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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Half the time I see news articles about "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!", I go look at the discussion and it's
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Half the time I see news articles about "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!", I go look at the discussion and it's
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Don't get me wrong. I'm an AI optimist. But sometimes, when I talk with people who work for the AI heavilyweights, they sound like the people I talked to at Facebook before 2017. They thought they could do only good. They only listened to their leader. Believed his words. Then it went horribly wrong
September 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Don't get me wrong. I'm an AI optimist. But sometimes, when I talk with people who work for the AI heavilyweights, they sound like the people I talked to at Facebook before 2017. They thought they could do only good. They only listened to their leader. Believed his words. Then it went horribly wrong
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I really wish I'd kept track of how many people in my life I've gotten to stop flying the confederate flag, just by showing them the declaration of secession for their home state, and showing them that the confederate flag was only used for the 4 years of war.
It's in the hundreds.
It's in the hundreds.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
I don't want to talk about Black history yet. I want to talk about why if you grew up in the North or West, your high school history book likely talked about the "Articles of Secession,"
but if you ...
hachyderm.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I really wish I'd kept track of how many people in my life I've gotten to stop flying the confederate flag, just by showing them the declaration of secession for their home state, and showing them that the confederate flag was only used for the 4 years of war.
It's in the hundreds.
It's in the hundreds.