David Valentine

mastodon: [email protected] Geoscientist working in the tech world working on ways to make the Geo world more discoverable

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@Bfaviero @BobbyAllyn Chuckle.. so I addition to destroying the world order…
Republican administration, aka @realDonaldTrump is going to destroy the tax shelters of American firms..

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@EricLDaugh Ah,
Conservative
Math like 600% discount

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@ChristopherHale Is the a Camel involved

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@EdKrassen Ah, the movie DAVE takes on a new meeting

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

10,000 Veterans and their families to lose their homes due to Trump's VA: https://t.co/meL99s3uGk

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@sukh_saroy Math…
math will start to solve that.
Architecting will solve it

Like battery tech will solve the large flambé problem of lithium.

Why retrain everything?
why use GPUs for inference, when lower power Chips can do it.
Why move data when shared memory solves a problem.

Etc

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@SuzMcChesney28 @mark_slapinski Biden couldn’t
Court rules

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@TimothySandefur Now do a non-Donald % calculation

[Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9]

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

"On Thursday, Jan 22 at approximately 1pm, a group of about a dozen Vermont community elders with whistles entered the atrium of White Cap Office Park in Williston VT, home of ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center.
They refused to leave when ordered by Williston Police, the property manager, and federal agents, demanding instead that the landlord renegotiate and cancel the facility’s lease.
For the next 3.5 hours, they sat together in silence, pausing every 90 seconds to read the name of someone killed in ICE custody, followed by a loud whistle blast.
Williston Police arrived at around 1:30pm, and asked protesters to leave and stop making noise. A group of 5 elders refused and remained in the atrium accompanied by a medic and physical therapist.
Around 2pm, property manager and landlord Normand Stanislas arrived and began screaming at supporters gathered outside that he would have them arrested.
Around 3:15, the Williston Police announced that they had determined that the protestors were not breaking the law and were acting within their first amendment rights. They declined to arrest the group, which had paused blowing whistles to sit in front of the ICE office doors.
After the Williston Police had left, several DHS agents approached the group and threatened to charge them with Class C federal misdemeanors but did not actually do so, likely because they lacked authority to do so. The agents attempted to physically remove the elders and carry them away from the doors, but the group continued to exercise their right to protest by walking over and sitting back down. Eventually, the agents left.
The group continued their protest with banners and singing until the sun began setting, when they left the office park of their own accord.
Karen Bixler, 83, of Bethel said, “I’m taking this action to bring attention to our state’s role in this horrific institution. White collar workers, sheltered from the brutality that is taking place in our country, are providing ICE with information to aid in their raids.”
This protest follows several months of public outcry against the Industrial Ave facility, which is used to monitor civilian social media activity and identify targets for ICE detention and deportation. Over the winter, community groups conducted several noise demos at White Cap Business, and anonymous individuals hung a banner from the flagpoles reading “ICE VIOLATES RIGHTS HERE.”
70 year-old Dorothy Mammen of Middlebury said: “This facility is staffing up to spy on people via social media, to flag "negative sentiment" toward ICE and build dossiers on anyone who opposes fascism. They are compiling personal details, family links, and using facial recognition. To what end? To stifle dissent; to trample our right to free speech.”
The office at White Cap is one of many ICE-related facilities in Chittenden County, which serves as the national nerve center for ICE operations. The notorious Law Enforcement Support Center on Harvest Lane is home to ICE’s nationwide tip line, while at least 10 other nearby locations (totaling an estimated 400,000 square feet of office space) are used by DHS for data processing, surveillance, and administrative work.
On Tuesday, the Williston Selectboard passed a resolution condemning ICE activities in the town, and several hundred protesters marched in the frigid temperature to denounce the ICE Call Center on Harvest Lane.
The elders risking arrest in Thursday’s sit-in were not representatives of any official group or organization, but simply community members concerned about the safety of their neighbors. They expressed hope that their action would help others to find the courage necessary to get ICE out of Williston."

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

I study authoritarianism for a living, so I do not say this lightly: America isn't facing an authoritarian future. America is living an authoritarian present.

(A long 🧵)

/1

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@bcherny @threadreaderapp unroll

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He lowered his altitude, spotted a woman in a boat below and shouted to her:
“Excuse me, can you help me?
I promised a friend I’d meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The woman consulted her portable GPS and shouted back, “You’re in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You’re at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude."

The man rolled his eyes and yelled, “You must be a Democrat."

“I am,” replied the woman. “How did you know?”

“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information. Frankly, you haven’t been much help to me.”

The woman smiled and yelled, “You must be a Republican.”

“I am,” shouted the balloonist. “How did you know?”

“Well,” said the woman, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are thanks to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow now it’s all my fault.”

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@BtcBlackthorne @Daractenus This is an @RepJackKimble level troll.
Did you read the descriptions, or just the lead in ?

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@Daractenus @threadreaderapp unroll

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

@kimmonismus @ltx_model So teams that have math and logic on their sides

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@NafeezAhmed @JohnCleese @BylineTimes @threadapp unroll

[David Valentine @GeoInTechWorld]

This is an interesting how to develop a good visualization

https://t.co/6t7w8fyPqn