How #ICE Already Knows Who #Minneapolis #Protesters Are
ICE uses two #facialrecognition programs one made #tech company #ClearviewAI and #MobileFortify. ICE is also using #cellphone and #socialmedia tools to monitor people’s activity and hack into phones. Agents are tapping into database, built by #Palantir, combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, current and former officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
https://archive.ph/A32Ao

How #ICE Already Knows Who #Minneapolis #Protesters Are
ICE uses two #facialrecognition programs one made #tech company #ClearviewAI and #MobileFortify. ICE is also using #cellphone and #socialmedia tools to monitor people’s activity and hack into phones. Agents are tapping into database, built by #Palantir, combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, current and former officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
https://archive.ph/A32Ao

Ok. This guy is DEFINITELY NOT brandishing any #weapon unless you count his #cellphone.

The next post includes the actual murder, I will hide it behind a content warning, it is terrorism.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #ICE #shooting #Trump #law #murder #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #RESIST

Has anyone found a situation where a #car and a #CellPhone seem to hate each other? Went to the dealer because #USB-C charging ports didn't seem to work; tried two (same model) phones, three cords, two ports. The phone charged with the same cable from my computer or power bank.

The mechanic said they saw no problem. Voltage tester showed 5.13v coming from the port. But ...
Their phone and cable -- ok.
Their phone, my cable -- ok.
My phone, their cable -- no good.

WTH? (boost for help, please)

Has anyone found a situation where a #car and a #CellPhone seem to hate each other? Went to the dealer because #USB-C charging ports didn't seem to work; tried two (same model) phones, three cords, two ports. The phone charged with the same cable from my computer or power bank.

The mechanic said they saw no problem. Voltage tester showed 5.13v coming from the port. But ...
Their phone and cable -- ok.
Their phone, my cable -- ok.
My phone, their cable -- no good.

WTH? (boost for help, please)

So. Much. This. #cellphone #etiquette #nobodyneedstohearyourconversation #youarenotthatimportant

So. Much. This. #cellphone #etiquette #nobodyneedstohearyourconversation #youarenotthatimportant

Okay, Back of the napkin math:
- There are probably 100 million sites and 1.5 billion pages worth indexing in a #search engine
- It takes about 1TB to #index 30 million pages.
- We only care about text on a page.

I define a page as worth indexing if:
- It is not a FAANG site
- It has at least one referrer (no DD Web)
- It's active

So, this means we need 40TB of fast data to make a good index for the internet. That's not "runs locally" sized, but it is nonprofit sized.

My size assumptions are basically as follows:
- #URL
- #TFIDF information
- Text #Embeddings
- Snippet

We can store an index for 30kb. So, for 40TB we can store an full internet index. That's about $500 in storage.

Access time becomes a problem. TFIDF for the whole internet can easily fit in ram. Even with #quantized embeddings, you can only fit 2 million per GB in ram.

Assuming you had enough RAM it could be fast: TF-IDF to get 100 million candidated, #FAISS to sort those, load snippets dynamically, potentially modify rank by referers etc.

6 128 MG #Framework #desktops each with 5tb HDs (plus one raspberry pi to sort the final condidates from the six machines) is enough to replace #Google. That's about $15k.

In two to three years this will be doable on a single machine for around $3k.

By the end of the decade it should be able to be run as an app on a powerful desktop

Three years after that it can run on a #laptop.

Three years after that it can run on a #cellphone.

By #2040 it's a background process on your cellphone.