frame: it's a crime fighting tool
negation: it doesn't actually work

kirby: THE GOAL OF SURVEILLANCE IS TO EXERT POWER AND CONTROL. it isn't about "preventing crime" it's about defining a class of presumptive criminals, and *it doesn't have to be accurate to be effective for that purpose*

I mean, suppose the parties or attorneys had treated him the way he treated them? Would he laugh along or hold them in contempt.

[This is even a theme in My Cousin Vinny!]

I’m sure the judge found it funny, but if you have child custody or jail time, etc. on the line, then this is so gross.

For me, it’s a pretty egregious abuse of power. Part of respect for law is taking the parties before you seriously, rather than a captive audience for juvenile antics.

I'm sure you noted the article's lack of details. We're told that BCIs, combined with 'AI' (not defined - what methods?) will enable the interpretation of thought. In reality, signals will be tagged with subjective values, then applied to ML, or something worse, and used to *pretend* this

Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

“How then is the mob to be met and quelled? If it represents public opinion, even passing, passionate public opinion, it cannot permanently be put down by a police which public opinion appoints and pays.”
WEB Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

“…it need hesitate at no outrage of maiming or murder; it shields itself in the mob mind and then throws over all a veil of darkness which becomes glamor. It attracts people who otherwise could not be reached. It harnesses the mob.” WEB DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America