This has gotta be in the running for laziest use of ChatGPT by a journalist this year.

Far worse things happening, but also free them www.cbp.gov/newsroom/loc...

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...

If you've got a tip about police partnering with federal law enforcement in western Massachusetts I'd like to hear from you. Signal messenger jongerhardson.69 or you can DM me for my cell

New from me for @theshoestring.bsky.social theshoestring.org/2025/12/06/r...

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

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

this is the last straw

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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.

This rules www.wired.com/story/new-an...

Hi from Rümeysa Öztürk's hearing before Chief Judge Casper in federal court. This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.

Refusing to post my Spotify wrapped for political reasons and not because it turns out that in aggregate I actually have really embarrassing taste in music, I swear. Please believe me.

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.

According to a federal class-action lawsuit, Baystate’s website transmitted patients’ health care-related activity, including clicks, search terms, and appointment requests, to the tech companies for more than two years. Reporting by Joe Douglass.

One original thought, 2025

The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

Good band and one time I slept in their bathtub

Also this heehee

Please consider donating to @theshoestring.bsky.social so they can pay me to keep doing things like send an email that prompts the Air National Guard to temporarily take the website for a multi billion dollar project offline. theshoestring.org/2024/09/25/w...

I like this brandnof energy drink because it tastes like a Yankee Candle but carbonated protein energy drink is maybe a step too far

Can #Massachusetts prosecutors hide the names of cops who are charged with crimes? My attorney and I will be at Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that the answer is no. You can read about my pending lawsuit here:

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...

It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws are more harmful than the drugs themselves.

NEW: Last week an arbitrator ruled that Politico management violated key AI terms in its union contract. The decision is a landmark win for the Politico union, which is one of the first to legally challenge the rollout of AI technology in its newsroom. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...

This is Big Editor propaganda

I've never seen this before. Is it possible to redact your house from google street view?

Wrote for the Boston Globe about how music venues in Springfield and Holyoke are hoping to breach the tofu curtain between Hampshire County and Hampden County. There's some cool stuff happening! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/a...

#trumprecession www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

binj.news/2025/11/05/m... When I wrote this at the end of Oct. an annual report on how the Department of Public Health spent opioid settlement funds was a month late. A month later, that report has still not been publicly released. A version I obtained was $13 mil short @binjdotnews.bsky.social

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?

Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.

In Springfield tonight, Bright Nights is lighting up the region with 750,000 lights and a million visitors. It’s magic. It’s music. It’s joy. A beautiful tradition to kick off the holidays in Western Massachusetts.

Wikipedia's advice page for spotting AI generated writing is *not just* a useful tool for AI detection, *it's* practically a Strunk and White for the slop era. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother

The only good use for google AI mode is finding poorly indexed short form video content www.tiktok.com/@millyzblanc...

If anyone has a link to a tiktok I once saw that is a car with Mass. plates parked in a yard in the Dominican Republic with people drinking beer and standing around and one guy points at the car and laughs and says "you might've thought we were in Lawrence" as a palm tree sways in the background: $5

www.wbur.org/news/2025/11... Crazy people call the Trump admin corrupt yet here Karoline Leavitt seems to have pulled no strings in saving her nephew's mother (no marriage it seems but had there been, sister-in-law, no?) from being nabbed by ICE.

Why are news editors so afraid of block quotes? If RFK wrote a bunch of gross poems, there is a strong public interest in knowing how the secretary of health and human services utilized line breaks and white space in his literary pursuits.

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-...

Two panel meme fascist police state // fashion police state Editorial we shouldn't criminalize having wack taste it's a medical issue