In your screenshot, he was "in front of" the vehicle in the sense that he could see inside its windshield, but even then was already stepped back enough that, given the path of the vehicle on the video, would not have been struck by it.
Your tone seems adversarial; I'm not going to engage you more.
Fair enough. I define "well out of the way" as "in no danger of being struck by the vehicle", for the record.
Even in your screenshot, you can see the firing officer's right foot (to the left of the officer attempting to open the door). Between that image and mine, he took a step back. He had the instinct to do that to preserve his safety, and by doing so, was well out of the way.
Image from a bystander video (annotations by me) the moment the first shot was fired. He had already taken a step backwards from his position moments before this screenshot, and was indeed "well out of the way". No officer would stand in front of a moving vehicle. He was already safe when he fired.
Many bystander videos show the officer was well out of the vehicle's path. The 2nd screenshot I posted shows the moment the first shot was fired, and highlights his stance and position relative to the vehicle. A shot was fired through the windshield; two more through the open driver's side window.
Indeed. I marked up a screen capture from a bystander video found in Instagram showing the firing officer's feet placement relative to the Honda Pilot's right-turned tire. He was not in any mortal peril.
Screen capture from another bystander's video (on Instagram) shows the firing officer's feet are already well out of the way of the right-turned tire of the Honda Pilot; he was in not in mortal peril, and yet intentionally fired his weapon at the driver's head.
A bullet hole in the windshield of a dark red late model Honda SUV (Passport or Pilot) that has crashed into a utility pole.
AP News photo clearly shows bullet hole in windshield that, based on the firing officer's stance, indicates he was aiming for a head shot.
Source: apnews.com/article/minn...
Not even with a stolen dick.
I’ve never felt more proud 🦥
You were NOT okay to go, dammit
What the Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom of Fuck is happening
You just know there’s a sign on the wall just out of frame that says:
Live (but only with white Americans)
Laugh (at gun violence victims)
Love (only the opposite gender)
Pray (to white jesus and not that middle eastern one)
I love that all the special effects are in-camera/practical. Even the train rolling over the giant book.
The bill has language that allows the DOJ to withhold evidence that might interfere with an ongoing investigation. Trump (last week) tasked the DOJ with investigating Epstein’s ties to political opponents (and JP Morgan Chase Bank).
DOJ opened the investigation last Friday.
so...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, I thought I was halfway through getting the damned vision model trained, but alas...
It's still coming along, though, and updates have been posted.
Any interested parties can check out this thread for details and info on how to help.
Unless y'all know someone at Google or Anthropic (or both, why not both) who can provide comped API credits, it'll be very slow going, which makes me sad.
Donations are welcome; I'm $spdustin on cashapp and @spdustin on Venmo. Funds will be used to upgrade subscriptions to get higher rate limits.
...fraught.
So I'm using LLM+Vision models (which each need their own special hand-holding) and structured outputs to process the emails.
Unfortunately, I can't afford to use Claude or Gemini via API for this scale, so I'm limited by the rate limits imposed on the lowest-tier paid subscriptions.
For those of you watching my structured extract of the House's Epstein Estate Document dump, I've started to commit emails to the repo.
I killed a lot of time trying to train Detectron2 to better handle all these various emails, but the redactions and weird merges of emails and docs were...
(cont)
I’m about halfway through a proper OCR run with segmented layout regions to extract actual metadata from the emails. I hope to post a proper update to the corpus tomorrow along with graphs between named entities.
And the iMessage transcripts are about to get an update unmasking a few names.
Man, this job market.
Been in IT for literal decades, and after a long stretch of getting ghosted—with a sneaking suspicion that a former employer blackballed me for not putting up with her narcissism/racism—or aged out, I’m now a seasonal driver for UPS, and officially a Teamster. Feels good, tbh.
Happy to help! There are more updates coming tomorrow to make it much easier to navigate.
ICYMI: I also created a corpus from Project 2025 that is friendly to both researchers and LLMs, complete with rich metadata, guidance on splitting/chunking, and tips on using LLMs to assist in grounded research.
Still to come: pipe emails through a better OCR pipeline than the House used (using CV to ID headers, quotes, etc.), updated Concordance/Opticon stores with richer metadata, LLM-friendly versions for "chat with docs" workflows.
Check README to see what's ready now, and for important cloning info!
Journalists, researchers: I've started building a more organized corpus of the Epstein Estate Documents "Seventh Production" from November 11 for you.
Multi-page docs are merged to single PDFs (OCR text merged too). iMessages extracted to transcripts. And more is coming.
github.com/spdustin/eps...
I haven't missed it at all. Deleted an active account I had since the aughts, and haven't experienced a single pang of regret.
And don’t be surprised if your GPS is all wonky for the next day or so.
NE IL here
Even if you don’t see colors in your northern sky, just TRY a night mode photo on your iPhone/Android. You will be surprised at what 3 seconds can do.
Brace the phone on a stable surface for best results.