Agreed.

brains is probably a disqualification.

That’s what I’ve heard.

I’ve heard about these things happening before.

The cops have surveillance video of a suspect, and they feed it into a face recognition AI. The AI then searches for people who look like the suspect.

It’s not finding the suspect. It’s finding pictures of people who look like the suspect. The cops are supposed to use that to determine if anyone the AI identified possibly could be the suspect.

However, any stupid, lazy cop will pretend that is sufficient and away they go.

From what I’ve read, the face matching applications even state clearly that the match doesn’t constitute any kind of proof that the person identified is actually guilty of anything. Anyone with any brains would understand that you need to have independent verification before even considering arresting someone. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t want people with brains working as cops.

Just because they are called “public” it doesn’t mean they’re owned by the public. It’s a non profit created to produce media for public consumption, but they still have bills to pay, employees, etc.

If they have content for streaming or DVD sales or (probably more likely) licensing to other PBS stations, they need to get income from it to maximize their ability to continue to produce the free broadcasts they were created for.

They shouldn’t, but when has that ever stopped them? The (stupid) assumption they make is that the computer wouldn’t make a mistake, so they assume it found the exact person they were looking for.

Judges shouldn’t be issuing warrants solely because a face matching algorithm found someone who looked like the suspect, but they are probably as clueless about the technology as the police are.

I was listening to a podcast episode that was talking about AI-based face recognition and how it’s being used.

The way it works, you take your shitty, off-center still from a security camera showing the suspect at an odd angle, and you feed it into the AI. The AI searches all the images it has access to to find people who look like the suspect.

Police take the results, pick up the person from that list that they think is the closest match, then they put them in front of a line-up, and ask the witnesses to identify the person who committed the crime. Once they have a positive ID, they use that to charge and convict the suspect.

The problem, of course, is that the AI is just finding people who look like the suspect. If they use the tool correctly, they would do some investigation to determine if there is any chance that anyone identified by the AI could actually be the suspect. Instead, they treat it like the AI identified the specific person they were looking for.

One example they used was a woman who was arrested. They arrested her despite the woman in the video not being pregnant and the woman they arrested being about 8 months along.

I’m ok with recording a movie or show from TV. That was commonly accepted in the VCR days, so I see no reason it shouldn’t be acceptable today. I have a couple things in my media server that were transferred from a Tivo years ago.

However, I generally prefer to rip movies from DVD or Blu-ray to avoid the breaks, strange edits, and channel logos that get put on broadcasts.

I can only think of one thing I really pirated, and that was Song of the South. The only way to get a copy was Pirate Bay. Disney won’t release it and won’t go after anyone who pirates it, because they want to pretend it doesn’t exist. However, it was an important movie historically for it’s early integration of animation with live action.

The suggestion that slaves freed after the Civil War were happy to remain in a position of subservience to the plantation owners is distasteful to say the least. Apart from that, the writing and acting in the live action sequences is so terrible that it’s not worth keeping. I wanted to see it once, but I discarded it after.

I hit up thrift stores to buy movies on disk. I think it’s more than 1200 now.

They get ripped and added to my media server, then I store the disks just in case I need them.

While I don’t condemn anyone for pirating media, my personal ethics don’t allow me to. So, I need to have the purchased, physical copy to keep it on my server.

Last weekend I unpacked them all with a plan to put them in alphabetical order:

Buying used I occasionally get one that’s unplayable. When that happens, I borrow a copy from the library to rip.

invent your own Internet

Seriously, please. The one we have now sucks.

“We went to bed one night, and when we woke the next morning, they were there! Someone must have bolted them on.”

I don’t know you, and I certainly don’t know your aunt and uncle, but I would generally assume in Nazi situations that “even after” probably means “particularly after” even if they don’t admit it.

I posted above, but it is a real product:

3D Systems Cube 2 3D Printer:

https://www.3dnatives.com/3d-materials/en/3d-printers/cube/

That appears to be the 3D Systems Cube 2 3D Printer:

https://www.3dnatives.com/3d-materials/en/3d-printers/cube/

The only possible cou ter to this is to enshrine the right to own a computer and internet access into your constitution or something like that.

Our constitution? They’ve got that thing hanging from a nail in the shithouse.

The best and brightest don’t work there anymore.

Because the police aren’t the slaves, they’re the overseers.

I keep getting left off jury duty by honestly answering the question about whether I would give less weight to a cops testimony because they’re a cop.

I suppose if there’s ever a civil jury trial that doesn’t involve a police testimony, I might serve in a jury.

A bit of a shame because I don’t mind being on a jury. I’m not trying to get out of it. I’m just being honest.

“In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move.”

-Douglas Adams

Oh no. We must stop this threat to democracy that hasn’t already happened yet.

Thank God democracy hasn’t already been undermined for years.

Because the victims of the rape of children in the Epstein case don’t have the money. The perpetrators do.