> They also say the system generated alerts for “rough sleepers and beggars” at the station’s entrances and claim this allowed staff to “remotely monitor the situation and provide the necessary care and assistance.”
ah yes I love using technology to better deny the most vulnerable people a place to sleep.
It seems fairly obvious to anyone in London that recorded
announcements are frequently triggered by events on the
platform.
Someone walks too close to the platform edge; "Please stand behind the
yellow line at all times!"
Someone lights-up or vapes; "All stations are non-smoking areas!"
--- and so on.
These are probably done by humans watching the cameras and just lazily
pressing the corresponding announcement button. But one gave me real
cause for concern, and it seemed obvious that "AI" was involved;
A woman was pushing someone in a wheelchair, and left their disabled
friend for a moment to look at a map on the wall.
"Please do not leave luggage unattended at any time!"
"Please do not leave luggage unattended at any time!"
The message kept repeating until the woman walked back over to the
wheelchair. I hoped the person in the wheelchair was also deaf,
because what could be more dehumanising than being wrongly labelled as
"luggage" by a machine.
Don't worry, in the future they'll just auto mail a fine for abandoning luggage to your last known address based on facial recognition instead of calling you out.
The place to sleep isn’t the station. There are shelters, rehab centers and mental health facilities. Minimum wage jobs are easy to get. There are plenty of social workers that will help you get set up with these things.
I often play games on my computer with komorebi running, I just hit alt+p (my hotkey for `komorebic.exe toggle-pause` before I launch and again when I'm done.
Drones are roughly as loud as a gas powered leaf blower [1]. I bet the hype is going to die real quick when people realize how annoying the noise is. Or at least I hope. Drones are cool but imagining the high-pitched whine of a even a few of these at all times gives me a headache.
Um excuse me? Suburbs are filled with the sound of gas powered leaf blowers and monstrous riding mowers all the time from landscaping companies often for hours at a time what makes you think noise is the reason drones will be banned?
This is my concern too. I'd far rather they waited a few more years and just used small electric cars on the roads than having loud ass drones buzzing overhead.
The UPS truck comes to your street once a day. Maybe you get 3 delivery trucks total.
A drone could be in your neighborhood every hour all afternoon. There is someone near me who flies theirs at night, i can hear it much farther away than any delivery truck
That is not a general fact. UPS visits our street probably closer to 5 times per day. Then there’s FedEx, USPS, and Prime all also visiting multiple times per day. Thankfully they are not as loud as the landscape care outfits that run the gas powered blowers n’ mowers.
Because owls only weigh 4 pounds and can only carry an additional 1 pound.
Also, bird flight isn't just "flap wings". Birds have similar dexterity in their wings as you have in your hands. They maneuver by changing the shape of their fingers.
Is that an inherent physical limit of the design of owls, or are owls not much bigger than that because that's the size that works best in their niche in their environment?
