Day: April 23, 2020💾

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Go Down, Cuomo | Ross Barkan

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Go Down, Cuomo | Ross Barkan

Moses understood New York media organs would determine his public perception and, therefore, his power. He courted the press through flattery and cunning. After ribbon cuttings, he treated reporters to lavish banquets. He granted favored journalists free passes to his beaches and exemptions from tolls. If a project was especially controversial, he knew he needed to break the news first in a friendly outlet, using the corrosive power of access journalism to define his agenda in the public before opponents marshalled a response. Often, his pronouncements were treated with little analysis or scrutiny, regarded as bare fact beyond debate. Influential editorial boards always took his side.

New York has long had a history of colorful, meglomatic politicians. Just look at the name of bridges or the history books. Alexander Hamilton nor De Witt Clinton were not known for being quiet, timid individuals just doing the bidding of Tammany Hall. 

‘Fever detection’ cameras to fight coronavirus? Experts say they don’t work

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‘Fever detection’ cameras to fight coronavirus? Experts say they don’t work

Vo isn't the only business owner interested in experimenting with thermal imaging cameras to surveil people's body temperatures as a tactic to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

NBC News found more than 10 security companies in the U.S., Europe and China that are marketing technologies as capable of picking out who in a crowd is likely to have a fever, and thus a possible coronavirus case. These companies are actively pitching to police departments, government agencies, schools, hospitals and private businesses.

John Honovich, the founder of IPVM, a trade publication that investigates and reviews security cameras, said thermal cameras are "bar-none clearly the hottest selling item in video surveillance right now, and companies are scrambling to get products all over the place."
Map: Empire State Topography

Police are Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse | New York Civil Liberties Union

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Police are Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse | New York Civil Liberties Union

It might be tempting for some to search for a law enforcement solution to the pandemic, especially because the disease puts all of our safety at risk, and makes us frightened of each other. In an ideal world, we’d have a team of health experts responsible for making sure people are keeping themselves and others safe. While recognizing that’s not the reality, we should always remember that police officers are not health care workers and they should not be on the front lines of solving this crisis. In some instances, they can make things worse.

HOW? – Birds Aren’t Real

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HOW? – Birds Aren’t Real

This went on for a few years or so, when in 1953 Allen Dulles was made the first civilian director of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and made it his mission to ramp up the surveillance program; hiding cameras in thousands of locations and ordering his staff to plant them in areas that would be impossible to detect (although let’s face it, in the 1950s- you could walk into a bank with a slingshot and steal thousands of dollars. Security was one big joke.) He knew that the possibilities for this camera program were endless, and on April 15th, 1956 met with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and proposed a plan that would putcameras in the sky. Dulles knew that the sky was the future for his surveillance program, as you could truly track someone with a moving camera- much easier than having to switch between cameras on street corners and hidden in storm drains. One camera in the sky could do the work of hundreds on the ground…

 

I love 😍 the internet and I often like to give the middle finger to the robin as I eat my breakfast and dhe pulls worms out of the earth. 🐦 I figure this puts ne in the government's naughty list as my middle finger is recorded for all to see.