Maybe Storming The Capitol Wasn't Such A Good Idea

[Bristol-Cruiser]

Interesting article informing us that this was the second US coup attempt by white suprematists. The 1898 Wilmington Coup was somewhat more “successful”:

Mother Jones

Very interesting, I had never heard of this event and its sorry implications.

 

[Grog]

In related news some freelance coders prime the Capitol footage for the FBI ...

This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos

Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face.

Full article at arstechinca, some comments with insight on slashdot. No paywalls.

But I have to say: what sounds kind of cute or even righteous now, is technology that can and will be used in much broader appliances. And if it can be monetized, it will be. So that is something every society that values their freedoms will have to monitor carefully.

 

[Left Shift]

Not to mention falling Keith Richards.

It clearly says "Do not climb trees", so we should be safe, Right?

 

[benwynn]

In related news some freelance coders prime the Capitol footage for the FBI ...

This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos

Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face.

Full article at arstechinca, some comments with insight on slashdot. No paywalls.

But I have to say: what sounds kind of cute or even righteous now, is technology that can and will be used in much broader appliances. And if it can be monetized, it will be. So that is something every society that values their freedoms will have to monitor carefully.

Over 6,000 to browse through.  

Figuring a familiar face would jump out at me, I quickly scanned the faces on 18 pages in two minutes.  30 faces on each page.  If my math is right (which often it is not) that's about 20 minutes to go through 6,000.

 

[Happy]

Police job application form question: 

"Are you a racist? Have you ever been a member of a racist organization?"

Answer: "No, but I'm a quick learner and I'll do anything to get the job."

(Stolen from Jimmy Carr.)

 

[Grog]

Over 6,000 to browse through.  

Figuring a familiar face would jump out at me, I quickly scanned the faces on 18 pages in two minutes.  30 faces on each page.  If my math is right (which often it is not) that's about 20 minutes to go through 6,000.

Right, trying to follow you here.

What's the outcome of you or any single one individual scanning these faces?

It would be possible evidence from one of 330,000,000 USAnians that he or she recognizes any number of mugs out of 6,000. One, none, six, the highschool football team. I would argue, although this can be helpful in the endgame of narrowing pixels down to persons, the point of this exercise is a very different one: The point is about extracting any number of faces from any number of footage and angles and deduplicating them. This is number crunching, a job for machines.

Now the FBI can run these 6k mugs against whatever sources they have, most likely driver licenses and possibly previous convictions. They cross examine with cell tower data and then social media. This would lead from a mugshot to having been around to having taken part, IDs as a bonus. The accuracy of step one would be around 70% at best, but it's a start.

That said: this is about the loonies that stormed the Capitol, not about you (as in "anybody out there") struggeling to get insurance for your next car because of frequent visits to the liquor store (as a very blunt example where this tech may take us).

 

[AJ Oliver]

Good front page article in today's NYT about the 

international links and co-op among the far Reich . . 

US, Germany, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine and more . . 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/world/europe/capitol-far-right-global.html

The Putin regime has made this an international project - and has had an impact on, 

not just the US, but also Hungary, Poland, Italy, UK and more. 

Kinda makes me almost nostalgic for the ol' USSR 

 

[roundthebuoys]

 struggeling to get insurance for your next car because of frequent visits to the liquor store (as a very blunt example where this tech may take us).

Wow, never thought of that.  

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

The Doggy Style in one image. 
 

 

[Steam Flyer]

Police job application form question: 

"Are you a racist? Have you ever been a member of a racist organization?"

Answer: "No, but I'm a quick learner and I'll do anything to get the job."

(Stolen from Jimmy Carr.)

Sounds like Chris Rock

- DSK

 

[Steam Flyer]

The Doggy Style in one image. 
 

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Yeah it "feels like" it can't be that much.

Kind of like, it "feels like" wearing a mask can not really help prevent spreading a contagious virus. I mean, the virus is gonna do what viruses do.

- DSK

 

[benwynn]

Right, trying to follow you here.

What's the outcome of you or any single one individual scanning these faces?

One would be just to satisfy my own curiosity.   I've got at least 4 acquaintances who would be crazy enough to join the fray in the capital building. 

The other would be just to help out with a lead.  I'd rat any one of them out in a heartbeat if they took part in that shit. 

 

[benwynn]

The Doggy Style in one image. 
 

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Then there is the standard Venom reply:

You probably got those numbers from CNN!  

 

[Bus Driver]

Then there is the standard Venom reply:

You probably got those numbers from CNN!  

Nice touch, including the emoticon.

 

[SloopJonB]

The Doggy Style in one image. 
 

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Is this her?

 

[mathystuff]

55 minutes ago, SloopJonB said:

Is this her?

Under Biden as president it would obviously take 2 hours to go 80miles at 80mph, because the globalist communist government is going to take half your miles.

 

[Raz'r]

1 hour ago, SloopJonB said:

Is this her?

He's never gonna get any, again. But then again she's pretty damn dumb.

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

Right, trying to follow you here.

What's the outcome of you or any single one individual scanning these faces?

It would be possible evidence from one of 330,000,000 USAnians that he or she recognizes any number of mugs out of 6,000. One, none, six, the highschool football team. I would argue, although this can be helpful in the endgame of narrowing pixels down to persons, the point of this exercise is a very different one: The point is about extracting any number of faces from any number of footage and angles and deduplicating them. This is number crunching, a job for machines.

Now the FBI can run these 6k mugs against whatever sources they have, most likely driver licenses and possibly previous convictions. They cross examine with cell tower data and then social media. This would lead from a mugshot to having been around to having taken part, IDs as a bonus. The accuracy of step one would be around 70% at best, but it's a start.

That said: this is about the loonies that stormed the Capitol, not about you (as in "anybody out there") struggeling to get insurance for your next car because of frequent visits to the liquor store (as a very blunt example where this tech may take us).

Who ever thought wearing a mask to prevent your photo being taken and switching off your personal tracking device would be a good idea? Imagine that.

Honestly a lot of those people count as too stupid to breathe without coaching.

FKT

 

[phillysailor]

wow (regarding the video of the math challenged blond wifey)

Speed is relative to how much air is in your tires, so a cop going 80 mph is going faster since his tires are full?

This explains a great deal of American politics. 

But it doesn't explain @Dog. Supporting a treasonous bastard and thinking it principled defies mere stupidity. But it has parallels in that both are mind bogglingly dumb. 

 

[Fah Kiew Tu]

He's never gonna get any, again. But then again she's pretty damn dumb.

I wouldn't get past the first date with someone that dumb. Wouldn't matter how hot she was, anyone that stupid would be intolerable.

FKT