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Facial Recognition Software
My buddy and I have some concerns about Facebook, privacy, and the capabilities and uses of the lastest facial-recognition software. We are conducting some experiments.
See if you can attach a name to this person:
Extra points if you can place the location of the photo and any other information about the photo.
and when he died
all he left us was alone.
Your mama was a kool kitty. She campaigned in Iowa. Ha hah. Yeah.
This one is for Dave:
2012
The “holidays” bore me. They take up more than 1/6th of our modern American life. I like the idea of Jesus’ birth, and the three kings, and even Santa Claus and snow and Christmas trees. But I need something more. I need an analogy or a metaphor or a concept of something bigger to counter this cunning, vapid consumerism.
For me, the holidays are a reminder of 1944 and the Battle of the Bulge. When we as a nation thought we knew it all, thought our technology and our intuition were better than everybody else’s… and then in a flash we committed THE most incredible intelligence failure in history and were surrounded by not one, but two SS Panzer Corps. Merry X-mas.
One of the best novels I’ve ever read: The Stalin Front by Gert Ledig
Recently Borders went bankrupt. They suck. But I found this cool little bookstore on Newbury Street of all places called The Raven. Their prices are outta sight, man. I found Ledig randomly while looking for a copy of The Naked and The Dead. Mailer’s novel was only $7.95. But all they had was the 5oth anniversary hardcover. I’m mobile, I can’t be carrying that kind of bulk around. Luckily this 200 page gem was sitting on top of it for only $4.95. The timing was perfect since I’m going through a very serious Russo-German war phase.
Coming soon to a western country near you: Random Grenade Attacks!
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Open Thread December 2011
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No Death, No Taxes
The libertarian futurism of a Silicon Valley billionaire.
by George Packer
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_packer
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A half hour before I viddied this, I almost flipped over this table. I was walking past these idiots from behind with two buddies. I was talking to my friends and only saw the Hitler moustache poster as I was literally next to it. I pointed it out to my friend, not making any commentary about it. The white kid at the table starting yelling at me to come back and talk to him about him and then accused me of saying it was offensive (which it is). He then used highly innapropriate language to describe the things I didn’t say. My attorney advised me to call the Secret Service. I don’t even know what the 25th amendment is.
My new favorite website (for fun and timesucking):
Dbags
Six Children Are Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan
“There were no Taliban in the field; this is a baseless allegation that the Taliban were planting mines,” Mr. Samad said. “I have been to the scene and haven’t found a single bit of evidence of bombs or any other weapons. The Americans did a serious crime against innocent children, they will never ever be forgiven.”
American soldiers have destroyed numerous dwellings in Zhare to deny insurgents hiding places, and they have also built new roads across farmland because existing ones were so heavily mined. Residents were quickly compensated by the military, however, and in recent months the area, one of several districts near the city of Kandahar that were once Taliban strongholds, has been relatively quiet.
My Good Friend in real life, who I refer to on da internets as DJ Pee Money, just sent me this Thanksgiving Greeting. He apparently has put this on his Facebook “wall,” or whatever. I don’t use that authoritarian form of communication, so I wouldn’t know.
posted on my facebook page:
Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you settlers, for slaughtering the peaceful Indians and destroying their way of life. Thank you for moving the survivors to concentration camps, and preparing the colonies for overdevelopment, strip malls, Target, venti vanilla lattes, black Friday, and the vacuous, overfed, iphone-obsessed morons that are the majority of my countrymen.
Wow! I had absolutely no idea. I had nothing to do with this. I thought he was a Yuppie Republican who keeps calling the Marines to see if they will let him join up so he can kill Afghans. They keep saying he is too old. He texted me from Connecticut today, threatening to join the French Foreign Legion so he could avoid Thanksgiving dinner at his wife’s family’s house next year. He couldn’t wait to show me his new Glock 17 yesterday. I was the one who figured out how to remove the slide thingy so he could oil it. I’ve never taken apart a real gun in my life. Personally I think the thing is too big and that I would like a Walther PPK or S&W compact. Anyway. I think he might be one of us. I might teach him how to read so he can check out Jim Kunstler. He thinks he’s the first to discover this whole thing about the Indians.
Tarawa: Looking back on USMC thanksgivings, reminding us of things for which we should be grateful
This story must be read to the beats of mark Ronson:
This would have to count as a MAJOR loss in the “War On Terror,” so don’t expect it to get much attention in the media.
But others inside the American intelligence community say sloppy “tradecraft” — the method of covert operations — by the CIA is also to blame for the disruption of the vital spy networks.
In Beirut, two Hezbollah double agents pretended to go to work for the CIA. Hezbollah then learned of the restaurant where multiple CIA officers were meeting with several agents, according to the four current and former officials briefed on the case. The CIA used the codeword “PIZZA” when discussing where to meet with the agents, according to U.S. officials. Two former officials describe the location as a Beirut Pizza Hut. A current US official denied that CIA officers met their agents at Pizza Hut.
“We were lazy and the CIA is now flying blind against Hezbollah”
One former senior intelligence official told ABC News that CIA officers ignored warnings that the operation could be compromised by using the same location for meetings with multiple assets.
In Iran, intelligence minister Heidar Moslehi announced in May that more than 30 U.S. and Israeli spies had been discovered and an Iranian television program, which acts as a front for Iran’s government, showed images of internet sites used by the U.S. for secret communication with the spies.
http://exiledonline.com/to-the-crows/
TO THE CROWS
By Ace Korakes
He was not designed to wipe tables with a cloth; it was hard for him to avoid cleaning them with his belly. In fact, he could’ve velcro’d a handiwipe to the lower slopes between navel and penis and cleaned the tables with that. You couldn’t help watching him—my God, the lighting in those offramp McDonalds is bright enough for a surgery theater—and you almost expected a laughtrack to follow him around as his belly sloshed over the formica table tops. Actually, though, the soundtrack was a trashy 70s standard, “How looo-ong…has this bin goin’ on?” One of those moments that seem, as the grad students used to say, “overdetermined.” As in, I get it, I get it already, leave me alone, leave that poor bastard alone. The one miserable consolation of the losers used to be that they stayed lean. Now they’re the ones who get fat, another gloating stat I saw recently. What next, Baron Harkonnen floating in to pull that fat busboy’s heart plug to general applause?
City of the Living Dead
by Kelley B. Vlahos
October 25, 2011
Everybody knows that zombies eat brains. George Romero set the scene in Night of the Living Dead, and Hollywood never looked back. Before that, zombies in movies typically involved reanimation and mind control through so-called African-Caribbean voodoo. In films like White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie bad actors with the magic enslaved poor mindless fools to do their bidding.
“]”]We see all types of zombies reacting to Occupy and its various manifestations. It’s not much different from how antiwar protesters have been treated throughout the last 10 years of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now that the mainstream is actually paying attention to what is going on in Zuccotti Park — in a way it never did for the dozens of major antiwar protests in Washington and New York over the decade — zombiism is rampant and quite easily discernible.
Most prevalent are the zombies talking about and mostly criticizing the protests in language that suggests only mind control could be at work. These zombies include all manner of talking heads, political courtiers and operatives, politicians, status-quo junkies, and haters — but also mindless corporate newspersons who typically just put their heads down and repeat what they’re told.
On a trip last week to the Northeast, I was bombarded almost immediately with the charge that Occupy Wall Street protesters were engaging in anti-Semitic chants, violent behavior, open sex, and flagrant drug use. One man had crapped on a police car. According to a family member, the whole thing had devolved into a dystopian nightmare with shades of Woodstock — Woodstock ’99 that is. At the beginning — according to the evolving meme — these demonstrators might have been well-meaning, but now the whole thing has been taken over by anarchists and criminals. Who, by the way, really hate America.
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