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her-soliloquies · 4 months

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I've watched Good Omens, I've watched Staged, and I've watched Broadchurch. But the thing is it wasn't until I watched Doctor Who that my weird crush on David Tennant got SO GODDAMN FUCKING REAL

#HELP #and yeah I know doctor who has been around for ages but I could never bring myself to watch it (because of how long it is) until recently #(because of david)#I'm actually speechless #david tennant #doctor who #tenth doctor #good omens #crowley #broadchurch #alec hardy #staged #jack harkness #(bc I love him)#ao3

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disenchanted-youth · 9 months

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#I'm actually speechless #like wtf #i'm dying #love in the air #bossnoeul #fortpeat #sam lin #lin zi hong #we best love #there's no way that this happened #i dreamt it up writing my fanfic #like no other way

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viscerati · 5 months

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i'm not the same person i was one movie ago. jack thurlow is gonna be the only thing i'll talk about for the next month

#jack goes home #jack thurlow #rory culkin #wow #this movie changed me #i'm actually speechless

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poppurini · 10 months

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mimi,,, savanaclaw novel and i think that i understand the appeal of diasomna now,,,,

i need my nervous system removed from me

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sunstainedpages · 2 months

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Ahhhh!!! I've just seen the sketch for my tattoo on Friday and omg!!!! It's beautiful!!

#I'm actually speechless #I'm in love with it #like actually in love with #it's so much better then I was expecting #like I had complete faith in her because she's done some of my others and I adore her style #but this is better then I ever could've imagined

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constellationclarke · 1 year

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Daisy Jones and the Six is officially over and I am a big sobbing mess right now

#i'm actually speechless #i dont know what to say #oh my god #daisy jones and the six #andreia speaks

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mins-fins · 11 months

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Happy birthday isa my beloved!!!! <3

I hope you have an amazing day and that you are really happy on your day :D

I love you so much babes <3

THIS IS SO.. I HAVE NO WORDS

#mins-fins #i'm actually speechless #no one flatters me like this

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bibuddie · 1 year

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THIRTY FOUR FELONIES

#??!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?#i'm actually speechless #us politics

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its-actually-minicika · 1 year

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HAVE FUN WITH THE CHECKMARKS YOU DESERVE THEM

EXCUSE ME HUH????

#i love my followers so much #HUH HOW WHEN #i don't deserve you guys wth #I FEEL SO BAD PLS THAT'S STILL ADULT MONEY THAT HAS NO REASON TO BE SPENT ON ME #omg #i'm actually speechless #you guys inabitate me too much #MWAH MWAH MWAH ILY

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insertsarcasticommenthere · 4 days

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2500 Likes!

#2500 likes #tumblr milestone #sheesh #I'm actually speechless #wtf

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kittenkes · 8 months

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All I can do is laugh at what an unmitigated disaster tonight was. So much for hoping.

#I'm actually speechless

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ssamja-trash · 2 years

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i thought i suffered enough with don't wait... ㅠㅠ

#i'm actually speechless #who made him like this #he doesn't do this normally #i need to lie down #i'm probably gonna make a whole rant about how much i hate him later once i've processed everything that my eyes have seen #i want to say so much but at the same time my brain is empty #no one cares iina

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linkyu · 4 months

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tell me about your defense contract pleage

Oh boy!

To be fair, it's nothing grandiose, like, it wasn't about "a new missile blueprint" or whatever, but, just thinking about what it could have become? yeesh.

So, let's go.

For context, this is taking place in the early 2010s, where I was working as a dev and manager for a company that mostly did space stuff, but they had some defence and security contracts too.

One day we got a new contract though, which was... a weird one. It was state-auctioned, meaning that this was basically a homeland contract, but the main sponsor was Philip Morris. Yeah. The American cigarette company.

Why? Because the contract was essentially a crackdown on "illegal cigarette sales", but it was sold as a more general "war on drugs" contract.

For those unaware (because chances are, like me, you are a non-smoker), cigarette contraband is very much a thing. At the time, ~15% of cigarettes were sold illegally here (read: they were smuggled in and sold on the street).

And Phillip Morris wanted to stop that. After all, they're only a small company worth uhhh... oh JFC. Just a paltry 150 billion dollars. They need those extra dollars, you understand?

Anyway. So they sponsored a contract to the state, promising that "the technology used for this can be used to stop drug deals too". Also that "the state would benefit from the cigarettes part as well because smaller black market means more official sales means a higher tax revenue" (that has actually been proven true during the 2020 quarantine).

Anyway, here was the plan:

Phase 1 was to train a neural network and plug it in directly to the city's video-surveillance system, in order to detect illegal transactions as soon as they occur. Big brother who?

Phase 2 was to then track the people involved in said transaction throughout the city, based on their appearance and gait. You ever seen the Plainsight sheep counting video? Imagine something like this but with people. That data would then be relayed to police officers in the area.

So yeah, an automated CCTV-based tracking system. Because that's not setting a scary precedent.

So what do you do when you're in that position? Let me tell you. If you're thrust unknowingly, or against your will, into a project like this,

Note. The following is not a legal advice. In fact it's not even good advice. Do not attempt any of this unless you know you can't get caught, or that even if you are caught, the consequences are acceptable. Above all else, always have a backup plan if and when it backfires. Also don't do anything that can get you sued. Be reasonable.

Let me introduce you to the world of Corporate Sabotage! It's a funny form of striking, very effective in office environments.

Here's what I did:

First of all was the training data. We had extensive footage, but it needed to be marked manually for the training. Basically, just cropping the clips around the "transaction" and drawing some boxes on top of the "criminals". I was in charge of several batches of those. It helped that I was fast at it since I had video editing experience already. Well, let's just say that a good deal of those markings were... not very accurate.

Also, did you know that some video encodings are very slow to process by OpenCV, to the point of sometimes crashing? I'm sure the software is better at it nowadays though. So I did that to another portion of the data.

Unfortunately the training model itself was handled by a different company, so I couldn't do more about this.

Or could I?

I was the main person communicating with them, after all.

Enter: Miscommunication Master

In short (because this is already way too long), I became the most rigid person in the project. Like insisting on sharing the training data only on our own secure shared drive, which they didn't have access to yet. Or tracking down every single bug in the program and making weekly reports on those, which bogged down progress. Or asking for things to be done but without pointing at anyone in particular, so that no one actually did the thing. You know, classic manager incompetence. Except I couldn't be faulted, because after all, I was just "really serious about the security aspect of this project. And you don't want the state to learn that we've mishandled the data security of the project, do you, Jeff?"

A thousand little jabs like this, to slow down and delay the project.

At the end of it, after a full year on this project, we had.... a neural network full of false positives and a semi-working visualizer.

They said the project needed to be wrapped up in the next three months.

I said "damn, good luck with that! By the way my contract is up next month and I'm not renewing."

Last I heard, that city still doesn't have anything installed on their CCTV.

tl;dr: I used corporate sabotage to prevent automated surveillance to be implemented in a city--

hey hold on

wait

what

HEY ACTUALLY I DID SOME EXTRA RESEARCH TO SEE IF PHILLIP MORRIS TRIED THIS SHIT WITH ANOTHER COMPANY SINCE THEN AND WHAT THE FUCK