I'd like to start pushing to abolish the police in my neighborhood, but how do I do it without making myself and my family a target for stochastic terrorism?
Yes, I know people of color are targeted all the time and it's my white privilege that I get to live in a society where I'm not automatically targeted. I'm trying to see what I can do that doesn't threaten my children--they are not old enough yet to accept the risk.
... or am I just being a coward either way?
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The second robocop cartoon, the one set further in the future, had an episode where Murphy pointed out a statistical error in the work of the big bad's henchman.
"Your conclusion was wrong"
"You lie! My math was flawless! 99.9% accurate"
"Your math was correct but against a population sample of billions of people, even curated, leaves you with a margin of error of over 1,000,000 people."
"MINION!"
Murphy was bullshitting of course, no drama if they had the wrong family. But it stuck with me.
With current criminal and genetic databases expanding as more data is added (assuming crime rates stay trending down over the last 30 years), the raw number your analysis samples from increases. This means the potential number of wrong people your data samples increases as well.
So a 99.9% accurate method will good for like, 100 dudes, but give you 10 possible dudes if you search 1000 dudes
So with larger population sets, even limiting to race (acknowledging that a lot of brown skinned asian and latin populations get confused for black), age (which people get wrong a lot), and gender (everyone androgynous in a panic) with population increasing you still get that 0.1% error rate pulling a fuck ton of people.
And recalled the nypd rejecting several facial recognition technologies (before 2020) because their math's margin of error never hit 90%. I googled some stuff now and learned that, while i was worried before about civilians using rejected software, i should have worried about police using the software on their personal devices.
A young man firing a toy gun at people was fatally shot in the Bronx early Thursday — and an off-duty city Dept. of Corrections officer was later arrested for the slaying.
Dion Middleton, 45, was hit with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
Raymond Chaluisant, 18, was firing a toy gun from inside a car, and Middleton allegedly returned fire, shooting more than once, sources said. It was unclear who Chaluisant had been firing at, cops said.
Police initially believed Chaluisant was firing a water gun, but after further investigation determined it was an “Orbeez” gun, which resembles a pistol and fires gel projectiles.
Middleton works in training at the NYPD shooting range in Rodman’s Neck, and he allegedly went to work following the fatal shooting, sources said.
Chaluisant was found unconscious inside a silver Acura, when cops arrived at 1:35 a.m. at the Grand Concourse and E. Tremont Ave. in Mount Hope. The teen was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, but he could not be saved.
Police said they recovered a shell casing at the scene but later determined Chaluisant was actually shot nearly a half-mile away — at Morris Ave. and the Grand Concourse.
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As horrible and disgustingly common as this is, I feel like it should be heavily stressed that this murderer was a guy whose job it is to train cops in firearm usage.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
While I am thankful that people are being arrested for firing their gun at other people and not reported it to the police,
It is horrifying to realize that this is the 2nd case I've heard of where someone fired their weapon at another human being and never bothered to call the police afterwards. Both times ending in The latter person who was shot dying dine from their wounds
That's unusual. *reads* Oh, he attacked another cop, that's why he's actually being punished instead of the usual "Do what now?" slow dragging of a mock investigation until after statute of limitations has expired
They let the guy out because the "attack" was probably staged. Nobody attacks a public official by slowly sauntering up to them with a fucking plastic keychain wrapped around their fingers.
Who is Zeldin and why does this Gawker level of reporting matter?
Zeldin is the Republican running for NY governor and he was attacked by a very drunk man at a rally the other day. He "predicted" his attacker would be released because of NY's soft on crime bail laws 🤔
These guys are gonna steal every toy gun off the street to justify murdering a guy because he was playing with a water gun, huh?
So wait, we can ban water guns but real guns are off limits?
Plus they can make real guns that look like toy guns so that cops have an excuse for killing kids with toys
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Their definition of “air rifle” would also cover a lot of nerf guns.
Not that that’s surprising. They’re perfectly happy to scoop up as many perfectly innocent toys in that net so they can selectively enforce it to fuck with minorities.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
These guys are gonna steal every toy gun off the street to justify murdering a guy because he was playing with a water gun, huh?
So wait, we can ban water guns but real guns are off limits?
It has always been ok to take guns from minorities.
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So my phone showed me an article with a headline saying something about how Beastie Boys were cultural appropriation, and I read just like the first sentence which was complaining how "New York liberals" had named a street after them when they should not be honoured. (It also specifically mentioned them as being Jewish which kinda made me side-eye a little bit, but I digress.)
This was earlier when I was at work so I only glanced at it very briefly, and I now literally can not find the article, but I wanted some input.
My first instinct was that this was complete bullshit. I try to be as aware and sensitive to cultural appropriation as possible for a white guy, and obviously everyone knows that hip-hop was invented in Black communities, but this seems like a stretch. Especially given how unique their style was.
But again, I'm a white dude so my opinion doesn't really matter here. I would love to hear how other people feel about it.
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
So my phone showed me an article with a headline saying something about how Beastie Boys were cultural appropriation, and I read just like the first sentence which was complaining how "New York liberals" had named a street after them when they should not be honoured. (It also specifically mentioned them as being Jewish which kinda made me side-eye a little bit, but I digress.)
This was earlier when I was at work so I only glanced at it very briefly, and I now literally can not find the article, but I wanted some input.
My first instinct was that this was complete bullshit. I try to be as aware and sensitive to cultural appropriation as possible for a white guy, and obviously everyone knows that hip-hop was invented in Black communities, but this seems like a stretch. Especially given how unique their style was.
But again, I'm a white dude so my opinion doesn't really matter here. I would love to hear how other people feel about it.
That stuff's sometimes in the eye of the beholder, I don't think there's always a clearcut line on what's appropriation and what's collaboration. There often is, but not always. I don't know if that writer's necessarily wrong to call it appropriation, but I don't know if they're right. Shit's complicated. I'm also not even remotely qualified to talk on black experiences. But for someone who maybe is, here's a piece from Questlove about what the Beastie Boys meant to him: https://www.okayplayer.com/news/mca-what-does-it-mean-by-questlove.html
man. this was the education that has sustained me into the business i have now. my passion for sneakers? those guys. making my own custom t shirts? (I’ve made about 2000 in the past 10 years) those guys. my passion for funk records and 45s id pay $500 a record for? those guys. now I’m going through my parents basement looking for old Ebony’s from the 70s and now I’m becoming a pop culture junkie scouring the earth for soul train episodes? those guys. standing for what i politically believe in even if its not popular?
all those guys.
Questlove's also buddies with Jimmy Fallon, so like, keep that context in mind. When I say shit's complicated I mean that in multiple directions.
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Fwiw, coming at it from the other direction, the Beastie Boys were the ones who made a lot of hip hop accessible and cool to white punk rock kids in the 90s. Most of us definitely didn’t stop with Beastie Boys records, because those guys never hesitated to hype up their influences, their contemporaries, or the artists that came up after them. Not that I don’t absolutely see the other side of it, but I think that counts for a fair bit in those scenes.
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Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Probably don't taste nearly as good either
"Your conclusion was wrong"
"You lie! My math was flawless! 99.9% accurate"
"Your math was correct but against a population sample of billions of people, even curated, leaves you with a margin of error of over 1,000,000 people."
"MINION!"
Murphy was bullshitting of course, no drama if they had the wrong family. But it stuck with me.
With current criminal and genetic databases expanding as more data is added (assuming crime rates stay trending down over the last 30 years), the raw number your analysis samples from increases. This means the potential number of wrong people your data samples increases as well.
So a 99.9% accurate method will good for like, 100 dudes, but give you 10 possible dudes if you search 1000 dudes
So with larger population sets, even limiting to race (acknowledging that a lot of brown skinned asian and latin populations get confused for black), age (which people get wrong a lot), and gender (everyone androgynous in a panic) with population increasing you still get that 0.1% error rate pulling a fuck ton of people.
I was thinking about this in regards to this story
https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-technology-crime-chicago-lawsuits-3e6145f63c96593866cf89ac01ce7498
And recalled the nypd rejecting several facial recognition technologies (before 2020) because their math's margin of error never hit 90%. I googled some stuff now and learned that, while i was worried before about civilians using rejected software, i should have worried about police using the software on their personal devices.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/rogue-nypd-cops-are-using-sketchy-facial-recognition-app-clearview/
So yeah, math dread
Also LOVEINT
The practice of people using intelligence assets to spy on lovers, partners, spouses, or people they are crushing on
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https://sports.yahoo.com/man-18-shot-dead-bronx-175100079.html
It is horrifying to realize that this is the 2nd case I've heard of where someone fired their weapon at another human being and never bothered to call the police afterwards. Both times ending in The latter person who was shot dying dine from their wounds
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
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Say whaaaat!?
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That's unusual. *reads* Oh, he attacked another cop, that's why he's actually being punished instead of the usual "Do what now?" slow dragging of a mock investigation until after statute of limitations has expired
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
Fuck the Pullease
~ Buckaroo Banzai
fuckin terror town
fucking evil
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Simply inexplicable
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Bssically when they reported anything serious be a dump of personal anecdotes of their own lives before getting to the meat and potatoes of anything
Got so bad i read their stuff in reverse to understand it
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Ah yes
The purges
Anytime something reminds me of that one pvp arc, my blood runs cold
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These guys are gonna steal every toy gun off the street to justify murdering a guy because he was playing with a water gun, huh?
So wait, we can ban water guns but real guns are off limits?
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Plus they can make real guns that look like toy guns so that cops have an excuse for killing kids with toys
Not that that’s surprising. They’re perfectly happy to scoop up as many perfectly innocent toys in that net so they can selectively enforce it to fuck with minorities.
It has always been ok to take guns from minorities.
This was earlier when I was at work so I only glanced at it very briefly, and I now literally can not find the article, but I wanted some input.
My first instinct was that this was complete bullshit. I try to be as aware and sensitive to cultural appropriation as possible for a white guy, and obviously everyone knows that hip-hop was invented in Black communities, but this seems like a stretch. Especially given how unique their style was.
But again, I'm a white dude so my opinion doesn't really matter here. I would love to hear how other people feel about it.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
That stuff's sometimes in the eye of the beholder, I don't think there's always a clearcut line on what's appropriation and what's collaboration. There often is, but not always. I don't know if that writer's necessarily wrong to call it appropriation, but I don't know if they're right. Shit's complicated. I'm also not even remotely qualified to talk on black experiences. But for someone who maybe is, here's a piece from Questlove about what the Beastie Boys meant to him: https://www.okayplayer.com/news/mca-what-does-it-mean-by-questlove.html
Questlove's also buddies with Jimmy Fallon, so like, keep that context in mind. When I say shit's complicated I mean that in multiple directions.
The line you are looking for is the line between karaoke and actually learning [craft] to the point that you elevate it.
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