Chances are those idiots are just using a shitty LLM to parse through folders of documents and extract names, then templatize them into a form email without any validation. She could have been listed as a physician for some other person and her name showed up on some random medical document and the dumb system grabber her that way.
They’re too dumb to even comprehend what they are doing, they’re using AI like it’s canon all over the place.
Was curious what exact data they were cross-referencing. The article didn’t go into any details at all.
Have seen a lot of comments go shadowban lately too. That site isn’t worth looking at anymore.
Have you ever watched all the stupid crapware Google pushes on setup? They force-install 12-20 garbage apps that you then have to go delete. Even then, a user can’t delete Chrome, they can only “disable” it - which Google can reactivate whenever they choose. (Although, one could also argue since they can arbitrarily push apps onto phones, does it matter? Like when they pushed “Android System SafetyCore” without consent.)
Google is malware at this point. Not that Apple is any better. Smartphones have all just become this terrible thing at this point, where you’re just renting a pile of software that you get to use in exchange for the company harvesting everything you do, and they change the terms whenever they want, without your consent.
It is non-trivial to set a reliable reminder for some, and not due to laziness, just how brains are wired. Set a calendar reminder, you start ignoring it after a few months. Start an alarm, you start snoozing it early. Put a note on the fridge, it eventually becomes invisible. Not impossible to overcome, but also, as I started, non-trivial to solve.
That article is missing a lot of context. Did they get her number and text her? Was it an illegal wiretap? All made up information for a presser? Were they texting this to some friend that leaked?
Every single one of the cops involved should have been put in jail, and their certifications permanently revoked. A law Colorado finally has, but is rarely used. Especially the Deputy that remotely authorized the use of force watching remotely on their bodycams.
CEOs can’t plan past a 3-month window, so that 60% can even think 6 months in the future is quite amazing.
Southern region is so vague as to be a useless term. Kentucky isn’t the “south”. The OG 13 colony south is one thing. Western South is another. Texas is its own silly place. People speak Spanish in the north. NWS is national.
Bad lazy article.
Security guards are insanely expensive.
There needs to be a crowd-sourced app to track ICE, like Waze with media upload. And a slingshot with velcro-covered AirTags to keep a further eye on them.
Bake 'em away, toys.
They’re about 2% better at being a telephone IVR than the older ones, probably at 6x the power cost.
I had an AI render a simple diagram for a presentation with explicit instructions. It rendered a Rube Goldberg nonsense graphic. I included it anyway for the lulz. Sure, they will get better, and maybe some day be almost as useful as the Enterprise computer. No way they’ll be Lt. Cmdr. Data this century.
Some are, some aren’t. Until it personally impacts them daily, many probably won’t connect the dots.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on a technology that doesn’t work to accomplish nothing useful. Think we found that fraud, waste, and abuse they’ve been looking for.
Starting in July, CCW training laws are changing, including requiring re-training for all renewals. That seems a bit different, most licenses in the US like car, ham radio, etc. don’t require re-training.
Putting the certification courses on the back of CPW will also remove funding from the “Parks and Wildlife” part of CPW, which is arguably more important given how often Colorado is a tinderbox these days, and we want our CPW folks managing the parks and wildlife.
Polis said on some TV blurb that they’ll make a money program for those too poor to afford the classes to not make this a tax on the poors, and that they’d hope to cap the classes at “under” $200 to keep them affordable. To add an extra layer of complexity on a layer of complexity.
Training is good, full stop. However, they could have chosen a different tack, this all seems rushed and ill-thought-out.
https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A/bills/2025a_003_enr.pdf
Seems that is ok, time to Rube Goldberg a giant magazine tube.
A FIREARM THAT HAS A PERMANENTLY FIXED MAGAZINE THAT CANNOT ACCEPT MORE THAN FIFTEEN ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION , INCLUDING A SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARM THAT HAS BEEN CONVERTED TO HAVE A PERMANENTLY FIXED MAGAZINE THAT CANNOT ACCEPT MORE THAN FIFTEEN ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION;
What seems really dubious is their “Gas-operated vs not” section for handguns.
Banned:
© "GAS - OPERATED SEMIAUTOMATIC HANDGUN " MEANS ANY SEMIAUTOMATIC HANDGUN THAT HARNESSES OR TRAPS A PORTION OF THE HIGH- PRESSURE GAS FROM A FIRED CARTRIDGE TO CYCLE THE ACTION USING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
Not banned:
A SINGLE OR DOUBLE ACTION SEMIAUTOMATIC HANDGUN THAT USES RECOIL TO CYCLE THE ACTION OF THE HANDGUN ;
Seems it would be incredibly easy for them to go, “oh yeah, none of them use recoil,” as recoil is a late phase created by the gas discharge on every semiauto. Gas discharge blows the slide back (gas operated), then casing is ejected, spring pulls slide forward while another spring pushes the next round in place. The whole principle of all firearms is to use the exploding gas to make a bullet go one way, and gun parts go another, which would limit pistols to revolvers.
Colorado already lost Magpul and other sources of revenue to the last attempt at this, and it did nothing to stop shootings.
The timing is just the ass end of asinine too. Colorado is supposed to be a bastion of freedom in the middle of a sea of backwards red states, instead we’re speed-running authoritarianism as fast as we can while the nation collapses into Fascism.
Doesn’t help that Polis has no spine, even though as a gay Jewish man with a family, one would think he should be at the forefront of not letting history repeat.
Right now, anything is something. This is an unprecedented situation in 250 years of America. Things are slowly coming together, but it is new territory. Unlike the developed world, America binds work/health/insurance/vacation/home/car/life very tightly together. Even a week of missed work can result in homelessness, sickness, death. This is by design so the ruling class can limit movement. This all needs to be fixed first thing once we’re done destroying evil, but in the now, we have to work how we can, when we can, where we can.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the corpo media focus on minor aircraft crashes (not all minor, but non-fatal collisions at airports, and personal craft going down are commonplace anytime) is to make people scared to fly to DC.
Donate anything you can afford to local charities, every little bit helps. Funding is being drained all over the place and the ripple effects are only beginning. Write letters to your leadership so they know their constituents are pissed and they better do what they can.
Learn things in your skill-set that may be helpful in the coming chaos, alternate means of communication, computers, networking, radios, transportation, maps, routes, memorizing information.
Store food so you can go without grocery stores for a few months if you have to.
Be proactive on goings on, support protesting Tesla and corpo protests. Don’t buy things. Check out how people just not going to Target has been going. Silly protests like hacking road crossing buttons in Silicon Valley, law suits, letters, anything to slow down the morons that think they’re in charge. It’s boots on the ground, it’s psyops, its money, its visual, its presence, it is everything to cause noise and confusion right back at them.
Delay buying that new iPhone. Cancel Amazon Prime. Read books. Books on history. Stay informed. If you see someone harassed on the street, at the bare minimum, video broadcast it, intervene if you’re brave.
Once the billionaire class wakes up and realizes that we, not an orange blumpkin, nor a muskrat actually make them money, they’ll change their tune or miss out on all that sweet sweet revenue. (Who knows, maybe even grow a conscience, but let us not be delusional.) With or without them, however, we can’t give up on hope.
Even those with the means to leave are doing their part by taking talent away from the US which will cripple the Machine of Evil long-term. They can help from the outside by helping those on the inside stay informed to the real news.
No one thing is going to change this, it has to be all things at the same time.
So stop being a fatalist, what shit are you doing? If you are a member of planet Earth, you should be doing something.