Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and use wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install.
The crazed goal to turn all of America into a high security prison.
No need to ask questions that a person could invoke their rights on when you can pay our capital overloads our own tax money for records instead.
What websites, what locations, what friends, what we buy, and everything else you could care to ask.
Soon we’ll have sensors installed on our toilets to make sure anyone with a dollar can know what we eat and what medicines we take and how regular we are.
Rebecca Joynes allegedly became pregnant after having sex with one of her victims, known as boy B, Manchester Crown Court heard - she denies the allegations against her....
The group name and slogan come from their mother and father, combining their father’s last name, Meiselas, and their mother’s maiden name, Golden,[14] while alluding to the mythological Greek king Midas known for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
On July 21, 2023, MeidasTouch filed paperwork to rename itself to Democracy Defense Action,[19] and later that year, news reporting indicated the MeidasTouch name was being used for a news network called MeidasTouch Network
When I was first accepting this part of my identity and thinking structure, and why I’d react in certain ways - it really helped me become comfortable by dipping my toes in and saying “well, I’m a little bit autistic, so what?”, before getting more comfortable and understanding of who I was and the masks I was wearing and that it was ok to take them off and say confidently “I am autistic, so what.”.
I think we should allow people that grace to slowly take off their masks at their pace, and if some people improperly co-opt that, so be it
Someone unsure of being “a little autistic” doesn’t hurt me, provided it’s only an introspective admission.
There’s a difference if they say “well, I’m a little autistic, so I don’t think someone else needs support or dignity” of course, and those people should be opposed.
The quickest way to get a team of 10 contractors to turn 100 lines of basic code from a decent engineer into 2k, with 50 janky vulnerable dependencies, that needs to be babied with customized ide’s and multi-minute+ build times and 60m long recorded meetings.
The establishment is not going to give up, they must be beaten at their own game. Perseverance is key. If you give up, you give up on your cause and accept whatever the establishment wishes.
Do what you want, but I will persevere, and I will vote for my interests.
I haven’t been paying attention, what was the original drama there?
It sounds like good things have come out of it with a more community aligned governance, and nixOS is very interesting tech that could solve some of my headaches with Linux
I feel like it’s a common script that most good companies eventually fall to short term focused management types who are happy to shred the company as long as they get their golden parachute....
It starts with a staff shortage while scaling up, or a small project that current employees don’t have capacity for.
The execs have a decision, find and hire a long term employee(s), train them up, make sure it’s a good culture fit, and pay their benefits and compensation
or get a contractor firm to fill seats and pay the contract.
It’s all downhill from there once they pick a contracting firm.
The contracting firm is a Trojan horse for the short term philosophy, while also eroding away the skill pipeline of raising juniors to senior talent so the company eventually has to keep going back to firms.
Instead of scaling up and building the knowledge pool as the company grows organically, they want to massively scale up and down and cycle through many people and skim the good contractors off the top. But this does not work.
The bad contractors overflow the org with tech debt. Seniors don’t have juniors to train, nor do they work on the core stuff to keep their skills. The seniors and good contractors skimmed off the top turn into contractor babysitters. The juniors don’t exist. The seniors eventually turn into managers or leave for greener pastures where their original skills are wanted and respected and fostered.
Eventually the company is left a husk of past talent and mountain of tech debt, and no in-house skill to turn things around, so the options are to stay with contracting indefinitely or start at ground 0.
Combined with not increasing wages to match cost of living and inflation, not giving bonuses when there profits, and now you’ve got most of corporate America with their burnt out workforce skeleton crew.
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is safe to drink, it notes that it is still waiting on the results of studies to confirm this....
Plants respond and react stressfully to being cut and chewed and digested.
To ignore this is just as bad as ignoring the plight of animals.
You don’t have to be thankful for the food that you eat and sacrifice for your life, but I will. If you are vegan then you are already aware of some of this plight of life, especially the cruelty of factory farm animals, but I ask you to expand your mind to the plight of all living things.
I know that when I thank my food, especially fresh plants, that I can feel a warmth of gratefulness radiate from my stomach. I recommend you try it with your next salad and when you are at your garden.
I want my animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and all life that I interact with to live happy and fulfilling lives.
The ones I eat to continue my happy and fulfilling life I am especially grateful for.
It will be a constant struggle to ensure my food and all life I interact with is happy and fulfilled, and to reflect deeply on what I can change and improve when it is not.
Humans are uniquely capable to manage and ensure quality of life for ecosystems . The water, the soil, the air, the plants, the fungi, the animals. We can choose the well trotted path to exploit, or we can choose the harder path to heal and maintain.
My solution is to operate a homestead where I can ensure the food I eat and use have a quality happy fulfilling life, and a simple swift painless transfer of life to me and those I can provide for.
All families have their own quirks and habits, but one group of relatives has such a unique trait that scientists have branded them a total anomaly of the human species....
So, lack of social and health services was the missing link. That family living in such poverty was made outcast because they missed the critical lesson on walking up right, and with a simple walker, some hand rails, and a good doctor the whole family healed.
They did not “devolve” they adapted to an astonishing lack of support and community.
The torment these people went through, with a significant portion due to their lack of community and medical support, is terrifying.
As of April 11, there were 65 Mercedes autonomous vehicles available for sale in California, Fortune has learned through an open records request submitted to the state’s DMV. One of those has since been sold, which marks the first sale of an autonomous Mercedes in California, according to the DMV. Mercedes would not confirm sales numbers. Select Mercedes dealerships in Nevada are also offering the cars with the new technology, known as “level 3” autonomous driving.
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Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven’t been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states.
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U.S. customers can buy a yearly subscription of Drive Pilot in 2024 EQS sedans and S-Class car models for $2,500.
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Mercedes is also working on developing level 4 capabilities. The automaker’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer expects that level 4 autonomous technology will be available to consumers by 2030, Automotive News reported.
Reading the site, it’s interesting, but there are too many unknowns for me to get excited. Dosing, storage, pricing, delivery, effects, side effects all still seem unknown or not well understood.
Getting directly mailed a bag a poop after paying someone through zelle is a pretty wild thought.
Maybe FMT is a good idea, but it’s still too unknown for me to accept it.
Regarding regulation, potentially it could follow the path of supplements which seems to be immune from the FDA, FDA doesn’t regulate multivitamins nor yogurt.
Also explaining eating ass to the FDA in a formal letter is hilarious
I feel like coordination with a professional sports coach would be a good start, the players are already accustomed to many tests, the team doctor would probably be interested in gut biome v performance, and it’s a pre-selected pool of young, healthy, athletic people with at least semi-controlled diet.
CSX today debuted its first hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive, which was converted from a conventional four-axle unit using a conversion kit supplied by Canadian Pacific Kansas City....
Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread (techcrunch.com)
Flock Safety is a multibillion-dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and use wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install.
Biden moves to block House from getting tapes of his interviews with special counsel on classified docs (www.politico.com)
Robert Hur’s description of those interviews fueled a firestorm over the president’s memory and mental fitness.
Army whistleblower who exposed alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is sentenced to prison (apnews.com)
Teacher accused of having sex with two students says she ruined her 'dream job' with stupid 'mistakes', jury hears (news.sky.com)
Rebecca Joynes allegedly became pregnant after having sex with one of her victims, known as boy B, Manchester Crown Court heard - she denies the allegations against her....
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Local woman convinced that misogyny is no longer a problem thanks to man shouting "Not All Men" every time she talks (chaser.com.au)
STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION (sopuli.xyz)
Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in lawsuit filed by former Abu Ghraib prisoners against military contractor (abcnews.go.com)
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump (www.usatoday.com)
Who Are Todays Heroes?
Who are the heroes of our time? Who is driving us to a better future? And who is inspiring and guiding us?...
NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community (discourse.nixos.org)
Biden administration dropping plan to ban menthol cigarettes: Report (www.thehill.com)
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How do short-term thinking business types infiltrate technology companies?
I feel like it’s a common script that most good companies eventually fall to short term focused management types who are happy to shred the company as long as they get their golden parachute....
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Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk, though officials maintain supply is safe (www.nbcnews.com)
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is safe to drink, it notes that it is still waiting on the results of studies to confirm this....
Family that walk on all fours have 'undone the last 3 million years of evolution' (www.indy100.com)
All families have their own quirks and habits, but one group of relatives has such a unique trait that scientists have branded them a total anomaly of the human species....
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)
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The 'rushed' attempt to rehabilitate Cities Skylines II is becoming a cautionary tale (www.gamedeveloper.com)
There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. (www.humanmicrobes.org)
CSX debuts its first hydrogen-fuel cell locomotive (www.trains.com)
CSX today debuted its first hydrogen fuel-cell locomotive, which was converted from a conventional four-axle unit using a conversion kit supplied by Canadian Pacific Kansas City....