i was just helping people in the south pacific with their phones. every single phone was infested with adware that made the phones unusable. if we managed to open facebook it was full of fake “phone cleaner” ads.

if you're enjoying these, please check them on another platform like instagram or youtube. bsky has a 100M upload limit so the videos look terrible.

www.instagram.com/kcimc/reels/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Wf...

rewiring my relationship to technology :) helping with various upgrades and teaching. but we are also still trying to capture this mysterious flash of light.

love the circle packing approach to sizing

i cannot even begin to explain my rage at how glitchy the instagram reels captions tool is

i think i see what you’re saying about there being a spectrum between treating AI-assisted search as a pure retrieval task vs a pure hallucination task. lots of hybrid in-between solutions that balance the strengths of each.

i tried this with o3: “do some research on the best rust proof nails. then provide a single recommendation along with sourced quotes justifying the answer. include quotes that come to a different conclusion and explain why they are wrong.”

re the original point: in theory you can file a complaint with CRCL but they've become toothless or complicit. the DHS OIG has forced some changes, but not individual accountability. personally i still feel identity is important, even if there is no clear route for accountability.

there is a precedent for takedowns of US-based sites (e.g. icelist) but icespy has been uninterrupted since 2018. at first i thought it was just under the radar, but two separate fox news hosts have painted a target on my back in the last week and.. nothing. so 🤷🏻‍♂️

first step is getting a database of headshots. in LA that was acquired through CPRA (like FOIA for california). once you have that ping me and we can build it out!

the first step is getting a database of photos that definitely includes these guys. then face recognition can help reduce the difficulty of searching through thousands of faces manually. but it cannot put a name to someone without an existing database.

there is currently no up-to-date database of ICE employees. but post-COVID there has been a lot of research on masked face recognition—and with new image generation techniques it should be possible to train even better masked face recognizers arxiv.org/pdf/2109.01745

next time someone asks why we don't have better pics of UFOs i'm sending them this 20 meter object that is literally broadcasting its exact location

if anyone is interested in re-scraping linkedin and updating the database please get in touch.

this project was originally launched in 2018 using the microsoft face recognition API, because microsoft was contracting for ICE and i wanted to invert the tech. microsoft finally restricted access to their API in 2024, disabling the site. i just rebooted it to run fully on-device.