Video of the abduction. Good on the people of Boston for shouting them down in the street. Looks like some ICE goons without masks this time.

Thanks. Pleasantly surprised that there are not too many ALPRs nearby me according to deflock.me. I was thinking, though, what about privately owned ALPRs to track known enforcement vehicles. I didn’t know what laws come into play there (or what unequal enforcement). The photos on the article do look high quality though, definitely beyond a Pi camera board pointed out a window. OTOH tagging “purple bumper sticker” or “bike rack” honestly doesn’t sound that far beyond OpenCV or AI tools these days.

What’s the camera technology like? Is a distributed citizen-owned network to watch the watchers feasible?

Or, you know, when your kids are dying of measles.

Also to arrest basically any kindergartner.

linking […] to immigration

Ah, so:

1. Gotta cut SS because of immigrants
2. Uh oh people really want SS
3. Look I saved SS by deporting immigrants

Yeah at this point I’m surprised you need to hack it before it’ll stop working.

A clear line back to voting and legislation:

A desire to resume executions during a 10-year pause due to a shortage of lethal injection drugs prompted Republican state lawmakers to pass and GOP South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster in 2021 to sign legislation forcing the state’s death row inmates to choose between the electric chair, firing squad, or lethal injection (if available) as their method of execution.

many South Carolina Republicans want to expand the category of crimes that qualify for capital punishment. In 2023, more than 20 Republican state lawmakers backed a bill to make people who obtain abortion care eligible for execution.

Classic correlation v. causation. The sweet spot for productivity is believing in and wanting to do your work. For some people, this motivates them to spend tons of time working. For some people, this boueys then to high productivity even while exercising great work life balance and avoiding burnout.

Google used to know this, and spend huge amounts of effort and resources on trust, enjoyment, innovation. Now that’s something to find at other companies.

Yeah, about half the time I refresh the page I get “access denied FE”. Not that I refreshed it that many times, that could cause unnecessary load on the site.

TIL, I would have thought (if done correctly) you’d just pass out and then die. Though I guess altitude sickness is pretty unpleasant. Anyway, still opposed to the death penalty — too easy to be wrong, no need for state sanctioned murder in this age, etc.

Those who administered the method, according to Greenberg, described graphic scenes that included seizures, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and other issues as the animal died. Those in attendance of the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia shared similar disturbing details after attending the execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama earlier this year, who was the first person to die in the U.S. by administration of gas for execution.

According to Death Penalty Info, wit­ness­es report­ed that Mr. Smith appeared awake for sev­er­al min­utes after the nitro­gen gas began. They observed that he “shook and writhed” for at least four min­utes before breath­ing heav­i­ly for anoth­er few min­utes. “This was the fifth exe­cu­tion that I’ve wit­nessed in Alabama, and I have nev­er seen such a vio­lent reac­tion to an exe­cu­tion,” said media wit­ness Lee Hedgepeth.

Quite the virus:

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known. The virus travels through the air and can linger in the airspace of a room for up to two hours after an infected person has been present. Among unvaccinated people exposed to the virus, 90 percent will become infected.

In the US, about 20 percent of people with measles are typically hospitalized. Five percent develop pneumonia, and up to 3 in 1,000 die of the infection. Later in life, measles can also cause a fatal disease of the central nervous system called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. And the virus can erase immune responses to other infections (a phenomenon known as immune amnesia), making people vulnerable to various illnesses.

From Beth Mole at Ars.

I wonder what version of Windows the systems are running.

And that security is by app not by network rules.

And sell a lot of equipment to genocide perpetrators.

hope you’re happy

Or better, hope your losing sleep and sick to your stomachs and ready to take action in every available protest, election, boycott, donation, etc.

Akash Bobba, 21, a student at the University of California, Berkeley; Edward Coristine, 19, a student at Northeastern University in Boston; and Ethan Shaotran, 22, who said in September he was a senior at Harvard.

The ones who actually have degrees, or at least have left college, are: Luke Farritor, 23, who attended the University of Nebraska without graduating; Gautier Cole Killian, a 24-year-old who attended McGill University; and Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old who attended Berkeley;

For better or worse, reading the linked article does not expose you to the fake images.

Interesting hack:

The hack exploits the random combination of numbers and letters used in such short codes, making it impossible to know where it’s leading until you get there. When customizing such links, the platform will stop you duplicating an existing shortcode, But Binder explains that “it appears that there was a bug in Bitly that allowed users to create a custom back-half that was previously in use if the original link or Bitly account that created the link was deleted or deactivated.”

WTF

For trails I already use OSM, how is it for navigation?

Apple maps? Other preferences?

I wonder what the options are no buck Google Navigation on my EV’s infotainment console.