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What the fuck is this writing style? “No sentence longer than 8 words”???
It’s so stilted and awful to read.
It’s so stilted and awful to read.
February 5, 2026 at 4:39 AM
What the fuck is this writing style? “No sentence longer than 8 words”???
It’s so stilted and awful to read.
It’s so stilted and awful to read.
I’m decidedly voting for anyone but Schumer if his dead ass tries to run again
February 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I’m decidedly voting for anyone but Schumer if his dead ass tries to run again
“Research does not necessarily support the effectiveness of body-worn cameras in achieving those desired outcomes. A comprehensive review of 70 studies of body-worn cameras use found that the larger body of research on body-worn cameras showed no consistent or no statistically significant effects.”
February 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
“Research does not necessarily support the effectiveness of body-worn cameras in achieving those desired outcomes. A comprehensive review of 70 studies of body-worn cameras use found that the larger body of research on body-worn cameras showed no consistent or no statistically significant effects.”
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Chilled New York City
NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. 🧪🔭
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NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. 🧪🔭
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February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Chilled New York City
NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Yeah. People did the research. They’re not effective nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
Police as they exist must be abolished
Police as they exist must be abolished
Research on Body-Worn Cameras and Law Enforcement
National ToolkitBJA's National Body-Worn Camera Toolkit is a clearinghouse for criminal justice practitioners.BJA also has produced a podcast series on body-worn cameras.
nij.ojp.gov
February 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Yeah. People did the research. They’re not effective nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
Police as they exist must be abolished
Police as they exist must be abolished
I mean doesn’t seem to make much of a difference for normal cops, don’t see why feds would care either
nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
Research on Body-Worn Cameras and Law Enforcement
National ToolkitBJA's National Body-Worn Camera Toolkit is a clearinghouse for criminal justice practitioners.BJA also has produced a podcast series on body-worn cameras.
nij.ojp.gov
February 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I mean doesn’t seem to make much of a difference for normal cops, don’t see why feds would care either
nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
I work in tech and until all this recent Ellison bullshit I hadn’t even thought about Oracle in over a decade. Honestly forgot they were still around.
February 2, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I work in tech and until all this recent Ellison bullshit I hadn’t even thought about Oracle in over a decade. Honestly forgot they were still around.
It’s like we somehow made a textbook that costs a billion dollars to write, but all of the citations are “fuck you that’s proprietary information”. We’d all recognize that that was bad, not throw our hands up and say “well let’s study the effects of this new textbook paradigm”
February 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
It’s like we somehow made a textbook that costs a billion dollars to write, but all of the citations are “fuck you that’s proprietary information”. We’d all recognize that that was bad, not throw our hands up and say “well let’s study the effects of this new textbook paradigm”
Nah. I just think it’s bad to outsource work and knowledge to an expensive tool wholly owned and controlled by tech billionaires.
It’s a black box where you cannot know what is happening between input and output, both in the model and the instructions supplied outside of it. That’s really bad.
It’s a black box where you cannot know what is happening between input and output, both in the model and the instructions supplied outside of it. That’s really bad.
February 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Nah. I just think it’s bad to outsource work and knowledge to an expensive tool wholly owned and controlled by tech billionaires.
It’s a black box where you cannot know what is happening between input and output, both in the model and the instructions supplied outside of it. That’s really bad.
It’s a black box where you cannot know what is happening between input and output, both in the model and the instructions supplied outside of it. That’s really bad.
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NEW: State troopers and conservation officers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with the assistance of Minneapolis Police and the University of Minnesota Police, arrested 67 protesters after threatening arrests over an LRAD mounted on a UMNPD Jeep.
State and Local Police Make Mass Arrest After Noise Demo at Hotel Housing ICE Agents - UNICORN RIOT
A medley of state and local police officers arrested nearly 70 protesters after the third noise demo at the Graduate Hotel for hosting ICE agents.
unicornriot.ninja
February 1, 2026 at 6:35 AM
NEW: State troopers and conservation officers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with the assistance of Minneapolis Police and the University of Minnesota Police, arrested 67 protesters after threatening arrests over an LRAD mounted on a UMNPD Jeep.
There needs to be a reckoning and police as they are need to be abolished.
This is what half of most city budgets go to: useless fucks who don’t care about citizens or actively want to harm them, counting the hours until they can go home and beat their spouse.
This is what half of most city budgets go to: useless fucks who don’t care about citizens or actively want to harm them, counting the hours until they can go home and beat their spouse.
January 31, 2026 at 7:24 PM
There needs to be a reckoning and police as they are need to be abolished.
This is what half of most city budgets go to: useless fucks who don’t care about citizens or actively want to harm them, counting the hours until they can go home and beat their spouse.
This is what half of most city budgets go to: useless fucks who don’t care about citizens or actively want to harm them, counting the hours until they can go home and beat their spouse.
Images from those cameras aren’t high quality front-on shots and also aren’t being directly fed into a central database
January 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Images from those cameras aren’t high quality front-on shots and also aren’t being directly fed into a central database
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Our final Sundance event is a FREE, VIRTUAL panel on a topic that we don't talk nearly enough about: the unseen labor costs of the AI industry.
More info below but here's the sign-up link, it's tomorrow morning!
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Tackling the Ethics of AI Through the Making of GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Part 2
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January 30, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Our final Sundance event is a FREE, VIRTUAL panel on a topic that we don't talk nearly enough about: the unseen labor costs of the AI industry.
More info below but here's the sign-up link, it's tomorrow morning!
More info below but here's the sign-up link, it's tomorrow morning!
And we’d have to teach them to read first
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 PM
And we’d have to teach them to read first
No one is doing violence except ICE.
Also what would be functionally different if he did use the insurrection act?
Also what would be functionally different if he did use the insurrection act?
January 29, 2026 at 10:45 PM
No one is doing violence except ICE.
Also what would be functionally different if he did use the insurrection act?
Also what would be functionally different if he did use the insurrection act?
It’s probably worse currently but let’s not pretend a cop in the US deciding to murder someone in broad daylight is all that unusual. Typically their punishment is a month’s paid vacation.
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
It’s probably worse currently but let’s not pretend a cop in the US deciding to murder someone in broad daylight is all that unusual. Typically their punishment is a month’s paid vacation.
Ah interesting. Didn’t know that. Good to know thanks.
January 29, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Ah interesting. Didn’t know that. Good to know thanks.
They’re a search company with the same AI crap in every website. At least they have a toggle to just fully turn all of that stuff off.
January 29, 2026 at 3:21 AM
They’re a search company with the same AI crap in every website. At least they have a toggle to just fully turn all of that stuff off.
Ah I see the person who has never done math or science has decided to chime in for some reason
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Ah I see the person who has never done math or science has decided to chime in for some reason
Honestly feels like hiring a one person contractor company that apparently doesn’t have monitoring systems or backups should be negligence on the government’s part.
This is such a solved problem that you can buy turnkey solutions for this. It’s nuts to try to run your own servers.
This is such a solved problem that you can buy turnkey solutions for this. It’s nuts to try to run your own servers.
January 28, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Honestly feels like hiring a one person contractor company that apparently doesn’t have monitoring systems or backups should be negligence on the government’s part.
This is such a solved problem that you can buy turnkey solutions for this. It’s nuts to try to run your own servers.
This is such a solved problem that you can buy turnkey solutions for this. It’s nuts to try to run your own servers.
Consultants and megadonors
January 28, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Consultants and megadonors
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Genesis + Sega CD + 32X was such a promising start to a very stupid voltron
January 28, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Genesis + Sega CD + 32X was such a promising start to a very stupid voltron
Same. But for those of us who work in places where everyone has bought into this mass delusion it’s legit a bright spot to laugh at it once and a while
January 28, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Same. But for those of us who work in places where everyone has bought into this mass delusion it’s legit a bright spot to laugh at it once and a while