Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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3·11 hours agoYeah, thinking about it more, it’s not really that weird to call adults of any age “kid”, and it’s somewhat common when talking about people substantially younger than oneself. it is maybe more common when referring to men though? 🤔
“Hire this kid”, says [redacted] about hacktivist-turned-snitch Hector “Sabu” Monsegur. Guys can still be kids even past 30.
Please include EFTA ID #s
seriously. there are fakes floating around, so screenshots of alleged docs without a link are indeed dubious. If you want to verify something though, the documents on the DOJ website are currently searchable: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search (but of course some have also been deleted after being published…)
In this case, the close coinciding of epstein's first meeting with moot and the creation of /pol/ is in fact substantiated (click for links)
edit: searching for
4chan.orgshows that Epstein later became a user of it himself; he’s emailing links to threads there to Karyna Shuliak and others. It also has 4chan’s response to the FBI’s subpoena for the IP address(es) responsible for four posts which were made immediately prior to his death being reported publicly.click for death-was-faked conspiracy fodder 🍿
One of those four posts has been widely reported about:
don’t ask me how I know, but Epstein died an hour ago from hanging, cardiac arrest. Screencap this
… while another suggesting his death was faked has been seen mostly only on places like /r/conspiracy - so it seemed likely to have been fabricated after the fact:
Not saying anything after this pls do not try to dox me but last night after 0415 count they took him medical in a wheelchair front cuffed but not 1 triage nurse says they spoke to him. Next thing we know a trip van shows up? We do not do releases on the weekends unless a judge orders it. Next thing we know, he’s put in a single man cell and hangs himself? Heres the thing, the trip van did NOT sign in and we did not record the plate number and a guy in a green dress military outfit was in the back of the van according to the tower guy who let him thru the gate. You guys i am shaking right now but i think they switched him out.
4chan’s recently-released subpoena response (linked above) includes the text of that post (and not the others, because only that one was deleted apparently?) and confirms that it was made at 8:44 EDT, 10min before the news was public elsewhere. (But 30min after the other 4chan thread saying he hung himself, so, probably just a fiction-writing 4chan user working off of that… but still subpoena-worthy to someone at the FBI.)
Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn’t make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view…
It isn’t reversed compared to how this meme format is usually used: the glasses-on image is on the bottom, and associated with the viewpoint OP is saying is correct/better.
If one hasn’t seen (or has forgotten) the film, this is the way that makes sense, since glasses (generally) improve the wearer’s vision.
This meme’s canonical format is however in fact at odds with the actual scene in the 2002 film:
A related meme form which doesn’t have this ambiguity is the much older they live sunglasses - here the position of the two images are used less consistently (though as with peter parker, usually glasses-on is the lower one) but the glasses being on showing the truth actually fits with how it is in the film.
corollaries to Hanlon’s razor include:
16·7 days agogood disclaimer. also, they aren’t open source, and from the tech background of the founder who self-funded it i doubt that he plans for it to ever be. in fact, among other cringe things on Issam Hijazi’s linkedin i see that he’s even worked for, enough to become an expert in the proprietary technology of, (checks notes) the very same zionist billionaire (paywall bypass) who just bought TikTok 😢
Also, one their FAQs is “Where does UpScrolled operate its servers and store data? Does it use Big Tech?”… the answer to which includes:
We do rely on some large-scale cloud providers at this stage — not because it’s our ideal, but because building fully independent infrastructure takes time. We’d rather be transparent about that than claim otherwise. Over time, we plan to reduce reliance on these providers and move toward greater independence.
… but We do rely on some is as far as their attempt at transparency took them - they aren’t actually saying which cloud providers they’re using or for what. (given the founder’s expertise i’d guess it’s probably AWS and/or Oracle.)
3·7 days agoDoes anything provide a similar experience to Arch’s amazing AUR
I am not aware of any software distribution service with a comparable experience (massive userbase with zero vetting for uploaders) as Arch’s amazing AUR - if you are looking for a way to distribute malware to many unsuspecting people (who’s friends think they’re hackerman), it’s really unparalleled. (😢)
To your primary question, yes, many people do successfully daily drive various Linux distros without ever opening the terminal. 🙄
unsurprisingly this has been [flagged] and deleted from the orange site.
7·9 days ago
2·14 days agothat just sounds like they’re accelerating towards the dystopia, things will get a lot worse before OpenAI collapses
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)
yeah, them doing what they said in 2024 that they would only do as a last resort is indeed good news
8·15 days ago
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.
17·18 days agonumerous 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.
what could go wrong