TablasteI traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills
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damnthefilibusterDude even so. That’s a messed up trail if it’s even 1% true.
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings/tree/main/data/processed
Feel free to write your own parsing script. The raw data is above.
You are more than welcome to as well.
I am lol. I’ll drop the codeberg here when it finishes.
I did dig through the data and I would caution against using what they’ve posted as is. Its all slop. Best bet would be to pull the PDFs and parse or data entry them directly.
I’m tracing from the APIs at
Followthemoney.org Opensecrets.org Open.fec.gov
I totally understand where anti AI purists are coming from but it’s getting silly how every post that has any connection to LLMs get this, no matter what they achieved.
It’s like if vegans were to post negative comments on recipes or anything remotely connected to dairy or written by meat eaters even. I’m sure there are some who do, but IMO that’s pretty obnoxious.
It’s not just any connection.
They’re relying on an llm for all the functional components of the analysis. This looks like a Claude code job where they sent the agent at the task and the agent cooks for a while to create something which would be convincing to people who don’t actually know better.
Look I develop a lot of analyses. Llm as a coding assistant when you know what both right and wrong code looks like, they can be useful, if they don’t to overcook everything. They’ll help you build functions to build parts of things. But if you are relying on them to do the thinking, you are utterly fucked and there is no there there.
This kind of post would be much more useful than the ai slop one.
Saying that people should be careful around this data because there’s a risk the author doesn’t doesn’t know what they’re doing would be a helpful comment.
I’m a vegan myself so was just trying put myself in the ai haters shoes. I really think enslaving animals is horrible but when I talk about it I try to do it in a way that can make a difference rather than make meat eaters hostile/annoyed/guilty etc.
Yeah you have to recheck every thing with AI. That a tool for expert used by novices. We were speaking about it with an Dev with a 20year career. You have to supervise it closely if you want to pay an expensive price later. Same go for people which stop thinking. But I recon it is hard to not it think for you when iam tired it sound pertinent. But looking really close it do shit. Any question about it ntegration is dog shit. General case doesn’t event cover the shit ia spawn.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞I’m now envisioning something like /r/ididnthaveeggsBECAUSEEGGSAREMURDER
heh
The whole investigation is here
goatinspaceMeta funding it
Jokes on Reddit censorship aside the post is seemingly solid. Facts are making sense. This kind of transparency exercise would do a lot of good if done of other legislative initiatives.
Though I don’t see any call to action and not much would be actionable anyway, it’s all beyond the reach of peasants.