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Palantir had a contract with New Orleans starting around ~2012 to create their predictive policing tech that scans surveillance cameras for very vague details and still misidentifies people.

It's very similar to Lavender, the tech they use to identify members of Hamas and attack with drones. This results in misidentified targets ~10% of the time, according to the IDF (likely it's a much higher misidentification rate than 10%).

Palantir picked Louisiana over somewhere like San Francisco bc they knew it would be a lot easier to violate rights and privacy here and get away with it.

Whatever they decide in New Orleans on Thursday during this Council meeting that nobody cares about, will likely be the first of its kind on the books legal basis to track civilians in the U.S. and allow the federal government to take control over that ability whenever they want. This could also set a precedent for use in other states.

Guess who's running the entire country right now, and just gave high ranking army contracts to Palantir employees for "no reason" while they are also receiving a multimillion dollar federal contract to create an insane database on every American and giant data centers are being built all across the country.

UCS definitely has good intentions.

I just don't have faith in the Trump OSTP to actually look at the evidence or even bother reading a letter to consider their next steps.

They've been planning this for a long time. If they can't capitalize on it, they will be getting rid of it.

Do they even make dunkaroos anymore?

I remember they made them when I was a kid and then they were discontinued and then they returned, but I thought they got discontinued again.

Anyway, when I was in college I learned you can make a big ass batch of dunkaroo frosting super cheap

https://basicswithbails.com/popular/baking/homemade-dunkaroo-dip-funfetti-cake-batter-dip/

https://callascleaneats.com/viral-dunkaroo-dip-high-protein-low-carb/

Pissing contest or most careless game of chicken ever? Both?

Idiocracy prepared me for this to happen, but it also failed me because it made me believe that it would be a lot less serious/more funny than it is.

If Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu could just stop being psychotic dictators driving us all towards destruction for two seconds, that would be great.

Don't forget a few weeks ago we allegedly agreed (at least publicly) to back away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and let them fight it out in exchange for Putin saying he would be keeping Iran in line.

Since then:

1. Netenyahu narrowly avoided being voted out of power and immediately began bombing Iran within 24 hours.
2. Trump decided he wanted to get in on kicking the hornets nest for some fucking reason, and now we're under high alert for a counter attack (surprise), and U.S. counter terrorism is literally under the watch of a 22 year old grocer. It's almost like they want us to be attacked, but they're too dumb (or just don't even care about trying) to make it look like a convincing spontaneous attack against the U.S.
3. Putin has continued to bombard the shit out of civilians in Ukraine.

Fuck these evil fucking fucks.

I wasn't arguing with you, everything you said is correct.

Just adding more details and the timeline of events that makes this all even more "what the actual fuck is happening?"

~2012ish: Palantir receives contract with city of New Orleans

2015: Privately owned Project Nola surveillance cam program created

2018: City cancels very shady contract with Palantir that helped them create and test their predictive policing tech

2020: Peter Thiel becomes major investor in Clearview AI facial recognition technology. Free trials are given to ICE and multiple local law enforcement agencies across the U.S.

Late 2020: Ban on facial recognition tech and predictive policing in New Orleans

2022: ~18 months later, Cantrell requests City Council lift the ban, and it is replaced with shady surveillance ordinance giving the city some very concerning privileges in certain circumstances

2024: Cantrell says she won't fight Landry establishing Troop Nola as a permanent police presence in the city, despite concerns from civil rights advocacy groups

Feb 2025: Forbes reports that Clearview AI remains unprofitable due to multiple ongoing lawsuits and previous inability to secure federal contracts. The company says future focus will be large federal contracts.

May 2025: Washington Post reveals NOPD has been ignoring the fairly lax laws regarding facial recognition tech in the 2022 surveillance ordinance while working with Project Nola. NOPD pauses use of tech, but Troop Nola and federal agencies continue use bc they're not under city jurisdiction

Wow, I didn't even know that. Louisiana State law. That some dumb fucking bullshit.

https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/law.aspx?d=78402

They make an exception for medical masks, but I also saw that video of a protestor getting hassled and arrested for a medical mask recently.

I guess I'm just going to have to start using face paint to trick their cams

Not just the military. I found out Palantir had a contract with my own city to develop and test their predictive policing technology until 2018. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd

The city banned predictive policing and facial recognition tech, then quietly lifted the ban and replaced it with a very concerning ordinance in 2022. https://thelensnola.org/2022/02/17/mayor-cantrell-moves-to-reverse-bans-on-facial-recognition-predictive-policing-and-other-surveillance-tech/

Then it came out that the city wasn't even following the rules they had created in the sketchy ordinance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/

The private surveillance company using the facial recognition tech (which was created during the time Palantir was still under contract with the city, but is allegedly totally unrelated to Palantir 🙄) couldn't keep providing the real time facial recognition tracking to city police bc WaPo exposed they were violating the ordinance. However, since it's only a city ordinance and they're a private company, they can still provide it to literally anyone else in the city (state police, federal agents, ICE, military).

They've already been doing a lot of shady shit to American citizens, and it's naive to just trust that they won't eventually start using these kinds of AI drone weapons on American soil.

You have quite a way with words. You brought the image to life and now I can't unsee it.

I kind of hate bluesky, but smashed the follow button for IntelTwink as soon as I read that username.

Flash forward to 2025 and these same fucks are cheering a federal takeover of California and trying to convince the rest of America to agree to ban state regulation of A.I.

Who TF is actually going to want to use these platforms bad enough to do this shit?

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

Reddit is mainly just very poorly disguised government surveillance and AI generated advertisement, and none of the content is even enjoyable or enticing. Who TF is their target audience?

It's funny how all 3 countries involved in this (4 if you count Russia) are being hurled towards catastrophe and likely world ending destruction by powerful men who are not even admired by a large percentage of the populations they control.

Nobody that actually wants a regime change in any of these countries, wants this war to happen.

A destabilizing war, allegedly necessary to create regime change, will act as a chaotic distraction from questionable leadership, and help each of these men, at least temporarily, tighten their slipping power grips.

The people of Iran, Israel, and the U.S. are not fighting each other. 3 or 4 men are fighting with angry threatening words and tweets, and making the choice to put all of humanity at risk to do so. Fucking absurd.

I'm not defending cluster bombs, I'm saying it's bullshit to kill multiple families in an apartment building and pretend you're the fucking good guys because you have more sophisticated tech. Especially when there was no reason to attack Iran like this in the first place.

He's been accusing Iran of being weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 2012. He almost gets voted out of leadership and when he doesn't he jumps on the opportunity to start bombing Iran and taking out these scientists (and everyone around them) who he had been targeting since November.

He and Trump are going to get us all killed to gain money and power. Fuck them and fuck anyone that wants to keep defending this ignorant bullshit, as if people can't see clear as day, exactly what these sacks of shit are doing.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Saturday that if the U.S. were to get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, the result would be “very, very dangerous” for everybody

Araghchi also claimed that Iran has “many indications” that the U.S. has been involved in Israel’s bombardments of Iran since “day one.”

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Saturday that if the U.S. were to get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, the result would be “very, very dangerous” for everybody

Araghchi also claimed that Iran has “many indications” that the U.S. has been involved in Israel’s bombardments of Iran since “day one.”

But like... Presumably, you're not just individually killing a bunch of civilians precisely

No, they're not precise at all unless you consider also killing their families and potentially an entire building full of people to be acceptable "precision."

That's why it seems like bullshit to pretend lower tech cluster bombs are an inexcusable evil compared to Palantir AI drones.

Right now, the taxes I pay go partially to arming them,

And we are giving millions in contracts to Palantir to help them create these nightmare AI projects with zero oversight.

Alex Karp's biography makes it pretty clear he's trying to spin this shit as every American's patriotic duty to support, and no different than the Manhattan project (as if that's something great to aspire to in the first fucking place) during WWII.

I think it's probably pretty hard to keep simultaneously assassinating 10 targets and their families under wraps, so they're trying to get ahead of accusations by pretending it's a show of military strength instead of horrifying skynet murder.

It looks especially bad when they're pointing the finger at Iran for fucking cluster bombs.

The argument being cluster bombs are a dirty move, but using simultaneous AI powered assassin drones to strike while people are sleeping makes you the good guys?