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# I may have compromised the dataset.
- URL: https://www.smallfailuresofreality.com/i-may-have-compromised-the-dataset/
- Published: 2026-08-17T21:15:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-17T21:15:45.000Z
- Author: Evan Mercer
- Tags: story

![Seven bored commuters at a bus stop hold exaggerated ballet poses while looking at phones and waiting for the bus.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e8/88/e88830a3-d951-4682-b91c-ff9b3de17f28/content/images/2026/08/mon_busstop_ballet-2.jpg)

I was walking up to the stop when one of them looked at me, looked at his phone, and quietly said something to the others.

Then this happened.

They held it until I took the picture. Afterward one of them asked, “Did we make the page?”

So apparently this is a factor now.