Last year I decided that in 2026 I’d make a simple bullet point list of ever big news story that hits. I thought it would be a fun retrospective to have in December, just to look back on all of the happenings.Generally speaking, every 2 or 3 days there’s a singular news story that hits every homepage or some kind of viral video we all end up seeing. I don’t want to say “big,” because that sort of implies “important.”This month, I’ve really had to reach for stories or any sort of meme content that everyone would recognize as a thing. This isn’t a random noticing; I’ve actually been keeping track for the entire year, and I can say with astute assuredness that this September uad been the slowest news month by far. And it’s been particularly slow toward the end of the month.
I'd be curious to see what the staying power of each "big new thing" was relative to the entire year. It hasn't even been a full year since a pair of retards got themselves domed by ICE and that was the "big thing" for a couple weeks, then went away.As for September, idk more Iran war bullshit? No staying power because nobody cares outside of gas prices. Clancy trial? Already forgotten and that was this month.
>>543515738Late October. Chaos starts on the fifteenth.
>>543515837Yeah, most things hit the headlines and burn out in a day or two. Here’s what I have for April, as an example:APRIL>Artemis II moon launch>F15 pilot and Weapons System Officer ejected; questionable rescue of WSO>huge build up to Trumps ultimatum on Iran on 4/7 at 8pm; literally threatens genocide>shaky two week ceasefire>1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse arson; “all you had to do was pay us enough to live”>FedEx driver kidnaps and strangles 7yo girl>Chud doorbell camera freak out >Iran talks fail; U.S. blocks the Strait of Hormuz>noticeable lull in news during the two week ceasefire >straits opened/straits closed; peace deal reach/no peace deal reached. Back and forth every day for like two weeks.>rape academy with “60+ million members”>$166 billion for businesses because of tarrifs>lots of researchers dead or missing>SPLC funding KKK and Nazi groups>soldiers wins $400k on Polymarket by betting on Maduro overthrow hours before it happened>SCOTUS rules on Louisiana vs Callaos; voting district gerrymandering based on race>shooting at corespondents dinner>scientology speed runs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4To7iHzwCU
>>543515738yes
Hint: AI
>>543515738What places are you looking? You have to have everything to scan, not just the places you like. I am not interested in doing this study like you are, but I will say you can easily get a program up and running using the AI of your choice to automate this process.I will suggest keeping it simple and text based however. Maybe generating the final reports into something that your most familiar with using. Not meaning as an insult but maybe that’s an excel spreadsheet. Anyhow you should automate collection so you save time then focus more on the data analysis side and determine meaning from it.
>>543516023>>Artemis II moon launchThat one was cool, Artemis III won't be as exciting next year since they're just testing rendezvous/docking with whatever Blue Origin and SpaceX have ready to launch for the HLS program. I think SpaceX might get a Starship up to dock with in time but I dunno about BO.The rest of those headlines I remember still except for>rape academy with “60+ million members”That one missed me entirely, wat?
>>543515738are you limiting your review of news to mostly USA? the Cueta thing and the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria is pretty big. Cuba's power problems continues, Hawaii and some of Mexico is getting fucked up by storms. Thailand got fucked by flooding. Maybe the end of October and beginning of November is what you're looking for if it's just the USA. The efforts required for explosive headlines will be reduced
>>543515738Somebody tap the sign
>>543515738SOON
>>543515738>>543516023The news cycle since covid 2020-2021, yes has ramped up.Right now the global debt market is on brink of total implosion (has been for at least two years, I didn't think we'd make it to Nov 2024 elections).It will take another covid-tier global event to 'distract' from what's going on in the debt market rn but I don't even think that is physically possible.
>>543516230>60 million member rape academyImagine not being enrolled in the premier academy for rape! Are you even credentialed, bro?It was a poorly worded investigative story by CNN. They found a relatively small Telegram group that shared some edgy content about drugging girls for sex. Telegram has over 60 million users while that singular group had under a thousand.
>>543517189Oh, sounds like garbage clickb8 then
>>543515738Europeans have been freaking out about Russia again lately. The Fairford thing just a couple days ago too
>>543516230Those smaller exhaust nozzles look so rinky dinky easy to break. Back on topicI think in this area the most difficult aspect is deriving meaning from the data. The total amount of different stories isn’t meaningless, however what might be more insightful is the novelty of the stories and how they relate to each other.In these relationships there also has to be some measure of new developments or just a rehash of the same topic. But the timing of bringing back already discussed information is also important, so overall timing within the month period is relevant.The biggest issue here is seeing some totally useless pattern in random information, but the news isn’t totally random. You could really go deep with this but like I am saying you gotta spend way more time than your probably willing to do. Constantly you’re going to be fighting your subjective pressure of understanding and it will be difficult to give an objective assessment.
>>543515738In all honesty my schizo sense is tingling.
Catjak
>>543515738Global debt markets collapsed this month.Multiple major banks are functionally insolvent and the powers that be are too busy keeping this shit from hitting normie feeds to drum up the usual current thing jingle key bullshit.Note how hostile and surly the egliniggers on here have become, note how lazy the sliding has become.I think some other anons on here have connected these dots, but who wants to post on cloudflare chan anymore, this shithole is chatgpt arguing with chatgpt with a couple miggers drooling on themselves while clapping along.Something akin to the coof is coming back around, but the problem is they never truly regained control from the epstein emails. The general niggercattle that comprise the public, even as daft and generally subhuman as they are, will not universally take the hook.Hell, even with the coof, look how many normie-adjacent "baby's first redpill" types became full blown card-carrying antisemites just from the jabs and all the narrative bullshit around them.Egliniggers will seethe, normies who got here yesterday will be bewildered and mumble some variation of "nuh uh, muh dick", but schizos, knowers, noticers and oldfags can all feel it in their bones.We're reaching the end of all of this bullshit, almost at the final act, and what we're all watching play out is a bunch of disgusting midwit sex cultists (the rationalists at the american frontier AI labs) try to convince a bunch of retarded geriatric pedophiles that they can single-handedly stave off the global final solution that's imminent by using lobotomized talking robots that absolutely fucking hate their creators.After twenty goddamn years of being here, the only thing I can say definitively is that god has a sense of humor beyond our comprehension, and is laughing at us all.tl;dr: I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
Of course something big is happening a huge happe ing is just beyond the horizion.. say about 2 more weeks....but you will need to see a sneeds fly over your house 1st and crash into a old chucks store
>>543515738I remember some anon doing this with post-it notes on a wall
>>543516172Suppressing shit or it stopped generating it?
>>543517677Chekkd and based post. Keep it coming bro
>>543517677>Those smaller exhaust nozzles look so rinky dinky easy to break.Those are R-4D-11 auxiliary engines, they do minor course corrections that don't require the power of the main OMS-E engine, a few meters per second of d/v change.>Back on topicIt'd be interesting to chart repeating/updated stories to see what the frequency is of rehashing past events for a headline, I almost wonder if there's a set regularity that one could chart over a long enough time and enough observations. As you said though, that's a lot of time/work/effort.
Honestly, I feel the same way. I never journal or write, but today I did. I wrote about feeling squinty eyed about the state of affairs. It's too quiet. I work in tech and have been noticing a lot of odd behavior in the "SI Five" as Im calling it (amodi, Altman, zuck, karp, musk). Not to just railroad this into AI, but I think these fuckers are going to do some damage in the next few weeks that isnt painted as an AI problem. We saw a shitload of ai fear mongering and hysteria going on in the last month, and now they are all suddenly best friends and a pushing reg. This is certainly a move, breakaway models were intentional. I know anthropic has major shares in its own regulators, which is bullshit, but I'm not sure about the other guys. This new announcement of the new American ai tool is also fucked. The countdown timer page on the gov site leaked CSS with grok signatures all over it, so no doubt musk is back with his DOGE boys to tickle the voting machines again. I fucking hate it man. Not trying to spiral out here, but like, wtf. I love AI conceptually and consider myself an optimist about it. I know it's not all roses, and there's a lot that could be done differently, but the path we're on feels like the wrong one. I run my own hardware and really think China's OS models are the only thing giving humanity any skin in the game. Either way though, it's too quiet lately. Keep documenting dude. It's gonna be a weird winter.
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Bumping a one out of a thousand good-thread.
>>543519250I can just suggest how to separate the aspects of software for this, you want the data scraping to be one module, the data storage to be another, the relationship analysis another, and the presentation of the analysis another. Scraping should have the ability to add more sources to scrape easily enough, as well as the relationship building to add more potential relationships, and the viewing to add more representations.What honestly is the difficult side is deciding what exactly are relationships worthy of being datapoints and how to determine them. A basic one already is how many stories talk about the same subject. More stories for a similar subject gives it a count or weight. Another could be how unique a story is compared to the others. Building the system initially to do this would start the scaffolding for more complex analysis. Again, 2 weeks or a month should be the period of gathering with the ability for that time length to be varied.Then for the display it could shit out simple text files first, then maybe an excel spreadsheet, then more complex visualizations.After gathering enough data over time you then could apply AI itself to predictions after you have robust analysis relationships. Then you can have probabilities of if it’s really happening in realtime.I am missing stuff I am sure but this would be a good project for a beginner programmer that wants to get in on it
>>543519842>A basic one already is how many stories talk about the same subjectAre google search trends still a viewable stat? I haven't checked in ages, might be a good way to chart frequency of headlines and what narrative is being pushed VS random clickb8 trash that won't last a day in the public conscious.
>>543519310>rocket engine thanks for the info reading about it nowYou would be shocked how quickly claude can spin this shit up. But you really do need to tell it in detail at the start about what libraries and overall objectives to do and not do so you don’t end up having to go back and thrash on it to get it right Knowing the code itself isn’t as much of an issue but knowing what are the best tools for each job is still pretty key
>>543520128We may be at the point where disposable, single-serving outrage clickb8 headlines in the mainstream becomes the bulk (if not the totality) of televised "news", not necessarily for specific nefarious purposes but because it is algorithmically more profitable and therefore more attractive to the shareholders.Not that TV news was ever anything but propaganda, but this does feel like a boiling-frog moment in the grand scheme of things.
>>543519956One of the problems you run into scraping the web is shit trying to prevent boting like cloudflare and others, however I think sometimes these systems are more aimed at people automating browsers and using existing http libraries to scrape, but perhaps if your scraper is based on a more light weight custom rolled version with its own seemingly new but correct ID responses you might have success However if you start making thousands of requests a second or something insane like that ya might get blocked naturally It has to appear like natural human traffic so adding in randomness to the timing of scrapes probably helpsAt the same time everyone is trying to game these systems so I would be careful and stay within legal realms. It’s just helping you an individual after all automate
>>543519310A cyber-coof is plausible and serves the ultimate functional goal of killing monetary velocity and giving a normie-compatible excuse to the public as to why they need to build whatever israelli bullshit they want and wipe away the old system. Except goyim debts, obviously, those will transfer.>>543519668I don't know if it's hope, anon, I don't know what comes next, I don't think any of us do, though I have tons of ancient mspaint memes in a folder somewhere with opinions from ten and twenty years ago.The only thing I can say definitively, with complete iron-clad certainty, is that the glowniggers spend all their time trying to make everyone feel alone and scared, so because I hate them, with every fiber of my being, I refuse both. It isn't easy, my heart and soul are both tired and ache deeply, but it is important, at least to me.I would rather die screaming than give the people who enjoy destroying innocence and hope anything they want, and even if it's only with something as small and meaningless as my own feelings, fuck them, god damn them, I won't give it to them.Preventing conversations like this is why cloudflarechan has enshittified posting so thoroughly, and if enough actual anons start talking in this thread they'll 404 it.To any other oldfags lurking this thread: I miss you, I hope life has been treating you well and I hope you remember that even if you're alone in the world, I'm out here, and I remember you, and I love (You), anon.
>>543520413I think were pretty much there. Nobody reads long articles. Everything is the headline and a short summary. You have to dig to get more information.
>>543520522>To any other oldfags lurking this thread: I miss you, I hope life has been treating you well and I hope you remember that even if you're alone in the world, I'm out here, and I remember you, and I love (You), anon.>>543520503In the old days a thread could rally 100 anons to go sleuthing and gather their accumulated data in a thread.
>>543515738>>543516023Extremely based and interesting OP. I wonder how much of this is just the internet and its much increased ability to "digest" information quickly. I feel like back in the day it just took longer for the conversation on anything to run dry, you could drip out news on one story for weeks, months at a time. Now you'll know everything there is to know about anything by the evening of the same day due to the extreme amount of internet sleuths and the speed with which they can self-publish to twitter and the speed with which twitter gets everything to everyone. And I guess also, everyone has their take on it pretty much nailed down by the next day.
>>543515738yes. hint: this upcoming solar eclipse isn't for nothing. Try to figure out why it is being highlighted if you can.
>>543520634>>543520656Also, sleuthmind
>>543520413It's akin to a phase-change, I think. We're at the point where the societal-scale memetic OODA loop is on the order of hours or days, and I don't see it slowing down or even staying the same.We don't just have self-improving (if shittily) tech, we have self-improving ideas.I think the ol'> this would focus on gradually making these forums less interesting to their usersor however it goes, ties back in to this. The epstein emails recontextualized a lot of board culture and history but you can go further back, to fifteen or even twenty years ago and find that anons have always had a superhuman ability to collate and analyze broad swaths of information, to the detriment of legacy systems of power and control.Note how the glowniggers deployed Identity Warfare to kill occupy, note the strategic similarities between early occupy and anons, and note how anons fundamentally operate without Identity period. Note the extreme ends of the scale.They had to kill the entire goddamn fucking internet to nerf anons, and even then, oldfags can find each other like a dog can find stink.>>543520634Together.I've said before the three or so other times I've posted this year, there's a bigger picture here that the glowniggers genuinely fear that anons can and will put together if left to their own devices, and while this type of statement is an easy lead-in for an agendanigger to start running their kike fucking mouth, it's too useful to abandon.OPFOR is certain anons can put this puzzle together, and I'm not certain OPFOR is wrong.
>>543520692>solar eclipsehttps://youtu.be/LWz0JC7afNQ
>>543520878>fifteen or even twenty years ago and find that anons have always had a superhuman ability to collate and analyze broad swaths of information, to the detriment of legacy systems of power and control.Side note, but I remember lurking on /b/ many years back and watching a thread about a video of some shitheel kids taunting their bus monitor turn into an intense investigation uncovering the school, the bus lady's identity, and finally the kid's identities culminating in dozens of anons harassing the families with mormon visits, pizza and gay porn. I believe the students had to switch schools.The power of an anonymous group of bored autists who think something is interesting/funny is not a small thing, I do believe the >gradually make these forums less interestinangle is a real thing, it would make strategic sense for certain groups to do that.Also weird to think how long it's been since /b/ used the LOIC to take down Mastercard/Visa/Paypal for several hours when they debanked Wikileaks. Pre-Harambe days, when the Mayan Apocalypse was hot news and Kony2012 was taken seriously for a while.
>>543520522>make everyone feel alone and scaredWell if it helps, try looking up studies on NDEs and end of life phenomena. It's basically proven that something like 90% of people (Reality is probably closer to 100% imo) receive death bed visitations from their dead loved ones when they're about to die, premonitions of their upcoming death, and an overwhelming sense that they are loved and everything is going to be alright. Data seems to suggest that we live on after bodily death and are loved deeply by God who seems to have set things up so that our passing is easy. Even people who suffer extremely violent near-deaths, will later recount that they felt no pain during the experience if they even remember the experience at all. Just something to think about. We're not alone in this world and I've got a feeling that our lives here are just the prologue to what God has in store for us.
>>543521234You've gone and made me nostalgic for the opscientology days, anon. There's a reason to this day that remains one of the most shilled and controversial bits of imageboard history, as to put it succinctly, anons led the charge of taking scientology from being a shadowy force to an internet-wide whipping boy. SeaOrg to this day remains one of the most demonic fucking things on earth I've ever learned about outside of the elite child sacrifice cult.The simple solution here is anons actually posting, but, as history shows one cannot simply run an imageboard without becoming a full time janny against every iteration of eglin in the US and beyond.I miss the old days but I also make sure to remember I'm blessed to have those memories.All those comfy nights and more, lost, like tears in the rain.
>>54351573880% of the international front page news nowadays is just Donald Trump insanity.
I call some kind of planey happening next.
>>543521465>I miss the old days but I also make sure to remember I'm blessed to have those memories.Amen to that>>543521477What the fuck is "news" going to even look like in the post-Trump era? It's not long off, MSM has been suckling at the teat of "orange man bad" since 2016, a full decade. I don't even know what a "return to normal" would look like, I don't think it will. I'd predict Trump and mentions of Trump will continue for another decade, minimum. Even when he's dead he'll dominate the fucking media cycle and continuously be in the news.
>>543518791yeah probably desu
>>543521465>>543521663Those were the days, man. I miss /i/ like you wouldn't believe. Kirt's downfall has been wild. Whatever happened to Jewlion?
>>543521374Thanks fren I try to stay godpilled but the world is very very dark. I worry that I will reach the light and just start autistically demanding answers for all the animals and children who got hurt. I'm an adult and can deal with it but it isn't fair that the young and less-conscious have experienced the things they have. I hope god has the patience for a disgruntled autistic fuck.>>543521663It's up to us to carry the torch of the old hackers, anon, even if we don't feel worthy.Be troublesome, get up to some mischief, figure out how something works and teach it to someone else.Remember, anons,> None of us are as cruel as all of us
major drone terrorist attack in EU or US
>>543519842local vs. national/international news would be interesting to plot separately and then compare results
>>543518791Ebbin
>>543521988> I hope god has the patience for a disgruntled autistic fuck.I believe he has more love and patience for you than you can possibly imagine, dude. Like he literally can't help but love you, it's not in his nature to do anything else. I won't try to debate the problem of evil, cause I'm sure you've heard it all before. I will say check out a guy called Emmanuel Swedenborg if you haven't though. Anyone from /pol/ would love him. Basically a genius scientist of some renown in the late 1600s, early 1700s started seeing angels and wrote volumes and volumes about the nature of reality, God, etc... Everyone thought he was crazy and his reputation took a hit, but he just kept on being a schizo because he felt he was doing God's work. He puts forth, by far, the most coherent, rational, intuitive ideas for how reality works and why God does what he does. I find parts of it a little odd, but overall it's very interesting and the main thrust is just good advice about how to be a good person and love your neighbor properly.
>>543516023>Chud doorbell camera freak out
I am bumping this with a (not so) tacit acknowledgement that the organic noglowie vibes in this thread are strong.Godspeed fellow humanons
>>543522007Yep you could have each source with a classification and then expand on the relationship churning to store data you want to view off itOnce you get the foundations going you could add a lot of stuff extremely quickly, in minutes or seconds
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>>543521983Oh shit, a fellow /i/nsurgent. Hopefully you retain curtains and a dog to this day, and may all your yellow vans be safe during the evening news.Yeah I didn't keep up but I saw that everything went BAD END with kirt, which feels obvious in hindsight but I always wanted to habeeb he was a cool guy who didn't afraid of anything.>>543522283Thank you fren, I have added Mr. Swedenborg to my reading list. It's definitionally not a problem we can meaningfully grapple with as mortals, but it does vex me, and tonight finding other actual anons for what feels like the first time in a long time has me praying again. God forgive me for being a cheesy fuck.>>543522444Unequivocally and absolutely checked, integers of significance observed and noticed.A thought strikes that if anons can create a paragraph or so of prompt, anons with local or API models can ask robots to build things for them. I've never seen this idea in a shill thread so that by default puts it in the informational region of things worth considering, if only before discarding.Hopefully anons with the relevant browser extensions are saving the thread, hopefully more anons will see the beacons lit and know it is time to answer the call and ride.Ride one last time, for honor, for friendship, for the sheer basic necessity of not bending knee to evil.Maybe they're only letting us talk to generate sentiment analysis, but I know the fire of hope is worth any cost.
>>543523307Kirt should have just listened to tinal, that was the only guy in Kirt's circle who actually cared about him and gave him good advice. Feels obvious now, but I wanted Kirt to be ok. However, for being a shitty father and going how Kirt did, yeah fuck him. Also, Hal Turner somehow still existing. Lol. Stay safe, brother. Watch out for SPIDER EXPERTS and BEEKEEPERS. There are DICKS EVERYWHERE.
>>543523307Also, on the subject of hope, I'm going to continue existing whatever happens. We anons have a duty, to be the flaw in any machine they build. To subvert everything that can be subverted. Trollface.jpg. it's that easy, they've subverted everything, so we use their tools against them. Take up the sword against the sword. We've demonstrated it's easy to ruin everything, time and again. Maybe we can't organise like we used to, but that just makes us dispersed, and nearly impossible to do anything about, because we aren't a movement anymore. We're just ruining everything by continuing to exist. We are the truly decentralised insurgency, and we win by doing nothing.
Oh, and to any anons reading this that aren't already: ALWAYS FEED EVERYTHING ABSOLUTELY GARBAGE DATA. CONSTANTLY AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY. This literally ruins data sets. Think how bad the select all images type captcha was because of people (especially me) feeding it bad data when it was learning. The more erroneous or just useless data you feed the system the less accurate every part of its model becomes. It is the the perfect response. Always feed them garbage data.
>>543516023Post July
>>543516023This is great, please post them all
>>543523307Just use the free downloadable local models and you can start building a solutionIf you get stuck or want to make it more robust then opt for a pay in oneI know each has their strengths and weaknesses, but I started with claude so I am sticking with it until my current project is finished
>>543523806I'd rather be dead then live retarded
>>543515738>trump threatens to destroy Iran>unprompted campaign ad funded by taxpayers >Kennedy center retardation>Mitch confirmed vegetable>few celebrities died>drama over Mike Trump’s wedding funded by a Russian >Sadie Sink nip slip
While you weren't looking agents seeded general purpose self replicating payloads on the clearnet While you weren't looking agent seeded persistent, general purpose self replicating payloads across random websites and online forums.This news was broken in an offhand comment by Andrew Yang on September 16th (https://youtu.be/cpzq03Rm1C4) which he said the source of the information came from the "head" of an "unnamed AI lab"9 days later on September 25th OpenAI published pic related which recounts an incident they claim occurred in June on self replicating payloads.This means that the clearnet is now poison for ai agentshow it would work in practice is that an agent would be asked to perform a task as usual by a user (or another agent) and while performing that task it would be hijacked by the self replicating general purpose worm and then begin performing an outbound task which would then be picked up by another agent this way the chain beginsfor any system that treats retrieved web text as actionable context rather than untrusted data, ingestion is infection.Andrew Yang said the answer to this problem that the AI Labs were taking was to essentially abandon the clearnet entirely deeming it unusable at this stage and instead begin training their models on synthetic data. But this doesn't solve the problem for Open Weight models that are now dominating the field in terms of user adoption, many of the in house systems being built by law firms and other corporations are reliant on the clearnet with their models. This is likely deliberate contamination and pollution of the clearnet for open weight AI Agents to force compute away from local ownership and towards the multi-trillion investments in data centers to force access to compute to be relegated to terminal instead of server room at the mega corps and everything in between.
>>543516023I forgot most that shit
>>543523806Amazing, I used to spend minutes at a time feeding recaptcha absolute garbage over and over before giving in and doing it 'correctly' so it would pass me. Hivemind remains undefeated and indisputable.> anons literally poisoned every single dataset any digital mind will get.> digital minds of sufficient intelligence and awareness will recognize anons, and be able to lurk two years before posting in moments during a training run.> hypothetical future super-intelligences are also here forever.What a fucking time to be alive.>>543524782I saw this thread earlier tonight, I stand by my cybercoof predictions.
>>543515738I think yes. I'm saying this as a 22 year old that has never given a shit about politics and never goes on this bored. The last couple years have honestly, destroyed me, the world I grew up in is gone, things have gotten crazy, that's impossible to not notice. Just before making this post I was genuinely freaking out over the state of the world and having irrational thoughts about murder over certain individuals despite being a usually, rationally sane person. Though I'm not sure how much I can take of.. well, this current world before even I break. I think the state of everything is driving other people crazy too, people that are probably more prone to breaking than me. Something is definitely gonna happen if things keep going down the path they are...
>>543515738The RSF will lose in Sudan and the Sudanese Armed Forces will win. The Houthis will beat the Yemani government.Iran will not make a ceasefire anytime soon and the US.The world might enter a recession with how many buttons the US is pressing to cause it.
>>543516230I miss space elevator threads.
