Displaced Jersey Boy
@exjerseyboy.bsky.social
Long time liberal. Silicon Valley guy. Guitar player. Engineer. Obsessed w/my coonhound. Go Mets/Warriors/Giants (BB&FB)!
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Today’s reminder that Facial Recognition is a garbage technology that has been proven to be often wrong, particularly when attempting to identify POCs.
While it MAY have some uses as a 1st pass scan, the idea that it should override _anything_ is ridiculous on its face.
While it MAY have some uses as a 1st pass scan, the idea that it should override _anything_ is ridiculous on its face.
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 8:35 PM
Today’s reminder that Facial Recognition is a garbage technology that has been proven to be often wrong, particularly when attempting to identify POCs.
While it MAY have some uses as a 1st pass scan, the idea that it should override _anything_ is ridiculous on its face.
While it MAY have some uses as a 1st pass scan, the idea that it should override _anything_ is ridiculous on its face.
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This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
People are saying this has never been done before, but I have DEFINITELY seen a player strike out 10 players on the opposing team while hitting 3 home runs in a single game, just like Shohei Ohtani did last night.
Of course, it was Little League...
Of course, it was Little League...
October 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
People are saying this has never been done before, but I have DEFINITELY seen a player strike out 10 players on the opposing team while hitting 3 home runs in a single game, just like Shohei Ohtani did last night.
Of course, it was Little League...
Of course, it was Little League...
What did the Dodgers and Phillies fans do to deserve this horrific announcing team on TV?
They are beyond awful.
They are beyond awful.
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What did the Dodgers and Phillies fans do to deserve this horrific announcing team on TV?
They are beyond awful.
They are beyond awful.
Hallelujah!! Had the Mets had even mediocre fielders on the corners, the Mets win at least 5 more games this year.
You can't win championships with terrible fielders on 1st, 3rd, and Right Field, plus mediocre fielders with limited range on 2nd and in Left Field.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
You can't win championships with terrible fielders on 1st, 3rd, and Right Field, plus mediocre fielders with limited range on 2nd and in Left Field.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Hallelujah!! Had the Mets had even mediocre fielders on the corners, the Mets win at least 5 more games this year.
You can't win championships with terrible fielders on 1st, 3rd, and Right Field, plus mediocre fielders with limited range on 2nd and in Left Field.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
You can't win championships with terrible fielders on 1st, 3rd, and Right Field, plus mediocre fielders with limited range on 2nd and in Left Field.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
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In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.
I watched today's Mets game trying to root them to the postseason. But to be honest, this team, right now (and over the last 6 weeks) couldn't win a series against any team that made the playoffs.
There's part of me that's relieved I don't have to watch them get swept in LA.
There's part of me that's relieved I don't have to watch them get swept in LA.
September 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I watched today's Mets game trying to root them to the postseason. But to be honest, this team, right now (and over the last 6 weeks) couldn't win a series against any team that made the playoffs.
There's part of me that's relieved I don't have to watch them get swept in LA.
There's part of me that's relieved I don't have to watch them get swept in LA.
Siri can't hit, so if he can't play defense, lets DFA him in the 5th inning and get literally anyone off the AAA team up.
September 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Siri can't hit, so if he can't play defense, lets DFA him in the 5th inning and get literally anyone off the AAA team up.
Pete cranks another homer, which is a great start, but I have to believe there’s some kind of strategy that lets the Mets score, other than a solo home run.
Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe this team has no capacity to score other than swinging out of their shoes with no one on base.
#LGM
Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe this team has no capacity to score other than swinging out of their shoes with no one on base.
#LGM
September 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Pete cranks another homer, which is a great start, but I have to believe there’s some kind of strategy that lets the Mets score, other than a solo home run.
Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe this team has no capacity to score other than swinging out of their shoes with no one on base.
#LGM
Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe this team has no capacity to score other than swinging out of their shoes with no one on base.
#LGM
The Mets play offense like a solo homer is worth 3 runs.
September 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Mets play offense like a solo homer is worth 3 runs.
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"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret on Sunday over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia and said those who returned home will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US
US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia.
bloom.bg
September 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"
Are you telling me that the people who make tv shows/movies voted for the tv show about making movies to win all the "making tv shows" awards?
Shocked. I'm totally shocked.
#Emmys #TheMostPredictableThingEver
Shocked. I'm totally shocked.
#Emmys #TheMostPredictableThingEver
September 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Are you telling me that the people who make tv shows/movies voted for the tv show about making movies to win all the "making tv shows" awards?
Shocked. I'm totally shocked.
#Emmys #TheMostPredictableThingEver
Shocked. I'm totally shocked.
#Emmys #TheMostPredictableThingEver
Keep in mind that these conditions were inflicted on absolutely, inarguably legal (documented) immigrants here to build a factory to create American jobs.
Imagine how badly undocumented immigrants are treated.
Imagine how badly undocumented immigrants are treated.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Keep in mind that these conditions were inflicted on absolutely, inarguably legal (documented) immigrants here to build a factory to create American jobs.
Imagine how badly undocumented immigrants are treated.
Imagine how badly undocumented immigrants are treated.
Where an ethicless, faux-intellectual Right Wing ideolog tells us that another ethicless, faux-intellectual would recognize a third ethicless, faux-intellectual as a kindred spirit.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | William F. Buckley Jr. would recognize Charlie Kirk as a kindred spirit
Kirk was killed at the start of what was to have been a Buckley-like college tour.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Where an ethicless, faux-intellectual Right Wing ideolog tells us that another ethicless, faux-intellectual would recognize a third ethicless, faux-intellectual as a kindred spirit.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week
September 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week
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My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.
September 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.
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From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
September 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!)
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
Receipts:
zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
In today's Apple Event, they announced the iPhone Pro 17, which uses a solid aluminum body & a vapor chamber to transfer the heat from the chips to the phone's body, where it can more easily dissipate. Clever!
And then they suggested a silicone case. You know, the stuff they make oven mitts out of.
And then they suggested a silicone case. You know, the stuff they make oven mitts out of.
September 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
In today's Apple Event, they announced the iPhone Pro 17, which uses a solid aluminum body & a vapor chamber to transfer the heat from the chips to the phone's body, where it can more easily dissipate. Clever!
And then they suggested a silicone case. You know, the stuff they make oven mitts out of.
And then they suggested a silicone case. You know, the stuff they make oven mitts out of.
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
www.theatlantic.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
Another Credit Bureau lets itself get hacked, with no negative consequences.
There needs to be a "Corporate Death Penalty" that strips Execs and Board of Directors of all their stock, fines them their bonuses for the last 5 years, and puts them on a blacklist.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
There needs to be a "Corporate Death Penalty" that strips Execs and Board of Directors of all their stock, fines them their bonuses for the last 5 years, and puts them on a blacklist.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach
The breach appears related to a wave of attacks on companies' Salesforce databases.
www.cnet.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Another Credit Bureau lets itself get hacked, with no negative consequences.
There needs to be a "Corporate Death Penalty" that strips Execs and Board of Directors of all their stock, fines them their bonuses for the last 5 years, and puts them on a blacklist.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
There needs to be a "Corporate Death Penalty" that strips Execs and Board of Directors of all their stock, fines them their bonuses for the last 5 years, and puts them on a blacklist.
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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does Drew Ensign go home to his wife every night and say “hi honey, I had a great day lying to the court so that the US government could murder children”?
I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
August 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
does Drew Ensign go home to his wife every night and say “hi honey, I had a great day lying to the court so that the US government could murder children”?
I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself
In case you had a moment of thought that @sce.com cared, even the slightest, tiniest bit about what their customers think, here's evidence that the "feedback" email address -- the one it puts in the "reply-to:" field of the emails they send to customers -- isn't actually a real address.
August 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In case you had a moment of thought that @sce.com cared, even the slightest, tiniest bit about what their customers think, here's evidence that the "feedback" email address -- the one it puts in the "reply-to:" field of the emails they send to customers -- isn't actually a real address.
The downside for me, if Trump actually does die, is that I will have to buy TWO flagpoles: One to plant in the ground, and one to tie to the top of the first one, so I can fly a flag doubly high.
August 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The downside for me, if Trump actually does die, is that I will have to buy TWO flagpoles: One to plant in the ground, and one to tie to the top of the first one, so I can fly a flag doubly high.