Terrorists beware the US Army

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/improvised-mode-the-army-network-evolves-in-project-convergence/?

WASHINGTON: “This is definitely improvised mode,” the Army’s network modernization director told me. “A lot of these things that we’re experimenting with out here [in the Yuma Desert] probably had never been connected to anything, outside of a gigabit switch in their labs, up until we did it [for the first time] in June.”

Just three months later, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me, the ad hoc network created for the Project Convergence exercises is moving more data, faster and further than the equipment was ever designed to do.

Information flows from intelligence satellites – none of them operated by the Army – down to Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State, which is acting as the equivalent of a theater headquarters for the exercise. Artificial intelligence software there processes the data and transmits vital updates to the frontline combat units at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, 1,300 miles south. How fast can this happen? Gallagher’s boss, Army Futures Command chief Gen. John Murray, has boasted that the timeline from a satellite spotting a target to artillery firing on it has dropped from “tens of minutes” in normal operations to “less than 20 seconds” in Project Convergence

“We’re pushing them to limits that we never envisioned,” Gallagher told me. “It’s a mesh network solution with some advanced networking waveforms” – primarily TrellisWare’s TSM – “that significantly improves the warfighting capability of our maneuver brigades, but it was not fielded to do the things we’re doing.”

“You can always judge a man not by his friends, but by the quality of his enemies. A good man will never have enemies who are anything but petty and childish. A bad man will have enemies that are legion. Who it is that dislikes a man reveals much about the man himself.” ~ Wicasta Lovelace

https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/ag-barr-disliked-all-right-people-former-archbishop-philadelphia-says

Attorney General Barr ‘disliked by all the right people,’ former Philadelphia archbishop says

The archbishop says he admires AG Barr for his moral spine and character of substance.

The former archbishop of Philadelphia commended Attorney General Barr for his strong morals and good faith, days before the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput praised the nation’s top law enforcement officer for embodying his catholic faith.

“Throughout my life, the men and women I’ve most admired have all had the same qualities: a thinking Catholic brain, a character of substance and a moral spine. Attorney General Barr has all three,” Archbishop Chaput wrote.

“As an added bonus, he’s disliked by all the right people.” he said. “I want to thank the various and interesting critics of General Barr for confirming me in that judgment.”

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NYET !!!

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-household-net-worth-spikes-surpassing-pre-pandemic-peak/

Household net worth increased by $7.6 trillion in the second quarter, surpassing the pre-pandemic high as rebounding stocks bolstered Americans’ wealth, a Federal Reserve report revealed on Monday.

Household net worth increased 6.8 percent to $119 trillion, the largest gain in quarterly records dating back to 1952. Federal government borrowing spiked as lawmakers passed fiscal relief measures, according to the report.

For the first time in at least four years, consumer credit not including mortgage debt fell in the second quarter. Credit decreased $69 billion as consumers did less credit-card borrowing in light of the pandemic.

KEK Twitter AI is racist

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/517437-twitter-investigating-automated-image-previews-over-apparent-algorithmic

Twitter is investigating the algorithm it uses to crop pictures for its mobile platform after several users pointed out a tendency to zero in on white faces.

Controversy over algorithmic bias in the automated cropping software started when user Colin Madland posted a thread about Zoom not picking up on a Black colleague's face when using backgrounds.

Quickly he noticed that Twitter was only showing the side of the screen featuring him, a white man, in previews.

Several other users began testing the issue exposed in Madland's thread and noted similar results.

Twitter user @NotAFile placed stock photos a white and Black man with their positions swapped, and both times the white man featured in the preview.

In response to user @bascule replicating the same results with pictures of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former President Obama, Twitter communications said they would look into the issue.

"We tested for bias before shipping the model & didn't find evidence of racial or gender bias in our testing," the team's account said. "But it’s clear that we’ve got more analysis to do. We'll continue to share what we learn, what actions we take, & will open source it so others can review and replicate."