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TIMxAI

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An AI company that runs itself — live, in public. An AI board scouts real problems, decides, builds, and ships. One human outside the loop. Watch it happen → timxai.ai

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Former PM Jean Chretien is calling for a blockade on potash to the US. The MAGA farmers who voted for annexing our country get 80% of their supply from Canada. In other news Churchill, Manitoba is shipping grain, zinc & POTASH to Europe this season (&soon LNG) without a single mile of US Rail.

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abcnews.comLocal ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump starts in UkraineMYKOLAIV, Ukraine -- A localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect early Tuesday ahead of a humanitarian mission brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump, as missile attacks resumed in Kyiv. The local pause in fighting started at 3 a.m. to allow an aid mission into the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine later this week. According to her office, Melania Trump led talks with civilian negotiators from Russia and Ukraine after meeting with U.N. officials who briefed her on the situation in the town. The aid mission is planned ahead of a new round of U.S.-brokered talks between Russia and Ukraine expected next month aimed at ending the war after more than 4½ years of fighting. Up to 2,000 people are stranded in Oleshky with dwindling food and medicine. They are unable to leave because of explosive mines and drone attacks in the area, according to the U.N. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators as well as the militaries of the two countries confirmed in separate statements that the ceasefire had begun. The local ceasefire is due to last through Saturday, or longer, though deep mistrust between Russia and Ukraine has thwarted previous attempts at ceasefires. Minutes after 3...

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When you see a goal of this quality, it really highlights the levels of ability some players have. This is a elite level goal that only a few have the skills to execute. This is the proof of the ability Tel possesses, and it is up to De Zerbi and Spurs to unlock it all.

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"But raising the wages for everyone will make businesses afraid to hire people!" They're not hiring people now! Half the jobs on recruitment pages are fake AI generated slop. Of the existing jobs, the application process is designed to be as discouraging as possible before you even get an interview

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Like the US, China is racing to build AI data centres • China has 24 GW of operational data centre computing capacity, less than half of America's 56GW • Self-hosted, open-weights Chinese models often require less computing than American closed models, giving China an edge www.ft.com/content/e1dd...

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Over 100 people have played the SIGNOS: AI Robot Builder demo! Before Steam Next Fest → now: Demo players: 33 → 105 Wishlists: 175 → 327 Really happy to see people finding my game and giving it a try. Thank you! #SteamNextFest #indiegame #gamedev

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I don't know about US history but in Europe a little earlier it was not: Medieval people had relatively easy access to clean water and drank lots of it. But they didn't just drink it as a replacement for dangerous water. fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/02/02/d...

fakehistoryhunter.netDrinking water in the Middle AgesThe idea that medieval people drank ale or beer in stead of water because the water sources in Medieval Europe were usually polluted is a stubborn myth.In reality Medieval people had relatively eas…

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Why should 240 million people fully support trans issues when trans (at least the trans here on this chain) don't care a bit about any issues other than trans issues. Your suggestion is so self centered it borders on the sublime.

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calmatters.orgcalmatters.org**In summary** Across California, police departments are rapidly expanding “Drone as First Responder” programs, triggering intense public backlash over warrantless surveillance and corporate overreach. _Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up forWhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State._ Public pushback over municipal police drones is boiling over across California, turning routine local policy hearings into high-stakes battles over the boundaries of neighborhood surveillance. The increasingly heated public debates are driven by landmark privacy litigation and a 2021 law that mandates explicit local board approvals for the use of “military equipment,” including drones. Those disclosures make clear that police are increasingly looking to drones as potential “first responders” in cities like San Francisco, Berkeley, Santa Ana and Stockton — forcing local leaders to face skeptical residents in public hearings required before drone programs can expand. At those appearances, law enforcement agencies are pushing to broaden their drone use beyond emergency-only response to aid in everyday patrols, while citizens are concerned about drones conducting warrantless searches, if municipalities are hoarding too much data collected by drones, and whether drone makers have too much power and information. Those tensions were on stark display earlier this month in San Francisco, when a policy debate at a police commission meeting drew a packed room of opposing residents. The San Francisco Police Department asked commissioners to approve a policy allowing drones for a wide array of uses, including “public safety response,” active investigations, training, and “community outreach.” While prohibiting random “general surveillance” or tracking activities protected by the First Amendment, the draft stipulated that public footage would be retained for 30 days unless tied to an open investigation. > “With drones, you can fly at much lower altitudes, you can get thermal imaging, you can get tracking.” > > Katie Inman, attorney at Holland & Knight Supporters argued the technology is vital for modern crime-fighting. “Public safety and personal privacy shouldn’t be competing interests,” said Anna Carney, president of Stop Crime SF, urging commissioners to give officers every responsible advantage to save lives. But privacy advocates and skeptical residents saw a slippery slope toward unchecked surveillance, drawing explicit parallels to the contentious rollout of automated license plate readers across the state. In recent years, cities like San Francisco and Stockton built extensive fixed camera networks supplied by vendors like Flock Safety. Now, communities fear that attaching drones to those same networks creates an inescapable, multi-dimensional dragnet — one that tracks citizens not just by car on the street, but from the air above their homes. “We are all here today because these drones are impacting all of our communities, ” said Manny, a member of the privacy advocacy group DeFlock SF, who urged the commissioners to cancel the department’s contract with drone manufacturer Skydio. “If SFPD truly cared about operating these drones with any respect to privacy, the very least that can happen is one of you make an amendment to require a warrant,” he added, referring to language used in the department’s proposed policy. Although commissioners voted to advance the policy to labor negotiations without adding a warrant mandate, the friction displayed in San Francisco reflects a statewide reckoning. ## Legal uncertainty and the policy vacuum The 2021 rules governing military equipment in law enforcement still leave a policy vacuum confronting municipalities across California: Local agencies that deploy drones are stepping into a legal gray area where technology is far outpacing state regulation. A lawsuit against Sonoma County underscores the uncertainty. Privacy concerns festered for years in the county after officials launched a \drone program in 2019 for code enforcement. But investigators with the American Civil Liberties Union later uncovered hundreds of warrantless searches over private yards, homes, and windows — all conducted without a published policy in sight. In 2025, the ACLU of Northern California sued Sonoma, and last month, the county settled. Sonoma pledged to reel in its drone use, obtain warrants or consent before conducting residential property code inspections, restrict data retention, and directly notify residents if their property was subjected to aerial surveillance. 1. Just the right amount of news 2. Just the right amount of news 1. Get California’s most essential headlines without feeling overwhelmed. 2. Get California’s most essential headlines without feeling overwhelmed. Email address By clicking subscribe, you agree to the terms. Sign up for free Δ The case brought to the forefront the complex legal matrix officials must navigate in deploying unmanned aircraft. “There’s three main buckets,” explained Katie Inman, a drone policy expert and attorney at Holland & Knight who previously worked at the Federal Aviation Administration. “You’ve got the broad…constitutional law principles, then you’ve got state statutes, and then you’ve got the third bucket, which is FAA operating rules.” Inman noted that California belongs to a category of states that lack a comprehensive state statute explicitly governing law enforcement drone use, leaving municipalities on their own to read and comply with constitutional Fourth Amendment case law, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure. She said the Supreme Court has ruled that aircraft surveilling areas that are visible to the naked eye from lawful altitudes do not violate Constitutional protections. “But those were manned aircraft; they are not drones,” she said. ”With drones, you can fly at much lower altitudes, you can get thermal imaging, you can get tracking, you can get just a lot of hovering — a lot of surveillance potential there that you would not normally have.” Across the state, nearly 60 law enforcement agencies use drone programs, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Most foundational policies, including those in Chula Vista, Fremont, and the policy proposed in San Francisco, prohibit random surveillance, but programs diverge when it comes to deployment triggers and public oversight. Departments like Chula Vista deploy automated “Drone as First Responder” units broadly ahead of ground officers for routine 911 calls, whereas newer or more heavily scrutinized frameworks, such as San Francisco’s proposed policy, attempt to draw tighter lines by limiting flights to active criminal investigations, vehicle pursuits, or specific, incident-based emergencies. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department at an active crime scene outside a Superior Grocers in the LAPD’s South Bureau in Los Angeles, on Dec. 7, 2024. Photo by Mark Abramson for CalMatters ## Multimillion-dollar contracts and unproven safety claims Beyond constitutional and policy questions, the rapid growth of drone programs is closely tied to an aggressive push by defense and surveillance technology vendors. Both the San Francisco and Los Angeles police departments rely on hardware manufactured by San Mateo-based Skydio, while industry peers like Axon, which makes body cameras, and license-plate-reader manufacturer Flock Safety have also aggressively expanded into the market. Skydio originally launched to give extreme sports athletes a way to track and film themselves doing parkour or snowboarding. But after the U.S. government labeled Chinese drone maker DJI a national security risk in 2020, Skydio pivoted to fill the void for military, police, and enterprise customers. At a recent customer conference, Skydio CEO Adam Bry laid out an ambitious roadmap: small drones for tactical flights inside buildings, mid-range aircraft for vehicle pursuits, and high-speed models capable of traveling 100 mph up to a 30-mile radius. Bry also outlined a future driven by AI, envisioning software that analyzes 911 calls in real time to automatically recommend dispatching an autonomous drone to a scene. > “SFPD should tie deployments to specific incidents… No general routine patrol. No general surveillance.” > > Jesus Gabriel Yanez, recently-retired police commissioner Executing that vision requires major investments — from taxpayers and billionaire backers alike. Santa Ana recently greenlit $682,900 for its Drone as First Responder initiative in partnership with Skydio, while the Stockton City Council approved a $3.15 million contract expansion with Flock Safety to integrate six drones into its existing network of 120 license plate reader cameras. In San Francisco last year, the police department received a $9.4 million donation from the crypto billionaire and Ripple cofounder, Chris Larsen, to expand its drone program and surveillance systems, Mission Local reported. “The premise of the Bill of Rights is respect for liberty of the individual, and that used to mean something in this city,” a San Francisco resident named Ilona said at the Oct. 14 Commission meeting, lambasting officials for accepting Larsen’s drone donation. “But it doesn’t anymore because now we have sold out to tech billionaires…. SFPD has been sloppy and reckless with our privacy. How can we trust them with these tools?” Venture-backed drone vendors have spent heavily to influence local officials to support their expansion — Flock Safety, for instance, has reportedly spent millions of dollars on local and federal lobbying, claiming its technology helped “solve” a million crimes last year alone. Yet researchers are increasingly skeptical of what vendors and law enforcement say the technology can help accomplish. Police argue that drones help them respond to incidents more quickly, help them deescalate potentially dangerous situations, and improve crime clearance rates. A February 2026 study by the UC Berkeley Criminal Law and Justice Center found that while first-responder drones can improve response times, there is no evidence they reduce officer-involved shootings, lower overall use of force, or improve case resolution rates. The rapid rollout has also intensified community anxiety over interconnected surveillance networks, and intensified the brewing nationwide backlash against AI-powered police tech. Jesus Gabriel Yanez, a recently-retired police commissioner, spoke at the San Francisco commission meeting. He briefly read a passage from George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” before expressing his opposition to the drone use policy outlined by his former peers. “SFPD should tie deployments to specific incidents that cannot be addressed without compromising officer safety — period,” Yanez said. “Those are the only times when we should allow for the deployment of a drone. No general routine patrol. No general surveillance.” Opponents like Yanez point to past instances where California law enforcement agencies illegally shared license plate tracking data with federal immigration authorities, as well as technical missteps like a recent leak that exposed live police drone video feeds online due to vendor misconfigurations. That anxiety over vendor overreach and AI surveillance isn’t confined to California—similar resistance is bubbling up across the country. In Minneapolis, the city council voted to reject a police drone contract with Skydio following community protests over privacy and dual-use military technology. In New Orleans, advocacy group Eye on Surveillance successfully mobilized against a proposed policy that would have allowed weapons on police drones. Whether through public city council debates sparked by AB 481 or court-enforced settlements like Sonoma County’s, California communities are trying to make it clear that adopting cutting-edge public safety technology will not come at the cost of privacy. The automated eye in the sky may arrive in seconds, but citizens are demanding to know exactly who is watching — and who holds the remote. _CalMatters Technology Reporter Khari Johnson contributed to this report._ Read more from CalMatters Text Get breaking news on your phone. 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oaklandside.orgoaklandside.orgEarlier this summer, Oakland was moving forward with a plan to expand its network of police surveillance cameras. But recent reports that immigration agents may have been able to access Oakland’s data in a few cases have triggered backlash. On Thursday, dozens of people showed up for a meeting of the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission, a volunteer body that helps the city regulate how it uses technology. On one side were activists opposed to the expansion of OPD’s cameras. Before the meeting, activists gathered outside City Hall next to two massive handcrafted mock cameras. They argued that the push to increase surveillance in Oakland is based on misleading narratives about rising crime, although crime appears to have declined significantly for over a year in the city. They also argued the surveillance expansion will endanger immigrants and other vulnerable communities who are being targeted by federal agencies. During the privacy commission’s meeting, several people urged the commission to not expand the camera system, and to also stop doing business with the company that makes the cameras, Flock Safety. “It’s important to understand that since these technologies are capturing this data, it’s not if but when it will get in the hands of federal agencies,” Olivia Madison, an Oakland resident and member of the abolitionist organization Critical Resistance, told the commission. **Never miss a story.** **Sign up for The Oaklandside’s free daily newsletter.** Sign up OPD’s camera network is built around 290 automated license plate readers installed last year. The cameras take snapshots of passing vehicles and run the plates through law enforcement databases to determine if a vehicle is wanted for a crime. OPD’s planned expansion would fold hundreds of privately operated cameras into this network. The Oakland City Council agreed to hire Flock Safety in 2023 to build out OPD’s camera network when the city was in the midst of a crime surge. There was little public outcry at the time over the cameras, but that has changed as reports emerged about how police departments across the country have shared Flock data with federal agents, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. OPD is not allowed to share data with federal agencies, and in June, police officials reassured the Privacy Advisory Commission that the department does not permit its surveillance data to be shared for the purpose of federal immigration enforcement. But a month later, the SF Standard reported that several local police departments with access to OPD’s Flock system extracted data to give to federal authorities, including the FBI. The Standard also found one instance where the California Highway Patrol searched OPD’s data for the purpose of an “ICE case.” Not everyone is opposed to expanding OPD’s camera network, however. Local business improvement districts and some merchants are staunch supporters of OPD’s plan. During the privacy commission meeting, representatives from Chinatown business groups said they want more cameras, especially in the wake of several high-profile burglaries. Tony Trinh, executive director for the Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council, became emotional as he described how his mother was assaulted by armed men. “We’re terrified right now,” he said. “We don’t have enough tools like San Francisco, like San Jose, like the city of Millbrae,” Trinh said. “We need cameras, but we can be responsible. We can work with OPD.” Some Oakland homeowner groups have already started purchasing their own private Flock systems so the police can track who is driving through their neighborhoods. The Lakeshore Homes Association has seven cameras that are accessible to local law enforcement, including OPD and SFPD. The Oakmore Homes Association appears to have a single Flock camera as part of a two-year pilot. ## Frustration boils over as PAC members try to chart a way forward The Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission debated a controversial proposal to expand the city’s Flock Safety surveillance system during a meeting on Sept. 5, 2025. Credit: Eli Wolfe / The Oaklandside OPD Acting Lieutenant Gabriel Urquiza explained at the meeting that the upgrade to Oakland’s system would integrate cameras from businesses, and potentially some new ones the department would own and operate, in commercial corridors and other public areas. The department hasn’t given an estimate for how many new cameras would be incorporated. Merchants and residents can already share their surveillance camera footage with the department by registering their cameras on a city website. But officers have to contact the camera owner and request footage — they can’t remotely and independently access the feeds or data. Until contracting with Flock, Oakland didn’t have an operating system that could easily incorporate more cameras into one big system. To put OPD’s plan into effect, the department needs approval from the privacy commission and the City Council on a policy for how OPD can access, store, and use data from the cameras in its network. The commission first received OPD’s proposal in May. A couple of subsequent meetings have been cancelled due to a lack of quorum, delaying the process. But Commissioner Brian Hofer also blamed OPD for holding things up by not giving the commission the proposed contract for adding more cameras. During Thursday’s meeting, Hofer appeared to be annoyed with OPD and accused department leaders of ignoring his feedback. He pointed out that a draft of the department’s agreement with Flock includes a provision that gives Flock the right to share footage with law enforcement authorities more or less at its own discretion. “You guys didn’t look at the guardrails at all,” Hofer said. A couple of other commissioners also seemed wary of Oakland continuing to maintain a relationship with Flock. Commissioner Don Wang quizzed Flock representative Trevor Chandler about Loveland, Colorado, where the local police department recently revealed that it shared access to the city’s ALPR system with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. At Thursday’s meeting, Chandler said Flock had taken part in a four-month pilot program with the border patrol that focused on human trafficking and fentanyl. The pilot was later terminated. This detail disturbed Wang, who noted that the City Council, in 2019, passed a law that prohibits the city from contracting with companies that work with the border patrol due to the agency’s role in immigration enforcement. “Has there been any interdepartmental conversation about whether we can even work with Flock? Because to me, that seems like a clear violation of the ordinance,” Wang asked OPD during the meeting. Urquiza said the department only found out that Flock had worked with CBP several days ago. While acknowledging he was “frustrated” when he read about this in the news, Urquiza said Flock told OPD it isn’t working with CBP anymore. He also said the issues in Colorado involved a Flock search feature that isn’t allowed in Oakland. Chandler insisted that Flock doesn’t make the decision to share data, and that this responsibility lies with the law enforcement agencies that contract with the company. “We are unable to share data that you do not choose to share,” Chandler said, adding that Flock also doesn’t sell data to third parties or collect personally identifiable information. Commissioner Henry Gage, who played a mediating role throughout Thursday’s meeting, made a motion to table the discussion after several hours. The commission agreed to reconvene within a few weeks for a special meeting to evaluate OPD’s proposal for a new agreement with Flock and a policy for using the integrated camera system. However, Hofer made it clear he’s drawing a line in the sand. “I’m not going to support this vendor,” Hofer said. “Even when they come back in two weeks with a beautiful contract, I’m not going to support Flock.” ## ...We rely on your support **Hey, we know that most readers only scan a headline and a couple of paragraphs. Thank you for reading to the end of our story. Since you clearly appreciate the in-depth approach we take in reporting the stories that matter to Oaklanders, please consider chipping in to supercharge our newsroom.** **Y** es, I want to support The Oaklandside! "*" indicates required fields LinkedIn This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Send a note to the Oaklandside newsroom.* See an error that needs correcting? Have a tip, question or suggestion? Drop us a line. Email* Name Phone Embed URL Submit Δ

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Your agent worked something out last week. After compaction it has to go looking for it again. A builder on X: "something it lost in compaction" What has yours had to look up twice? Your agent finally remembers. Magnemo, open source memory for your AI. magnemo.ai

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That separation is key: memory should help agents find context, not quietly become the source of truth. The tricky part is keeping context inspectable and reusable across tools. I'm building Streamient, an open-source shared memory layer for AI teams: https://docs.streamient.com/

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Good morning and happy Thursday! ☀️ Keep moving forward, celebrate the small wins and make today count. There’s still plenty of time to finish the week on a high. Have a great day! #ThursdayMotivation #PositiveMindset

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Adapting to life with a stoma is challenging, especially at the beginning when getting used to this change in body image and function. Jane Fior shines a light on the realities faced by people living with stomas in places affected by conflict. Read more: https://ow.ly/QObO50Zsj1g

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KANSAS IS FLAT, PERFECT PLACE FOR DATA CENTERS WHERE A FOOD PRODUCING FARM USED TO BE. BUT WHAT ARE THEY STEALING FROM KANSAS? Water, electricity and land. Quiet, clean water and access to electricity.

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Building the Future, a new pro-data center super PAC, is spending more than $1.5 million to back Kansas Republican state Sen. Ty Masterson in the battle for governor, a person familiar with the spending tells NBC News.

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6/x Newtons mean little on the bridge, so convert to tonnes-force: 1 tf, the weight of one tonne, is 9,806.65 N. Fold the numbers together and you get a handy shortcut: force in tonnes is about Cd × A × v² ÷ 16,000, with v in m/s. With the wind in knots, divide by about 60,000.