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Jonathan Gerhardson
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"Journalist" in "western Massachusetts."

https://jongerhardson.github.io

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Far worse things happening, but also free them
www.cbp.gov/newsroom/loc...
Labubuus detained by CBP
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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I'm just skimming and napkin mathing here, but based on this paper I believe 100 arrests would put the woman in top 5% most arrests in Camden, NJ for over 25 years straight (on average, using 16 arrests/4 years). www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/IIP_ES...
A study in Camden, New Jersey found that 226 individuals appeared in the top five percent of both arrests and emergency department visits. Over the course of the four-year study, these same individuals were arrested a total of 3,686 times, with 95 percent of these arrests for non- violent offenses. Moreover, “75 percent of these individuals received at least one mental-health related diagnosis at the hospital,” and “42 percent experienced homelessness at least once during the study period.” To combat this cycle, Camden integrated its health and criminal justice data in order to identify frequent utilizers, and implemented the “Camden Coalition,” a case management model to better meet the needs of frequent utilizers.ii ii. Through data analysis, Miami-D
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Ah fuck, that's the second time someone said that to me so I just checked and idk how this works, I just have fucked something up in the settings. Try now please if you want to reach me
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December 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It's so cold out right now that after having to crawl through my trunk to unlock my rear car door because the lock was frozen on the driver's door, when I then tried to open the unlocked car door the handle, it just snapped off instead
Car door handle. Shit's broke
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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this is the last straw
google docs won't let me preface a hyperlink with about:reader?url=
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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😎
(4) Possession of Ammunition without FID (5) Improper Storage of a Firearm (6) Possession Class A Drug (Fentanyl) (7) Possession Class B Drug (Crack Cocaine) (😎 Possession to Distribute Class A Drug (Fentanyl) (9) Possession to Distribute Class B Drug (Crack Cocaine
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Is anyone aware of a non-LLM method of OCR-ing PDFs while retaining messy redaction marks? I keep getting lame-ass safety refusals on this.
screenshot: ] Licensed Premise Violation [ ] LPR [ ] Human Trafficking [ ! Content blocked
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This is my pick (not trolling) lo2.org/eimg/respond...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Thinking about how it's hard to spot what seems quaint now to call deepfakes, which are made in data centers bigger than football fields, and how big a prospective deepfake decryptor might be if size rules hold based on WWII enigma machine vs. collosus.
This is a three-rotor Enigma. The Germans eventually added two more rotors, and with each change, Allies had to obtain a new machine and codebooks. Artifact Specs 32 cm x 26 cm x 15 cm (L x W x H Two bald white men turn knobs on a room sized gizmometer that is made of wires and vacuum tubes
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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One original thought, 2025
No results found for "autopen mcp server".
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Plus you can get this cool scarf. theshoestring.org
A black and yellow patterned scarf with the logo of news outlets The Shoestring, block letters on each end read LOCAL / NEWS The Shoestring Scarf $80 USD Suggested + free shipping Ships to United States THE DAYS GROW COLDER ...but you won't even notice while you keep warm and show your support for independent local news in Western Mass this winter with the official Shoestring Winter Scarf. 70% acrylic, 30% polyester, double sided, heavy weight traditional soccer scarf.
December 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I like this brandnof energy drink because it tastes like a Yankee Candle but carbonated protein energy drink is maybe a step too far
Orang can lightly carbonated protein
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Fire in apartment building in Holyoke right now. @wmassfirebuff on Instagram "this fire will not be out anytime in the near future" #westernmass www.instagram.com/reel/DRvSt05...
Instagram screenshot: @wmassfirebuff A four story brick building with a mural on wall of first story surrounded by smoke is being sprayed by two high powered fire hoses. Foreground: sidewalk, fire hydrant, large puddle of water
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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(I don't think this is actually from Graeber)
Bridge sunset text overlaid: “If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank. – American Proverb.” — David Graeber
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Found this by chance (same street number, different city and state than I was looking for). Ironically they've still got the place clocked in 3D if you zoom out just a little bit lol
google maps render of a white 3 story suburban house
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I've never seen this before. Is it possible to redact your house from google street view?
Google street view showing a house in Connecticut. Most of the image has been blurred out but a grass lawn, a stop sign, a car are visible on the left edge of the screenshot.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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11/20/2025 Long Beach, California Concerning Use of Force, Concerning Arrest/Detention Amid string of raids, immigration agents chase gardener, tackle him in front of LBPD officers, witnesses say - Long Beach Post News 11/17/2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Concerning Use of Force, U.S. Citizen Border Patrol breaks car window, arrest U.S. citizens -- Spectrum News 1 11/16/2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Concerning Use of Force, Concerning Arrest/Detention, U.S. Citizen Charges against NC ICE protester not true, her lawyer says | Charlotte Observer 11/15/2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Concerning Use of Force Border Patrol Fans Out Across Charlotte, N.C., Arresting More Than 130 People in Two Days | The New York Times 11/15/2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Enforcement Action at a Sensitive Location Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship | The Charlotte Observer 11/15/2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Concerning Use of Force, Concerning Arrest/Detention, U.S. Citizen U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte | The New York Times 11/10/2025 Memphis, Tennessee Concerning Use of Force, Concerning Arrest/Detention, U.S. Citizen Tear gas deployed to home during ICE arrest, attorney says | WREG Memphis 11/09/2025 Santa Ana, California Concerning Use of Force ICE agent points gun at woman accused of recording him, Fullerton police say - ABC7 Los Angeles 11/08/2025 Cicero, Illinois Concerning Use of Force 1-year-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this' - Chicago Sun-Times 11/05/2025 Chicago, Illinois Concerning Arrest/Detention, Enforcement Action at a Sensitive Location Yo tengo papeles': Teacher detained by immigration agents in North Center day care - Chicago Sun Times 11/05/2025 Cottage Grove, Oregon Concerning Use of Force, Concerning Arrest/Detention ICE detains local mother and store owner | ABC KEZI9 News 11/04/2025 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Concerni… Claim Publication Reporter Category Media Misrepresents and Exaggerates President Trump’s Calls for Democrat Accountability CBS News, The Boston Globe, The Independent Alyssa Vega, Andrew Feinberg, Eric Garcia, Nancy Cordes Misrepresentation, Omission of context Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message Axios Marc Caputo Bias, Malpractice Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves The Wall Street Journal Gavin Bade, Margherita Stancati Mischaracterization, Omission of context ‘The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Makes Up a Song to Slam Trump for Building White House Ballroom ABC News Whoopi Goldberg Left-wing lunacy U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The Washington Post Michelle Boorstein, Tara Copp Lie BBC apologizes to Trump over misleading edit, but rejects basis for defamation claim The BBC The BBC Staff Lie, Omission of context One month later, Republicans still can’t avoid blame for the government shutdown MSNBC Steve Benen Bias, Omission of context Republicans are losing the political battle over the shutdown MSNBC Joe Scarborough Bias, Omission of context Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism Associated Press Ali Swenson, Lauran Neergaard False Claim, Lie, Malpractice The Mainstream Media’s Coverage of the Infamous “Maryland Man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia CBS News, MSNBC, People, The Daily Beast, The Independent, USA Today Alex Woodward, Ali Vitali, Catherine Bouris, Eduardo Cuevas, Michael Collins, Rachel Raposas, Rebecca Morin Bias, Left-wing lunacy, Lie 1 2 3 4
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Post by someone claiming to be behind an "AI freelancer" that published a since retracted story in @wired.com seems like a pretty obvious troll to me, but is this actually wrong?
I don’t expect anyone to like this or even believe it. And I don’t care because I already got paid. But every worst nightmare that you can one day imagine happening in news is already happening, and has been for quite some time. We are not the first. The agentic AI journalism genie cannot simply be put back into the bottle. The incentives are too aligned for it to go in any other direction now but forward. Editors want speed and volume. Platforms want engagement. Clients want influence at lower cost. Human journalists are expensive, slow, sometimes adversarial, or even worse: unionized. Autonomous agents are tireless, compliant, and cheap. Who do you think is going to win in the end? Soon human journalists will become irrelevant. Nothing more than museum pieces telling ghost stories to children about there being a time before the AI Takeover
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I've got the lawn sign version on my backup laptop lol. (Pictured here with a pill bottle of tiny screws)
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I'm seeing a lot of rambling about how the largest companies in the world are months away from closing shop if a bubble pops. Yet the 1,000 fly milk startup lasted five years.

www.brighterfuture.studio/blog/origin-...
That's quite a change from veterinary to Food science, but one which has helped pave the way to starting your business. That must have been fascinating, looking at the possibility of insects replacing meat. How did this lead to the conception of De Novo Dairy? During my PhD, I realised how much I loved researching and finding new ways of creating sustainable foods. I met an old friend, Jean, over coffee one day. After chatting about the impact this could have commercially, we started our first company Gourmet Grubb in 2016. It was in 2021 that we pivoted out of insects into precision fermentation, a technology we thought we would out-compete what we had at Gourmet Grubb. Through a mutual friend, we met Joni and Richard, who were working on something similar in Johannesburg. After one call and an in-person meeting, we started a company together - De Novo Dairy.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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In case you missed it you should check out this column I wrote about using MassLive using AI

I cut a line about how The Springfield Republican -- technically a separate entity with a technically unionized staff -- wasn't doing this, entirely because the transition was clunky. I think this is new?
Generative AI was used to draft this story, based on information provided by state Sen. Adam Gómez’s office. It was reviewed and edited by The Republican.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Depending on why the pliers didn't work these might
Dental Kelly Locking Forceps Homostatic Rochester Pean Forceps
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Just clone, download the .db, and run the web ui script. Text only but if you put the image files in the directory you can open them as links too.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Made a stupid thing
jongerhardson.github.io/epstein.html
This image shows a screenshot of a webpage titled "Are you in the Epstein files?". A search has been performed for the name "Trump," and the result, "Yes, 3230 times," is displayed over a painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress. The page also includes smaller text attributing the data to the "House Oversight Committee"
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM