Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

It's that time of the year where I teach our 1st year #DataScience students about data *in the wild*

"Girls are doing all the fellows' jobs now!" An anti-suffrage cartoon from 1918, USA.

Carboniferous limestone appreciation 🖤 #ScottishGeology #Palaeontology

British Broadcasting Corporation Director General says its over-the-air and cable TV and radio signals will be turned off by 2030. #bbc https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/07/bbc-will-go-online-only-by-2030s-says-director-general

There’s at least one fake Instagram account impersonating me and following people I know.
🚨Please report and block if it follows you🚨
✅Real: Kmoussouris (and k8em0 is me too but that’s just parked)
❌FAKE: kmoussourisss_ (two extra “ss” and underscore at the end)

@georgetakei Years ago I was at an exhibition of photos of the camps (mostly Manzanar). I overheard a woman say "I was born there." It was a simple statement but it erased the time and space gap between the photos and the reality that it happened to real, living people.

Decency has triumphed. But the fact that 49 percent of Georgians voted for Herschel Walker is still a calamity.

A few years after Snowden, the same cast of characters gathered to steal the 2016 election.

Julian Assange received hacked emails from the GRU (#Guccifer 2) and published them through #Wikileaks. The emails were weaponized by white nationalist trolls through #MAGA3X, a PAC disguising a #psyop.

MAGA3X was founded at the RNC by Peter Thiel, Mike #Flynn, Posobiec, Cernovich, Chuck Johnson and others. It was organized like American ISIS.

https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/maga3x-documents

Another member of the Board of the Manhattan Institute is Rebekah Mercer whose father Robert launders billions of dollars for Vladimir #Putin.

Peter #Thiel has been playing with #Mercer’s money for well over a decade (as has Bannon.) Thiel and the Mercers were major backers of pro-Putin Senator Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency, and the attendant anti-government “liberty movement.”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/thiel-backed-pac-may-have-made-illegal-payments-to-bannon-company

The other founder of Peter Thiel’s facial-recognition company Clearview was Richard Schwartz who is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI) and former aide to Rudy Giuliani, who has been a member of MI himself since the late 1980s.

More recently, MI’s senior fellow Christopher Rufo started the CRT and groomer panics.

Article from 1997:
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https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/12/nyregion/promoting-its-ideas-the-manhattan-institute-has-nudged-new-york-rightward.html

Perhaps some of these people will get the #climatechange point if they're told that the 2030 Winter Olympic location has been postponed while they determine if the candidates will actually have snow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/12/06/2030-winter-olympics-host/

big: #Meta's business model declared illegal in the EU according to WSJ. #Facebook, #Instagram and #WhatsApp can no longer run personalized ads without user consent - https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-declared-illegal micro-targeted ads out, no more RTB. Meta will appeal of course, so only provisional... #privacy

Taking the blows - losing an eye - while protecting a vulnerable person she doesn't know, because it's not in her to stand by while evil is perpetrated.

We're gonna start a go-fund-me for this woman, yes?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-arrest-california-man-who-allegedly-punched-fast-food-worker-causing-her-to-lose-an-eye/ar-AA14Ya5p?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c35c976a3c5244edb32da564c9e9f787

#ChatGPT is impressive but uninspiring. Yes, it possesses a facility for filling a page with text its creators stole from human authors. But it is, by definition, unoriginal and lacking in thought or creativity; a parlor trick, with dead eyes.

Anyone who has experienced “Eliza” or Markov chain text generation (both have been around for ~50 years) sees that this is but a very very good implementation. But it is rooted in theft of human creative effort; an avatar of today’s Silicon Valley.

Very proud to announce my new casebook: Oath Keeper Law (5th Sedition).

#lawtwitter

coworker: you should check out my therapist

me: i’ve seen your therapist’s work. no thanks.

“I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened.”
— via @ZackBornstein

“People posting GPT answers to stackoverflow to scoop the points without knowing if the answer is actually correct” is one of those problems that’s too obvious to even foresee https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831/temporary-policy-chatgpt-is-banned