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While true, Amazon makes most of their money these days from AWS.

Right now, the Democrats are leading for the Senate seat in Mississippi. Admittedly, it’s incredibly tight, but simply the fact that they’re competitive in Mississippi is absolutely mind-boggling.

Iirc, the same fungus that decimated the Big Mike plantations mutated into the one that’s taking out the Cavendish. (Big Mike is still out there, btw, but only in limited areas that didn’t get infected with the blight, and in limited numbers. You know how in all the old movies, people slipped on banana peels? Those were Big Mike; supposedly the peels actually were a hazard, though perhaps not to the extent Bugs Bunny might imply.)

Speculation is icing.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Seriously, do NOT listen to the ATC recording. You will regret it.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Seriously, do NOT listen to the ATC recording. You will regret it.

Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.

Funny how there weren’t any systemic supply issues until someone decided to buy up all the RAM …

There were reports a year or so ago, of Musk acting as a message carrier between Trump and Putin.

And it really makes you wonder about the people running the university / doing admissions for the university at the time as well. I wonder if they show up in the Epstein files …

Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts.

Not a weapon. A medical tricorder.

There’s actually a department in charge of moving historical stuff like this, precisely so it doesn’t get broken, but no, he just sent his thugs over to grab it …

the federal government sent election officials in Los Angeles County an unverified list of 20,000 people it claims are “likely noncitizens” registered to vote in California. […] federal agents used the list to make the more than two dozen targeted arrests on the basis of its voter fraud allegations. […] The 11 arrestees are among 28 people the department officially charged—and all are from its list of 20,000 targets in the election. The press release claims that every person targeted is a legal permanent resident of the US but not a citizen.

No words.

“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,”

So it’s the Great Replacement Theory applied to voting.

So? What was the wad of aluminum foil doing crammed into the upper corner of the window?

If you look through the user’s other submissions, all the photos are military-focused. While many of them are staged and lit, others aren’t: a barbeque at night with flash photography, a couple of personnel at the far end of a long aisle of files, a soldier drinking from a flask in a truck.

I’ll also say here that I have a belief that if someone is submitting one AI image, they’re likely submitting a bunch of them, and a number will be similar in subject (thus the question of these two photos). Given this user’s wide range of photos in a comparatively narrow field of study, the proper labeling and accreditation (as far as possible), the lack of discernable AI in the other photos I looked at, I believe it’s a real user with a real collection of military photos.

The second user labeled the photo with the man as

1973 - A US Army audiovisual technician stands beside a videotape editing console. Date taken: 1969

You’ll note the contradiction between the title and the date taken; this is a less careful user. It also shows in the content he’s uploading: a Dutch ice hockey coach, a man in a wheelchair near an intersection, barges full of trash, people marching in Germany in 1917. Jess harvesting photos wherever he can.

But that range also works in his favor. Again, I believe that people who submit one AI photo will submit more, and that some of the images will be similar. I didn’t notice any signs of AI in the photos I looked at, and there’s certainly a wide range of images!

Also (a later thought which could’ve prevented much of this research), when I ran the woman’s photo through TinEye, their earliest record of the photo is June 22, 2013, pre-dating effective AI by a number of years. Their earliest record of the man’s photo is September 11, 2021; that’s certainly within the time that AI started producing semi-realistic photos - but it’s also definitely within the era that he should have gibberish on his name tag and six fingers on all four of his hands.

IMO, both photos are real.

I’m going to approach this from a different angle. Both of these are from Alamy (and probably other stock images services, but I’m most familiar with Alamy). Here’s the woman, here’s the man.

First thing I’ll note, as an aside, is that Alamy is known for a number of less-ethical practices k mostly involving improper crediting of the original photos). But one charge I’ve not heard against them is having AI in their archives. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, just that I haven’t heard of it. Back to Alamy’s pages for the photos.

They’re uploaded by different users; the users provide the captions. The woman’s picture is captioned

A female U.S. Army audiovisual technician stands beside a videotape editing console. Country: Unknown [meaning they don’t know where this room existed] Date taken: 30 April 1973

If you click on the link for the rest of this user’s contributions, they’ve submitted approximately 5000 images in this account. All of the images that I looked at are military photos. At first glance, none of them look like AI. The photos range from the early 70’s through to the 2000’s, and cover a range of activities in a bunch of different locations.

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It sounds like it’s something they can only require them on vehicles whose companies have contracts with the city. If true, I’d assume that the exempted trucks aren’t hauling away city waste - maybe construction debris or something like that.

I can’t help but feel like this article is subtly trying to justify Trump’s decision to buy Russian diesel (that Russia is actually important from Iran) to try to convince people he’s doing something (buying half-a-day’s supply of diesel) to lower prices before the midterms.

Interesting enough article, and thank you for sharing. But can we talk for a moment about the “About the author” and his apparent inability to decide whether that section should be in first- or third-person?

About the author: Writing is my one incontrovertible passion. Over the past six years, he has authored over 2,200 distinct articles on financial and tech-related topics, spanning nearly 1 million words. And he has been a member of Wcctech mobile team since 2025. As an alumnus of the University of Toronto, Rotman Commerce Program, I bring nuance, in-depth knowledge, and a unique perspective to every topic that I cover. When I’m not writing, I’m traveling the world, exploring hidden confectionaries and restaurants as an aspiring food connoisseur.

Sure, just like that Ring ad where their new software was only going to be looking for lost dogs …

Plus, once they’re approved for one use, it’s incredibly easy to slip in a provision for other uses as well. That whole “we’re doing this to protect the children” thing they keep bleating.