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Post by mhbruin on Apr 6, 2023 8:47:10 GMT -8
You Can Count on an Elon Musk Company to Respect Your Privacy, Can't You?
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”
But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.
Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.
Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential area hitting a child riding a bike, according to another ex-employee. The child flew in one direction, the bike in another. The video spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, “like wildfire,” the ex-employee said.
Today's Advice: Don't Have Sex in Your Tesla.
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Post by mhbruin on Apr 6, 2023 8:50:33 GMT -8
I Hope They Catch This Vile Jerk
Four Harvard University students were awakened by armed officers in their dorm rooms after a fake 911 call about a person with a “gun threatening violence” sent officers searching for the risk, according to students and public police logs.
“Things like that typically don't end well for people who look like us,” student Jarah Cotton, who is Black and was in the dorm when it was raided, said in an interview with ABC News. “We thought we were going to die.”
Cotton, a senior at Harvard, said she was “jolted awake” by intense banging on one of the doors of her suite around 4 a.m. Monday morning.
According to the public police log, officers entered and searched the room, failing to find anyone with a firearm or someone acting suspicious. Officers reported they found no threat.
“I saw them in riot gear and like, they had their assault rifles and all that kind of stuff,” Cotton told ABC News.
Students were evacuated from their rooms as officials prepared to search them, Cotton said.
“We're walking out, everybody's like barefoot and pajamas, you know, frazzled,” said Cotton. “As Black students, we've all been taught that you do not argue with the police.”
She continued, “And we're walking out with our hands up … we still don't know what's going on. So all that’s going through my mind is: I haven't done anything. I'm sure none of my roommates have done anything to warrant this.”
According to Cotton, when officers failed to find anything wrong in the dorm suite, they explained that a series of phone calls were made to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) relaying very specific details about a hostage situation and gun threat in their suite.
In an email to students, HUPD Chief Victor Clay said the department received several calls from a male who claimed to have a female hostage he was going to kill. The caller is said to have named a room number and claimed he was armed. He threatened to shoot law enforcement as well as others in the dorm, authorities said.
Massachusetts officials have seen a wave of hoax calls early this year, with threats shutting down K-12 schools and now impacting Harvard.
Faking an emergency that draws a response from law enforcement is what the FBI calls “swatting,” and it can be dangerous for both first responders and the victims because of the high-intensity and high-risk situations, officials said.
HUPD is working with the FBI on the ongoing investigation, according to school officials.
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Post by mhbruin on Apr 6, 2023 9:02:03 GMT -8
Is the QOP Losing the Suburbs?Steve Kornacki did a great analysis of how suburbs all over Wisconsin voted heavliy for Judge Janet Protasiewicz. More significant is that starting in 2016, in every election, the suburbs moved significantly toward the Democrats. The suburbs used to be reliably Republican, but they are becoming more and more Democratic. There is evidence that this trend isn't just in Wisconsin. If the QOP is losing the suburbs and the young people who don't like guns, support abortion rights, and care deeply about the environment, their future doesn't look bright. I can't find an online vidoe of the Kornacki analysis, but I found this articleHuge Shift in Wisconsin Electoral Map!And this:It’s no secret that Dane County has a long history of churning out the Democratic vote in Wisconsin. And when conservatives won the court 15 years ago, they did so on the backs of Republican turnout in the “WOW” counties of Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington. But Dane County is the big kid on the block now, politically speaking. And the Republican influence of the “WOW” counties is waning. “It used to be that Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha together produced more net Republican votes than Dane produced net Democratic votes,” Franklin said. “But when you look at these margins (Tuesday) night, Dane County is producing four times as many net votes as the three ‘[WOW’ counties together.” Protasiewicz won 82 percent of the vote in Dane County, receiving about 154,000 more votes there than Kelly. Kelly came close to losing Ozaukee County, winning just 52 percent of the vote there. Graul said it’s a continuation of a trend that started in 2016, when Trump burst on the scene and connected with rural voters. The trouble, he said, is that for every rural vote Republicans gain, they’re losing more in the suburbs.“If it does become permanent, there’s not really a great path for Republicans to ever win a statewide race then,” Graul said. “We have got to have candidates that who can connect with suburban voters.”
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