Mastodawn

"The Gaza Health Ministry said Israeli forces have now killed at least 49 people heading toward the GHF’s four functioning distribution points over the past week."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/01/israel-gaza-aid-rafah-shooting/

Israeli troops kill over 30 near U.S. aid site in Gaza, health officials say

Over 170 were wounded heading to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid point, the Health Ministry said. Israel’s military said it was “unaware of injuries caused by IDF fire.”

The Washington Post

Stephen Repetski 1d ago

Steve Herman 1d ago

Berkshire Eagle - Business owners confront ICE agents during arrest at Great Barrington job site: ‘I felt like I was in North Korea.’ https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/ice-arrests-berkshires-great-barrington/article_f90f2550-5409-46c9-93a2-5d8daab8c82f.html

Business owners confront ICE agents during arrest at Great Barrington job site

ICE made another visit to Great Barrington. One man was arrested. But two business owners say they prevented the arrest of a second man.

The Berkshire Eagle

Stephen Repetski 3d ago

Deputies tried using the green lasers on their TASERs, as one deputy said in the footage,

"I don’t know, cats like lasers,”

https://www.wfla.com/news/national/bobcat-sneaks-into-home-ignores-high-tech-trick-to-get-it-out/

#caturday

Stephen Repetski 5d ago

elon blew up more spacex shit https://spacenews.com/starship-breaks-up-on-reentry-after-loss-of-attitude-control/

Starship breaks up on reentry after loss of attitude control

SpaceX’s Starship suffered a loss of attitude control after reaching space on its latest test flight May 27, leading to an uncontrolled reentry.

SpaceNews

Stephen Repetski 6d ago

They raced a bunch of Wienermobiles at the Indy 500, apparently??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyES63Rgvg

Inaugural Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 🌭 Full Race | INDYCAR on FOX

YouTube

Stephen Repetski May 22

Washington, DC, USA Transit May 22

#VRE VRE Service Alert: VRE Schedule Adjustments for Friday, May 23 Rail Advisory
Published: Thu, 22 May 2025 22:44:48 GMT
Summary: Due to Amtrak's necessary overnight track work in the tunnel to Union Station and the likelihood of congestion-related delays getting into and out of Union Station, VRE will operate on the "S" schedule tomorrow, May 23. Only the trains marked with an S on the schedule will operate. Check these links for your specific line:

Fredericksburg Line Full Schedule (on...

Stephen Repetski May 22

Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy May 22

How much would you pay to trust an algorithm that hallucinates you into a crash?

“In the crash footage, there’s a shadow across the road from a “Watch for Trucks” sign. My theory? Tesla’s neural net saw that shadow and panicked.

Instead of recognizing it as just a dark spot on the pavement, the system may have hallucinated an obstacle and took evasive action—by jerking left, directly off the road.

Insane? Yes. But this is how Tesla’s so-called “neural network” sees the world. It doesn’t use LIDAR. It doesn’t use radar. It relies on vision only, and so it can misinterpret 2-dimensional images that are processed through machine learning that’s notoriously difficult to debug or explain after the fact.”

https://fuelarc.com/tech/tesla-full-self-driving-veers-off-road-hits-tree-and-flips-car-for-no-obvious-reason-no-serious-injuries-but-scary/

Video: Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary)

A 2025 Tesla Model 3 drives off of a rural road, clips a tree, loses a tire, flips over, and comes to rest on its roof. Luckily, the driver is alive and well, able to post about it on social media. The problem? The car was driving itself in Full Self-Driving. The subtitle from the

FuelArc News

Stephen Repetski May 22

Show thread

Goseg Train Thread May 22

Update: Johnny's isn't open apparently so next door at Wonderland #MBTpuroll 🚲 🍻

Stephen Repetski May 20

The administration tried to take the USIP headquarters and apparently have made off with $25 million dollars as well.

Illegally.

https://www.wired.com/story/usip-doge-headquarters-building-ruling/

DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Building

A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace “unlawful.”

WIRED

Stephen Repetski May 20

Kevin Beaumont May 20

Fancy a newspaper written by AI? On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published a reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors.

A check by Ars Technica shows that only five of the fifteen recommended books in the list actually exist, with the remainder being fabricated titles falsely attributed to well-known authors.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books with real author names.

Ars Technica

Website	https://srepetsk.net
Twitter	@srepetsk
🏠	Washington, D.C.