PharaohSkullface

Aspiring artist/game developer. Animal person, cat aficionado.
Looking to try my hand at game streaming.

[PharaohSkullface @PhrhSkullface]

I want one!

[Mike Frizzell 🚒 🚓 🇺🇲 ⚾️ 📻 @MFrizzell85]

In case anyone needed yet another reason to oppose ALPR technology, let me take you for a trip to KCMO for my Friday afternoon.

I attempted to get out of town for the weekend, instead I was one of at least three drivers who became hit-and-run victims at 3:19:40 this afternoon.

We were sitting in standstill traffic in the left lane of northbound Interstate 35 before Front Street (last exit before the Bond Bridge).

I heard a crash behind me and looked in my mirror only to see a split second glimpse of Ford Fusion that was now dragging along the side of my car.

My side mirror took it the hardest, with the mirror glass scratching down my hood and the mirror cap being thrown over my hood and into traffic to my right.

The paper Missouri temp tag just blowing in the breeze on the fleeing Fusion.

He hit at least the car behind me, my car, and the pickup truck in front of me.

I was able to get across all lanes and exit to Front Street.

No one else stopped, at least not at Front Street.

I'm fine and my car could be so much worse than it is, but still completely avoidable and infuriating that people this shitty are permitted to roam the earth while doing financial damage to others.

I called @kcpolice to figure out where I needed to go to make a report.

After my call immediately went to an automated voice saying that everyone is busy on other calls (at 3:21 p.m.), I got a human call taker who was very friendly; she asked at least twice if I was injured, made sure my car was drivable, and that I was now off of the Interstate safely.

KCPD doesn't respond to non-injury crashes, not even when there's a hit-and-run. Fine, I get it, you're busy.

The nearest police station, KCPD HQ was already closed for the day. Why are you closed before 4 p.m.?

Central Patrol, 1200 Linwood, was the next closest place for me to make a report. Five miles and 12 minutes in the opposite direction of where I was trying to go. Fine, you're busy, I'll go there.

No complaints about Central Patrol. The civilian employee at the desk was very good and again, asked me if I was injured. She had me fill out the paperwork, explained KCPD's process, and answered several questions for me.

Now comes my issue with KCPD and reporting a hit-and-run.

I have a @Garmin dash cam recording 4K video.

KCPD doesn't want that video, a screen grab of the fleeing vehicle, or a single picture of my damage.

My dash cam captured a brief view of the Missouri temp tag, as it blew in the breeze. I can clearly make out the last five characters of what looks like a seven character tag.

Last five are 8RC7X and the paper tag is valid until 10/12/26.

Why in the world do police departments need ALPR tech if they refuse to use it to identify someone who just hit at least three vehicles, easily committing at least two felonies (the car behind me took a harder hit than I did).

I've already done the math for my car and there's more than $1,000 in damages (Class E felony). That's parts alone and doesn't include any body shop labor or paint.

As great as law enforcement claims ALPR technology is, KCPD can't be bothered to run a less than 30 second search for a temp tag that shows those five characters and is on a silver Ford Fusion to identify a felon?

I know KCPD has much more serious crime issues, but this is a garbage policy!

If I lied and claimed an injury that wasn't visible, or if I called @MSHPTrooperA, would this have been handled differently?

If someone is this careless, its only a matter of time before they do hurt someone. Proactive policing used to be a real thing that departments did!

I'm furious at the unknown driver who did this, and I'm incredibly frustrated with KCPD for having such a garbage policy that they don't even pretend to investigate a multi-vehicle crash, with a fleeing driver, on the highway.

Cc: @QuintonLucasKC

[Anita Krajnc @animalrightsyay]

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[Solswami.eth @Solswami]

@johnbryanesq

[The Civil Rights Lawyer @johnbryanesq]

When the Columbine Valley Police Department (Colorado), using their dystopian flock surveillance system, saw a green Rivian truck driving down the same street, in the same town, 20 times over the course of a month, they became suspicious. But even more suspicious than that, the driver of the Rivian truck was a woman with blonde hair...

So when a $25 package went missing from a porch in that neighborhood that the blonde bandit was driving her 70 thousand dollar truck through on a daily basis, it obviously must have been her. At that point the government did what any good dystopian government agency would do, they sent a rude, bald member of their goon squad to the woman’s front door to lie to her; gaslight her; and threaten her.

[Fletch17 @RealFletch17]

TRACK THE GOVERNMENT
THERE’S AN APP!!

[Fletch17 @RealFletch17]

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HEAR ME OUT

I WANT MORE FLOCK

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[Channel Awesome @ChannelAwesome]

Actual Mario Paint art somebody made of me and @cinemassacre Damn impressive!

[PharaohSkullface @PhrhSkullface]

@Tectone Congratulations!

[Sadie Enwurd @Sadie_Enwurd]

@Tectone Tectone and Nux got married.

Asmon has Kaise, and starting his health arc.

and Hasan is mad, alone and under investigation.

The world is healing.

[Frank Lee @FrankMLeeFML]

"We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?

The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Or compare the degree of zeal devoted to pursuing the man who assaults a policeman, with the attention that the State pays to the assault of an ordinary citizen. Yet, curiously, the State’s openly assigned priority to its own defense against the public strikes few people as inconsistent with its presumed raison d’etre."

- Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State

[GranDude @wtandros]

@Mrgunsngear

[Grumpy Cat Parody @GrumpyCat2026]

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Chris Kaleiki @ckaleiki]

Even Jason Schrier admits in his latest book that the Cosby Suite was a fake nothingburger and Kotaku was full of shit.

But the damage was done, and many great Blizz devs had, in some cases, 20+ year careers ruined since nobody wanted to hire "problematic" devs (when it was all fake). Heartbreaking and infuriating.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Seven books everyone should read to make the world a better place:

1) "Politics of Prudence" by Russell Kirk. One of those books w/ impenetrable logic. Kirk argues there is no ideology that’s better than every other, and that conservatism, at its core, is the negation of ideology. Permanent things like creed, culture, & customs are how civilizations take shape & perpetuate themselves, enabling individuals to live in peace while orienting themselves toward excellence & beauty. Especially dangerous is the revolutionary impulse; its hard to create civilization but very easy to destroy. The book is an excellent intellectual foundation for today — when the barbarians are not only inside the gates but commandeering our institutions. If everyone became less ideological & dogmatic, the world would certainly become a happier place. https://t.co/UPcH1Y6NkE

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

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[Rising serpent 🇺🇸 @rising_serpent]

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You want Democrats to never win a national election? Deport 20 million illegals

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