it's been 48 hours and not only have they not ID'd the guy, they've begun using tools that will actively make the search harder. he's probably already on a beach in vietnam, he's safe. fucking incredible
I know it wouldn't be smart or anything but i would be so happy to learn that he never even left town and just changed his clothes and went about his day
Whoever came up with the whole "blame literally anyone, but especially the Soviets/Russians" bit needs a prize. Its gotten literally over a century of use. Once you notice it, you see it fuckin' everywhere. It goes beyond any historical level of "foreigners bad" because it really is just used for literally anything. Advanced xenophobia I guess.
Maybe if libs broke out of it they could actually see results, but nope, RUSSIA, CHINA, CUBA! for any little thing, nope can't be anything else, can't be domestic, can't be our allies, can't even be random.
Ok, they will not catch him and I know none of us are surprised, but is no one going to ask the NYPD why they already have an AI trained in phrenology? Guess at least they'll have fun looking for a man with the sinister slanted nose bridge of a cowardly Saxon wheelwright or whatever their AI comes up with after training itself by reading every work ever written about studying the bone structure of the human head.
Lmao generative AI is gonna make up some random generic-looking dude. That's literally all it does, what it's programmed to do. Actual insanity that they're using this for the investigation.
Is Gasparino saying that he managed to get over to LaGuardia and get through security for an international flight in the space of about 30 minutes or that Putin sent a private getaway plane?
They are using this to sell the AI surveillance grift and to make people reconsider their public safety. I think that is why they are so openly flexing the surveillance state: "See, this is what we can do, nobody can hide from us."
It's an oversell of course, but most people don't know that.
Imagine if you were this dude just meeting your people for coffee in Queens or whatever while the entire political and law enforcement establishment was pouring over conspiracy theories and flight lists to Russia,