Alex Plank

The glen is the best nascar track hands down.

Damn I missed the race today

GPT 5 seems as dumb or dumber than previous versions, which are all very dumb.

George Mason U. Faculty Rally Around Their Besieged President. They May Be His Only Support. Gregory Washington finds himself without two key pillars of support that a college leader would hope to have in defending against federal investigations: his board and the state’s attorney general.

GMU’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution declaring confidence in President Gregory Washington and defending the university’s DEI efforts. “Evidence, truth, and due process should be the foundation for all decisions — not allegations,” they wrote. chroni.cl/3Uw58NZ

here in LA, the DWP is the department of water and power (the government agency you buy your water and electricity from)

Actually for those of us who lost our livelihoods for saying what was happening—a small price to pay compared to the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, journalists, moms, dads and kids who lost their lives—an “I told you so” from us is getting off easy for people like you who made it happen

NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported.

Please also read this story I did with @alexplank.bsky.social from a few days ago.

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EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known

Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

👀I've been working on this for two months.

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NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry Note: This story was written and reported with Gillian Brockell.

NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry

Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported. Written and reported with @gbrockell.bsky.social

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Incredible reporting from @gbrockell.bsky.social and @alexplank.bsky.social on deportations

"For being a party who wants to stop government waste, they sure do love spending all this extra money causing all this extra waste," the source at Camp Lemonnier said.

Cost is the least important thing here, but that Gulfstream costs the government $8600/hour. That C-17 costs $28,500 an hour.

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Radar of a Gulfstream jet landing in Djibouti on July 15.

Radar of C-17 02-1107 over Iraq on July 14.

A screenshot of the C-17 on the ground in Eswatini.

A satellite image of Camp Lemonnier showing two C-17s on the tarmac on July 15 that hadn’t been there previously

DHS didn’t reveal how the five men got to Eswatini. But using a combination of flight radar, satellite images and a video shared to Eswatini social media, we’ve identified the c-17 that carried them from Djibouti, where they had been dropped off by the same plane that carried the South Sudan 8.

NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry Note: This story was written and reported with Gillian Brockell.

NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry

Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported. Written and reported with @gbrockell.bsky.social

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NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry Note: This story was written and reported with Gillian Brockell.

NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry open.substack.com/pub/alexplan...

NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry

Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported. Written and reported with @alexplank.bsky.social.

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GF thinks l'm cheating bc of my ChatGPT history... Discussion So this is embarrassing and I'm sure...hard to believe, but I need some perspective here. My girlfriend found my ChatGPT conversations and now she's convinced I'm having an emotional affair with someone named "Emma." Here's what happened: I've been using ChatGPT for work stuff mostly, but lately l've been having these really deep conversations about life, relationships, career stuff, you know. And I read in another sub reddit that if you prompt engineer ChatGPT to think and act like a human, it gives better advice. I started asking it to roleplay as this person named Emma...not anything weird, just like having conversations as if it was a real person instead of an Al. It felt more natural somehow, like a therapist almost...? Hard to describe. Well my girlfriend was using my laptop yesterday and saw the chat history. All she saw were these conversations where I'm talking to "Emma" about my insecurities, asking for advice about our relationship, venting frustrations about work. She didn't scroll up far enough to see where I literally typed "pretend you're a person named Emma" at the beginning. Now she thinks l've been having intimate conversations with some other woman for weeks. She's absolutely devastated and won't listen when I try to explain it's ChatGPT. She keeps saying things like "who talks to an Al like that?" and "why would you give it a woman's name?" I showed her the ChatGPT website, tried to demonstrate how it works, but she thinks I'm just showing her a cover story or that I'm lying about what it is. She found it suspicious that "Emma's" responses were so thoughtful and personal. The worst part is some of the conversations were abou problems in our relationship, so she's reading all this stuff

Now she thinks l've been having intimate conversations with some other woman for weeks. She's absolutely devastated and won't listen when I try to explain it's ChatGPT. She keeps saying things like "who talks to an Al like that?" and "why would you give it a woman's name?" I showed her the ChatGPT website, tried to demonstrate how it works, but she thinks I'm just showing her a cover story or that I'm lying about what it is. She found it suspicious that "Emma's" responses were so thoughtful and personal. The worst part is some of the conversations were about problems in our relationship, so she's reading all this stuff about how l've been feeling disconnected lately and discussing it with who she thinks is another woman. Has anyone else had to explain ChatGPT to someone who's not tech-savvy? How do I prove this isn't what she thinks it is? I feel like l'm in some weird Black Mirror episode.

Yeah man can't imagine why your girlfriend is mad that you made ChatGPT pretend to be a woman that you would use to talk to about your relationship problems

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.”

I have some thoughts.🧵

I think the point that you're missing is that the increase in bus ridership occurred among people earning 30k or less a year, that many people in bus zones dont live near a subway and that ,eleven percent of new riders in the pilot used the bus instead of a car or taxi they used prior

It changed back to 1600 in 2017 so were the young ones again

Armored horses in MacArthur park.

I've always typed two hyphens, even before it converted and so when they started doing it automatically it threw me off not to see a gap between them anymore

Thanks, I usually just press hyphen twice to get the em one

What are keystrokes for short dash?

less people know how to use a short dash, i think

You might want to try. It’s very possible they left even earlier

Source on ground at camp lemonnier told me the migrants were no longer there at 8PM EDT so they left their shipping container a lot earlier than DHS said the flight took off.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion

I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...

Eastern daylight time

Time zone?