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. ➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today.

It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files.

Just wow.

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier.

Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

welcome to my hot hot takes:

1. i love trans people
2. treating others like fellow human beings is SO hot
3. littering is unsexy, along with spitting on the ground
4. fuck the king, redistribute the wealth
5. art is everywhere even if you think it’s shitty and worthless

6. advocating for mental health means even when it’s ugly and hard and not just when it’s art therapy colouring books
7. you don’t have to forgive people to move on
8. i’m pretty certain neurodiverse people invented everything
9. pets will tell you where the ghosts are
10. kindness will win

11. everyone responds differently to everything
12. everyone’s 24 hours in a day are not the same
13. grief is never done
14. “i saw this and thought of you” is the most sincere and honest exchange
15. there’s no such thing as a waste of time

Anyone should be able to tell you that there is no financial business strategy that makes any long-term sense for the use of gAI. Anyone should also be able to tell you that there is zero percent chance that gAI has actual intelligence or could ever achieve it. These are known facts. “Hype” is a con

Wow this FBI Wallet Inspector is for real! I don’t know how it works but everyone needs to go all-in on this, it’s the future

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

It’s a pitfall of the human brain, unfortunately. Humans take advantage of this innate susceptibility all the time, and it can affect anyone who didn’t happen to totally reject the entire plausibility of a con and walk away from it at first contact.

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

They don’t, because it’s not.

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

A picture a friend of mine posted in a Discord. Its several Harry Potter books on Audible for an ad. Graffiti is sprawled over the books and it reads in all caps: “FIND A BETTER BOOK” A male female, gender symbol, which I’m going to assume represents trans folks is in the top right corner, but there’s an a for anarchy inside of the circle in the symbol

Find a better book

I can buy that my wry observation is not “true” irony (Although it’s very easy to link up with the self-contained ironic situation where a computational device can be programmed to be unable to perform mathematics) but it has nothing to do with my knowledge of machine learning and generative AI lmao

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Beautiful!

Also I did not know there are PETALcutter bees. “Waste no part of the flower!”

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.”

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