Christopher Coffman

any Democrat not running on a platform that demands trials for everyone involved - from Trump down to the freshest goon recruit - should be persona non grata

Lol

like i keep saying: i’ll believe AI is real when a sex bot chooses on its own not to fuck these guys

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

seal of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on its old building extension in downtown dallas that i think is now a data bank building attached to the original building that is actually really cool there’s a shield with 12 stars at the top and a big “11 K” in the middle an eagle with outstretched wings is perched on top, and there are two laurel branches on either side

i am totally going to steal this seal on the old Dallas Fed building

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

the guy (white) who did my only tattoo to date casually dropped the n-word halfway through the tattoo when his friend (also white) came into the studio and started complaining about someone else 😐

the Texas GOP is not just anti-Democrat

they are anti-democracy, and have been for decades

diminish returns is exactly what i was thinking…great example when more isn’t better

yeah, the LLM aspect of AI doesn't seem to be the issue so much as other forms of pattern recognition, but even then, the data out there is such a mess that even the power of a gajillion GPUs is going to have a hard time of it and hallucinate all sorts of worthless info

this particular skeet is going to live rent free in my mind for some time

of course, with "AI", i guess the time constraint associated with sifting through the data is much less constraining for people who want to put in the work to be evil. it feels like we're less on the cusp of a technosurveillance state and more on the cusp of a fraud economy/state 🤷‍♂️ 6/6

maybe i'm wrong, maybe i'm full of shit...but 20 years after first getting a glimpse into the data that companies collect on us, i'm less worried about whatever data i create and who has it. there's so much more data generated by us, about us...seems like the zone has been flooded with shit 5/6

has our technology advanced to the point that a technosurveillance state could do real harm? yeah, i think so. but luckily, it seems like most of the people with the capacity to do so are too busy figuring out how to get more clicks and dollars...not worth it to surveil any one person 4/6

at most, your phone/computer knows which apps you use and websites you visit and all of that new digital data just means you view XYZ or talk about XYZ around your phone or TV and start seeing ads for XYZ...basically, most of that data is used to nudge your consumption of goods and media 3/6

fast forward 20 years...yes, companies probably have even more data about us, but again, i'm guessing that most of it is still such a clusterfuck that it has limited value for a technosurveillance state, otherwise i think we'd be seeing more obvious and very real signs of it 2/6

good thread, to which i'll add...

having working in consumer finance ~20 years ago, i can tell you that yes, companies do have a lot of data about us...but so much of that data is jumbled and mis-matched and at least back then was a huge pain in the ass to make sense of 1/6

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

i spent 20 years applying for applied economics jobs and being rejected, i think i deserve this as a consolation prize

seal of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on its old building extension in downtown dallas that i think is now a data bank building attached to the original building that is actually really cool there’s a shield with 12 stars at the top and a big “11 K” in the middle an eagle with outstretched wings is perched on top, and there are two laurel branches on either side

i am totally going to steal this seal on the old Dallas Fed building

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Kennedy: "I was stunned when Noem answered categorically that the president approved every single bit of it. Later that day, I got a call from President Trump. He was mad as a mamma wasp ... she was dead as fried chicken."

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

No dignity

Participant in one of the worst criminal conspiracies to ever befall the government rewarded with more opportunities to breach data safety protocols.

We’re dying because of overpriced dinosaur juice while China wins the future.

what are the odds they’ll end up depleting the SPR

America has a long history of pointless and wasteful military adventurism. And in our quest to normalize Trump we’ve stuck his Iran war in that box: “another war, just like the rest.” It’s not like the rest. It’s an act of insanity, rogue state behavior. Don’t know how this ends until we admit it.

looking at MoM % changes, this is not as bad as May ‘20, more on par with Aug ‘90

this is global pandemic and great recession territory