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Seems these days the only cross-partisan agreement is resistance to Flock and Axon.

People don't want Big Brother. Politicians unironically trying to positively refer to them as an enhanced Big Brother is completely tone deaf.

And we know that police departments were working with ICE during Metro Surge:

> But the Star Tribune found law enforcement agencies around the country searched several Twin Cities suburbs’ camera data and labeled their queries as civil immigration enforcement — a mechanism used to detain those in the country illegally who have not committed other crimes. A vast majority of the searches were run on Fridley’s Flock Safety cameras as it had looser restrictions on its data than other agencies.

https://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-suburbs-license-plat...

This dozen even get into the dozens of documented instances of officers using the system to stalk people... couple that with Stingray devices. It's not hyperbole to say we're existing under the thumb of Big Brother.

Resistance to or acceptance of Flock/Axon is going to be a big tipping point in an already over-surveilled country.

...LLM summary?

If you clicked the link and read the article, you'd quickly realize that they copy/pasted the article into a comment.

Naw. I think they'll sell every single one they're able manufacture for the next couple years. The pre-order list will probably fill most of those.

If they don't know they're being quarantined, there's no reason for them to find a way around their block. They'll eventually tucker themselves out and move on to whatever their internet equivalent of burning ants with a magnifying glass is.

If you click the link and read the article, you'll see a lot of words that justify the title:

  BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes.
  
  Experts who have seen this latest video told us the presence of a Tomahawk missile, along with evidence the area was hit with multiple strikes, indicates this was a US operation. Neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess Tomahawks, experts said. 
  
  It would also make the scenario of a single Iranian missile hitting the site at the same time and causing such a high reported death toll highly improbable, an expert told BBC Verify.

Surely the difference between location tracking (that still requires a warrant for the government to get access to, thus Stingrays) and the intimate visual processing and tagging that is derived from the likes of smart glasses is self explanatory, right?

To that point, the difference between geolocation and video tracking and analysis (like Flock) seems pretty obvious to me.

It's invasively panopticon.

You're making me really want to start a rewatch.

It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it. Part of that probably has to do with how inaccessible it is on streaming. It's only readily available on AMC+. And no one has AMC+.

This is one of those shows that would likely shoot to the top if Netflix got the rights to it and even did a mild push. It's genuinely peak prestige TV.

Outside of simply not being true, the sentiment of what you're saying isn't much different than:

"Essentially all software is augmented with Stack Overflow now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is."

Agentic development isn't a panacea nor as widespread as you claim. I'd wager that the vast majority of developers treat AI is a more specified search engine to point them in the direction they're looking for.

AI hallucination is still as massive problem. Can't tell you the number of times I've used agentic prompting with a top model that writes code for a package based on the wrong version number or flat out invents functionality that doesn't exist.

> I really wish the computer science degrees and even online courses spent like 30 mins on the history of computer science.

Completely agree here. This would fall under the umbrella of liberal arts, which a lot of CS-only folks seem to find little to no value in.

Most concepts in computer science--especially when it comes to programming--are fairly easy to learn if you're good at learning. Reading something and understanding it to the point that you can write a proper college level essay about it trains that muscle, which is a different skill than rote memorization.

> reevaluate your own neurosis and realize how hysterical you’ve been

What are you talking about? Everything I've stated is pure fact. Your whole strategy around the conversation appears to be attacking, insulting and avoiding reality.

> You’re just a confused kid throwing a tantrum.

You're incredibly disrespectful and it's clear you're not fit to be posting on HN. You aren't winning anyone over by pretending authoritarianism isn't prevalent and growing. What is happening in the US is not normal, and no amount of you pretending otherwise is going to change that reality. The fact that you consider people being alarmed by masked men with guns who refuse to identify themselves abducting people (including Americans, mind you) off of the streets is telling.

I think you're the one in a bubble here.

> The belief that it is? Hysterics being fed by your media diet.

You know nothing about my media diet, except that yours tells you all others are being fed hysterics.

> The videos that you’re seeing of people losing their minds over law enforcement actually doing their jobs?

Huh? No, these aren't reaction videos. These are videos of ICE violently detaining people they have no right to detain. I'm just going to completely ignore their "stop and frisk" style of fishing for undocumented folks and focus solely on them abusing American citizens.

Which they have done. Countless times. One time they hit someone driving to work in their car. Then they got out of their vehicle and violently ripped a lady out of her car--an American driving to work as ICE did an illegal U-turn in the road--and put their weight on her while they detained her.

That's a police state.

And your media diet didn't show it to you. Your media diet is feeding you propaganda by means of telling you "everything is fine, it's hYsTeRicS".

> Do you not realize that outside your bubble, this is how you and your compatriots are perceived? Hysterical and fully disconnected from reality?

Your head is in the sand, but I understand you honestly believe this nonsense. But you're factually wrong.

The US police state is obvious to most Americans and the vast majority of the world. Any global polling--or interaction with people from other countries, which I do daily--will show you that.

You are in the minority, blaming what's happening here on hysterics. You are wrong.

Ah, I see how you perceive this situation. You think the Democrats manufactured a police state by flooding America with undocumented immigrants in order to get Republicans to go full gestopo in order to fix it. Some 5D chess move where the left is to blame for "forcing" the right into authoritarianism. And somehow the videos coming from communities within America are just "hysterics".

So just pure conspiratorial nonsense that absolves all blame from the perpetuator and abuser. Got it.

> Likely due to lack of following through on these promises (rather than disapproval of the promises themselves)

No. Most of it has to do with the fact that masked, unidentified ICE agents are abducting and disappearing people with no due process.

American citizens are being taken away. People who are here legally are being abducted and sent to countries they aren't from.

Of the deportations, Trump said they would be targeted toward violent criminals. Over 90% of those who have been rounded up have no criminal history.

Masked men with weapons who refuse to identify themselves are shooting people and lying about it, directly refuted by video others took of the event.

This isn't some case where "Americans are upset Trump isn't doing what he said!". This is a case where Americans are finally seeing the reality of what he is doing and are sickened by it.

Unfortunately the world is far too globalized for tariffs like these to ever be a good solution.

There isn't another niche guitar pedal hardware manufacturer that does the same thing as on in Belgium.

What Facebook meme did you learn that from?

Staple Street Capital's leadership is full of--get this--capitalists who have donated to both parties.

Nothing Kimmel said in the quote you provided is untrue. His statement is about their actions in response to the event, not anything to do with the actual sentiment of the shooter.

I don't think it's fair to pretend the only options humans have are the extremes of private and state ownership. Greed and the weight of capitalism under rail expansion in the US completely obliterated at least 15-20k years worth of Indigenous "non-rigid land ownership", being the apex system of human power consolidation and all that.

Native American nations and tribes didn't "own" land in the way that European colonizers did, under a doctrine of private property, written deeds and legal systems. Even under tribal territories, access was fluid.

America and its land was held communally by tribes and was generally understood in terms of use rights. If your nation, family or tribe cultivated a field, you had rights to that field as long as you actively used it. And stewardship of the land was seen as something to care for, not a commodity.

And this was the way things were in America up until a few hundred years ago.

Well, if it helps you feel better, the downvotes are probably because it's not a No True Scotsman fallacy. And yours are probably due to your endorsement of it and whining about "lefties".

I knew a family that exploited how hard it was to cancel by attempting to cancel every month and getting another free month. iirc, they did this for years until broadband was available.

Exporting the generated audio stems would be slick, too, rather than having to run capture on it.

A great example of this is a scent I really like--Santal 33.

The way everything mixes together, there's a dill pickle overtone that some people are really receptive to. I can smell it if I actively think about dill, but it's not the first thing I notice. Others seem to respond to it like a jar of pickle juice.

https://basenotes.com/fragrances/santal-33-by-le-labo.261328...

But what type of range are we talking? Tens, hundreds, thousands?

I don't have the reference study on hand, but I believe the brain requires approximately 600 calories a day, or 150g of carbs. Switching over to use ketones requires going into ketosis, which most people never do.

When you look at how our hormones are affected by different types of macronutrients, there are dietary ways to restrict calories, prevent hunger from becoming an issue, and still maintain a decent level of mental acuity.

I've found that aiming for 150g of carbs a day and .7-1g protein/pound of body weight to be fairly self-regulating. I have to eat more carbs on days I do BJJ (pretty glycogenic sport, but, admittedly, has become less demanding the closer I got to my black belt), but using that target as a rule of thumb has worked out well for me over the years.

When we talk about CICO, there is the reality of our hormones that we have to consider--at least in terms of human behavior. There are ways to diet with ease and no discomfort, but yo-yoing between binging on snacks and trying to not eat anything isn't very feasible.

I've never been able to get Edge to streak Netflix in high def. Same with the official Windows app.

Musk et al.'s plan has been out in the open for a while. Lots of interviews and opinions from them the last few years, so I wouldn't even consider it an open secret.

This video is probably the most succinct summary of it I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

It was made two months ago and has been right on the nose so far in terms of the phases in their process.

This, alongside side the footage and mic of him signing EOs he neither wrote nor know what they are, really make it seem like they're just keeping him occupied.

> Moreover if the bill had so much bipartisan support, why did it need to be combined in a foreign aid package to Ukraine rather than stand on its own?

You've got things reversed. The ban is what the Republicans wanted and the Ukraine support was bundled in to take advantage of that. They wanted the Tiktok ban so much they allowed the Ukraine funding (as part of the larger funding bill).

I've also noticed that over the years those are the candidates who are most unable to find a job. And having interviewed a fair number of candidates, the number of passionate devs out there is smaller than you'd expect.

Babylon Bee notoriously punches down and is the epitome of the "one joke" trope.

They're an uninspired impersonation of The Onion, with a clear political purpose.

What precedent do you think this sets exactly?