Another story said he wiped it “using a code”, so it sounds like that.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

They have broad latitude to initiate searches, but if there isn’t a specific crime they’re going after you for, you’re not destroying evidence. If they’re just fishing to see what you have in there, then there isn’t evidence being destroyed because they have no way to know whether you erased stuff because you were doing crimes or just didn’t want them to see your nudes.

Isn’t “the army having everything under control” what a coup is?

Republicans are saying the same thing.

“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.”

“American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”

“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels.”

They’re just saying it out loud.

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-rep-says-us-may-go-in-to-venezuela-11102970

Using the best models as synthetic data is mostly pointless. You’re just going to recreate all of its biases and failures in a degraded copy. The whole point of open source software is being able to analyze the source code to learn how it works and understand and ideally remove its weaknesses.

Open weights doesn’t let you do that, and what research it enables is mostly just tinkering around the edges. If someone trained a network, but it kept saying racist stuff, you can’t figure out why it’s racist or rebuild it without the racism from weights alone. Just the weights is like having a binary. Maybe nice to have a gratis app to use, but not really open.

Open-source AI is the data, not the weights. Weights alone isn’t useless, but it’s not a platform to truly understand and modify a network. No one wants to open their data though, because that’s both what gives them a competitive edge and it would be an admission of widespread copyright violations.