#probably fake

[itsapmseymour]

Well,

An anomaly I wrote into my fantasy book just exists now.

Super duper 🫠

[victusinveritas]

A 17-year-old high school student in Dayton, Ohio, has been fined and placed under house arrest after authorities discovered he had hacked into the city’s outdated traffic control system and quietly fixed the timing of several major intersections.

Kameron Price, a self-taught coder and robotics club member, reportedly used a Raspberry Pi and a decommissioned school-issued Chromebook to gain access to the municipal traffic grid. Over the course of several weeks, he rewrote the timing logic for at least five major lights along West 3rd Street—drastically reducing backups during rush hour and syncing green lights to reduce stop-and-go congestion.

“He didn’t disable anything or cause danger,” said a traffic engineer speaking on condition of anonymity. “Honestly, his code was more efficient than what we were using.”

But city officials said the changes violated multiple laws, including unauthorized access to a government system and interference with public infrastructure. Kameron was cited under a local ordinance pertaining to unauthorized modification of municipal services—a misdemeanor typically reserved for utility tampering.

According to Kameron’s parents, he initially took it on as a side project after watching his bus get stuck at the same broken intersection every morning for weeks. “It would take longer to go three blocks than it did to get across town,” his mom explained. “He got tired of watching everyone waste gas and time just sitting there.”

Public reaction has been overwhelmingly in Kameron’s favor. A video of the intersection running smoother than it has in years has gone viral, and a local radio host dubbed him the Subway Surfer of traffic flow. Online petitions calling for the fine to be dropped have already surpassed 50,000 signatures.

“Honestly, give the kid a job,” one commenter wrote. “He’s doing more for this city than whoever programmed those lights in 1998.”

So the more I look into this story (found on Facebook so I never should have trusted it) on Google, the less I find it to be, ya know, true.

Also, the image below the purported mugshot might be the most AI thing I've seen in a goodong (typo, but keeping it because a goodong while is longer than a good long while, you know it is) while. I try to be less shit about just posting stuff I find without verification, but I'd been up for hours doing backbreaking labor (my back is not happy) getting my folks through SeaTac along with their luggage.

[watermelonlovershigh]

Breaking news of the day: Zoe Kravitz is allegedly cheating on Harry Styles with a women.

On a serious note, i could totally see Harry and Zoe being in an open relationship.

[tamara-kama]

The cab is better constructed looking than the typical AI generated arcade but the art on it gives it away IMHO.. especially the kick plate and panel below the control panel...

[hellolovers13]

apparently louis soundchecked OTB???

[yougurtella]

ariana what are you doing here….

[the-tiny-lurker]

Not sure if this is real, but if so it would be awesome!

[farsight-the-char]

An apparent Rumour postings??????????

New Kroot and Zoats make sense, but Hrud????

Lizards but for Tau make some sense? But it feels weird they are not using already named species?

Vespid???????