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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago

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