I’ve been enjoying FairEmail. Nice to have options like ‘would you like to remove sensitive data before attaching this image’ instead of ‘do you wish you could turn off this AI bloat’.

The coalition founded to work on it: https://federaloverreach.org/

Meanwhile Trump is destroying public media.

I would like public interest info to be free, but recent events also highlight the importance of separating media and state, both organizationally and financially.

Yeah. And even if true, still not a crime that merits extrajudicial execution. And I don’t believe it until we see the body cam footage (oh, is there none?).

And on the store’s web site now:

Due to overwhelming community support, we have temporarily suspended online ordering. Please consider supporting one of Minnesota’s many immigrant rights organizations. Thank you! https://www.ilcm.org/ is great!

Like I said, working on it. But you know, this evening do I try to dismantle ICE, cook dinner, play a game, or research email providers? Lots of competing priorities in life, let’s celebrate the wins.

Thanks. Yes, Google had been evil for a long time, probably before they removed “don’t be evil.” No, let’s not be gatekeepers.

Do post again if you figure it out!

Shut it down! Shut it down!

In so much danger he didn’t even drop his phone.

Her wife, Becca Good, stands nearby, recording as well.

Her wife WATCHED HER GET MURDERED by Jonathan Ross? What a blood curdling nightmare.

And PTSD that would make him especially unsafe in escalated situations?

But part of the issue is that, as with any computer system, you have to control the inputs and anticipate the abuse. With a very bounded system, you can almost keep up. With LLM bots, there’s just no way to prepare a check for every creative way humans can be disgusting.

If you went to a human illustrator and asked for that, you would (hopefully) get run out of the room or hung up on, because there’s a built in filter for ‘is this gross / will it harm my reputation to publish,’ based on years of human interaction and behavioral feedback, or maybe even some inherent morals.

The AI picked through the pictures taken by the drone pilots pixel by pixel, looking for anything that might look out of place on the mountainside. The software identified dozens of potential anomalies from a large number of photographs in a matter of hours.

The selection, however, still needed to be whittled down with some human expertise.

“The software could react to different things, like a piece of plastic garbage or an unusually coloured rock,” says Isola. “It can even hallucinate some things. So, we still had to narrow it down further by taking into consideration the path that Ivaldo, as a very skillful climber, might have used.”

Interesting process. “AI” as a term gets so overused, but in this instance I think they’re really talking about image neural net processing.

This other one mentioned sounds like just image processing:

Other software that searches for unusually coloured pixels in natural landscapes – developed by the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association in the UK – has been used to locate the body of a missing hillwalker in Glen Etive in the Scottish Highlands in 2023.

Or is it ML, not AI?

The key is to keep training the machine learning systems that power these algorithms to improve their accuracy in different types of terrain and conditions, says Tomasz Niedzielski, an expert in geoinformatics at the University of Wrocław and leader of the team that developed the SARUAV software.

Overall interesting process but could be a lot more specific about the technology.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday that the agent who killed Good was the same officer dragged by a suspect in Bloomington last June. Although Ross was not named in the 13-page indictment of the driver, he is identified in several court records filed in the case, including photo exhibits from the hospital. He is also listed by name as a witness.

Nice sleuthing.

A law enforcement source, who is not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that Ross is the shooter.

LEO doing something useful!

I think there’s definitely some missing white woman syndrome, and some of it being on video from multiple angles.

Anyway, they’re all horrific and I’m glad to see as big a response as the country can muster.

Someone shared a closer view on Reddit. Utterly sickening. He could easily have stepped to the side in the time it took him to square in front of the care, aim, and fire into her face.

From Reddit, photo of the agent just after he shot her:

Edit: Now identified as Jonathan Ross, murderer, by the Star Tribune.

Like any abuser.

Glad to hear there are matching fillings against ICE:

The arrests have spurred congressional hearings and the recent filing of federal tort claims, the precursor to a lawsuit alleging negligent or wrongful acts of federal employees.