"Automated license plate readers, also known as ALPRs, are usually installed at intersections and capture images of every license plate passing through. The data is stored with law enforcement agencies and can be used to find a vehicle ownerโ€™s information.

State law limits who can access the information, who it can be shared with, and how long the data can be kept. However, police agencies in California โ€” including the L.A. Police Department โ€” have illegally shared ALPR data with federal immigration agents, CalMatters reported.

laist.com/news/transportation/โ€ฆ

#privacy #alpr #licenseplatereaders #police #ice #fascism #immigration

reshared this

"We do not understand a way of thinking that would spend hundreds of millions on Elwha River restoration but continue to industrially log in that same watershed. We do not understand a way of thinking that takes too much and says it is never enough; that would disrespect a River that gives us so much life and now hope.

Our ancestral knowledge and sacred obligation to the natural world teaches us a different path. We have inherent and treaty protected rights in these lands as our usual and accustomed gathering areas. Together, we call for the protection of the Elwha Watershed as a commitment to our mutual future and to the wellbeing of all who depend upon it. We ask you to stop these planned timber sales and heed our call to be guided by principles of respect and reciprocity in caring for the watershed."

truthout.org/articles/forest-pโ€ฆ

#environment #trees #washington

democracynow.org/2025/7/9/netaโ€ฆ

JD Vance is a great Vice President.

VANCE: "You cannot swap 10 million people from anywhere in the world and expect America to remain unchanged. You cannot export the Constitution to some random country and expect the same kind of government. Our citizens are not interchangeable cogs in the global economy."

x.com/theblaze/status/19426243โ€ฆ

Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by โ€˜mass casualty incidentsโ€™ at food distribution sites | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/julโ€ฆ

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #GHF
@palestine

Our dog Suki's been sick all night, liquid poo, spray blasting her pen; ate some burger and rice this morning, seemed tired but otherwise acting normal demanding pets etc.

But then she puked up all the beef and rice along with a billiard ball sized hunk of something hard and fibrous.

Our regular vet is closed today for some reason, but another nearby vet had an opening this morning so Anne took her over there just a moment ago.

in reply to Partisan Night Slut

Yup, and he used to "visit" his aunt in Eastport, ME, but would charge to give a speech up there and thus it was work related so NYC taxpayers paid for his trip and entourage.

Eastport, ME is super liberal with rainbow crosswalks for PRIDE, and of course a BLM painted on the street.

One of the ladies that helped care for my father was his aunt's caretaker also.

Epstein Files, War in the Middle East, continued support for Ukraine, increased budget debt.
Musk has decided a new Party can change the current course of the Uni-Party

  • This will hurt the Republican Party (9%, 2 votes)
  • This will hurt the Democratic Party (4%, 1 vote)
  • This will create a viable third Party (9%, 2 votes)
  • Doesn't matter, we're screwed (77%, 17 votes)
22 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

in reply to Arthur_500

What i FIND interesting about this poll is 10% think this willhurt the Republicans and only 5% think it will hurt the dumbocrats.
With such a slim margin in congress this difference will kill POTUS 47 and he will be impeached and never complete his administration.
In addition, once DJT is gone, good potential future POTUS with less progressive views will stand no chance against the communists.
Doesn't matter - we're screwed.

The only way to save the Country is for Dems to take super-majority control over the House and Senate, impeach the 5 SCOTUS justices, expand the Court from 9 to 13 Justices, and implement mandatory term AND age limits (I say 18 years and 70 years old). For that matter there should be age limits for all Politicians including the President too. Once you hit 70 you're gone.


I'm old enough to remember the SCOTUS saying Biden didn't have power to waive student debt, despite explicit legislation to do just that.

Yet Trump can mass fire civil servants, shut down Congressionally mandated bodies and send refugees to dangerous third countries without any due process.

Another "this is fine" moment in the burning ruins of America's former democracy.
#ThisIsAmericaNow


According to the report, Field of Bachelorโ€™s Degree in the United States: 2022, bachelorโ€™s degrees in business management and administration (4.8 million), psychology (3.7 million), general business (3.7 million), nursing (3.6 million), and general education (3.1 million) were the most common in 2022 among those age 25 and older.

Note that Business Management is being replaced by AI (not well).
Psychology is useless and relies on insurance.
Nursing is important but being squeeezed
Education??

in reply to ๐••๐•š๐•’๐•Ÿ๐•’ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿฆ‹

ๅฅณๅญ้ซ˜็”Ÿ = female high school students.

Japanese is a wonderful language for abbreviation. ้ซ˜็”Ÿ is an abbreviation for ้ซ˜็ญ‰ๅญฆๆ กใฎ็”Ÿๅพ’.

For some reason, Japanese female high school students just have an excessive amount of both cute and cool.

in reply to Lady MountainJay

โ€” more specifically, these two:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=VHUrdELKโ€ฆ

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldizQkuWโ€ฆ

Mark #Rutte, le Secrรฉtaire gรฉnรฉral de l' #OTAN s'est retrouvรฉ en difficultรฉ face aux questions de journalistes, lors d'une confรฉrence de presse avant le sommet de l'OTAN :

Rutte n'a pas su donner de rรฉponse claire, ni fournir de preuves, aux questions : "pourquoi il croit que la Russie pourrait attaquer les pays de l'OTAN dans les 5 prochaines annรฉes", et "sur quoi est fondรฉe sa prรฉdiction d'une รฉventuelle attaque de la Russie", comme il n'arrรชte pas de l'affirmer ร  qui veut l'entendre.

En rรฉponse, Rutte a รฉtรฉ confus, il a parlรฉ de "prรฉoccupation gรฉnรฉrale de l'alliance", puis a mentionnรฉ des dรฉclarations du ministre allemand de la dรฉfense et de dirigeants militaires et des responsables du renseignement, selon lesquels la Russie "pourrait" attaquer l'OTAN dans... 3, 5, 7 ou 9 ans... si l'alliance n'augmente pas ses dรฉpenses de dรฉfense.
- "Donc nous sommes prรฉoccupรฉs" a rรฉpondu Rutte.

Et ร  la question : "et pour quelle raison, Moscou lancerait une attaque sur les pays de l'Alliance ?" Rutte s'est contentรฉ de rรฉpondre que "si la #Russie attaque, elle devrait faire face ร  des consรฉquences dรฉvastatrices de la part de l'OTAN", mais sans rรฉpondre ร  la question posรฉe, ni fournir de preuves concrรจtes ร  l'appui de ses affirmations alarmantes.

Rutte a soutenu que l'OTAN se prรฉpare ร  un conflit avec la Russie et que selon ses estimations, les prรฉparatifs dureraient de 3 ร  5 ans. Ses dรฉclarations faisaient suite ร  une visite qu'il a faite ร  un Think Tank ร  Londres. Et il avait ajoutรฉ que les pays de l'OTAN "devraient faire face ร  la nรฉcessitรฉ d'apprendre le Russe" s'ils n'augmentaient pas leur production de dรฉfense"...

Le Prรฉsident russe Vladimir #Poutine a soulignรฉ ร  plusieurs reprises que la #Russie n'a aucune intention de partir en guerre contre l' #Europe ou l'OTAN. Le chef de l'ร‰tat Russe a mรชme qualifiรฉ de telles dรฉclarations "d'inepties". Selon lui, l'UE essaie simplement d'effrayer sa propre population avec de telles inventions pour pomper l'argent de ses concitoyens.
Le chef de l'ร‰tat a ajoutรฉ que la Russie ne considรจre pas l'augmentation du potentiel militaire de l'OTAN comme une menace, puisque la Russie possรจde tout ce qu'il faut pour garantir sa Sรฉcuritรฉ : "Les Forces armรฉes russes et le potentiel de dรฉfense sont en cours de dรฉveloppement et de modernisation continus", a-t-il ajoutรฉ.
Quant ร  la phrase de Rutte, disant que les pays de l'OTAN "devraient apprendre le Russe", le vice-prรฉsident russe de la Sรฉcuritรฉ Dmitry Medvedev lui a rรฉpondu par un tweet :
- "Le secrรฉtaire gรฉnรฉral Rutte, a manifestement abusรฉ des champignons magiques tant apprรฉciรฉs des Nรฉerlandais. Mais il a raison sur un point : il devrait apprendre le Russe. Cela pourrait lui รชtre utile dans un camp sibรฉrien".


Yuliya Titania

ฮŸ ฮฑฯฮนฮธฮผฯŒฯ‚ ฯ„ฯ‰ฮฝ ฮŸฯ…ฮบฯฮฑฮฝฯŽฮฝ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฮตฮฏฮฝฮฑฮน ฮฑฯ€ฮฑฮนฯƒฮนฯŒฮดฮฟฮพฮฟฮน ฮณฮนฮฑ ฯ„ฮฟ ฮผฮญฮปฮปฮฟฮฝ ฯ„ฮทฯ‚ ฯ‡ฯŽฯฮฑฯ‚ ฮตฮฏฮฝฮฑฮน ฮปฮญฮตฮน 47%.
ฮฃฮต ฮผฮนฮฑ ฯ‡ฯŽฯฮฑ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฮตฮฏฮฝฮฑฮน ฯƒฮต ฯ€ฯŒฮปฮตฮผฮฟ 3 ฯ‡ฯฯŒฮฝฮนฮฑ, ฮญฯ‡ฮตฮน ฯ‡ฮฌฯƒฮตฮน ฯ„ฮฟ 30% ฯ„ฯ‰ฮฝ ฮตฮดฮฑฯ†ฯŽฮฝ ฯ„ฮทฯ‚ ฮบฮฑฮน ฯ„ฮฟ 40% ฯ„ฮฟฯ… ฯ€ฮปฮทฮธฯ…ฯƒฮผฮฟฯ ฮญฯ‡ฮตฮน ฮผฮตฯ„ฮฑฮฝฮฑฯƒฯ„ฮตฯฯƒฮตฮน.

ฮฃฯ„ฮฟ ฮ•ฮปฮปฮฑฮฝฯ„ฮฑ ฮดฮตฮฝ ฮญฯ‡ฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต -ฮฑฮบฮฟฮผฮฑ- ฯ€ฯŒฮปฮตฮผฮฟ, ฮฑฮปฮปฮฌ ฮญฯ‡ฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต ฮšฮฟฯฮปฮท, ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฌฯฮฑ ฯ„ฮฟ ฯ€ฮฟฯƒฮฟฯƒฯ„ฯŒ ฮฑฯ€ฯŒฮณฮฝฯ‰ฯƒฮทฯ‚ ฯ€ฮปฮทฯƒฮนฮฌฮถฮตฮน ฯ„ฮฟ 80%.

Save the Children warns Israelโ€™s blockade of fuel into Gaza threatens to cut off supplies of drinking water to about 44,000 children within days.

That would increase the risk of outbreaks of waterborne illnesses such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery.

โ€œAccess to safe water is a fundamental human right.โ€

โ€œNot only is food and aid being withheld to an entire population on the brink โ€“ fuel that powers the systems that are critical for survival has not been allowed in for four months.โ€

#Gaza

In a harrowing testimony that underscores the immense toll of Israelโ€™s ongoing war on Gaza, Lina Abu Safiya, the wife of detained pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, recounted the events leading up to her husbandโ€™s arrest from Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

Lina described her husband as a dedicated physician who refused to leave his patients, despite being offered a rare opportunity to escape the besieged enclave.

palestinechronicle.com/he-chosโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ•Ž ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ โ˜ฎ๏ธ
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

โ€œSuddenly, something you thought was a First Amendment protected activity now lands you under scrutiny of police,โ€ EFFโ€™s Matthew Guariglia told @laistofficial. โ€œAnd suddenly that license plate reader data, which you thought was so innocuous, is a lot less innocuous.โ€ laist.com/news/transportation/โ€ฆ

Patriot Front - Louisville, Kentucky Independence Day Protest - Video Compilation


On July 5, 2025, Patriot Front activists marched in Louisville, Kentucky in honor of Independence Day. A speech was given at the Jefferson County Courthouse by Thomas Rousseau.

Can Americans claim to be independent if we are attacked, betrayed, undercut, and controlled by both foreign nations and foreign money? If our nation is sold out from under us by exported jobs, and further ruined by imported foreign invaders to claim dominion over the soil which our forebears fought and died for to pass down as our heritage, are we a nation which has independence?

The time for celebration and innocent fun on July 4 is inappropriate when we are in such dire and revolutionary times. The activist stands up to fight and make his stand against a country which has betrayed him and seeks his obliteration in favor of more easily controlled third world peasants and violent invaders.

The era of globalism has ended. Nationalist action is creating the crucible in which the men who will save our nation are forged.

Submit your application today:
patriotfront.us/join

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Got back from the Independence Day protest. I made a little compilation video of the thus-far released cell phone videos of the march, & I captioned Thomas' speech at the Courthouse.

I was the bass drummer, and I hope you all enjoy the new drumhead design we made. A slight variation of the Sonnenrad with 13 bolts, a fasces center, and the 13 Stars of the Betsy Ross flag in between the 13 characters of E PLURIBUS UNUM to represent the many European nations who comprise our White American race.

More videos to come soon, but wanted to post this ASAP. Hope we made you all proud. :sonnenrad: :hailvictory: :swazi:

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It's odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:

Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.


"Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity" is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there's probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA's latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it's misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).

#dev #tech #AI #energy #power #DataCenters

in reply to ึ†แŽฎโŠฐโ—œโ—Ÿโ‹Žโ—žโ—โŠฑึ†แŽฎ

We benchmark GPUs and CPUs in a multitude of ways, including FLOPS, number of transistors (per unit space), etc. In fact performance-per-unit-of-power is one of the more important ones from a design perspective. Ignoring all the other ones in favor of a single metric that's removed from what you actually do with the device is bizarre.
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