Oct 2021 CE: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sigh

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Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

shame on an IGA posted:

hope she's ok bro

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 01:20

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 21:32

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

fknlo posted:

Thanks for the well wishes. She�s not going to make it. Sitting in an airport by yourself crying when you find out is not fun.

I'm so sorry :smith:

# ¿ Oct 2, 2021 03:41

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

FrozenVent posted:

WhatsApp being down will no poo poo have an impact over the international shipping industry, poo poo�s pretty much replaced telex at this point.

*gnaws on carrot*

Ehh... WhatsApp, dock?

# ¿ Oct 4, 2021 20:32

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/nyregion/fbi-raid-sergeants-benevolent-association-nypd.html

quote:

Federal investigators on Tuesday morning raided the Manhattan office of one of New York City�s main police unions in connection with an ongoing investigation, according to two people with the knowledge of the matter.

The union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, represents about 13,000 active and retired police sergeants in New York. Its headquarters were searched as part of an investigation by the F.B.I. and the public corruption unit in the U.S. attorney�s office in Manhattan, the people said.

Investigators also executed a search warrant at the Long Island home of the union�s president, Edward D. Mullins, a person with knowledge of the operation said.

While the precise focus and scope of the investigation could not immediately be determined, the search of Mr. Mullins�s home suggests that the inquiry is at least in some measure focused on him.

An F.B.I. spokesman said only that agents �were conducting a law enforcement operation pursuant to an ongoing investigation� at the union�s offices in Lower Manhattan.

At least four federal agents were inside the union�s headquarters at around noon on Tuesday. The investigators lowered dark wooden blinds and placed pieces of cardboard inside four windows to prevent the public from gazing inside.

Mr. Mullins, who has run the union since 2002, could not immediately be reached for comment. The sergeants� union, which says it is the fifth-largest police union in the country, did not immediately respond to questions about the raid, which was reported earlier by The New York Daily News.

Mr. Mullins, long an outspoken figure, has become known in recent years for making brash and incendiary remarks on social media, particularly against Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Mr. Mullins recently faced internal discipline charges over his behavior on Twitter, including for sharing a police report documenting the arrest of Mr. de Blasio�s daughter, Chiara, during protests in New York.

The Police Department does not typically release internal reports, and the one that Mr. Mullins shared contained personal information about Ms. de Blasio.

Mr. de Blasio declined to comment on the raid at a news conference on Tuesday, saying he did not know any details, but he said that Mr. Mullins had long been a �divisive voice� whose behavior had been �destructive.�

Mr. Mullins also faces internal discipline over tweets in which he used profane language against Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the former city health commissioner, and Representative Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman who represents the Bronx.

Mr. Torres, who has called for Mr. Mullins�s resignation over what he has described as racist, misogynistic and homophobic remarks, tweeted on Tuesday that Mr. Mullins had received a �first-class raid� from the F.B.I.

Mr. Mullins has also drawn scrutiny for his outspoken right-wing politics in a city where Democrats significantly outnumber Republicans. Both the sergeants� union and its larger sister union, the Police Benevolent Association, have been run mostly by conservatives whose views are not representative of the metropolis they police.

Mr. Mullins has praised former President Donald J. Trump, a Republican who was deeply unpopular among city residents. He also came under fire from liberal lawmakers after giving an interview to Fox News surrounded by paraphernalia linked to QAnon, a fringe conspiracy theory backed largely by Trump supporters.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 17:56

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

I don't think she was dragging an anchor.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 21:48

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Milo and POTUS posted:

bruce Campbell would never be in a terrible movie!

but if he was it would be awesome

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 07:00

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BIG HEADLINE posted:

No one's ever going to accuse me of being a Maoist, but tracking down this article, it never explicitly says "final solution to the Taiwan question."

It does have the term "final solution" in it, and "Taiwan question" is mentioned *nine times* in total within the copy, though. The rhetoric is inflammatory enough without conjuring Nazis.

Article link: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1236157.shtml

Yeah, they definitely added "to the Taiwan question" to the interviewer's words for that tweet. The original quote in the article is

quote:

The anonymous expert said that "The mainland's warning against secessionism is not just talking the talk, and whether the final solution will be peaceful or not, the secessionists will be judged, condemned and punished. This is not just a warning, but also a serious promise from the Communist Party of China (CPC) to the Chinese nation."

The meaning is clear, they just wanted to make it explicit in the tweet I guess.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 01:52

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MazelTovCocktail posted:

Kongsberg: Several killed in Norway bow and arrow attack https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58906165

Prepare to see this url a lot in bad faith arguments about guns in the years to come.

Honestly to kill a bunch of people with bows and arrows the person has to have some Rambo tier poo poo/skill they have or it�s a crossbow.

Eh?

People kill elk and even moose with bow and arrow, a human isn't going to fare better.

If you're a good archer you can pull, draw and loose in a very short span of time. Not semiautomatic fast, but fast enough, especially if you're firing into an unprepared crowd that is trying to flee in a confined space.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 21:14

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Hyrax Attack! posted:

WA state vaccine mandate not messing around. Yesterday they fired highest paid employee (WSU football coach) and 74 state troopers.

That gently caress should never have been highest paid employee, gently caress

boop the snoot posted:

Why the gently caress does the highway patrol have a digital forensics unit jfc defund these fucks

Bored As gently caress posted:

Sometimes Highway Patrol is also another name for State Police / State Troopers.

All state level police agencies have investigators (detectives) and / or civilian support staff specialists that work on stuff dealing with computers, whether its normal poo poo like going through a murder suspect's hard drive or phone, or heinous poo poo like going through a pedo's hard drive or phone.

Bag on regular cops all you want, but dealing with child abuse crimes is horrendous on people's mental health, and it's good that there are units investigating and prosecuting poo poo like that.

In Washington state they operate the SIGINT surveillance plane that carries a dirtbox for gathering mobile phone traffic, tail number N305DK.

After the Seattle PD got hit with a consent decree for abusing mass surveillance devices in 2012 they farmed the local work out to the State Patrol too.

They're focusing more on protestors than on child porn these days.

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Oh yeah that stuff is fascinating. It's interesting to learn how it's standard procedure for detectives to have honeypot FB accounts so when they're trying to locate a suspect they just send the guy a friend request and try to arrange a meet up. It works a surprising amount of the time without even having to leave their desks.

Another fun tactic they like to use: buy location data for a particular celphone from databrokers instead of getting a warrant.

There's also been an increase in police purchasing information or even services from criminal organizations such as SIM swapping when they want to evade having to request a warrant. Good times!

Kesper North fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Oct 19, 2021

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 19:46

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Grip it and rip it posted:

Wait they're illegally obtaining evidence rather than get a warrant? I dont think the courts would like that much. Thats like the exact scenario that the exclusionary doctrine was constructed to manage

IIRC the workaround they use is making the people they get info or services from CIs (criminal/confidential informants).

Buying data from databrokers isn't illegal, FWIW.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 20:33

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shame on an IGA posted:

this is true in 29 states and in 10 of the remaining 21, it's a basketball coach.

Shoutout to the Grand Forks ND School District Superintendendent for outearning the governor though.

how

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 20:50

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brains posted:

one of the things that's always amazed me about this poo poo is the absurdly low bar of probable cause required for obtaining a warrant, yet cops constantly do illegal poo poo to bypass the process.

a lot of it isn't even illegal, it's a good example of regulatory capture combined with regulation lagging technology: amazon and google just stick something in the EULA about selling data to third parties and the cops buy it from those third parties in stead of sending a subpoena - it's both cheaper and faster than The Process

# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 22:47

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https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047294970/jan-6-panel-approves-criminal-contempt-report-for-ex-trump-strategist-steve-bann

House panel on Jan. 6 votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt for defying subpoena.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 09:48

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Kesper North posted:

a lot of it isn't even illegal, it's a good example of regulatory capture combined with regulation lagging technology: amazon and google just stick something in the EULA about selling data to third parties and the cops buy it from those third parties in stead of sending a subpoena - it's both cheaper and faster than The Process

oh yes and of course

there is an app for that

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 09:54

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

sorry for double posting but

quote:

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company�s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant�s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse

lol, lmao

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 10:21

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Any of you who were shocked re: my claims that law enforcement would EVER buy personal data for a third party instead of getting a warrant and successfully use it in an investigation, here's a new story:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93b...study-concludes

quote:

The report repeatedly cites Motherboard reporting showing how wireless companies have historically sold sensitive consumer location data to dubious third parties, often without user consent. This data has subsequently been abused from everyone from bounty hunters and stalkers to law enforcement and those posing as law enforcement.

The FTC was quick to note that because ISPs have access to the entirety of the data that flows across the internet and your home network, they often have access to even more data than what�s typically collected by large technology companies, ad networks, and app makers.

That includes the behavior of internet of things devices connected to your network, your daily movements, your online browsing history, clickstream data (not only which sites you visit but how much time you linger there), email and search data, race and ethnicity data, DNS records, your cable TV viewing habits, and more.

In some instances ISPs have even developed tracking systems that embed each packet a user sends over the internet with an individual identifier, allowing monitoring of user behavior in granular detail. Wireless carrier Verizon was fined $1.3 million in 2016 for implementing such a system without informing consumers or letting them opt out.

�Unlike traditional ad networks whose tracking consumers can block through browser or mobile device settings, consumers cannot use these tools to stop tracking by these ISPs, which use �supercookie� technology to persistently track users,� the FTC report said.

On that subject here's a NY Times story from 2018 on LE purchase of personal data from third parties:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 18:51

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Plz no splode, ZIM! That happens to me sometimes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-GIXHbulqI

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 02:43

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

https://twitter.com/JasmineBala_/status/1452092929711874052?s=20

When exposed to water, potassium amylxanthate decomposes into carbon disulfide, which is

a) quite flammable
b) neurotoxic

I feel for the crew.

edit: JESUS CHRIST

quote:

Historic and current exposure

Industrial workers working with carbon disulfide are at high risk. Emissions may also harm the health of people living near rayon plants.[21]

Concerns about carbon disulfide exposure have a long history.[17][29][30] Around 1900, carbon disulfide came to be widely used in the production of vulcanized rubber. The psychosis produced by high exposures was immediately apparent (it has been reported with 6 months of exposure[21]). One infamous rubber factory put bars on its windows so that the workers would not jump out to their deaths. Its use in the US as a heavier-than-air burrow poison for Richardson's ground squirrel also lead to reports of psychosis. No systematic medical study of the issue was published, and knowledge was not transferred to the rayon industry.[26]

The first large epidemiological study of rayon workers was done in the US in the late 1930s, and found fairly severe effects in 30% of the workers. Data on increased risks of heart attacks and strokes came out in the 1960s. Courtaulds, a major rayon manufacturer, worked hard to prevent publication of this data in the UK.[26] Average concentrations in sampled rayon plants were reduced from about 250 mg/m3 in 1955-1965 to about 20-30 mg/m3 in the 1980s (US figures only?[United States-centric]).[21] Rayon production has since largely moved to the developing world, especially China, Indonesia and India.[25][26]

Rates of disability in modern factories are unknown, as of 2016.[31][25] Current manufacturers using the viscose process do not provide any information on harm to their workers.[26][25]

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 08:11

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Crab Dad posted:

Absent fathers is the only decent answer. The rest�. Yeeeesh.

"Absent fathers" was a popular racist dogwhistle coded to mean "incarcerated black males" dating back to Bush the First or possibly Reagan, I forget which.

Just in case you thought there was anything redeeming on that list!

# ¿ Oct 26, 2021 04:06

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 21:32

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Who else here read The Big U

# ¿ Oct 30, 2021 00:58

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