It doesn’t necessarily sound like the FAA’s concerns were petty.

They’ve got a case of manfluenza.

I studied linguistics in the 90s, and that was the general attitude about Chomsky then (specifically universal grammar and to some extent X-bar theory—his work on generative syntax and formal grammar from the 50s was still considered foundational).

But I’ve lately discovered the research of the Minimalist program that he was working on for the last few decades, and that seems pretty solid and groundbreaking even now.

Chomsky’s attitude seems representative of a lot of men and women (most of whom were younger than him) who had always described themselves as feminists, but who had similar feelings that #metoo was unfounded hysteria.

Epstein was capitalizing on that and promoting it, not just with Chomsky but with a lot of other academics outside of his usual circle.

What I find most damning in the correspondence isn’t Chomsky’s defense of Epstein—he seems to have genuinely believed in his innocence—so much as Chomsky’s subscribing to the framework that the #metoo movement/“cancel culture” and associated wave of sexual assault allegations was a baseless collective “hysteria”. Valeria’s statement implies that this was a stance Chomsky arrived at independently of Epstein.

In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to buy their hardware to use it.

the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn

A better mashup might have been “SteptIn”.

Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos

Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?

It’s not that the watch is an added vulnerability (there’s no info accessible via the watch once the phone is locked)—it’s just a missed opportunity.

One shortcoming of lockdown mode, as far as I can tell: you can pair your phone and watch so locking your phone will lock your watch as well, but you can’t do the reverse. It seems more likely that a hostile party would get access to your phone first while you still (temporarily) have control of your watch, so being able to lock your phone from your watch would be extremely useful. (Or for that matter, set lockdown mode to trigger automatically if your watch is removed or your watch and phone move to different locations.)

Where are they getting redeployed to?

The “AI upscaled” in the file name is probably a clue—a lot of people think upscalers just enlarge images, without realizing how much they can get distorted in the process. So somebody found a thumbnail and thought they were just recreating the original with an upscaler.

Minnesota Man is the new, improved Florida Man.

ICE added that it aims “to understand the current state of Ad Tech compliant and location data services available to federal investigative and operational entities, considering regulatory constraints and privacy expectations of support investigations activities.”

“Considering regulatory constraints and privacy expectations” is a concept so alien to their normal functioning that I suspect they had to use an AI to write that for them.

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She also posted images of two individuals allegedly involved in the attack, though their roles and identities remain unclear.

I’ve seen cops do this at protests—they’ll grab a few random, odd-looking people just because they look scary, so they can post their mugshots the next day alongside their narrative of events. Then once the news cycle is over they’re released without charges.

Is this the second killing today (after the 51-year-old man)?

Musk gave him the AI that colored it for him.

Or they realized they already fired too many people to do the necessary paperwork.

I don’t think Trump has any concept of institutional entities. He thinks the Nobel prize is a physical thing, and the government of Venezuela is a person. He doesn’t think he’s bound by laws because he can’t see or touch them.