Just learned that the famous military reference guide Jane's was first created in 1898 by a gamer nerd so that other gamer nerds could game harder and nothing ever really changes does it
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Gabriel Markoff
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This is where I post my silly little tweets in exile. Mostly about biking, or walking, or my cat, or whatever crosses my mind as I get sleepy before bed honk shoo honk shoo
Cornell West and Peter Daou together is like one of those weird alliances of minor characters who used to be enemies in the later, bad seasons of Game of Thrones who then instantly get vaporized by a dragon or ice zombie or something.
"Huh, never thought I'd see Lord Cornell of West and Ser Peter fighting on the same side!"
*5 very violent seconds later*
"Ah, well, nonetheless."
We took the kitten and the old man walking last night. The kitten is lazy and only wants to ride on my shoulders. The old man wants to walk everywhere himself and only accepts being carried when he's very tired.
Timnit Gebru (she/her).And another message. There was absolutely no need for this and we got the companies wanting to create an AGI god, putting these students in this awful situation. These "AI detection" tools need to be banned.
Really sucks that Valencia has basically become a no-go zone for bikes
Safe Street RebelWe love that the media is covering #weekOfCone, but they're mostly avoiding talking about one of the biggest problems: surveillance.
A self-driving car network is a city-wide surveillance network under corporate control (as summarized in the SF police department's own training materials!)
A world where cars are all replaced with surveillance robots is a world where everything you are doing is being watched. Where they watch you go from your home to a protest, or to get gender-affirming care, or to get an abortion. And because they're a private entity, who knows what (if any) restrictions there will be on what they do with that data.
Article (with linked SFPD document): https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras
To give a bit more context for people outside of San Francisco, in addition to being guinea pigs for self-driving cars, SF has also become a testbed for the future of the surveillance state. In SF it's now legal for the police to monitor private surveillance cameras in real time: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/23/23368603/san-francisco-police-private-surveillance-cameras-vote
In addition to the well-known problem with Ring cameras, the SFPD have spun off and funded a "private" nonprofit to set up cameras: https://sfsafe.org/our-mission/.
The SFPD has a history of using these cameras to surveil totally legal protests despite claiming that department policy doesn't allow that:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/sfpd-obtained-live-access-business-camera-network-anticipation-tyre-nichols
Really, just look over all the EFF headlines for San Francisco, and then it'll be clear that we can't let the city be blanketed in surveillance bots.
San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time
The San Francisco board of supervisors has voted to approved a measure that will let the SFPD access live footage from private security cameras in the course of investigating crimes and policing public events such as protests, in a move critics say will enhance surveillance of minorities in the city.