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Moving from lemm.ee to sh.itjust.works
Hey what a fucking coincidence this happened the same day the fucking bill passed the house. Probably just another distraction.
Palantir awarded $795M Army contract modification
Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven
Definitely can't do it on my own or even with just my city. We need Americans to ban together and remember what it is supposed to mean to be an American.
There's already a lawsuit with multiple sanctuary jurisdictions protecting themselves from Trump. Why not have something similar for any Americans that don't want to become the United States of Palantir? Maybe not much we can do in the moment, but what if could find a way to redirect all future tax dollars to be paid into R's scat ampng the communities that join instead of the kings that are taxing us without representation?
Idk just an idea. Spit balling bc nobody else is doing it. Hurricane season literally starts in a few days and I am not expecting a penny of relief for the state from Trump and any state money we do have is definitely not going to my city.
Why TF am I paying taxes for this? That apparently want to run this country so bad like a corporation, but if it was one, I'd be a very angry shareholders demanding the people on the board step down or I start investing my money in a company I believe in.
I think there's already a law banning porn in my state. Not sure if that's a loophole
Uhh this definitely matters. Do you realize what Palantir tech already does to people in other countries?
Apparently my city is already allowing this on its own citizens:
That provision could, for the first time, give the city explicit permission to use a whole host of surveillance technology in certain circumstances, including voice recognition, x-ray vans, “through the wall radar,” social media monitoring software, “tools used to gain unauthorized access to a computer,” and more.
All they need is a picture of your face, whether they get it from a protest you attended, a street camera you passed by, your driver's license. Doesn't matter.
Then they can do all this to you or any of your friends or family members they might be able to connect to you via social media.
They are storing your data and making billions of of it while making their own AI smarter and deadlier for the rest of the fucking planet. You think that's not important?
This is how they think they're going to fix the economy (for themselves). Taking your rights away and exploiting the people to get richer.
And yeah you're right, the federal government will cease to exist that's why it fucking matters states enact laws to protect themselves and ban together instead of splitting apart and trying to fight separate battles.
My state just became the first to start using DOGE voter database maintenance. Clearly I'm losing my right to vote. Who do I report to when that happens? The DOJ?
My state is helping this happen. So until they lose enough money and power by collapsing the economy with their failed AI attempt, that's what I'm stuck with.
I know if I go to another state it will follow me there because once they conquer blue cities, they're moving on to blue states unless blue states wake the fuck up, ban together with businesses and universities who have money and power and are also feeling the burden of the economy, and start protecting themselves.
Why TF do you think Texas, the first state to volunteer it's national guard to enforce Trump's immigration policy in other states, has a law protecting itself from other states being able to do the same to them? Because it doesn't matter?
Once the federal government is gone, state laws are all you will have. Wake Up!
Dude, I've just been thinking about this as privacy violation bc it's being used for surveillance in my state, but you just made me realize it's probably being used for different things in different states.
The very first AI supercomputer in the U.S. was built in Memphis, TN and nobody knows what they've been using it for, but given Memphis and especially Nashville are such huge recording cities that is probably not an insignificant thing to consider.
That is probably why Blackburn actually opposes it, because she's probably getting push back from her wealthy donors in Nashville!
If you work for a corporation, sure why not?
If you're just firing as a citizen absolutely not!
Also doesn't hack what my city apparently quietly allowed as of 2022 when they rolled back previous bans on predictive policing tech and created a new ordinance with very bare minimum regulations (which the city still violated)
Through the wall x-ray surveillance?! Oh yeah also created the initial ban after it was revealed they were secretly partnering with Palantir for several years, so probably not a coincidence
I just found this all out a few days ago, but if we all learn to shimmy and wear sheets of lead 24/7 maybe we'll be able to get around it
It's like a fucked up doctor Seus rhyme
States rights for me, and none for you, not if blue states might get them too
But if we all think about it you will see
On banning state regulations, we can't agree
They say the only regulation needed is a federal light touch
Because these stupid assholes spent way too much.
They put all our eggs into one AI basket
Why trust them now that the economy is in a casket?
Our economy is fucked either way
But handing over our rights won't make it magically ok
They'll have to figure it out, like we do with tariffs and inflation
Tell them to eat our AI regulations
Well large or small be sure to cover your face at protests (or even anytime you walk outside) bc my state is now using facial recognition AI to track and profile people on a watchlist or even people that maybe kind of look like them
If this passes the Senate your state will be doing it too, and if my theory about why they are starting all this here in my city is correct, then when they use the various states national guardsmen to march across state lines and enforce Trump's federal immigration laws, even the bluest state will be forced to comply
Blue cities within red states being used to test run full scale U.S. authoritarian takeovers?
Sorry, got a little heated and misunderstood what you were saying, and yeah I agree that is a perfect example
This one lady is nervously stepping out of line bc she's starting to sweat and realized it means she's also fucked and not magically protected by being a part of the old money white men's club
Meanwhile the technocratic elites that want this ban and all the Republicans in the house that tried to sneak this through are the ones secretly looking out for you by banning blue states from regulations to protect themselves
Here's a story about the dystopian nightmare I'm facing bc my state is in favor of banning its own regulation and is ALLOWING THIS DEREGULATION TO GO ON
The NOPD have paused their use bc it was in violation of a city ordinance (which I'm also guessing would be reversed by this ban)
Now the FBI, ICE, National Guard, and for some reason the fucking Department of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries also have completely unregulated access to look for whoever they want with zero oversight bc it's a private company. We all know corporations are our frenz right?
This still has to go to the Senate so please for the love of god if you care about your rights and privacy tell your senator to vote NO!
My city is currently in the midst of an AI facial recognition/predictive policing thanks to a secret city partnership with Palantir, dystopian nightmare
Frankly I would be happy to see my state ban facial recognition completely, but they definitely aren't going to, but please take this as a warning of what is definitely coming for you next!
We should have federal regulations and state regulations! There is absolutely no need for them to ban regulation at the state level other than the argument it will halt progress.
In reality they are invading your privacy and generating valuable data for these stupid AI data centers and they don't want you to be able to decide this sucks and I want it to stop in my state!
Not only would it ban laws for the next 10 years, it would remove existing laws. Some places already have a facial recognition ban, and this would repeal it!
It's nuts this seems to actually have some bipartisan support in the Senate, bc everyone is "so concerned" about America winning the AI race.
News flash, we probably won't win it. It was a dumb fucking idea in the first place, and yeah they put all of our eggs into the AI basket and it's probably going to tank the economy even more, but why TF should we be giving them even more control of our lives in the hopes that just maybe they can make a lot of money by further invading our privacy and doing some really evil shit with our data that will make the world an even worse place?
Here is an article about the May 8, 2025 hearing.
Altman, during the hearing, said that Texas had been “unbelievable” in incentivizing major AI projects. “I think that would be a good thing for other states to study,” Altman said. He predicted that the Abilene site would be the “largest AI training facility in the world.” But Altman also later cautioned against a patchwork regulatory framework for AI.
“It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulations,” said Altman. “One federal framework that is light touch, that we can understand, and it lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for, seems important and fine.”
Here is a quote from Peter Thiel protege, Michael Kratsios regarding AI regulation in 2019
“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”
They have no values, I support a federal regulation too, but in case you haven't noticed, the people who want you to vote to remove state regulations in favor of a "light touch" federal regulation are also in charge deciding what that "light touch" federal regulation will be and if it gets enforced at all.
I cannot believe I actually agree with Marsha Blackburn on something, but she's right! Why TF would you believe you don't need state regulations bc there is the possibility the same party that just tried to sneak in this nightmare, might enact some federal protections.
Government deregulation has been in the works for a very long time. Do not let them keep taking our protections away!
Until then, his chair on the dais of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee had sat empty all year.
Mr. Fetterman does not enjoy participating in these hearings that he has sat through in recent weeks as he seeks to prove that he is capable of performing the job he was elected to do until 2028. In fact, at a critical moment for the country, he appears to have little interest in the day-to-day work of serving in the United States Senate.
In an interview, Mr. Fetterman, who represents 13 million people, said he felt he had been unfairly shamed into fulfilling senatorial duties, such as participating in committee work and casting procedural votes on the floor, dismissing them as a “performative” waste of time.
Ohhhh this mother....
k...,so this is the committee that determined fitness for Trump's Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios. I literally begged for them to not approve his fitness. I wrote about this here, and fun fact even have a screenshot of me @ing fetterman and others on the committee on bluesky included in the article. Little did I know he wasn't even bothering to show up bc he thinks it's "performative...?!"
Quick summary: Kratsios is a protege of Peter Theil, who actually served as Chief Technology Officer during the first Trump administration. During that time, he helped set up all of the dangerous AI shit we're now dealing with, making sure they wouldn't be restrained by any pesky regulations.
Unregulated surveillance and facial recognition tech use by ICE, the FBI, and other LEOs, you can thank Kratsios.
Access and use of private government data to train AI, you may think that's all on DOGE/Musk but that is actually something Kratsios mentioned back in 2018
Senate Dems knew how dangerous deregulated AI was, particularly facial recognition tech for profiling use. Yet, with a few exceptions, they either approved his fitness or they just didn't show up like Fetterman
I guess it's ok bc Kratsios is now agreeing maybe we should dial it back and start to regulate AI....
Lol jk, of course he's actually saying we need to somehow further deregulate it so we will have even less protection for our privacy, rights and liberty.
Thanks Dems of the committee for taking your job so seriously 👍
And OF COURSE Fetterman showed up for this one. Not because he felt like his depression was being weaponized, it's because he just weaponizes the D next to his name to help force through Republican policy
Here is an article about that May 8, 2025 hearing.
Altman, during the hearing, said that Texas had been “unbelievable” in incentivizing major AI projects. “I think that would be a good thing for other states to study,” Altman said. He predicted that the Abilene site would be the “largest AI training facility in the world.” But Altman also later cautioned against a patchwork regulatory framework for AI.
“It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulations,” said Altman. “One federal framework that is light touch, that we can understand, and it lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for, seems important and fine.”
Here is a quote from Kratsios about regulation in 2019
“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”
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It's a politico article about Trump budget cuts. Doesn't really fit a science community, not sure where else it would go
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Taken from her family just before midnight and thrown into a prison for speaking out against an authoritarian POS.
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The one where safety was achieved not through any real improvements to society but by threat of being thrown into an overcrowded super prison?
Lol is this a joke? You're asking if we should RAGE? No.
My memory isn't great but I still know that there are plenty of Trump's political enemies left on the inside. That's who keeps leaking information despite threats from the administration to hook them up to a polygraph.
Ok, I think you found a loophole
I feel like somebody did that when they first came out and they created some kind of ridiculous over the top penalty for doing it.
Its a bigger risk than I'm willing to take, but I would suggest if you're going to go that route, try to get a wealthy and well connected friend to do it for you or have a good lawyer on retainer
Yeah, I am not sure but hopefully somebody has the numbers. That is usually the argument for trampling the constitution.
Hard to say how much has been actually documented bc they've been doing a lot of this stuff off record.
They potentially saved 30000 lives locking up 100 people for crimes committed by somebody else in a states they've never been to and we might not even know about it
Pentagon boosts budget for Palantir’s AI software in major expansion of Project Maven
This was the same day the bill passed in the House