Most solid part of the case against Luigi is the goodreads review of the Unabomber manifesto. I find it much easier to believe the second gun and manifesto are planted than to believe he would plan the assassination so well then bungle the escape and still be in the country a couple of days later.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The thing about the Palantir system is that it's a state space of everyone in America. Meaning you can approach the network with a query and it will find the shortest path from your query to a person.

There's no real evidence or investigation involved, just:

SELECT * FROM people
WHERE
    face LIKE "image.jpg",
    last_location WITHIN_DISTANCE("75 MILES", "<lat>, <lon>"),
    MOOD("United Healthcare") < 0 as uhc_mood
TOP 5
ORDER BY uhc_mood ASC

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree that it's possible the super advanced surveillance systems that Palantir et al have could've been used to find him and Luigi did do it, but then that goes into the parallel construction theory, that the evidence was still planted to solidify a case (especially when the evidence actually utilized to find the subject is inadmissible for some reason).

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that they got the right guy, I'm saying that the way they use these AI systems to find patsys makes it very believable since the immediately available information will make them look guilty. You then just plant extra evidence until it's "undeniable".

Same way chatGPT is always plausibly correct at first glance.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Right, that's actually really smart. The Oswald finder.

[–] zipper@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

i haven't been too invested in his case, but i agree that the CCTV footage guy and luigi don't look alike. who knows though.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree and I'm really curious if his legal defense is going to be The Shaggy Defense: 'that wasn't me' 'cause it seems like everyone including news media started entirely assuming his guilt long before any evidence was presented by people other than the pigs who could completely make it up

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

I remember noting how horrible the journalistic malpractice was when Luigi was arrested and they were constantly using "the suspect" instead of "the shooter" or "the perpetrator." Like, "the suspect shot at Thompson" kinds of sentences were so common when Luigi got taken into custody.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Same, I am absolutely unconvinced