

yeah, them doing what they said in 2024 that they would only do as a last resort is indeed good news
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions


yeah, them doing what they said in 2024 that they would only do as a last resort is indeed good news




the fact that they know your plate number is different than knowing if you (or someone) queried a website about which police queried flock about it


reposting my comment from the thread yesterday:
reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:
in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.
they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline
they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren’t.
i still don’t understand why this website isn’t open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you’d mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.


numerous professions are far more dangerous than being a cop. there are well over 700k cops in the US and only around 150 die each year (except during the pandemic when covid killed an extra thousand or so).


It’s not loading for me.
the site is probably overloaded right now due to being in the news today because a whistleblower just gave them details about 4500 more agents: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113174554/https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/


also, reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:
in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.
they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline
they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren’t.
i still don’t understand why this website isn’t open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you’d mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.
It’s a website.
Wow. Although I do still think it is written with some LLM assistance, and I don’t think the authors sincerely believe the absurd alt-history they’re espousing in this article, I am sad to say I think your assessment here is actually spot-on.
I got a slop vibe after reading just a little of it, and then clicked away and skimmed their other article titles (“Based International Law”, “The GIGACHAD Approach”, “Shitposting as a National Asset”, etc). then clicked to the homepage and saw their “Generated Affairs” (thisforeignaffairsarticledoesnotexist.com) LLM thing under Special Projects, and I naively concluded that the whole thing was merely an edgelord trolling project.
Looking at it a little closer now (and seeing that their other link under Special Projects https://rickovercorpus.org/ is actually a serious thing which links back and thanks them for funding) I am also horrified.
I still think it is an edgelord trolling project, but it is one with a likelihood to be seriously influencing actually-powerful people 😱
This is what the radical far right wing of the US establishment is thinking
No, it isn’t. They are thinking and doing plenty of horrible things, but not what is on that website.
i didn’t read very much of it because i don’t suffer LLM outputs gladly, but to their credit at least the edgelords who created it were nice enough to put a troll face at the bottom to remove any doubts one might have about its lack of sincerity 🙄
Check their twitter and other projects if you still aren’t sure, but after you realize what it is I hope you’ll delete this post to stop spreading their slop.








It’s very clear from the video that she never hit him and he shot her in the face while she was going less than 5mph.
in this grainy video the ny post is choosing to show without the others, i’d say it is somewhat less than very clear what happened. but it becomes very clear when you see this side by side with the other videos from much closer by.
the new york times has a good video which includes this one and others here (and unlike many things there it is not paywalled)
video here https://xcancel.com/tsengputterman/status/2009084996578103483
the replies on xcancel say only a few thousand $ were at stake, so seems pretty unlikely it was actually intentional
https://www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf
https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/government-funded-alchemy
First, the researchers have a high degree of credential credibility. […] These are very much not software engineers who think they’ve solved alchemy after talking with ChatGPT for a year or something.
[…]
Optimistically, in my mind this leaves about 10% odds that fusion energy becomes commercialized or at least piloted over the next couple decades and Marathon Fusion’s approach for the alchemical production of gold becomes a meaningful consideration for these fusion plants! That’s pretty high, and implies a high value for continuing to research this technology, even if not necessarily for Marathon Fusion specifically. Manifold [a prediction market] traders are giving this proposition (“Artificially produced gold on a significant scale by 2035?”) ~20% odds, which likely reflects the discount rate on a market that only resolves in 10 years, although it also leaves room for other potential methodologies for gold production (presumably also through fusion energy but who knows).
[…]
Oh ya, this Gold is Radioactive
i agree on both points. but do you think it would be better if their existence is prolonged somehow?
i mean, if you don’t think this development is good news, what sort of news about openai would you think is?
unless you’re actually using their services, i don’t see how them doing the thing they said they’d only do as a “last resort” is anything other than good news. (and if you are using their services, maybe the ads will encourage you to stop? so, still: good news)