What's it like to be part of the Seattle cop CCTV data sharing network?

Glad you asked, so here's what Katie Wilson's (with the help of Axon's Fusus AI platform) hot new camera network can do.

It can track cars and individuals throughout the city in real time. It uploads all of the camera feeds to Axons cloud.

Fusing public police camera feeds into the AI system along with private Ring cameras on hones and in businesses.

#Seattle #KatieWilson #Axon #Fusus

"Give Iran something"
"A toll that's not called a toll"
-Anthony Blinken Former U.S. Secretary of State

Blinken admits the US has lost the Iran war but needs a path to saving face. He suggests a paying Iran's toll and just not calling it a toll if at all possible in his remarks to Indian press this weekend.

#AnthonyBlinken #NewDelhi #Iran #India

If you're annoyed at Microsoft, this might help you feel a little better.

Oh that's juicy. Schumer's own Mayer doesn't back his bid

https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-declines-to-back-fellow-new-yorker-schumer-as-senate-majority-leader

#ChuckSchumer #Mamdani

#ausdemwaldmitgebracht #NaturePhotography #nature #fungi #mushrooms #november

NAACP President Derrick Johnson issued a statement saying the state’s voters, most notably Black voters, “made history because they refused to be intimidated, discouraged, or counted out” in a state that has seen “some of the nation’s most difficult battles for voting rights.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-elects-democrat-scott-colom-as-states-first-black-us-senator-since-reconstruction/

Xi seems to be taking a hybrid approach.

A real belief in the natural rise of socialist/communist politics but also trying to remain as neutral as possible geopolitically to grow economically.

The US refusing to normalize trade with China pushed in the 90s and early to 2000s into a LOT of partnerships with Israel.

The crown jewel being China's contract to manage the Port of Haifi... which is today is worthless to China due to the resistance to the genocide

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-opens-chinese-operated-port-haifa-boost-regional-trade-links-2021-09-02/

So, they're running one of those weird dual-slot Pentium III boards with two physical CPUs. Running Linux - somehow - on a hard drive that's almost full, a userspace partition on NTFS and more, and the more I hear about this system the more confused I get.

For the non nerds following this thread, this is like finding out somebody's daily driver is built out of the parts of a sports car, a semi and a train, and it's running on vegetable oil. You might ask why, but the first question is ... how?

Interesting talk on the Xi Jinping approach to Iran, Palestine and the genocide in Gaza.

It's interesting to consider how China has shifted from principled approaches to geo politics to more financially motivated neutrality on hard questions.

But the situation with Israel's genocide has destroyed China's economic incentives to be neutral on Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4ag8yukwE

#XiJinping #China #Iran #Palestine #Israel #UAE #us #Haifa #FreePalestine

I will throw the national security state a bone... would be wild if these stories were part of the accounting process...

https://abcnews.com/US/114m-shipment-nvidia-cargo-stolen-oakland-california/story?id=137912102

#nvidia

NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The reason behind this was to maintain the perception of ongoing high demand and to move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC.

RE: https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/117609633568099412

Amazon now sells autonomous surveillance drones that can fly around your house and surveil it like a Ring camera surveils your front door and porch.

I know enough tech-enthusiastic people who will celebrate this development and not see the problems with it. They will get themselves such drones in addition to their Ring doorbell cameras they already have and the Echo in their bedroom that already watches them having sex.

Fucking hell. It's known that Amazon hands its surveillance material to the police. Police may tap into the video material as they like. Citizens are paying for their own surveillance, and for their neighbor's and passers-by.

How long until these drones will carry guns? Because some psychopath CEO like Alex Karp wants it and Palantir makes their own drones? Or maybe Amazon will do it themselves.

Imagine what Israel did with explosive pagers but with autonomous drones. Have you seen the movie The Wandering Earth? I'm thinking of the beginning scene.

Step by step surveillance is normalized. Now we're at the stage of flying autonomous drones that idiots will even pay for and buy themselves. And which their neighbors will have to tolerate (if they don't shoot them down with an EMP, Matrix-style).

The open-air prison system that is called Gaza really is the testing ground.

I wish I could say, "boycott Amazon. Don't give them money this Black Friday" and the problem was solved. Amazon makes the bulk of its money from AWS though, not from consumers doing their shopping at the everything store. It would take more resistance than just reducing your shopping habits. @alineblankertz and @malteengeler outline some resistance tactics in their book "Digital Solidarity"*. Stop giving Amazon your money is still better than doing nothing though.

* Their book is currently published only in German. If you know a publisher that could be interested in publishing them in English, contact them or me.

@ewen

Some people couldn't.

Local police research outfit HardPressed had reports from this summer showing a more complete list of who has access to Seattle police surveillance platform.

There's everything from corporate partners to individuals using obviously false names.

https://www.hardpressed-info.com/kwezrjxzht-lrrpfvdfg-has-access-to-seattle-shield-network-with-ice/

#Seattle #Flock #Privacy #surveillance #SPD

Don't forget, SPD already shares intelligence with corporate partners actively.

So when they say they won't share data with ICE it's impossible to know where all of this backroom data trading ends up

https://www.prismreports.org/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/

#Seattle #SPD #Amazon #Facebook #Privacy #surveillance

BREAKING - Seattle police has been renting vehicles for HSI/ICE throughout this year.

SPD cops went so far as to use fake business details to try and hide the fact that SPD were spending department money assisting Federal immigration enforcement activities!

If SPD can't even be trusted to truthfully maintain a fucking Hertz rental account without helping ICE... how the flying fuck can Mayor Wilson claim CCTV won't be abused by SPD?

https://www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-pd-is-renting-cars-for-ice/

#SPD #ICE #HSI #Seattle #ACAB

We’re going to find out that USA air traffic control is dependent on a spreadsheet that gets emailed daily via Office365, aren’t we?

#Seattle Police Department is directly abetting #ICE abductions of our neighbors. #SPD should enforce laws instead of helping the federal government break them.

https://www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-pd-is-renting-cars-for-ice/