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Doogie said:
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This would be the trophy

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As a causal I haven't seen shit about Trump lately.
 
axeman23 said:
200% tariffs on American whiskey and wines for starters, see how they like it? :sweatsmile:
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Happy with that If it comes that that.
Other options for whiskey and American wine is meh anyway not to mention the huge stashes we produce let alone NZ, Chile, South Africa and Europe. I always laugh when Agent Orange says ‘they don’t buy our X’. That’s because there‘s generally better options elsewhere that are not necessarily that much more exe.
 
"Hey Barry, I might be on the Epstein list but at least my wife isn't Michael"

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Hacky McAxe said:
It's worse than that. Trump and the Press Sec blamed Biden for not updating systems, then a breath later Press Sec said that the press were evil for blaming Trump without evidence.
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Its why they are all fckd. I've seen some of the river data and its mind boggling, cannot say I've seen too much like it in Oz. Its almost like the rainfall systems starts at the headwaters and as flow kicks up, the systems follow the water course adding to it.

Reckon by the time the resolution in the forecast came in it was too late.

So reckon its a big call to dump this on TPT but thats life when you open yourself up to this kind of criticism. And go figure, the one thing he probably didn't fck up is the one thing he cannot escape blame for. The irony....
 
Linda Yaccarino abruptly quit as CEO of X.
Without explaining why.
Or a successor appointed.
But things are going so well :tearsofjoy::
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Remember X's CEO? Linda Yaccarino Has Stepped Down

Although Linda Yaccarino was CEO of X/Twitter for the last two years, Elon Musk's continued presence seemed to overshadow her leadership.
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Two years working for Elon would near destroy anyone. I know people it happened to.
 
DinkumDog said:
Linda Yaccarino abruptly quit as CEO of X.
Without explaining why.
Or a successor appointed.
But things are going so well :tearsofjoy::
au.pcmag.com

Remember X's CEO? Linda Yaccarino Has Stepped Down

Although Linda Yaccarino was CEO of X/Twitter for the last two years, Elon Musk's continued presence seemed to overshadow her leadership.
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Two years working for Elon would near destroy anyone. I know people it happened to.
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Coincided well with the other issue going on at X. A few weeks back Musk said that Grok was getting too "Woke" and too PC, so he re-worked it including adding 4Chan as one of it's sources. Recently it started posting full on anti-semitic and racist stuff including praising Hitler as a hero.

People pointed out that it makes sense as Musk is starting his own political party to rival the Democrats and Republicans. The Republicans representing the Red on the flag, the Democrats representing the Blue, so Musk is there to represent the Whites.
 
In the latest US news:

- After Trump criticised Putin, saying he's "Bullshitting" about wanting peace, Putin responded by launching the biggest drone attack so far on Ukraine

- Trump is considering sending extra patriot defence missiles to Ukraine after a recent pause in Ukraine weapons supplies. But sources are saying that the pause in weapons shipments didn't come from Trump or the Whitehouse. Apparently Hegseth did it without consulting anyone

- Trump is suing the state of California for their policy to allow Transgender athletes

- Some of the biggest Medical organisations in America are suing RFK Jr for introducing vaccine policy that is considered "anti-scientific"

- Marco Rubio has put sanctions on the UN Special Rapporteur to Palestine saying she is using "political warfare" because she encouraged the ICC to arrest Netanyahu and other Israeli members, and she said that Israel is commiting Genocide
 
Trump has suggested that the US Federal Government may take over control of New York and Washington if they don't fall in line with his plans.
 
CroydonDog said:
Trump to Liberia's president: You speak such good English.
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Trump: "How'd you feel about being the 51st state of America?"

Liberian president: "Ohhhhh, NO you don't! We're not falling for THAT again!"

Trump, looking confused: "What did I miss?"

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Hacky McAxe said:
The BRICS nations released a statement demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (yes, that is funny considering that Russia is one of those nations)

Trump responded by saying that he will put massive tariffs on any nation that supports BRICS "anti-American values"
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Maybe I don't understand at all what BRICS is about, but wouldn't this actually benefit them in some ways? Like, doesn't it kinda justify some of the broad reasons they set up in the first place?
 
Just watched a video that tbf - just scared the living shit out of me. This is gunna be a little wordy. Sorry.

I bring you Mark Walters. Owner of the LA Dodgers. He's also the CEO of Guggenheim Partners, and investment company that focuses on investment. Fairly diversified investment company. Fingers in a lot of pies. Whats so scary about this?

So - Guggenheim earlier this year went into partnership with xAI, TWG Global and Palantir to develop AI tools for the financial services industry. Again, not a big deal you would think right? Wrong.

Appears Palantir (who have been clear their AI tools are about one thing and one thing only, identifying behavioral aspects and using them to benefit their customers) and Guggenheim have their fingers in a few other projects. Now if you know the interactions Palantir have with the CIA, FBI, DHS, Police and others, think you get an idea of where this can go to. Again, not too big a deal right? Wrong.

Walters has just announced a new program for Dodgers fans. Become a member and provide a photo, AI will use facial recognition to assess whether you're a member of not and you can avoid the turnstiles and walk straight in. And this AI is provided by.... Palantir.

So once registered, via facial recognition, you can be identified anywhere and everywhere you go. Every aspect of your behaviour can be recorded within the crowd and databased. Who you are and what your online presence determines can be linked together with your presence in the field through Palantir. So by walking into a baseball field, who I am and everything about me is available to someone at the click of a button. Lets take this a step further.

So to provide a broad concept of how this could work - I could go online and suggest TACO is a turd. Any links to the real me will be assessed and hypothetically, if a website shares my email details that comment can be attributed to me personally. Probably good on TK but say FB, YT, X etc., who regulates the privacy of their databases? No one. The linkages into federal databases will provide a total summary of address, work etc etc. From there, my image can be added to a find database where anywhere I go, i can be tracked. Even flying is out now with RealID. All my associates can be determined. And if the govt determines at any time they do not like my comment, I and everyone I know can be rounded up and gulag'd or whatever. This is becoming real big brother shit.

So Walters is going to help collect info for Palantir via his sports connections. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a number of other sports teams have signed up. And not just sports teams, believe it or not, Wendys has signed up. VIP at Wendys, got to get a photo ID for that. Boom - another piece of the puzzle for Palantir. And I'm sure there are others. Won't be long before every piece of your commercial and recreational life is a piece of data that Palantir has access to.

The US is rapidly becoming a place I will not return to.
 
Doogie said:
Just watched a video that tbf - just scared the living shit out of me. This is gunna be a little wordy. Sorry.

I bring you Mark Walters. Owner of the LA Dodgers. He's also the CEO of Guggenheim Partners, and investment company that focuses on investment. Fairly diversified investment company. Fingers in a lot of pies. Whats so scary about this?

So - Guggenheim earlier this year went into partnership with xAI, TWG Global and Palantir to develop AI tools for the financial services industry. Again, not a big deal you would think right? Wrong.

Appears Palantir (who have been clear their AI tools are about one thing and one thing only, identifying behavioral aspects and using them to benefit their customers) and Guggenheim have their fingers in a few other projects. Now if you know the interactions Palantir have with the CIA, FBI, DHS, Police and others, think you get an idea of where this can go to. Again, not too big a deal right? Wrong.

Walters has just announced a new program for Dodgers fans. Become a member and provide a photo, AI will use facial recognition to assess whether you're a member of not and you can avoid the turnstiles and walk straight in. And this AI is provided by.... Palantir.

So once registered, via facial recognition, you can be identified anywhere and everywhere you go. Every aspect of your behaviour can be recorded within the crowd and databased. Who you are and what your online presence determines can be linked together with your presence in the field through Palantir. So by walking into a baseball field, who I am and everything about me is available to someone at the click of a button. Lets take this a step further.

So to provide a broad concept of how this could work - I could go online and suggest TACO is a turd. Any links to the real me will be assessed and hypothetically, if a website shares my email details that comment can be attributed to me personally. Probably good on TK but say FB, YT, X etc., who regulates the privacy of their databases? No one. The linkages into federal databases will provide a total summary of address, work etc etc. From there, my image can be added to a find database where anywhere I go, i can be tracked. Even flying is out now with RealID. All my associates can be determined. And if the govt determines at any time they do not like my comment, I and everyone I know can be rounded up and gulag'd or whatever. This is becoming real big brother shit.

So Walters is going to help collect info for Palantir via his sports connections. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a number of other sports teams have signed up. And not just sports teams, believe it or not, Wendys has signed up. VIP at Wendys, got to get a photo ID for that. Boom - another piece of the puzzle for Palantir. And I'm sure there are others. Won't be long before every piece of your commercial and recreational life is a piece of data that Palantir has access to.

The US is rapidly becoming a place I will not return to.
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You just can't handle the free speech there
 
Doogie said:
Just watched a video that tbf - just scared the living shit out of me. This is gunna be a little wordy. Sorry.

I bring you Mark Walters. Owner of the LA Dodgers. He's also the CEO of Guggenheim Partners, and investment company that focuses on investment. Fairly diversified investment company. Fingers in a lot of pies. Whats so scary about this?

So - Guggenheim earlier this year went into partnership with xAI, TWG Global and Palantir to develop AI tools for the financial services industry. Again, not a big deal you would think right? Wrong.

Appears Palantir (who have been clear their AI tools are about one thing and one thing only, identifying behavioral aspects and using them to benefit their customers) and Guggenheim have their fingers in a few other projects. Now if you know the interactions Palantir have with the CIA, FBI, DHS, Police and others, think you get an idea of where this can go to. Again, not too big a deal right? Wrong.

Walters has just announced a new program for Dodgers fans. Become a member and provide a photo, AI will use facial recognition to assess whether you're a member of not and you can avoid the turnstiles and walk straight in. And this AI is provided by.... Palantir.

So once registered, via facial recognition, you can be identified anywhere and everywhere you go. Every aspect of your behaviour can be recorded within the crowd and databased. Who you are and what your online presence determines can be linked together with your presence in the field through Palantir. So by walking into a baseball field, who I am and everything about me is available to someone at the click of a button. Lets take this a step further.

So to provide a broad concept of how this could work - I could go online and suggest TACO is a turd. Any links to the real me will be assessed and hypothetically, if a website shares my email details that comment can be attributed to me personally. Probably good on TK but say FB, YT, X etc., who regulates the privacy of their databases? No one. The linkages into federal databases will provide a total summary of address, work etc etc. From there, my image can be added to a find database where anywhere I go, i can be tracked. Even flying is out now with RealID. All my associates can be determined. And if the govt determines at any time they do not like my comment, I and everyone I know can be rounded up and gulag'd or whatever. This is becoming real big brother shit.

So Walters is going to help collect info for Palantir via his sports connections. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a number of other sports teams have signed up. And not just sports teams, believe it or not, Wendys has signed up. VIP at Wendys, got to get a photo ID for that. Boom - another piece of the puzzle for Palantir. And I'm sure there are others. Won't be long before every piece of your commercial and recreational life is a piece of data that Palantir has access to.

The US is rapidly becoming a place I will not return to.
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I have been working in CCTV AI for a while and it's very interesting. Face recognition for access control is crap. Long way off until it works correctly, even with AI backup. It usually results in one of two scenarios:

1) You set the security level too high, in which case people get locked out and have to be manually let in

2) You set the security level too low, in which case someone that looks vaguely like you turns up and walks in without issue, which is a huge security flaw. In the case of sporting events, it means that someone gets in free and the paying person gets locked out

Works pretty well for data tracking though with enough info provided. If a person provides several shots of their face then you can use cameras to track their location. And it's software pixel based, not hardware based. So you can use any existing cameras as long as they're not complete crap.

As far as storage goes, that laws are still being worked out. Legally you can store someone's image, and employees can refuse to provide their biometric data including facial data. But if someone gives their facial data then that gets complex. Australia, most of Europe and most of the world signed agreements on how stored data is used by AI. But the US refused to sign those agreements. Under US law if someone uses your facial data to create a deepfake of you doing something completely messed up, it's not illegal. It's liable, so you can sue whoever created it, if you can find them. But it's not illegal and they'll just pay a fine and move on.
 
Hacky McAxe said:
I have been working in CCTV AI for a while and it's very interesting. Face recognition for access control is crap. Long way off until it works correctly, even with AI backup. It usually results in one of two scenarios:

1) You set the security level too high, in which case people get locked out and have to be manually let in

2) You set the security level too low, in which case someone that looks vaguely like you turns up and walks in without issue, which is a huge security flaw. In the case of sporting events, it means that someone gets in free and the paying person gets locked out

Works pretty well for data tracking though with enough info provided. If a person provides several shots of their face then you can use cameras to track their location. And it's software pixel based, not hardware based. So you can use any existing cameras as long as they're not complete crap.

As far as storage goes, that laws are still being worked out. Legally you can store someone's image, and employees can refuse to provide their biometric data including facial data. But if someone gives their facial data then that gets complex. Australia, most of Europe and most of the world signed agreements on how stored data is used by AI. But the US refused to sign those agreements. Under US law if someone uses your facial data to create a deepfake of you doing something completely messed up, it's not illegal. It's liable, so you can sue whoever created it, if you can find them. But it's not illegal and they'll just pay a fine and move on.
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If you got the processing power and more camera data, you can use convergence imaging combined with a probability assessment to tighten up the recognition. No idea at all if someone has done this but from a computational perspective - seems doable if ya got the grunt to process the data.

As for signing agreements? Which one? The recommendations of the ethics of AI. Bletchley declaration? AI Action Summit joint statement? Or more locally, the Voluntary AI Safety standard? The feds even acknowledge regulation in Oz sucks. I believe we are taking an 'oversight' position. Unless I am missing something, nothing here very enforceable and as taxing US big tech has been a challenge, can imagine if someone grew the nads to regulate hard where its going to end up. And as you say, if the US isn't engaged then why.

I'd even go one step further. Never a great look in terms of purpose when the country with the biggest gun refuses to sign some form of international regulation of guns. History is pretty solid on this.
 
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