As far as I can tell, the NSA data was into a dataset that allowed report software to run against it. It was also largely metadata, and it didn’t assign a person to the metadata.

Meaning it wasn’t an “enter a name” or "enter social security number.

This sounds like a dataset built for each person. Now how that’s going to work is a different question. Cops can already pull you over, and once they have your license plate, they can see if you’ve got warrants or outstanding fines, and various legal history.

Palantir’s data sounds like an efficient way to cause mass amounts of identity theft.

Yeah I made $51k out of college.

My first software job I made $68k? Granted Im at $150k after all that time, but still. Dang yo you know?

My mother won’t answer me what her salary was when she retired. Easily in the industry for 30-40 years, but I know it was under $200k. Granted she was an electrical engineer before getting her masters in computer science, but I also suspect it has to do with the fact that she and I didn’t work for the big tech giants.

And I have no interest in doing so.

So… I actually proposed a use case for NLP and LLMs in 2017. I don’t actually know if it was used.

But the usecase was generating large sets of fake data that looked real enough for performance testing enterprise sized data transformations. That way we could skip a large portion of the risk associated with using actual customer data. We wouldn’t have to generate the data beforehand, we could validate logic with it, and we could just plop it in the replica non-prodiction environment.

At the time we didn’t have any LLMs. So it didn’t go anywhere. But it’s always funny when I see all this “LLMs can do x” because I always think about how my proposal was to use it… For fake data.

See TIL.

I think my ex wife really screwed with my understanding of the world. One of the things she convinced me of was that the “things I like to see on women are only worn to attract men”

I’m learning a lot still it turns out.

I’m sorry you went through that. I don’t understand why it’s hard for men to not touch something they like.

Is it because I’m (probably) autistic? Like, look these kind of outfits are simply awesome, but touching someone else without invitation just seems so incredibly… Wrong?

Its something I’ve struggled with understanding my whole life. Just cause you are into a woman doesn’t mean you need to break boundaries to satisfy urges?

I mean, shit, I remember from a really, really, really, young age: don’t touch others. Did this message not become a core concept? Or do I just pass out before alcohol has that much of an inhibiting effect on me?

I’m not going to disagree.

But are there women that enjoy wearing it? Just because others enjoy looking at it isn’t a great reason to.

Although if you’re on the fence between something like this and literally anything else, I will vote this.

TBH I didn’t know they were still making full feature porn. Kind of thought that had died by now

Wait what? Who is making $165k out of college?

I don’t even make $165k after working for… I don’t know let’s say 12 or 15 I can’t keep track what counts anymore

I don’t want to come off as pedantic, but what we’re dealing with in the US is a very strange and successful breed of “Christian Nationalism.”

Essentially, it’s a belief that ultra-conservative Christianity is the only legitimate religion and that the USA is a Christian nation.

It probably comes as no surprise that these people heavily influenced the Confederacy, is strongly white-supremecist, anti-vice, etc, and has been an anathema in this country since before the states actually formed.

Christians themselves are… A problem, but not the problem. It’s these Christian nationalists. They’re loud. They want you to think all Christians believe what they do too. They also tend to drown out opposing Christian speakers by being louder than them too.

It’s one of the reasons why MLK Jr was hated so much by Hoover, by the south, etc. He was a Christian pastor, and stood against everything they did.

It’s important that we don’t group Christians in with Christian Nationalists. It’s very difficult but necessary.

Anthony Comstock.

J. Edgar Hoover.

Joseph McCarthy.

Roy Cohn.

Donald Trump.

Willful traitors all. Have it writ upon thy meager graves, “destroyed the union just so people wouldn’t masturbate.”

There’s more, I know. But those fellas are all linked.

Me looking at my cat, and my cat looking at me after reading this comment: