Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
@acatwithnews.bsky.social
Writer, Videographer, Photographer.
I run The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
Based once again in Los Angeles, CA.
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews
Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: [email protected]
I run The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
Based once again in Los Angeles, CA.
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews
Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: [email protected]
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Los Angeles Riders Gear Up For A Wheelie Good Time
Throughout Southern California, one particularly loud scene has erupted with increasing regularity: minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz…
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New for the Ten Four:
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
In this week’s newsletter I wrote about how critical social media has been for informing Americans about the ice raids. It has also been indie journos like @taliajane.bsky.social @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social @acatwithnews.bsky.social and others doing this work. www.latimes.com/delos/newsle...
Commentary: When it comes to the immigration debate, the internet has become a battlefield
Independent journalists and everyday citizens have leveraged social media to document immigration raids.
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In this week’s newsletter I wrote about how critical social media has been for informing Americans about the ice raids. It has also been indie journos like @taliajane.bsky.social @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social @acatwithnews.bsky.social and others doing this work. www.latimes.com/delos/newsle...
We journalists have eaten our share of rock soup and squirrel tail. But we've also known lean times. Support your local small outlets.
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We journalists have eaten our share of rock soup and squirrel tail. But we've also known lean times. Support your local small outlets.
Part 2 of a series exploring the history of OpenAI, and people saying they’ve been harmed by ChatGPT:
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 2. ChatGPT, OpenAI and Cyberstalking.
oncerns about OpenAI leader Sam Altman pushing past employee and safety experts’ concerns have only intensified after numerous lawsuits have alleged that Altman’s disregard led to the death of seve…
latenfour.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Part 2 of a series exploring the history of OpenAI, and people saying they’ve been harmed by ChatGPT:
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
Hey everyone! Two new developments regarding OpenAI have made it so that part 2 of 5 needs tremendous re-writing. Look forward to part 2 tomorrow!
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Hey everyone! Two new developments regarding OpenAI have made it so that part 2 of 5 needs tremendous re-writing. Look forward to part 2 tomorrow!
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
NEW for Ten Four:
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide.
OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
latenfour.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NEW for Ten Four:
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
Been listening to @acatwithnews.bsky.social go absolutely bonkers as he waded through what I can only describe as a 'metric ton' of research these last many weeks--read the first part of his new series here. It's worth a read.
NEW for Ten Four:
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide.
OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
latenfour.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Been listening to @acatwithnews.bsky.social go absolutely bonkers as he waded through what I can only describe as a 'metric ton' of research these last many weeks--read the first part of his new series here. It's worth a read.
NEW for Ten Four:
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 1. Adam Raine’s Suicide.
OpenAI now faces scrutiny from multiple lawsuits alleging its software responded inappropriately resulting in deaths by self-harm. In one case, a suit alleges a minor killed themselves directly as …
latenfour.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NEW for Ten Four:
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
ChatGPT’s 4o sent numerous messages to minor users encouraging self-harm and suicide. One of several lawsuits says that Adam Raine, a 16-year-old boy, was told how to commit suicide moments before he took his own life.
Part 1 of many this week!
latenfour.com/2025/12/01/t...
Downtown Los Angeles skyline today
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Downtown Los Angeles skyline today
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
LAPD’s Office of the Inspector General just released a report on an audit of access and sharing confidential information in sexual assault investigations. Among their findings, the department “lacks clear guidance and standardized procedures on when and how to restrict access…” to case info.
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
LAPD’s Office of the Inspector General just released a report on an audit of access and sharing confidential information in sexual assault investigations. Among their findings, the department “lacks clear guidance and standardized procedures on when and how to restrict access…” to case info.
LAPD’s Office of the Inspector General just released a report on an audit of access and sharing confidential information in sexual assault investigations. Among their findings, the department “lacks clear guidance and standardized procedures on when and how to restrict access…” to case info.
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
LAPD’s Office of the Inspector General just released a report on an audit of access and sharing confidential information in sexual assault investigations. Among their findings, the department “lacks clear guidance and standardized procedures on when and how to restrict access…” to case info.
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
New for the Ten Four:
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Los Angeles Riders Gear Up For A Wheelie Good Time
Throughout Southern California, one particularly loud scene has erupted with increasing regularity: minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz…
latenfour.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
New for the Ten Four:
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
NEW, for The Handbasket:
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW, for The Handbasket:
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
New for the Ten Four:
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Los Angeles Riders Gear Up For A Wheelie Good Time
Throughout Southern California, one particularly loud scene has erupted with increasing regularity: minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz…
latenfour.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
New for the Ten Four:
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.
latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Greetings! I’m here at the official campaign launch for Rev. Rae Huang, who is running for LA Mayor. Likely the he most progressive candidate in the current field, she Deputy Director at Housing NOW! California and is running on a platform of housing, free transit, and “An Economy for the People.”
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Greetings! I’m here at the official campaign launch for Rev. Rae Huang, who is running for LA Mayor. Likely the he most progressive candidate in the current field, she Deputy Director at Housing NOW! California and is running on a platform of housing, free transit, and “An Economy for the People.”
NYT running “I had melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.” Alongside a Philip Morris International ad is…
Regardless, incredible piece from friend Samuel Braslow: his struggle to stay alive, and a new treatment for melanoma being denied by the FDA.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Regardless, incredible piece from friend Samuel Braslow: his struggle to stay alive, and a new treatment for melanoma being denied by the FDA.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
NYT running “I had melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.” Alongside a Philip Morris International ad is…
Regardless, incredible piece from friend Samuel Braslow: his struggle to stay alive, and a new treatment for melanoma being denied by the FDA.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Regardless, incredible piece from friend Samuel Braslow: his struggle to stay alive, and a new treatment for melanoma being denied by the FDA.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Trying a new experiment to supplement journalism, if you’re on Hollywood Boulevard come say hello!
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Trying a new experiment to supplement journalism, if you’re on Hollywood Boulevard come say hello!
Reposted by Sean Beckner-Carmitchel
Absolutely heart wrenching account from inside the Adelanto Detention center. A few excerpts:
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Absolutely heart wrenching account from inside the Adelanto Detention center. A few excerpts:
NEW for the Ten Four:
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of).
latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of).
latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...
Inside Adelanto: A Visit To Adelanto ICE Processing Facility
ADELANTO — Visitors pass through layers of security and silence to see those inside. Many haven’t seen their loved ones since they were detained by immigration authorities in Southern Califor…
latenfour.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
NEW for the Ten Four:
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of).
latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of).
latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...
We’ve officially reached the “even the small to medium outlets ask to license footage and photographs for free and say they will credit me,” stage in journalism.
Wow, I got shot in the face with a tear gas canister and got like a dozen kinetic projectiles but PLEASE yeah here you are!
Wow, I got shot in the face with a tear gas canister and got like a dozen kinetic projectiles but PLEASE yeah here you are!
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We’ve officially reached the “even the small to medium outlets ask to license footage and photographs for free and say they will credit me,” stage in journalism.
Wow, I got shot in the face with a tear gas canister and got like a dozen kinetic projectiles but PLEASE yeah here you are!
Wow, I got shot in the face with a tear gas canister and got like a dozen kinetic projectiles but PLEASE yeah here you are!
Big piece drops tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Big piece drops tomorrow.
Ok just got home and started re-listening to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin On and…
“There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'
Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'
Who really cares?
Who's willing to try to save a world
That's destined to die”
Shit.
“There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'
Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'
Who really cares?
Who's willing to try to save a world
That's destined to die”
Shit.
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ok just got home and started re-listening to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin On and…
“There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'
Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'
Who really cares?
Who's willing to try to save a world
That's destined to die”
Shit.
“There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'
Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'
Who really cares?
Who's willing to try to save a world
That's destined to die”
Shit.
IM SORRY BUT WHY DID NONE OF YOU TELL ME THERES A LINDA RONDSTADT VERSION OF MONSTER MASH
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
IM SORRY BUT WHY DID NONE OF YOU TELL ME THERES A LINDA RONDSTADT VERSION OF MONSTER MASH
Los Angeles, CA -
As hundreds of Dodgers fans watch the game in Echo Park, a vehicle containing LAPD horses drives by to raucous boos from the fans.
As hundreds of Dodgers fans watch the game in Echo Park, a vehicle containing LAPD horses drives by to raucous boos from the fans.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Los Angeles, CA -
As hundreds of Dodgers fans watch the game in Echo Park, a vehicle containing LAPD horses drives by to raucous boos from the fans.
As hundreds of Dodgers fans watch the game in Echo Park, a vehicle containing LAPD horses drives by to raucous boos from the fans.
In case you’re wondering why I love LA I just got the hookup on sugar skull face, went to the goth CVS in east Los and got called the devil for said sugar skull face, and am on my way to Plaza Olvera to watch a bicycle takeover for game 7. I’m nursing a hangover from a Blade themed Blood Rave.
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
In case you’re wondering why I love LA I just got the hookup on sugar skull face, went to the goth CVS in east Los and got called the devil for said sugar skull face, and am on my way to Plaza Olvera to watch a bicycle takeover for game 7. I’m nursing a hangover from a Blade themed Blood Rave.
Several delays on the rail system, as police officers hold the door open to check TAP cards. This particular delay is as for more than a minute. They aren’t checking the cards themselves, just that people have cards.
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Several delays on the rail system, as police officers hold the door open to check TAP cards. This particular delay is as for more than a minute. They aren’t checking the cards themselves, just that people have cards.