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Software to recognize "homeless encampments"
San Diego is trying out a software system to recognize "homeless encampments".
They define "encampments" more broadly than you might expect. For
instance, they define "vehicles that people are living in" as
"encampments". While breaking up an encampment in the usual sense of
that word is likely to bring attention from the press, forcing someone
who lives in an RV to move it is not big enough to do that, which
means they could get away with it without even reproach.
San Francisco went to the absurd length of prohibiting parking an RV
in the city. As a result, people who live in houses but own an RV
can't leave the RV nearby in order to prepare for a trip.
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| 3:25a |
US abstained on vote for ceasefire for Ramadan
* The US abstained in a vote for a resolution that “demands an
immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan”. It also demanded the
release of hostages by Hamas, but did not make the ceasefire
dependent on hostage release,*
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez points out that it is illegal, by US law, to
provide weapons to armies that block US humanitarian assistance.
Israel's army is doing that now.
She calls for cutting off immediately the supply of US weapons to Israel.
I support this.
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| 3:25a |
GM's response to collecting data on drivers
GM's response to being caught massively collecting data on drivers' actions
is to say it will stop providing that data to two particular data brokers.
That minor change is intended to avoid change in GM's fundamentally
unjust basic decision: to track drivers and collect data about them.
It appears that GM did not provide drivers' location data to those
data brokers, but that data is being collected by the network through
which the data are transmitted. I would expect that GM collects GPS
data from the GPS receiver in the car. It should be illegal for a
car's systems to record that data.
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| 3:25a |
Container ship hit bridge in Baltimore
A container ship hit an important bridge in Baltimore, and the bridge
collapsed.
The bridge was not designed to survive such a collision, as such large
ships did not exist when it was built.
What caused the ship to go off course. and whether that was anyone's
fault, is a side issue. Accidents will happen and mistakes will
happen. We should design systems so that mistakes and accidents won't
turn into disasters. The replacement bridge should be designed so
that ships traveling near or under it cannot possibly damage it no
matter what strange things they may do.
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| 3:25a |
President Maduro blocked opposition from running
President Maduro of Venezuela blocked the main opposition candidate
from signing up to run.
This violates an agreement he made, as well as being obviously unjust.
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| 3:25a |
Campaign against London's mayor
Tories, even their leaders, are spreading falsehoods for their campaign
against London's mayor,
in addition to voter suppression, and changing
the voting system too.
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