Face recognition in European police forces – Algorithmwatch
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Euro-Cops Love Your Face, and They’re AIs Will Recognize It

The euro-cops may be learning from the Chinese how to use tech to monitor and control citizens. They’re turning to face recognition software to help them build a database of faces that, to start out, will just be used for ‘criminal’ purposes.
Face recognition in European police forces – Algorithmwatch
Excerpt:
Of 25 member states of the European Union reviewed by AlgorithmWatch, at least ten have a police force that uses face recognition. Five plans to introduce it in the coming years. Just two countries, Spain and Belgium, do not allow it yet. Four police forces have yet to answer our requests.

‘It Starts With a Cup, Ends With a Shooting’: 3 Putin Quotes on Human Rights – The Moscow Times
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Putin Pushes Plastic Cups Like People Being Tossed Into a Hole – Dialect-ical

Vladimir Putin reveals a lot about how he views his role as the keeper of the people and the role of the people in being kept. In this recent telling exchange, Putin outlines why he has zero tolerance for the people when they dare do something as inocuous as tossing a plastic cup at authority.
‘It Starts With a Cup, Ends With a Shooting’: 3 Putin Quotes on Human Rights – The Moscow Times
Excerpt:
On plastic cup-throwing protesters:
— “So they throw a plastic cup at an authority, and that’s OK. Then a plastic bottle, that’s OK too. Then it’s a glass bottle, [then] a stone and then they start shooting and looting stores. We must prevent that.”
— “There are also so-called arbitrary excesses, which are in fact gross violations of the law by various law enforcement agencies too. Of course, everything needs to be measured and certain boundaries can’t be crossed.”
— “Can you punch a woman in the stomach? Can you beat a policeman? Of course you can’t punch a woman in the stomach. But if someone punches a woman in the stomach, it doesn’t grant someone the right to beat a police officer. These are subtle things.”
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Lest many of you forget, Putin is a former KGB Thumb twister. That authoritarian mindset did not die with the Soviet Union, though Putin is no Marxist, no Leninist, no Communist. He is simply an opportunist, one who imagines, and with some good reason, that he is, in fact, on of the few demigods of the universe.
He fundamentally understands the underlying reality of power between people such as himself, people I call Citadelians, and the plastic cup throwers, the people. Only so long as he keeps that crowd contained, like you would an undisciplined dog in training, can he continue to live out the glory of being the demigod of the earth.
It is better to open fire on a crowded highway than to continue to take fire from a van because, at the end of the day, it’s about shields going home, not people.

New Quantum Tech is About to Bring a Major Boost to Gravitational Wave Detections – Discover Magazine
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One Quantum Closer to Seeing Gravity – NewsPoem

We have the technology, perhaps, soon, to LITERALLY see gravitational waves. Even as I write this, I expect flat earthers the world over are in a panic, as one comes to the realization that the ‘gravity is not real’ meme may soon come to an end (not likely, but one can hope, for all of humanity, really).
Quantum tech is what they’re calling it, and somehow it will let us see gravitational waves, well, sort of. Trust me, the FEs are FINISHED!
After the excerpt comes the NewsPoem
New Quantum Tech is About to Bring a Major Boost to Gravitational Wave Detections – Discover Magazine
Excerpt:
Physicists have successfully developed a new instrument that significantly reduces quantum-level noise that has thus far limited experiments’ ability to spot gravitational waves. Collisions between massive black holes and stars are thought to generate these ripples in space-time that were first detected in 2015. In all, about 11 detections have been fully confirmed so far.
The device marks a major improvement to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, increasing its detection range by 15 percent. Since the sky is a sphere, scientists expect to be able to detect about 50 percent more gravitational waves. They now predict that they will catch dozens of these rarely detected events during LIGO’s ongoing experiment run through April 2020, which could transform their understanding of the phenomena. The collaboration published their findings today in the journal Physical Review Letters.
One Quantum Closer to Seeing Gravity – NewsPoem
Quantumnal the forest
is a collection of lights. Out on the fizzle.
The gravitationals. The ringed sky within.
Quantumnal.
The morning of holding the weight that is the weight, that makes the weight…..
in the palm of the ether where facsimile moans,
“I am the bind that ties, the humble home.”
I am melted. But I am gravitational. The skyspheres slice through the head,
as waves,
the flick of the green diadems of facsimile between the magnetic loads.
I am real, yes I am.
I am real and you are home.
One quantum home. The inner circle of the egg is the flow
that you and I are also following.
We let it go
and we are weightless, merely, less of load

Ankara threatens to close down U.S. Air Force base in Turkey – Defence-Blog
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Turkey Ready to Give Trump the Shove?

Ankara threatens to close down U.S. Air Force base in Turkey – Defence-Blog
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A senior Turkish official said that Ankara threatening to close down the U.S. Air Force Incirlik Air Base.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a statement that Ankara may insist that the U.S. leave Incirlik air base if Washington goes ahead with the sanctions it has threatened in response to Turkey’s purchase of S-400 air defense systems.
“We will assess the worst-case scenario and make a decision. If the US imposes sanctions against Turkey, then the issue of the Incirlik and Kurecik bases may be on the agenda,” Cavusoglu said.