Today in "The US Government is looking for ways to imprison political opponents":

A contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individual’s publicly available data from a wide array of sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web at once, including Bluesky, OnlyFans, and various Meta platforms, according to a leaked list of the sites obtained by 404 Media.

The news comes after ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Columbia University protester and green card holding legal permanent resident of the U.S., on Saturday with the intention of deporting him. It also comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to scan the social media accounts for tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts, looking for what Axios reported as foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups.

WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.

Since last January, WikiPortraits photographers have covered around 10 global festivals and award ceremonies, and taken nearly 5,000 freely-licensed photos of celebrity attendees. And the celebrity attendees are often quite excited about it. Dixit, for example, found Jeremy Strong of Succession at a New York showing of the new The Apprentice and asked to take a new headshot of him for Wikipedia.

“His publicist said no,” Dixit said. “But Jeremy said, ‘Wait, you’re from Wikipedia? For the love of God, please take down that photo. You’d be doing me a service.’ So he stood and posed, and I got a shot of him.” Strong’s old photo was from 2014.

[alt text: a two-panel comic meme. The first panel is a photo of Jaden Smith, who is wearing a strange helmet that is shaped like a house, with his face poking out of a cutout where the front door of the house would be. The second panel is a photo of Will Smith from 2022 Academy Awards show, where he is shouting at Chris Rock on stage. The caption on this second panel says,"Keep my son's head out your fuckin' house!"]

[alt text: A WW2 propaganda poster that has been edited. The poster depicts a 1940s American man driving a car, and a ghost of Hitler is in the passenger seat. The text on the poster says: "When you ride TESLA you ride with Hitler. Join Public Transportation TODAY!"]

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53392091

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53392082

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18143916

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TL;DW: At 4K, the RTX 5090 hits 20-50% uplifts in raster as compared to the RTX 4090, and 27-35% uplifts in RT as compared to the RTX 4090. Power efficiency is roughly equivalent to the 4090. The new dual flowthrough cooler design seems to perform exactly as advertised, providing remarkable cooling for a card that is only two slots thick.