PNC 09/08/2024

The September 8th, 2024 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC). This meeting took place on IRC.

Agenda

Discussion

Old Business

• Continued "Supreme Team" updates (if any)
• Camera Walk 2024 (Sept 11)
• Talk Like A Pirate Day 2024 (Sept 19) & Pirate Week (Sept 15 - Sept 22nd)

Meeting Minutes

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20:40:50 <YeehawPirateBen> ahoy
20:49:12 <Ty--> Ahoy
20:59:18 <NomadOfNorad> ahoy ye maties
21:00:05 <YeehawPirateBen> well we got TX and FL
21:00:11 <Ty--> lol
21:00:42 <Ty--> We can give ...'til, idk 10 after?
21:01:11 <Ty--> I read the article about the Reboot and CAPP, that was pretty cool.
21:01:12 <YeehawPirateBen> yeah I'm good with that. just cooking rn, so don't mind sitting around
21:01:25 <YeehawPirateBen> I need to check that out
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21:04:11 <tjcrowley> Hello there
21:04:42 <tjcrowley> CA here
21:04:47 <YeehawPirateBen> ahoy - we're hanging out for a little while to see if we're going to hit quorum
21:04:48 <tjcrowley> I'm very sunburnt
21:04:57 <YeehawPirateBen> need one more
21:04:57 <YeehawPirateBen> lol
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21:05:08 <tjcrowley> w00t
21:05:11 <pmchi> Ahoy
21:05:15 <tjcrowley> ahoy
21:05:43 <Ty--> Ahoy
21:06:01 <pmchi> I see the protest has gotten fair coverage and looked, overall, successful! Congrats!
21:06:02 <Ty--> Sweet. Suppose we can go ahead with IDs, please
21:06:15 <Ty--> Ty Clifford, USPP VC / WV Observer
21:06:20 <YeehawPirateBen> Ben Horlick - USPP Quartermaster & TX Rep
21:06:22 <tjcrowley> @pmchi there's more to come. wired is interviewing me tomorrow
21:06:33 <pmchi> Jolly Mitch Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP
21:06:35 <YeehawPirateBen> that's sick. have fun
21:06:37 <NomadOfNorad> David Hall, FLPP rep.... tho I tihnk Wanda might be here in a moment or two also...
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21:06:59 <NomadOfNorad> We're at the IDs stage, Wanda
21:07:08 <Wanda_FL> Wanda, FLPP. Sorry I'm late, my reminder alarm didn't go off.
21:07:27 <NomadOfNorad> <<<---- emergency backup reminder alarm. :D
21:07:38 <tjcrowley> Darren Mckeeman, Cali PP member in San Francisco. I just started doing stuff, not sure of my title
21:07:39 <YeehawPirateBen> no worries!
21:07:39 <Ty--> Alright. I was not at last week's meeting, so is there any old business to be hashed?
21:08:14 <YeehawPirateBen> Not that I recall - it was a pretty quick one
21:08:41 <Ty--> Gotchya
21:09:06 <Ty--> Any reports from anyone?
21:09:29 <pmchi> Just Pirate Week Camera Walks. If any of you would like to organize one in your area please just give me a city, day and time and I will make a poster accordingly
21:09:43 <Ty--> I want to point out CAPP's efforts with Vermin Supreme are looking awesome! Here is the article to be put officially in the minutes - https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/reboot-2024-pirates/
21:09:44 <papegaai> Title: Who protested Republicans and tech barons at Fort Mason? Pirates. Really. (at missionlocal.org)
21:10:08 <YeehawPirateBen> I touched based with Joe to figure out final steps on getting my bank account access set up, that will (fingers crossed) be sorted this week 21:10:27 <Ty--> (Everyone's efforts, really!)
21:10:47 <Ty--> pmchi I will get you with you some time this week if I can manage.
21:11:20 <Ty--> YeehawPirateBen Great
21:11:20 <tjcrowley> I've hopefully parlayed the protest publicity into more for the national org as well, I am talking to wired tomorrow and I will probably need a national org contact to give to her
21:11:29 <YeehawPirateBen> On the platform committee side, I think Dustin and I have gotten to an agreement on most of the AI plank with the exception of the first point around AGI
21:11:54 <pmchi> Most excellent tjcrowley and YeehawPirateBen
21:12:15 <YeehawPirateBen> I need to noodle on his last set of comments a bit more but I'll see if we can find a middle ground there and have it ready to chat about on Jitsi next week
21:12:27 <YeehawPirateBen> obviously any other feedback from folks is welcome <3
21:13:23 <pmchi> If the spirit of this is anywhere near it, I’m for it https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/PCtZrQZW/IMG_0852.JPG
21:13:47 <Ty--> Great, tjcrowley - Maybe try talking with Drew to see if he'd like to be the contact considering he is Captain.
21:14:32 <YeehawPirateBen> This is what we've got for that in the current draft: Requirements for human-in-the-loop design for AI-based decision-making systems that are significantly consequential for any human (e.g., life & death choices, prison sentencing, credit applications)
21:15:16 <Ty--> I like it, pmchi
21:15:30 <Ty--> To the point, lol
21:15:44 <tjcrowley> I wanted to put it out there that my volunteer job is I'm one of crew on the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, the last intact liberty ship named after the first person awarded a letter of marque by the us government. We are a museum ship and the museum publicity dept is all-in on producing something for Talk Like a Pirate Day livestream
21:15:50 <YeehawPirateBen> "human-in-the-loop" is a term that gets used for autonomous system design regulation to mostly say that the computer can't make the decision itself, it needs human review/approval
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21:16:17 <tjcrowley> We even dug out the pirate flag today
21:16:17 <YeehawPirateBen> no way lol that's incredible
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21:16:49 <tjcrowley> https://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/
21:16:50 <papegaai> Title: SS Jeremiah O'Brien Store - Nautical Treasures and Memorabilia – National Liberty Ship Memorial (at www.ssjeremiahobrien.org)
21:16:50 <Wanda_FL> sorry, having connection issues
21:17:46 <tjcrowley> I am also going to do a camera walk around here but it's probably even more dystopian than most camera walks because we havea police drone patrolling now
21:18:37 <NomadOfNorad> Are they the sorta-Dalek-looking ones like NY has? 0o
21:18:44 <Ty--> That is terrible, tjcrowley - NY does that with people - in their yards
21:19:22 <tjcrowley> No, they are 5 foot wide quadcopters. https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/explore-department/drones
21:19:23 <papegaai> Title: Drones | San Francisco Police Department (at www.sanfranciscopolice.org)
21:19:44 <tjcrowley> they use them to chase people bipping cars
21:20:52 <Ty--> Any other reports?
21:21:17 <tjcrowley> I am starting an IT project if anyone wants in
21:21:59 <tjcrowley> Our local political scene is having a moment because of a voter fraud scandal. https://missionlocal.org/2024/08/milk-club-rocked-by-fraudulent-vote-scandal/
21:22:00 <papegaai> Title: Harvey Mlik Club rocked by fraudulent voting scandal (at missionlocal.org)
21:22:41 <tjcrowley> I am investigating building a secure voting app for political orgs, not using any technical terms that might scare away the normal folks
21:23:56 <tjcrowley> feel free to reach out if this is something you or anyone you might know might want to be involved in
21:24:29 <Ty--> Gotchya. Thank you
21:24:32 <YeehawPirateBen> drop that in the discord too, you might get some bites
21:24:43 <tjcrowley> will do
21:25:40 <YeehawPirateBen> I'll go ahead and throw out the motion to adjourn unless anyone has something else
21:26:10 <tjcrowley> Seconded. I got invited to a beach bonfire and I wanna get there before the sun sets
21:26:28 * NomadOfNorad glances over at Wanda
21:26:39 <Wanda_FL> ?
21:26:43 <Ty--> I don't have anything else.
21:26:47 <NomadOfNorad> ONE of us needs to vote on this. :)
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21:26:59 <Wanda_FL> oh well aye
21:27:05 <Wanda_FL> I didn't know we were voting rn
21:27:15 <YeehawPirateBen> aye
21:27:37 <Ty--> Any opposed?
21:27:46 <Ty--> pmchi?
21:28:14 <pmchi> Aye to adjourning
21:28:21 <Ty--> and so it is!
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21:28:39 <Ty--> ya'll be safe on the sea.
21:28:52 <YeehawPirateBen> you too ty
21:28:56 <YeehawPirateBen> have a good night yall
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21:30:11 <pmchi> 🏴‍☠️
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