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Arthur Besse

@ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

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  • time for this classic again:

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  • Surely This tech billionaire is different right

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  • odd that their username is @icegov.bsky.social instead of @ice.gov... i guess nobody on their social media team knows how to configure a DNS record or create a .well-known textfile.

  • You don't have to use gyroelongation

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  • maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    You don't have to use gyroelongation

  • Heinously Unethical

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  • This tweet is conflating two different countries, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, using their names interchangeably. The linked article is solely about the latter.

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • 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

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • 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.

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

    www.propublica.org /article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens

  • ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified

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  • 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).

  • A list of faces and names from the leaked ICE data. [The site might not work for you. More inside]

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  • Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error

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  • paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260113155013/https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/

    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.

  • Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach

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  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified

    www.thedailybeast.com /dhs-ice-hated-under-donald-trump-kristi-noem-after-renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-shooting-agents-terrified/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Lidice massacre

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lidice_massacre

  • Very nice, very nice indeed

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  • obvious solution is to vibe legislate a law to prohibit opening developer tools on other people's websites

  • On familiarity

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  • My personal take is that GenAI is ok for personal entertainment and for things that are ultimately meaningless

    Were you previously much more pro-GenAI, or am I misremembering?

  • US is burger mexico imo

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  • US is burger mexico imo

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  • In this slightly higher-res copy, it does appear to be "MS13". (Which makes about as much sense as labeling Uruguay "west"...)

  • Evolution be like...

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  • US is burger mexico imo

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  • for anyone wondering if this actually happened, it did. (in 2019)

  • oops

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  • Luckily it was just a chmod

    that can still render a system unbootable 😅

  • oops

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  • Use Ctrl-Z

    followed by jobs, kill %1, etc

  • Our Canadian Problem

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  • 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 😱

  • technology @hexbear.net
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    How commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)

  • privacy @lemmy.ca
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    How commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)

  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    How commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    How commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)

  • The Onion @midwest.social
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    Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs

    theonion.com /melting-ice-caps-expose-hundreds-of-secret-arctic-lairs-1819571016/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

    www.nytimes.com /video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
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    Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

    www.nytimes.com /video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Danish soldiers ordered to fight back if US invades Greenland, Copenhagen confirms

    www.euractiv.com /news/danish-soldiers-ordered-to-fight-back-if-us-invades-greenland-denmark-confirms/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Danish soldiers ordered to fight back if US invades Greenland, Copenhagen confirms

    www.euractiv.com /news/danish-soldiers-ordered-to-fight-back-if-us-invades-greenland-denmark-confirms/
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem

    robinkelly.house.gov /media-center/press-releases/rep-kelly-announces-plans-impeach-secretary-kristi-noem
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Killing of Renee Good

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Killing_of_Renee_Good
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Claudia Sheinbaum: Cooperation Yes, Intervention No

    progressive.international /wire/2026-01-05-claudia-sheinbaum-cooperation-yes-intervention-no/en/