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My friends who were constantly bulled were unable to defend themselves from other children anymore because they'd be kicked out.Some of them were bullied by the teachers. And were kicked out. https://t.co/PLLuaaS3xj
One of my friends in highschool got kicked out when he had a tantrum threw a chair at his teacher. He was brilliant.I learned more valuable lessons about physics from him teaching me about bicycles & skateboarding than I did from physics class that year.https://t.co/EMhXWDFzNI
We were figuring out how the school could get attacked so we could plan how to keep ourselves safe.There was a hill overlooking 30% of the building with giant windows. Couldn't afford shades. The other half of Half of the classrooms only had only one exit.
One of my friends taught himself map making & made the entire school in quake 3 arena. I drew floorplans because I wanted to be an architect.I still have nightmares about that. All my dreams where I'm running away from something end up being that school.https://t.co/Js8yzDZjbl
I rendered the image on my 2.8ghz computer I built myself that year. I took the computer to college and sold it for a wedding ring. I still remember spending hours tinkering with Ldraw.It was why I stopped playing with legos.https://t.co/8Wt0Sw7KAU
I think a lot about why I felt so bad being in that school.It wasn't just the trauma and stress.We build farms for children and force them to go to them like they are prisoners.https://t.co/Hbu93zqweV
@enkiv2 @lethargilistic Schools also involve sitting in a cramped room for long hours in artificial light as we re-breath CO2. We are told to sit on our hands and stay calm and stressing our natural impulses as we fight with other children, while being fed awful food. https://t.co/SFU91uQBmF
It make me sick watching machinations of society as we fight over gun laws and various preference falsifications in this space.What everyone forgets about columbine was they were building bombs. And the schools was expelling people for accidentally bringing in pocket knives.
It was me. Depressed loner who was being harassed and ended up self isolated. The kid who's friends were abused. Watching the school system destroy everyone I care about in their panic.I managed to cope with this pain. But in another reality I could see myself perpetuating it.
I had no way to escape from this system that tortured me. Tortured us. chewed us up and spit us out and then chastised us for acting out.But sure. It's a gun + mental health issue. /shttps://t.co/b7c9w5FmYg
@vgr You can see mythological distortion forces acting on public consciousness. You ask most people and they says mental illness law are meant to stop school shootings. But the actual reasoning is it stops suicides. A disconnect between the public mythos and institutional machinery.
We squabble over stupid shit in our panic. Not seeing the larger problems potentiating this shit show.Why? Why was I forced to sit in cold dark dungeon fighting with other students like lord of the flies?What systems of power and control keep us there?https://t.co/YZ08tcgPyX
Woke up to ads on my phone about gun control.My news app called a political group "ghouls".Overheard 3 different groups of people at Walmart talking about the event.I can't escape this either. The entire online world panics every time this happens.
Forcing children into school system like a can of sardines.https://t.co/BXJyuOBKkxMental illness this.https://t.co/oPXcItEg7V
Power will continue to perpetuate violence against those who have no voice until the systems of cohesion becomes omnipotent. Public or private. https://t.co/Ep3jbTx1bf
Your child is forced to go to a building built by prison contractors. They sit there in agony for hours on end waiting to escape. And now they are afraid of being shot dead by their classmates who are similarly tortured.But sure, let's argue about mental illness.
If only there was some way of stopping this madness.https://t.co/hKfYPf0YZx
Trapped. Caged. Scared."What do you think of when you're in a space with closed doors and a hallway where you can't enter without permission or a bell that tells you when you can enter and leave?"https://t.co/M4qaCyy8ix
Even in my youth I was predicting the future. https://t.co/h5BzjbFOa6
This is going to keep getting worser and worser.https://t.co/Q3OCPiM1pd https://t.co/P2jmHWZft0
Why don't schools have mandatory gunshot detection devices installed in them? Seems dumb that someone would need to call 911 for a gunshot in a school.Gonna spend the next few hours looking up homebrew gun detection algorithms and replicate shot spotter cheaply.
This investigative video essay about a glock auto sear and how common they are... Is telling me you can 3d print them, shows a close up shot of one, and also literally shows me how they function in the gun.https://t.co/hz0nISSlYjFools.https://t.co/pfmzUiH73u
Yes. Let's spread this information as far and as wide as possible. /s"the killer's use of a military-style assault rifle that is inexpensive, easy to use and deadly efficient"https://t.co/1kVT3Ek3Ms
YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS do realize that the recent AR-15 court case against Remington was specifically about *ADVERTISING* these guns to troubled teens...Do you want more mass shootings? Because meme'ing people into being imitators is how you get more mass shooting's.
You stupid motherfuckers."irresponsibly marketing these firearms" https://t.co/zESg9OEEQz
It's free real-estate."Americans tend to stock up on firearms after mass shootings in anticipation of potential restrictions and, as a result, drive up gunmakers’ stocks."https://t.co/BQsPPeZvtk
Leashless is right. This argument is dumb. More people die of hunger than die of guns.https://t.co/Gqmy9zIVKPDeer meat is regularly ~$0.90 per pound vs Beef's $4.50+. Gonna figure out if I can hunt or trap.https://t.co/IBrcQhyJqE
"experts suspect that combating malnutrition and undernutrition will require more than just extra calories. We may need to spike therapeutic foods with good bacteria to create healthy microbiomes in malnourished kids." [2013]https://t.co/PkLWU1Dl7l https://t.co/jHSUhZNXwM
Hot take: removal of hunting guns would lead to more childhood deaths from starvation in Vermont than all the school shootings in the past 10 years combined.I want to own a gun.https://t.co/5M7or5SqhR
@Rahmeljackson I hunted deer w/ family, but never found anything. (Had more luck just accidentally hitting them with cars, lol.) I was taught how to use bow, but family had musket and rifle. Step dad shot a bear once, ate like kings.Was good at trapping, that's counts as a form of hunting.
It's just a political sideshow at this point.You can tell it's bad cuz I'm quoting fox news.https://t.co/UNUMnTBITNhttps://t.co/g4RUChWk3K
Things that prevent gun deaths and things that politicians applaud as a "good step" are like like a Venn diagram where there is no overlap.You'd almost think it was a conspiracy.https://t.co/SvnN9lczD3
I think I could pass a background check.The last time I went to the hospital for a suicide attempt was 2006. If I am not allowed to buy a gun, I maybe can just sell a kidney to pay for the appeal? https://t.co/tKCYbnXy9W https://t.co/1mkxAUBHBq
Theoretically I could hunt deer and then make my own 'umble pie out of the deer innards. But being Mentally Ill, I am not allowed to own a gun in Vermont. https://t.co/NXXMwgdiKwSo do I depend on the industrial meat industry, or figure out how to grow guinea-pigs for food? 😇
Who am I kidding. I can't even figure out how to get a non-driver ID, much less maintain a bank. The only option I have to get a gun is to buy an illegal one.https://t.co/LMoKfCG1h9
Friendly reminder, it was a Republican (Phil Scott) who pushed for the law in Vermont that made it impossible for me to legally buy a firearm in Vermont. And pushed for the age to be 21. https://t.co/CSmMr6LkCk
Everybody is framing this as Democrats vs Republicans.Ya'll are mentally ill.https://t.co/GG9Pt6BEYl
"I don't shoot a bow because I like archery. I started out shooting a bow because I like to eat."https://t.co/vJIIud9khA
Back when I was in highschool school, the bombs were from the anarchist cook book.They worked. https://t.co/wQNTzC7pUwhttps://t.co/ofGA6TSN8x
How do we implement a system that gives schools and police more knowledge about gunshots in a school?Don't wait for the nanny state to help you."Low Cost Gunshot Detection using Deep Learning on the Raspberry Pi"https://t.co/smUmTgzleshttps://t.co/tzoX6Sdko8
Why don't schools have mandatory gunshot detection devices installed in them? Seems dumb that someone would need to call 911 for a gunshot in a school.Gonna spend the next few hours looking up homebrew gun detection algorithms and replicate shot spotter cheaply.
Can someone see if gabemagee et. al. is willing to open source this? Their website is all lorem ipsum so I don't know how to contact them.https://t.co/iDB8nE8Y8I
If the inference is all done client side, we can avoid needing to have students constantly surveilled like an always-on audio bug.The challenge is making it useable for schools and not getting bought up by some big name surveillance service who drags their feet and charges $$$.
This should be engineered to be implementable by a managed service provider doing IT support, or even some smart children who want to help their school.Can install it right along side wireless connectivity boxes. Maybe someone like @Fortinet or @ruckusnetworks could sponsor.
Wrong link. I copied it wrong and accidentally removed the 6 on the end.DOI: 10.1109/BigData47090.2019.9006456https://t.co/EdQ0Oe2RKdhttps://t.co/AuAG7ld6Q9
Please, for the love of god, don't implement a centrally controlled data surveillance system using fog computing where some firm you don't know is listening in to your children's voices 24/7 in a warehouse somewhere. https://t.co/qFNTD0kbp3
Less than $900 for a ruggedized solar power capable (12 or 24 battery voltage) with a cellular uplink. Combine with a decent camera + $70 VPU and you can even do edge detection of faces to upload to a remote system for offline processing (supports AWS greengrass). Having fun yet?
"With these potential limitations in mind, Israeli drone manufacturer Airobotics has teamed up with ShotSpotter to add autonomous drones to the mix." https://t.co/5ZgfhJMZBZ
Don't let a tragedy destroy your light.https://t.co/vvzhMhiILc
Did you know that General Grievous (from starwars lore) is called that because he vowed to forever grieve for his wife - and this grief drove his descent into the darkside?https://t.co/8laXOVZAsqDon't let a tragedy destroy your light.https://t.co/Z4999Mr3kh https://t.co/k99X9OV1Py
It's a bit old, but this video shows a bunch of different USB microphone options that work well with Raspberry pi's. https://t.co/eIs87QFYie
You can also just use a 3.5mm to USB audio adapter.https://t.co/7mM5OtIMuT
If you're using these, you'll wanna be very careful to document the kind of microphone and possibly even record response curves. Highly recommend exploring Anechoic Chambers to normalize mics. https://t.co/BkhbmpgJ4j
We can also use ideas from speech compression if the raspberry pis themselves aren't powerful enough to analyze audio in real time.https://t.co/eKvhjcc3SQ
Google's been expanding their lyra platform to include environmental audio. https://t.co/aGihSw4fP2Not sure if this can run without an AI coprocessor or locally.
I've been slowly collecting things to build my own voice-to-text using low cost hardware b/c I want something to let me program w/out using a keyboard and not have some agency constantly listening to my recordings. Same apply to environmental tracking.https://t.co/57IfPVxJlv
With Pi being so cheap and accessible already, it might not take much. I'd approach this like how some schools grow their own gardens and use the produce as part of the lunch program.Would need to start small with a couple pilot schools with invested teacher/student population.
There's already this kind of thing done in the wild via scientific studies & other large scale surveliece networks. But I don't think it's good ethics to use an off-the-shelf offering. Incentives aren't aligned with the safety and privacy of the children. https://t.co/fbYlXm9yMd
Thinking a lot about ethics of recording passively with a real time sensory arrays.https://t.co/u9226I6TKZ"Across N.Y.U.’s microphones, the sound of human voices — recorded in snippets too brief to follow conversation — has become less common."https://t.co/Lx7NWEOCrq
There's also some potential expansions on this idea using locally managed security cameras doing gun detection.There's a dataset available to train on https://t.co/SbuqxT0Ax3
If you've already got an array of Raspberry PIs set up for privacy preserving audio monitoring, it wouldn't be *that* much harder to expand this to a community run AI based gun look-out system. https://t.co/5pP861bVvw
Every single cloud provider has a surveillance-as-a-service offering AFAICT. https://t.co/EHPmkVFefm
It's disgusting to me to imagine being in school with my data being pushed into a cloud because of being forced by the state to go to school. Treating children like prisoners. https://t.co/4vezF5omQH
TIL Effexor XR is reported by the FDA to rarely cause Guillain-Barré syndrome and homicidal ideation. https://t.co/Do9zAkndfT
I'd really only been focusing on SSRIs because of how much of a strong reaction I had to mine.Did you know that citalopram can cause RLS? https://t.co/C7vdjK1aEO
Whats the deal with RLS happening so often in people with ostomy? Or with bacteria overgrowth?https://t.co/gwEycmZczc
"According to [...] vendor of acoustic gunshot technology, this information is then verified by acoustic experts to confirm the sound is gunfire, and not [...] other sounds that could be mistaken for gun shots." https://t.co/mVudTrgNophttps://t.co/zVoUsWaPjq
Its funny how this press announcement is acting to advertise that you can 3d print guns.https://t.co/OfhB2NRPTW
Watching governments ban 3d printing munitions while also seeing them spend $$$ on sending weapons systems to Ukraine has been quite the sight.https://t.co/4JzKsz5sNn
"The money will also be used to deliver more arms to Ukrainian forces fighting the Russian invasion, Schumer added."https://t.co/VTVkggL7UaThey should be sending 3d printers, but that competes with the defense contractor's bottom line.
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) received more money from the defense sector than any other senator during the 2022 election cycle"https://t.co/Hha76PPvbKOf course he did.
Ban 3d printed guns. Don't market them to children. Make our communities safer.https://t.co/gXbR0MbaHI
But keep dumping tons of money into the gun producers.https://t.co/C65zcXmHRj
"The drones are particularly intriguing. They are observational drones, not offensive weapons. Their bodies can be created easily with the firm’s existing polymer printers" https://t.co/n4bGqaynTeOk then.
Sensationalism around ghost guns make it a pressing issue in people's minds. Our politicians prey on fears and hype because that's what keeps them in power. Reality be damned.https://t.co/AYuROgKeiK https://t.co/AJ5bMsYBrW
Access to 3d printed guns and drones ought to be widespread. It seems stupid to me to have to wait for foreign aid and put a civilian population at risk while waiting for other countries to decide to pay their defense industry $$$ before a state can defend themselves.
De arming the civilian population in a country where we literally built our interstate highway system to protect ourselves from foreign threats, all while dumping $$$ into our defense industry and ruining an endless war against terror?Deranged.https://t.co/yByHZ4wPLd
Our government spends more on our "Defense Budget" than everything else. And they're going to sit there and try to tell me that I cannot defend myself if one of the countries we occupy decides to bite back?https://t.co/tQnLXlZiMZ
Why do you think we Americans have so many guns? we're fucking pissing ourselves watching big daddy go and fight endless wars. I wanna be able to defend myself from blowback from this idiocy, but not support sick & twisted gun manufactures who literally advertise to kids.
How About A Nice Game of Chess?> "When the Senate receives this request, we spring into action and move it as soon as we can," Schumer said on the floor Thursday morning. https://t.co/V2WjJdM0Cghttps://t.co/w64L0wQ3Pf
@eigenrobot There's more interests at play here than the typical stuff that meats the eye. Framing it as funds to replace old ammunition by promoting America's dominance as a key player in protecting the world is kinda ironic. Makes sense tho.https://t.co/JlFHHlAyMO
And arms dealers."dubbed a “defense and national security dinner” ― will raise funds for the committee, which is the campaign arm for House Democrats and is central to their hopes of winning back the lower chamber of Congress."https://t.co/fN3K9wvReHhttps://t.co/A6ozTmA3dp
I think its wild that we are collectively framing them as baby killers. This focus has been used over and over again as a talking point for both sides so far. https://t.co/L9rZ7UlMRJNow we're dunking on pro-lifers for reasons? https://t.co/Ijs2e5ZLIb
A TIKAD?"Defense One was able to confirm independently that the Israeli military is buying an unspecified number of the units. At press time, the Israeli Ministry of Defense had yet to respond to a request for comment." [2017]https://t.co/x6gH9k6kqQhttps://t.co/4Eua2NZxFL
Does anyone else remember when Rand Paul was ranting about being against drones, but the opposition was silent?https://t.co/K4JVYL0lUg https://t.co/ljr48EkVLv
Then some emails leaked? boy was that funny.https://t.co/NpGdoL3JRT
Then trump put in some drone export agreements that were really sketchy. Everyone was freaking out over this afaict.https://t.co/Cn8Wj81n26
Now biden wants to keep them. Almost no pushback.https://t.co/DUkJRldczt
Be right back, looking thru all of these people and finding out what kind of baby killer they are.https://t.co/QyBxBr5K7j
Ok, that lists 5 Dems and 10 Repubs as Senator, and 10 Dems and 10 Repubs as House of Representative.This is just Top Defense Stocks tho. Gonna find gun manufacturers next. https://t.co/BqgFKRke3Z
Did you know this is all public data?https://t.co/AXePhUILNl
I think its interesting how drones are good if we sell them to others, but bad if we have them in our own country.https://t.co/msuQeU2Khr
Did you know you can invest in orgs and then get funding to run for office by them, and then profit."unclear when the legislation might be considered in committee or whether it will advance to the full Senate for debate and votes anytime this year."https://t.co/a9QRTRerl4
You think there are two sides, but really there are just different flavors of baby killers being funded by arms dealers.https://t.co/nn9tdgnjTR
Don't forget to vote for your favorite baby killer.https://t.co/wHMFMatZPP
Don't worry, we're trying to stop the use of drone on the battlefield. By stopping funds flowing to get loitering munitions.https://t.co/DTuOek5WHBhttps://t.co/5VG7uUbraS
Well... kinda."In its annual update to the force’s restructuring plan, the US Marine Corps announced its intention to reinforce its squadron of loitering munitions in light of their success in Ukraine."https://t.co/SrdnaG4Rjmhttps://t.co/Nv444RIFNV
Does your phone have a local-first keyboard that preserves your privacy? Mine does.https://t.co/pCjsUMzN6n