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I think as soon as someone shoots an ICE agent, Trump declares a state of war, suspends Congress, and rolls tanks into Boston. He's clearly itching to do that anyway, so certainly be ready. But I don't see the people winning at this point; the military appears to largely be following Trump's whims still.
Also donating to legal funds, to people needing groceries in MN, going to smaller community organizing... glad to hear other actions, but I don't think being visible as a large group hurts, even if by itself it doesn't overthrow the usurpers.
Request for email or in-person testimony, for bills that would affect Boston and Bedford. Main link is a Google doc with templates and some suggested points to bring up. ...
If Minnesota officials try to prosecute the federal agents who recently killed two people in Minneapolis, they’ll face steep obstacles from a century-old Supreme Court precedent — one that helped sink a similar case just a few years ago. ...
Following up on my previous post: finished with the miter saw. Sanded the handle and blade, jointed and sharpened the teeth, waxed the blade, BLO on the handle, polished the reinstalled the nuts. ...
I would like public interest info to be free, but recent events also highlight the importance of separating media and state, both organizationally and financially.
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Like I said, working on it. But you know, this evening do I try to dismantle ICE, cook dinner, play a game, or research email providers? Lots of competing priorities in life, let's celebrate the wins.
I've been enjoying FairEmail. Nice to have options like 'would you like to remove sensitive data before attaching this image' instead of 'do you wish you could turn off this AI bloat'.
The move came as dozens of immigrants arrested in Minneapolis were shipped to the Torrance County Detention Facility, which is run by private prison operator CoreCivic, in New Mexico. One of them, 33-year-old Jorge Cordoba, told Source NM he lived in Minneapolis for more than 20 years and was in the country legally under ...
In this case, folks are getting shipped from Minnesota to New Mexico to start with. Similar for a high-profile case in MA. ICE's standard practice seems to include quickly moving people across state lines. So closing down an ICE detention facility in one state doesn't seem like it necessarily makes it more likely for folks to end up stranded far from home.
And of course this is one of those cases where in some ways it gets worse as more people take a stand, but once enough people take a stand it stops. (I think a good comparison is the dichotomy between 'if guns are outlawed only bad guys have guns' and 'there's no way to prevent this says US, the only country where this happens'.)
I was noticing that the article only quoted the police statement, would be great to read other accounts / see video. I trust BPD a little more than ICE, and yet.
His comment about the history of police patrols and slavery is one with more to learn about:
Most law enforcement was, by definition, white patrolmen watching, catching, or beating black slaves.
After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews,
I'm not excited about random people walking around with big guns, but to hear him talk I have more in common with his ideology than police (or certainly ICE) — even his gun safety keeping it pointed down is miles beyond ICEs haphazard flailing of weapons at protesters, murder aside.
Mass 50501 will join Boston DSA, PSL, and other orgs in calling for an end to Trump’s extrajudicial acts of war against Venezuela and an end to ICE’s reign of terror across the U.S. tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 10th, at 12 PM at Boston’s State House. ...
Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot ...
But part of the issue is that, as with any computer system, you have to control the inputs and anticipate the abuse. With a very bounded system, you can almost keep up. With LLM bots, there's just no way to prepare a check for every creative way humans can be disgusting.
If you went to a human illustrator and asked for that, you would (hopefully) get run out of the room or hung up on, because there's a built in filter for 'is this gross / will it harm my reputation to publish,' based on years of human interaction and behavioral feedback, or maybe even some inherent morals.
I know there's a significant anti-AI presence here. I'm not promoting it. I found it interesting to read how it was used, it's strengths and limitations.
The AI picked through the pictures taken by the drone pilots pixel by pixel, looking for anything that might look out of place on the mountainside. The software identified dozens of potential anomalies from a large number of photographs in a matter of hours.
The selection, however, still needed to be whittled down with some human expertise.
"The software could react to different things, like a piece of plastic garbage or an unusually coloured rock," says Isola. "It can even hallucinate some things. So, we still had to narrow it down further by taking into consideration the path that Ivaldo, as a very skillful climber, might have used."
Interesting process. "AI" as a term gets so overused, but in this instance I think they're really talking about image neural net processing.
This other one mentioned sounds like just image processing:
Other software that searches for unusually coloured pixels in natural landscapes – developed by the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association in the UK – has been used to locate the body of a missing hillwalker in Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands in 2023.
Or is it ML, not AI?
The key is to keep training the machine learning systems that power these algorithms to improve their accuracy in different types of terrain and conditions, says Tomasz Niedzielski, an expert in geoinformatics at the University of Wrocław and leader of the team that developed the SARUAV software.
Overall interesting process but could be a lot more specific about the technology.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that the agent who killed Good was the same officer dragged by a suspect in Bloomington last June. Although Ross was not named in the 13-page indictment of the driver, he is identified in several court records filed in the case, including photo exhibits from the hospital. He is also listed by name as a witness.
Nice sleuthing.
A law enforcement source, who is not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Ross is the shooter.
Yeah, that seems to be the article's thesis, just a misleading title.
What I’m proposing is neither global pessimism nor naïve faith. It’s local skepticism, or disciplined trust, which is precisely what science needs to improve itself. The history of science is indeed a graveyard of theories, but the fact that science keeps changing is a mark of its strength. It keeps changing because the world is complex and full of wonder. That isn’t a problem; it’s the engine that drives scientific progress
Yeah. I assume you're already aware of https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard but it's surprisingly hard to get people on board. At my workplace, people are barely even acknowledging Good's murder. I think that's something that hybrid/remote work really hampers, since so much communication is in monitored channels and scheduled meetings.
Federal officers have fatally shot at least three other people in the last five months, according to news reports reviewed by The Marshall Project. In September, Silverio Villegas González, a father originally from Mexico who worked as a cook, was killed while reportedly trying to flee from officers in a Chicago suburb, WBEZ ...
This is a wing Chung training dummy. Its 50 plus years old. The crack runs down the length of the dummy. It doesn't move, its still very solid, but we would like to seal the crack to avoid further damage. ...
No Kings III: Saturday March 28, 2-4PM
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[Combat] Russian drones are downed by Ukrainian drones equipped with a stick and string. ( imgur.com )
Full video - NSFW ...
How to submit testimony for the Boston and Bedford Ranked Choice Voting home rule petitions (by Feb 9th) ( docs.google.com )
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Stand with Minnesota: directory of places to donate, from activists on the ground ( www.standwithminnesota.com )
25 EVs Were Range-Tested In Extreme Cold. It Didn’t Go Well ( insideevs.com )
Minnesota prosecutors face uphill battle if they charge feds in fatal shootings ( www.politico.com )
If Minnesota officials try to prosecute the federal agents who recently killed two people in Minneapolis, they’ll face steep obstacles from a century-old Supreme Court precedent — one that helped sink a similar case just a few years ago. ...
How well does boost work with piefed?
I actually didn't even realize that piefed was supported, but I see some of you posting on here are on those instances. ...
Progress restoring hand saws
Following up on my previous post: finished with the miter saw. Sanded the handle and blade, jointed and sharpened the teeth, waxed the blade, BLO on the handle, polished the reinstalled the nuts. ...
Minnesota State Legislature Special Election Results 2026 ( www.nytimes.com )
Cross- posted from ...
Call to email support for bill to unmask ICE in MA
Via Indivisible on Bluesky (sorry for the image of text, that's what was posed there). The email is [email protected] . The bill is SD.3574 . ...
Hours after ABC News ran a story about Mischief Toy Store, ICE agents arrived at their door ( www.twincities.com )
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How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton ( proton.me )
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NM House committee advances bill to ban immigrant detention in NM • Source New Mexico ( sourcenm.com )
The move came as dozens of immigrants arrested in Minneapolis were shipped to the Torrance County Detention Facility, which is run by private prison operator CoreCivic, in New Mexico. One of them, 33-year-old Jorge Cordoba, told Source NM he lived in Minneapolis for more than 20 years and was in the country legally under ...
13 people who survived being stranded on deserted islands. ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
Crispy
Tiny is bat-cat
Google Still Owns Search
How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?
I generated 16 character (upper/lower) subdomain and set up a virtual host for it in Apache, and within an hour was seeing vulnerability scans. ...
13 arrested, 4 police officers injured at pro-Palestinian protest in Boston ( www.boston.com )
On Oct 7 ...
why?
EU Parliament eyes freezing US trade deal over Trump’s Greenland threats ( www.politico.eu )
Unpopular trade agreement could be blocked because of U.S. president’s rhetoric on seizing Greenland. ...
ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing ( www.advocate.com )
“Fcking bitch,” Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, says in the video.* ...
Frey says Minneapolis ICE agent was not run over ( www.nbcnews.com )
The Black Panthers in Philadelphia know their rights. Do you? ( cdn.social.linux.pizza )
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ICE/Venezuela protest tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 10th, at 12 PM at Boston’s State House
Mass 50501 will join Boston DSA, PSL, and other orgs in calling for an end to Trump’s extrajudicial acts of war against Venezuela and an end to ICE’s reign of terror across the U.S. tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 10th, at 12 PM at Boston’s State House. ...
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini ( www.motherjones.com )
Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot ...
ICE Agent Who Killed Mother of Three Revealed as Iraq War Veteran With Immigrant Filipina Wife ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
A red pixel in the snow: How AI solved the mystery of a missing mountaineer ( www.bbc.com )
I know there's a significant anti-AI presence here. I'm not promoting it. I found it interesting to read how it was used, it's strengths and limitations.
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis ( www.startribune.com )
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It? ( www.nytimes.com )
Don't read just the title.
Protest Thurs Jan 8th 6PM for Renee Good, murdered by ICE in Minneapolis
Posted by bostonpsl on Instagram.
Before Minneapolis Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force ( www.themarshallproject.org )
Federal officers have fatally shot at least three other people in the last five months, according to news reports reviewed by The Marshall Project. In September, Silverio Villegas González, a father originally from Mexico who worked as a cook, was killed while reportedly trying to flee from officers in a Chicago suburb, WBEZ ...
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This is a wing Chung training dummy. Its 50 plus years old. The crack runs down the length of the dummy. It doesn't move, its still very solid, but we would like to seal the crack to avoid further damage. ...