Musk's Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9 billion valuation, Semafor reports
Basic Glitch @ AcidicBasicGlitch @lemm.ee Posts 134Comments 367Joined 4 mo. ago
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Yeah, I wrote about that and in particular hope more people will pay attention to what Michael Kratsios is doing.
Kratsios stays pretty quiet, so most people aren't aware of him, or the fact he and Thiel were behind most of the ideas everyone currently associates with DOGE during Trump's first administration.
Well TBF, I think they also existed to cover up the money that was being stolen to pour into these AI data centers, but disguise that missing money as "savings." Pretty sure they thought they would be able to make so much money so quickly, that they would just be able to replace it before anyone realized all of those "savings" numbers were just bullshit.
Not that they ever planned to actually bring any of the jobs back, but likely thought they could replace the money that was stolen and then just automate those jobs anyway bc AI is apparently magic
The image is from March, but who knows
I am more inclined to believe Thiel set him up to be the face of all the DOGE work and then had him step down when Kratsios was nominated.
I also saw something about nuralink stock being up though, so could be a distraction
Lol for a min I thought you were talking about Aaron Schwartz and I was legit trying to figure out what he had done lol
"Totally not a narc, inc."
I mean, I learned it a while back when I lost my account of 10 years. I only use Reddit to try to warn people in my community about the insane information that is being suppressed right now even at a local level
Uhh... Do you know why they call Louisiana cancer alley?
Hint: it's not because there are way too many regulations/strict oversight of how businesses dispose of toxic waste.
Or we could continue to just regulate them, and elect leaders that understand nuclear safety regulations have existed for the last 50 years for a good reason...
It's weird how they had no interest in expanding nuclear energy in Louisiana until they realized the gas powered turbines and giant LNG plant Landry has had in the works weren't going to be enough to keep these supercomputers running.
I guess regulated nuclear energy is too woke
Law enforcement officer
In my city, a private company, Project Nola, owns the cameras. The owner is a former LEO and basically started a private security company in the city around 2015. He charges people an installation fee and cloud storage fee for the cameras, but has allegedly always offered surveillance footage to the cops for free because he wants to help tackle crime. There has never been an official contract with the city or police
I could possibly see a small company legitimately starting out that way, but this company actually popped up in the city during the middle of a secret partnership between the city and Palantir. The partnership, which enabled Palantir to collect data on individuals in order to create and patent predictive policing software was exposed in 2018.
There is allegedly no link between the two private companies, but the business model of the local surveillance company seems very hard to match the level of growth despite what would seem to be a fairly low profit margin it charges people using its service.
At some point the owner of the local surveillance company began combining his surveillance with facial recognition software, which then provides real time tracking of individuals on a watchlist to police (or anyone working with the company) when a match is made via information the surveillance cameras are constantly scanning for. The cameras can scan for details like a specific face (which is still prone to error/false positive matches) or it can scan for more vague details like walking gait, clothes a suspect may be wearing, or the type of car they may be driving.
The owner of the surveillance company, insists he does share the data he collects with anyone other than the law enforcement agencies he is working with. Originally this was apparently only NOPD, but now it's also the state police, FBI, and ICE/ICE state affiliates such as the National Guard, ATF, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and some other Louisiana state departments.
If that were true, it would still be quite concerning, but given that he apparently began using facial recognition software at some point over the last few years, and the most common facial recognition software used by LEOs and private companies is also a company backed by Peter Thiel, I find that claim nearly impossible to believe.
Here is some info about that other Thiel backed company, Clearview AI
Before the police in New Orleans began using the facial recognition software, they had to lift a city wide ban in 2022, that had originally been put in place in 2020
Two years after the city's partnership with Palantir allegedly ended, it was revealed the city was using facial recognition software, despite years of denying use. After this use was revealed, the 2020 ban of the technology was put in place. In 2022, the mayor requested the ban be lifted, so that police could continue using facial recognition software, but an ordinance regulating use was created in order to offer some regulation and protection of this use. However, last week, a Washington Post article revealed that police had just ignored that ordinance anyway.
Most people in New Orleans, including myself, were oblivious about most of this information until the Washington Post article was released. NOPD has allegedly stopped using the tracking software since the Post began its investigation, but is hoping to get the city to remove the ordinance they were in violation of.
As concerning as all of this is, what's perhaps even more concerning are the provisions included in the 2022 ordinance, that was created with the intention of providing some small level of regulation and protection to the public once the ban was lifted.
The proposed ordinance, if passed, would largely reverse the council’s blanket bans on the use facial recognition and characteristic tracking software, which is similar to facial recognition but for identifying race, gender, outfits, vehicles, walking gait and other attributes. One provision also appears to walk back the city’s ban on predictive policing and cell-site simulators — which intercept and spy on cell phone calls — to locate people suspected of certain serious crimes.
That provision could, for the first time, give the city explicit permission to use a whole host of surveillance technology in certain circumstances, including voice recognition, x-ray vans, “through the wall radar,” social media monitoring software, “tools used to gain unauthorized access to a computer,” and more.
I would definitely just be that lady driving the truck
Or those that attend a protest, or mouth off to the wrong person, or catch the interest of the wrong person, the potential for abuse is kinda endless.
You know how in healthcare, you can be fired for looking up someones medical records just to snoop on them, even if you're not sharing it with anyone else? This is like that but so much worse, and you could potentially be sharing that information with anyone with zero consequences
Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven
This was the same day the bill passed in the House
I think there's already a law banning porn in my state. Not sure if that's a loophole
If you work for a corporation, sure why not?
If you're just firing as a citizen absolutely not!
Also doesn't hack what my city apparently quietly allowed as of 2022 when they rolled back previous bans on predictive policing tech and created a new ordinance with very bare minimum regulations (which the city still violated)
Through the wall x-ray surveillance?! Oh yeah also created the initial ban after it was revealed they were secretly partnering with Palantir for several years, so probably not a coincidence
I just found this all out a few days ago, but if we all learn to shimmy and wear sheets of lead 24/7 maybe we'll be able to get around it
It's like a fucked up doctor Seus rhyme
States rights for me, and none for you, not if blue states might get them too
But if we all think about it you will see
On banning state regulations, we can't agree
They say the only regulation needed is a federal light touch
Because these stupid assholes spent way too much.
They put all our eggs into one AI basket
Why trust them now that the economy is in a casket?
Our economy is fucked either way
But handing over our rights won't make it magically ok
They'll have to figure it out, like we do with tariffs and inflation
Tell them to eat our AI regulations
Well large or small be sure to cover your face at protests (or even anytime you walk outside) bc my state is now using facial recognition AI to track and profile people on a watchlist or even people that maybe kind of look like them
If this passes the Senate your state will be doing it too, and if my theory about why they are starting all this here in my city is correct, then when they use the various states national guardsmen to march across state lines and enforce Trump's federal immigration laws, even the bluest state will be forced to comply
Blue cities within red states being used to test run full scale U.S. authoritarian takeovers?
Sorry, got a little heated and misunderstood what you were saying, and yeah I agree that is a perfect example
This one lady is nervously stepping out of line bc she's starting to sweat and realized it means she's also fucked and not magically protected by being a part of the old money white men's club
Meanwhile the technocratic elites that want this ban and all the Republicans in the house that tried to sneak this through are the ones secretly looking out for you by banning blue states from regulations to protect themselves
Here's a story about the dystopian nightmare I'm facing bc my state is in favor of banning its own regulation and is ALLOWING THIS DEREGULATION TO GO ON
The NOPD have paused their use bc it was in violation of a city ordinance (which I'm also guessing would be reversed by this ban)
Now the FBI, ICE, National Guard, and for some reason the fucking Department of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries also have completely unregulated access to look for whoever they want with zero oversight bc it's a private company. We all know corporations are our frenz right?
Well you need someone to control the narrative, so if there's no one being tasked by an administration to actively spread a conspiracy, it's harder to get people to embrace it.
Reuters reported last summer that the Pentagon had a campaign to spread online disinformation about China's vaccine Doesn't really seem too far fetched to think something similar was used against Americans by the same people that would now benefit from Americans being blissfully unaware of how dangerous it is to put one of these chips in their brain. After all, it has an official breakthrough tag now, and if it was really so dangerous "why would the FDA approve it?"
Not sure if you remember, but we were also one of the only countries that tried to downplay the effectiveness of people wearing masks during the earliest days of the pandemic. That was one I never could figure out back then, but now I'm suspicious that was also part of a targeted disinformation campaign.
March 2020 White House seeks assistance from tech companies in fight against coronavirus
So with all those people and their resources controlling the narrative, why would we then be spreading misinformation about masking? Why would anybody care if large numbers of Americans were covering their face to stop the spread of disease?
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I do feel like the public should be more aware that Trump's former CTO and current science advisor, the guy who was also tasked with preventing online disinformation being spread during COVID, was also tirelessly promoting deregulated facial recognition technology long before anyone was considering that masking in public would be common in the U.S.
Nov 2019: Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More