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AI-powered police body cameras, once taboo, get tested on Canadian city's 'watch list' of faces Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list.

“…six years after leading body camera maker Axon Enterprise, Inc. said police use of facial recognition technology posed serious ethical concerns, the pilot project — switched on last week— is raising alarms far beyond Edmonton, the continent’s northernmost city of more than 1 million people.”

i hope someday i win the fifa peace prize. maybe even the pizza hut medal of honor. or hell, why not, a costco oscar

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

Our digital systems reward belonging over accuracy, with people gaining status by aligning with their group, not by checking facts. Once beliefs become tied to identity, more media literacy won’t shift behaviour, the social rewards run against work against it.

Counter proposal: public hangings of tech billionaires.

Intelligence watchdog facing cuts as Liberals seek new powers for national security agencies | CBC News One of the watchdogs meant to keep Canada's intelligence and security activities in check is warning it will have to reduce the number of reviews it can take on due to the Liberal government’s spendin...

One of the watchdogs meant to keep Canada's intelligence and security activities in check says its ability to scrutinize those powerful organizations will be hindered due to government spending cuts.

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you can watch it here for free anytime you like and i hope you enjoy it as much as i have.
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Incredible Star Citizen patch note just dropped...

Better than the person who left the Cruz bottles all over the field, at least nature can reclaim those metal whatever-we-call-thingamajigs-in-the-future!

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

It’s what happens when people don’t rinse out their ships before you salvage them.

This Alberta pediatrician captures something clinicians everywhere feel but rarely articulate this clearly:

Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.

Worth your time:

Spacecraft cruising through space #StarCitizen

TGIF.

#StarCitizen #VirtualPhotography

It was a beautiful day for mining, though. It always is. #StarCitizen

Agitated space miner inspecting component that was blown off the outside of his mining ship #StarCitizen

Another angle of a space miner inspecting component that was blown off the outside of his mining ship #StarCitizen

Yet another angle of a space miner inspecting component that was blown off the outside of his mining ship. He knows he knows better. #StarCitizen

New rule: no more wasting my time using my ship to mine ROC or hand mineables.

She’s a good ship, still brought me home, so I ought to treat her better. #StarCitizen

All persons are human and deserve protection from assault, whether or not they are incarcerated. ALL PERSONS.

(repeats silently) For Tanaka.

I also upgraded my Vanguard to an Apollo Medivac, hated it, melted it and bought back my beloved Vanguard 😂. Spent the extra credit on a couple of paints I can’t get in-game.

My only reasoning for changing it would be because it has a minimum crew of 4, and I don’t know what I was thinking when I got it other than it looks amazing and should make a good explorer lol. But it was a much smaller ship then, more like the Carrack (which is still huge).

I was tempted to upgrade the BMM to an Odyssey, but it would upset me greatly when I then would be tempted to pay again to upgrade the Odyssey to a BMM 😂

Still debating a Nomad to Wolf variant upgrade before the option disappears for me. No big spending planned.

That’s a nice collection. I spent much of my fleet money early on and I’ve let most of it ride, buying little things or upgrading things along the way. I didn’t have little kids eating through all my gaming budget back then lol. But I have no regrets, I know a lot of console gamers that spend more.

It’s funny, I too get a C2 as a loaner for my BMM. But, I also get a Defender which I must say is pretty neat.

In any case, I hope you enjoy it. What a great ship to have this year with two star systems coming online!

But it’s a bigger ship and their roles (to this point) are quite different? … that’s pretty cool though!

What ship do you get a Carrack loaner for??

Completely agree.

Ontario government heavily underfunds education at all levels and then cries that the system isn’t working, news at 11

Ontario to review learning, testing after ‘insufficient progress’ in EQAO results: Calandra Education Minister Paul Calandra says he is appointing an expert advisory body to lead a “thorough review” of how Ontario supports student learning following disappointing standardized test results fo...

The EQAO tests should be abolished.
“Educators are struggling with large class sizes, increasing workloads, and rising violence in schools, yet the Ford government remains incomprehensibly fixated on meaningless EQAO results,” said ETFO President David Mastin.
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That’s awesome.

Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity” The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.-Mexico divide was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.

Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity”
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