Honestly that is scary to see. People are going to lose the chance to influence. A true potential for a stolen election.

I know someone who was born in Palestine (but spent most of his life in the US) who will be voting for Trump because, and these are his words, “I just think he’ll be better”.

Not even worth having the convo.

The headline is absolutely NOT overstating things.

From page 64 of the actual report:

3. Politicization of Intelligence Products. This investigation revealed no evidence of politicization (roughly “write this analysis this way to support this political assertion”) 467 by anyone in the I&A chain of command or DHS Secretary’s office. However, Mr. Murphy did make other attempts to controvert the collection-analysis process. Particularly illuminative was the promulgation of the term “Violent Antifa Anarchists Inspired” (VAAI).

As discussed by several intelligence analysts, to understand the genesis for VAAl, one must take the events of the summer into context. In many conversations, Mr. Murphy stated that the violent protesters in Portland were connected to or motivated by ANTIFA. This may have made sense to Mr. Murphy based on his own beliefs, but 1&A did not have collections (evidence) to show it and absent reporting or some other evidence on motivation, 1&A analysts could not ascribe motivation to the violent actors as Mr. Murphy expected. Mr. Murphy would tell the analysts to cite to existing OSIRs as evidence of the motivation, but the OSIRs did not draw a connection to ANTIFA. For weeks, the analysts had been telling Mr. Murphy that because ANTIF A was not in the collection, it could not be put into the analysis. Notwithstanding this feedback from the I&A analysts, on July 25, 2020, Mr. Murphy sent an email to his senior leadership instructing them that henceforth, the violent opportunists in Portland were to be reported as VAAI, unless the intel "show[ed] … something different."468 The analysts stated that “if you lived through the process, you could see where this VAAI definition was coming from a mile away. He got tired of the analysts telling him they did not have the reporting and he was convinced it was ANTIFA so he was going to fix the problem by changing what the collectors were reporting.”

This is a pretty big fucking deal considering how much the GOP was crying about ANTIFA.

What the kid did in unconscionable and, IMO, unforgivable. That said, it seems like his parents were real pieces of shit and he didn’t stand much of a chance of being a functional person himself.

Majority of large union supports candidate who has been clearly against unions.

Makes sense.

I can’t understand the people who dislike her. My sisters don’t like her either and think she’s “dumb” but every time she speaks, she makes what seems to me to be well thought out, rational arguments.

Man, those poor kids. I can’t imagine the trauma both of them are feeling after something like that.

Sure, but they shouldn’t have to bear the burden of uprooting their lives yet again just because of intolerance.

If that happened to one of my kids, I don’t know how I’d ever be able to put myself back together. That’s horrible.

Thank you.

That Gizmodo article is HORRIBLY written up and there never actually mention the quote outside of the blurb beneath the headline so the lack of context had me questioning them. Pretty shitty reporting.

It would almost be better if it’s toppled by a large crowd of people. The people who support such a thing need to see the shitstorm they would rightfully face if they ever said it too loudly.

Millennials being blamed/credited for an incredibly short lunch break is amazing.

This has to be fake.

Nicholas Cage is about to have access to that Travolta fortune.

Yeah I came to say something similar. The way he handled it is EXACTLY why his supporters like him.

I mean is this stuff even really AI? It has no awareness of what it’s saying. It’s simply calculating the most probable next word in a typical sentence and spewing it out. I’m not sure this is the tech that will decide humanity is unnecessary.

It’s just rebranded machine learning, IMO.

Omg that’s fantastic

I wish I was clever enough to have thought about that lol

It’s insane that it’s taken THIS long for this guy to fall from grace.

There is obviously going to be a lawsuit to stop this if the governor signs off. It seems to fly directly in the face of the constitution.