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nwchapman, 2 months ago to ai

San Jose is training AI to spot homeless encampments

San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its kind in the United States.

#Homelessness #AI #DoYouKnowTheWayToNoWayJose

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/san-jose-homelessness-ai-detection

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment
#homelessness https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/us-homeless-encampments-companies-profiting-sweeps

nwchapman, 5 months ago to random

New technology can rejuvenate and extend the life of old solar panels

Developed at NTU Singapore, a new device can quickly rejuvenate and extend the life of old and new solar panels using heat and light.

ht @cstross https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/technology-rejuvenate-old-solar-panels

nwchapman, 23 days ago to random

‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles

Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline
#Inequality https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/workers-income-labor-?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

"We can't count on oligarchs to rescue us from oligarchy – not even when oligarchy's failures push society to the breaking point. There's always a rationalization explaining why we just had to lean harder into oligarchy."

Be like @pluralistic : be angry, be unreasonable.

As Auntie Em said, who the hell wants to be reasonable.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/30/dewey-502/

nwchapman, 3 months ago to random

nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

“Which is to say, an unbreakable plurality of the GOP explicitly wants fascism. Another 29 percent are OK with it as long as it doesn’t directly affect them” https://newrepublic.com/article/177796/polls-republicans-trump-maga-fascism

nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

“If you grew up in the Bay Area in an Italian family, you grew up with this,” said cheesemonger Gordon Edgar, who has worked at San Francisco’s Rainbow for 30 years. “It has a long, local Bay Area history. Franklin’s Teleme has been around for 100 years. We probably sell more Teleme than anywhere else in the world.” https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/13/san-francisco-rare-cheese-franklins-teleme/

nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

For people wondering, it seems like this is where you go to recycle battery powered toothbrushes and, uh, similar products of a personal nature that have batteries and circuits

(cough vibrators cough)

Given how prevalent that stuff is now, I feel like they need more locations and an easier why to handle, or it will all end up in landfill.

https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/sf-transfer-station/

nwchapman, 9 days ago to random

Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/20/revealed-meta-approved-political-ads-in-india-that-incited-violence?CMP=share_btn_url

nwchapman, 7 months ago to random

Two people on my floor tested positive for COVID this week... after being in the office while sick.

nwchapman, 7 months ago to random

From SFPDH

SFDPH will offer vaccinations to individuals without health insurance or who face barriers to access vaccination. Those who are at highest risk of severe consequences of COVID-19 will be prioritized due to limited supply. Learn more by visiting this link: https://ow.ly/eGRM50PVgW3

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

PG&E bills are absolutely killing Bay Area restaurants

Utilities inflation arguably hurts restaurants more than higher food and labor costs
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/pge-price-hikes-bay-area-restaurants-19406403.php

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

"The conservative project of the past 40 years has been ... to return the great majority of us to the status of desperate, forelock-tugging plebs who know our places. Hence the return of child labor, the tradwife movement, and of course the attacks on labor unions and voting rights"
~ @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/27/for-the-little-people/

nwchapman, 23 days ago to random

If you get 5150ed, you may get 3 nights of meals and a bed, and possibly a refill on your meds and some medical care.

Or you might just be tranquilized to the eyeballs for 72 hours then pushed out the door groggy and back where you started.

Welcome to 21st Century mental health care and social services in one of the wealthiest areas of the wealthiest society in human history

https://sfba.social/@SFPublicPress/112395054670216015

nwchapman, 5 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

nwchapman, 7 months ago to random

Ugh. Kinda tired of (1) all the errors in SF Standard articles, though errors are not confined to them, and (2) this line SF Standard seems determined to push that one politico basically dreamed up night markets when things like that have been happening for years, and various people - including me - have been pushing for more of them for years, and raising concerns about some of the regulatory speed bumps for them, something I broached in a big City Hall meeting back in 2019...

(Most unsubtle error in the piece is that the night market was not on the consent calendar.)

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/26/san-francisco-chinatown-night-market-november/

nwchapman, 1 month ago to random

The cherryist VW van I have ever seen

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nwchapman, 4 months ago to random

Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress.

Public health cannot be individualized. Abandoning collective approaches to disease mitigation is a recipe for disaster. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/institutional-covid-denial-has-killed

nwchapman, 8 days ago to climate

Scientists have warned of increased turbulence, particularly “clear air turbulence” which is harder to detect or forecast, as global heating warms air at higher altitudes and makes weather more unpredictable.

#ClimateCrisis https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight

nwchapman, 7 days ago to random

Those were the days

nwchapman, 6 days ago to random

Yes, it was a Boeing https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/united-boeing-737-diverted-19474460.php

nwchapman, 3 days ago to random

“Tear White Supremacy a New One”

#RadicalGraffiti bus stop ad alteration in San Francisco

nwchapman, 3 days ago to random

On Google's monkeying around with search:

"Google controls the roads. If tomorrow they decide the roads won't go to an entire town, that town dies. It's too much power to just shrug and say, 'Oh well, it's just the free market.'"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet

nwchapman, 3 days ago to climate

Forecasters are predicting that 2024's hurricane season could be among the most active on record. To understand what a super hurricane season is like, we spoke to people who have already lived through one.

#ClimateCrisis https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240523-what-a-record-breaking-hurricane-season-looks-like