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ScrubLeague: Feb 11, 2007; Nap Ghost

I assume nextdoor in the whole country looks like this now

# ? Jul 22, 2023 10:27

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# ? May 20, 2024 19:10

multistability: Feb 15, 2014

https://twitter.com/corpseinorbit/status/1682471973887127552?t=bTPfs8HSB6MEgaxFlthdtQ&s=19

# ? Jul 22, 2023 10:29

multistability: Feb 15, 2014

Extremely funny that libs are gonna start calling child trafficking a qanon chud conspiracy theory because of that stupid sound of freedom movie lol

edit: the most Epstein-brained film of all time is You Were Never Really Here imo. Watch that poo poo

multistability has issued a correction as of 11:13 on Jul 22, 2023

# ? Jul 22, 2023 11:05

Puppy Burner: Sep 9, 2011

multistability posted:

Extremely funny that libs are gonna start calling child trafficking a qanon chud conspiracy theory because of that stupid sound of freedom movie lol

edit: the most Epstein-brained film of all time is You Were Never Really Here imo. Watch that poo poo

The plan is to get them to blame lgbt people do I'll take that tbh

# ? Jul 22, 2023 11:41

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Financial Times: Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models

quote:

Start-ups such as Scale AI and Gretel.ai have sprung up to provide synthetic data as a service. Gretel, set up by former US intelligence analysts from the National Security Agency and the CIA, works with companies including Google, HSBC, Riot Games and Illumina to augment their existing data with synthetic versions that can help train better AI models.

The key component of synthetic data, according to Gretel chief executive Ali Golshan, is that it preserves the privacy of all individuals in a data set, while still maintaining its statistical integrity.

Well-crafted synthetic data can also remove biases and imbalances in existing data, he added. �Hedge funds can look at black swan events and, say, create a hundred variations to see if our models crack,� Golshan said. For banks, where fraud typically constitutes less than 100th of a per cent of total data, Gretel�s software can generate �thousands of edge case scenarios on fraud and train [AI] models with it�.

Critics point out that not all synthetic data will be carefully curated to reflect or improve on real-world data. As AI-generated text and images start to fill the internet, it is likely that AI companies crawling the web for training data will inevitably end up using raw data produced by primitive versions of their own models � a phenomenon known as �dog-fooding�.

Research from universities including Oxford and Cambridge recently warned that training AI models on their own raw outputs, which may contain falsehoods or fabrications, could corrupt and degrade the technology over time, causing �irreversible defects�.

Golshan agrees that training on poor synthetic data could impede progress. �The content on the web is more and more AI-generated, and I do think that will lead to degradation over time [because] LLMs are producing regurgitated knowledge, without any new insights,� he said.

so "synthetic data" can ruin AI models, and more broadly could ruin the internet if it gets published ...

... but the firms that manufacture synthetic data, and are working with Big Tech to include them in their models ...

... are run by the NSA and the CIA

okay.

# ? Jul 22, 2023 12:40

my bony fealty: Oct 1, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

Financial Times: Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models

so "synthetic data" can ruin AI models, and more broadly could ruin the internet if it gets published ...

... but the firms that manufacture synthetic data, and are working with Big Tech to include them in their models ...

... are run by the NSA and the CIA

okay.

former NSA and CIA

what a crazy concept, let's make up fake data to train our models to make up more fake data that they will then consume to make up more fake data

# ? Jul 22, 2023 12:47

smarxist: Jul 26, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

Futanari Damacy posted:

I started following RFK Jr. on twitter because I also follow Lisa Pease but I unfollowed as soon as he posted a pro-crypto tweet

Still not sure what the deal is with the guy, he seems like he's trying to earnestly triangulate positions that are palatable to a wider audience (pandering). I guess we'll know how authentic he is by whether anything happens to him

# ? Jul 22, 2023 13:00

smarxist: Jul 26, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

so crazy for underaged girls you got an emergency contact with Epstein

# ? Jul 22, 2023 13:02

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

did the CIA murder Ernest Hemingway?

I mean, yes. probably.

idk Doctor, Idaho sounds like it could be really depressing

# ? Jul 22, 2023 17:28

Bip Roberts: Mar 29, 2005

the sears robuck catalog is an op

# ? Jul 22, 2023 19:18

Dr. Jerrold Coe: Feb 6, 2021; Is it me?

Bip Roberts posted:

the sears robuck catalog is an op

yeah, an op for savings!

# ? Jul 22, 2023 23:35

post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

mawarannahr posted:

idk Doctor, Idaho sounds like it could be really depressing

sun valley area is a famously depressing and ugly place.

# ? Jul 24, 2023 01:40

post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

I don�t think the CIA or FBI killed Hemingway as in literally pulled the trigger but Ernest Hemingway was diagnosed with psychotic depression and given ECT treatments for correctly stating that he was being spied on by the FBI and that his phones were bugged, and one of the main reasons I�ve always heard that was seen as a �cause� of his suicide was the distress caused by the severe damage ECT did to his memory and his inability to remember episodes from his own life.

post hole digger has issued a correction as of 01:54 on Jul 24, 2023

# ? Jul 24, 2023 01:46

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-finds-forensic-scientist-henry-lee-liable-for-fabricating-evidence-in-a-murder-case/ar-AA1ebwUL

# ? Jul 24, 2023 05:18

Private Cumshoe: Feb 15, 2019; AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH

god dammit :lmao:

# ? Jul 24, 2023 05:22

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY: Feb 3, 2006

Sounds hosed up. We will not be relitigating the mistakes of past administrations though

# ? Jul 24, 2023 06:06

mark immune: Dec 14, 2019; put the teacher in the cope cage imo

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-finds-forensic-scientist-henry-lee-liable-for-fabricating-evidence-in-a-murder-case/ar-AA1ebwUL

him and Werner Spitz absolutely glow at all times

# ? Jul 24, 2023 20:16

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

ohama's chef dies while paddle boarding? add it to the board.

# ? Jul 25, 2023 01:16

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

ohama's chef dies while paddle boarding? add it to the board.

paddleboarded to death for threatening to post the Obama family pizza recipe

# ? Jul 25, 2023 01:20

Cached Money: Apr 11, 2010

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

ohama's chef dies while paddle boarding? add it to the board.

Ohamna

# ? Jul 25, 2023 10:31

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

# ? Jul 25, 2023 10:40

Wraith of J.O.I.: Jan 25, 2012

new lawsuit against leon black

https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist/status/1683927081292558341

# ? Jul 25, 2023 20:57

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

yikes

# ? Jul 25, 2023 20:57

mdemone: Mar 14, 2001

sweet Jesus

# ? Jul 25, 2023 21:25

mdemone: Mar 14, 2001

Vanity Fair posted:

The Senate report also mentioned Black�s other ties to Russia, aside from knowing Geovanis and the 1996 trip with Trump. In September 2011, Black �reportedly� met �one-on-one� with Vladimir Putin to discuss Apollo�s plans for investing in Russia. Reuters reported on September 16, 2011 that Black was onstage with Putin at an economic forum in Sochi where he agreed to serve on the international advisory board of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund that Putin was setting up. Black served on the advisory board of the RDIF until 2014. (Also recruited to the advisory board were Stephen Schwarzman, of Blackstone Group, and David Bonderman, of TPG.) The report also said that Black �knows� Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, and had �interacted with him in Russia and the United States� prior to Deripaska �being sanctioned� by the U.S. in 2018. Black also knows Allen Vine, according to the report, who Black described as the �consigliere� to Suleiman Kerimov, another Russian oligarch sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018.

Black also told the committee that �on two occasions� he had spent time �talking to� Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser, including when he once had breakfast with Bannon because they have �a common friend� who he went to see one morning and found Bannon there. Black also told the committee of �a personal, but not close� relationship he has with both Jared Kushner and with Ivanka Trump, and about a �business transaction� between Apollo and the Kushner Companies that Black was not involved in, or aware of, �until after the fact.� (It wasn�t stated specifically in the report, but in November 2017, after Joshua Harris, Black�s partner, met numerous times in the White House with Kushner, Apollo lent the Kushner Companies $184 million to refinance a Chicago skyscraper, according to the New York Times.)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/what-was-leon-black-doing-with-trump-in-russia

from September 2020, "What was Leon Black doing with Trump in Russia?"

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna post the megapost

# ? Jul 25, 2023 21:32

mdemone: Mar 14, 2001

I wrote this in June 2017:

mdemone posted:

The Players

Leonard Blavatnik is a Ukraine-born American businessman. He made his fortune through diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries. In 2015, he was named Britain's richest man with an estimated net worth of �17.1 billion as of April 2015. He and a friend from university, Viktor Vekselberg, joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture, which in 2011 was responsible for stopping the BP merger with Rosneft Oil, the Russian state-owned petrocorp (1). In March 2013, at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, there was a transfer of nearly $28 billion in U.S. currency from an account controlled by Rosneft, to one controlled by four Russian billionaires: Blavatnik, Vekselberg, Mikhail Fridman, and German Khan (2). Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin, often described as Russia's second-most-powerful man, was the central figure behind the deal.

In addition to funding Trump's inauguration party, Blavatnik has long funded Mitch McConnell's super-PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund; see FEC filings showing donations of $1M in December 2015, $500k in April 2016, and $1M on October 25 2016; note that AI Altep is a shell company of Access Industries (3). Also notice that Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone shows up for more than $2M on the October 25 filing, having also given $370k just one week prior. In October 2016, the dark-money super-PAC One Nation donates $11M to the Senate Leadership Fund, with which they share an office.

Following his election, Trump appointed as Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao -- who is Mitch McConnell's wife and donated $42k to campaigns of Senators who would later vote on her confirmation, including her husband. During the Obama-Trump transition, McConnell had raised doubts about the CIA's report that Russian hacking affected the election, and made clear that "he would consider any effort by the Obama White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics" (4). In mid-2016, McConnell's brother-in-law and billionaire investor Jim Breyer (husband of Chao's sister Angela, who became Independent Non-Executive Director of the Bank of China in November 2016) joined the board of Schwarzman's Blackstone Group. Almost a year later, following a $110B+ arms deal brokered with Saudi Arabia by Jared Kushner, the Saudis subsequently announced a $20B+ investment into Blackstone Group for U.S. infrastructure. Blackstone, especially the real estate arm led by Jonathan Gray, has long been involved with Kushner's enterprises.

A handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine in 2016 with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump�s campaign chairman. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party. Financial records confirmed that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to Manafort�s name were actually received by his consulting firm in the United States in 2007 and 2009 (5). Manafort's political ties to former Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich have been well documented.

The Timeline

On June 14 2016, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Paul Ryan have separate meetings with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, in which Groysman talks about Russia's financial support of populist politicians and their efforts to undermine democratic governments in Eastern Europe. The next day, McCarthy joked to Ryan and other GOP leaders that he thinks "Putin pays�Trump", after which Ryan laughs and tells the group not to leak the conversation (read the transcript here).

In August 2016, CIA Director John Brennan informs Congressional leadership (the Gang of Eight, as well as Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan) that Russia is intervening in the American election on behalf of Trump. On August 4 2016, Brennan confronts the head of Russia's FSB about the matter.

According to the famous "Steele Dossier" that comes to light in December 2016, one of Steele's inside sources describes the July 2016 meeting between Igor Sechin and Carter Page, Trump policy adviser from his campaign and foreign policy team. (In October, Russian experts would conclude that the inside source was probably a former KGB general, Oleg Erovinkin. In late December 2016, Erovinkin is found dead in his car.) According to the dossier, Sechin offers to broker a 19% sale of Rosneft to Trump's associates in return for the lifting of economic sanctions on Russia (image). Page has an audio recording of Trump promising to fulfill his end of the bargain. During the months of the general election, Trump's campaign has at least 18 undisclosed meetings/contacts with Russian officials.

On Election Day 2016, Stephen Schwarzman's housekeeper is pushed under a subway train (image, bottom]).

Following Trump's victory in November, the transition team quickly began moving to develop sanction relief for Russia, causing alarmed State Dept. officials to urge legislation codifying the sanctions. In early December, Kushner has a meeting with the Russian ambassador/spymaster Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower, in which the men discuss the possibility of a secret back-channel for communications between the Trump team and the Kremlin.

In January 2017, 19.5% of Rosneft Oil is sold to a shell-of-shell-of-shell holding owned by (at the end of the chain) the trust company Intertrust [see the middle of image for holdings flowchart from Reuters, and tracing through shells from QHG to Intertrust]. Intertrust's major shareholder is Blackstone Group and therefore Stephen Schwarzman, who had been named chairman of the strategic and policy forum by Trump in December (he was offered a full-time role in the administration, but declined). Schwarzman now controls around 19% of Rosneft, as promised by Sechin, and has been seen with Trump at Mar-a-lago and many public events (image, bottom]). He remains a constant advisor to Trump.

On January 10 2017, Susan Rice, (Obama�s NSA), consults Michael Flynn about a plan to retake Raqqa from ISIS with the help of Syrian Kurdish forces. (The plan would have been executed under Trump, so Obama�s team wanted Flynn�s approval.) Flynn�s decision is to forestall the attack, an answer that happens to conform to the wishes of the Turkish government, which was benefiting from his lobbying work for which Flynn was paid at least $500,000. While Trump would eventually approve the military plan, Flynn�s decision 10 days before Trump took office delays the operation by several months. Flynn informs the Trump transition team that he is under investigation by the FBI for having been a foreign agent.

On January 27 2017, Donald Trump invites FBI Director James Comey to the White House for a private dinner, in which he asks for Comey's loyalty and assurances that there is no Russia investigation. The memos written by Comey regarding this and other conversations with Trump substantially corroborate his testimony before Congress.

In February, Trump asks Pence and Sessions to leave the Oval Office before pressuring Comey again to drop the Flynn investigation; Comey writes a detailed memo about this conversation. In March, Trump asked the director of national intelligence and the director of the National Security Agency to make statements confirming that the investigation had cleared him.

In late March, Flynn requests immunity from the Senate Intelligence Committee and the FBI in return for his testimony; his lawyer claims he has "a story to tell". On April 1 2017, this request is denied.

On April 27 2017, the "Mayflower Meeting" is held, shortly before Trump's first foreign policy speech, having been organized by his campaign chair Paul Manafort and Kremlin-think-tank coordinator Jacob Heilbrunn. In the room are Jeff Sessions (photo), Jared Kushner, and Manafort, along with ambassadors from Russia, Singapore, and the Philippines, and unidentified representatives from Rosneft. Trump's Secretary of Commerce is Wilbur Ross. He is the former vice-chair of the Bank of Cyprus, of which Vekselberg is the major shareholder. Ross, Schwarzman, Blavatnik, and McConnell/Chao would put together an $1T infrastructure plan that would depend on foreign money, as Chao admitted to Sean Hannity on Fox News on March 1 2017.

On May 9 2017, James Comey is fired as FBI Director, the week after he visited the "rocket docket" in federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and just days after he requested more resources for the Trump/Russia investigation. On May 10 2017, Trump meets with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Russian ambassador/spymaster Sergey Kislyak, in the Oval Office, without American press allowed but in the presence of Russian state media. At this meeting, Trump divulges code-word classified information from an Israeli intelligence source regarding the ISIS laptop-bomb plot; this source is said to be the most important double agent now working in ISIS, according to the Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence (Aman). Trump also refers to Comey as a "nut job", and claims to the Russians that the investigation will be over now that Comey is gone (6). The same day of the Oval Office meeting with Russian diplomats, a federal grand jury in EDVA hands down multiple subpoenas for business/lobbying associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, regarding his foreign contacts in Turkey (Ekim Alptekin) and Russia (David Zaikin).

On May 11 2017, the Strategic Campaign Group's office is raided in Annapolis by the FBI and U.S. Marshals following the warrants handed down by EDVA from two separate grand juries, corresponding to ~25 indictments regarding money-laundering and many other charges. Less than a week later, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is appointed by the Deputy Attorney General to oversee the Russia investigation. In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on May 23 2017, former CIA Director John Brennan verified that in August 2016 he had informed the Gang of Eight and others (including Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan) that Russia was intervening in the election on Trump's behalf. In late May, Jared Kushner is revealed to be among the targets of the FBI's Russia probe.

On June 2 2017, Mueller assumes control over the federal grand jury criminal investigations of Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn. James Comey testifies before the Senate Intel Committee on June 8 2017. The following week, Mueller's team confirms that they are investigating the president in part for obstruction of justice with respect to Comey and the Russia probe; as a result, Senate Intel agrees to avoid pursuing that aspect.

References:
1. Yenikeyeff, Shamil, "BP, Russian billionaires, and the Kremlin: a Power Triangle that never was", Oxford Energy Comment, November 23, 2011
2. Vardi, Nathan, "The Four Horsemen of Russia's Economic Apocalypse", Forbes, February 9, 2015
3. SEC statement identifying Al Altep as a shell of Access Industries
4. Entous et al. "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House", Washington Post, December 9 2016
5. AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
6. Apuzzo et al. NYTimes, May 19 2017

would you look at all those names that keep showing up!

by the way, Stephen Schwarzman's housekeeper got pushed under a subway train on Election Night 2016.

# ? Jul 25, 2023 21:34

rodbeard: Jul 21, 2005

I'm starting to think Trump is no good

# ? Jul 25, 2023 21:48

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/body-obamas-personal-chef-recovered-marthas-vineyard-lake-2023-07-25/

the obamas are getting clintonish out here

# ? Jul 26, 2023 00:36

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

Real hurthling! posted:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/body-obamas-personal-chef-recovered-marthas-vineyard-lake-2023-07-25/

the obamas are getting clintonish out here

a struggle?

quote:

Divers began searching for Campbell on Sunday, after receiving a call that a male paddle boarder had gone into the water and then appeared to struggle before going under, police said. He did not resurface.

probably water.

# ? Jul 26, 2023 00:50

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

hillary was under the water and rolled him

# ? Jul 26, 2023 00:59

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

obama, anonomousishly on 911: now let me be clear. some folks drowned. please send some massatwosets troopers up for a beer summit.

# ? Jul 26, 2023 01:00

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

if you like your chef, you can keep him

# ? Jul 26, 2023 04:33

cagliostr0: Jun 8, 2020

mdemone posted:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/what-was-leon-black-doing-with-trump-in-russia

from September 2020, "What was Leon Black doing with Trump in Russia?"

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna post the megapost

Always going to look side eyed at anything using the Steele dossier as a legitimate source and failing to mention that manaforte was in Ukraine working with Podesta when the dodgy payments were made.

# ? Jul 26, 2023 04:47

mdemone: Mar 14, 2001

cagliostr0 posted:

Always going to look side eyed at anything using the Steele dossier as a legitimate source and failing to mention that manaforte was in Ukraine working with Podesta when the dodgy payments were made.

agreed in hindsight. but the surrounding things are weird as poo poo even if Steele made up 100% of his stuff, which he didn't.

# ? Jul 26, 2023 04:48