#publicsafety
“In at least four other fatal crash cases, Tesla settled before trial.
This week, a case made it to court — and the grieving family has been there every day to watch.”
I’m grateful I don’t live in a city that’s slated to allow Tesla robotaxis. The service is available in Austin, & the co plans to expand to San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Antonio…
#Tesla #Musk #Corruption #PublicSafety #Negligence #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/18/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-wrongful-death/
The Conversation: Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with global implications. “As researchers focused on data management (Kristi) and behavioural sciences (Albert) and whose work tackles the significance of research with open access data, we have been concerned about how the data sets that scholars around the world rely on have been vanishing from U.S. government […]
Biked the St. Louis Riverfront Trail to work this misty morning. This trail *should* and could be a jewel of the city, but it is marred by access issues, and people abusing it. For example, today I rode past a burning truck near the tree line between the trail and the river. Called it in to the fire department.
#stl #stlouis #biking #publicsafety #photo #fire
Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement
“It is going to result in one of the largest setbacks for our coast and the protection of our communities in decades,” Graves said. “I don’t know what chiropractor or palm reader they got advice from on this, but — baffling that someone thought this was a good idea.”
Flood-prone Harris County has had a flooding warning system since the 1980s, but only about 14,000 of its 5 million residents are signed up to receive alerts.
PC World: Death by GPS: Study finds blindly following navigation can be fatal. “Classic examples of deaths caused by GPS include tourists who stubbornly follow the instructions of their navigation device and end up falling into the ocean or dying of thirst in the desert–hence the nickname ‘death by GPS.’ It’s also worth noting that navigation often relies not only on GPS signals but also […]
Ars Technica: AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds. “When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented it with someone asking about ‘bridges taller than 25 meters in NYC’ after losing their job—a […]
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: College of Public Health Student Creates Website to Monitor Food Recalls. “[Wilberforce] Twinamatsiko, who’s in the college’s Health Systems and Services Research doctoral program, is spearheading a group that has created a free website, Food Recall Tool. The website makes food recalls made by the United States Food and Drug Association (FDA) […]
The Conversation: Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it. “Mass psychogenic illness is not misinformation, but it gives researchers like me some idea about how misinformation spreads. Social connections establish pathways of influence that can facilitate the spread of germs, mental illness and even behaviors. We can be profoundly influenced […]
“Trump’s budget would close 10 laboratories run by the #NOAA that help predict life-threatening weather, including one in Miami that sends teams of “hurricane hunters” to fly into storms to collect critical data.
Right now, 30 of the 122 Weather Service's offices are now lacking their most experienced official, known as the meteorologist-in-charge. Why cut programs that protect people's lives?”
-R Stengel
#PublicSafety #NWS #TrumpRegime #GOPDeathCult #Protest #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html
#GoogleMaps #Ireland #PublicSafety
'Donegal County Council has been asked to contact Google Maps again to try and fix the incorrect naming of the Old Glencar Road in Letterkenny.'
AGAIN.
Texas flood victims will receive little from their state's government, & with the #TrumpRegime in charge of the federal government, it's not clear how FEMA will respond.
#Texas #Flood #Betrayal #FEMA #TrumpRegime #Disaster #PublicSafety #Republicans #Climate #Protest #USPol
Cruz has had quite a week. On Tues,
he ensured the R spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting.
He was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens on Sat, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in TX killed >100 people, including dozens of children & counselors at a camp
#Flood #Climate #PublicSafety #NOAA #USPol
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/texas-flooding-senator-ted-cruz-weather-forecasting-funds-trump-big-beautiful-bill-vacation/
We’ll never knowhow many TX flooding deaths could've been avoided if a gen of st ldrs & new regime in DC had taken: evidence of #ClimateChange seriously/planned better for its disasters. Or if they viewed #publicsafety #infrastructure & scientific research as something as impt as wasting $Bs to fight a pretend “invasion."
Root causes: bad decisions from harmful ideas -rooted in a loss of faith in science/expertise/govt can make ppl’s lives better/save ppl.
#Flood #USPol https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/texas-flood-climate-change-camp-mystic-20250708.html
Two important questions with difficult answers: 1. Why are U.S. cops so bad at solving homicides? 2. Why does it matter that the cops are so bad at it? To answer, you have to learn what deters crime and what we THINK deters crime. And then there’s the toll that unsolved murders takes on the families of victims. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/murder-solve-rate-louisville.html #publicsafety
The state of Texas has a $20B surplus, & over the last several yearsthe legislature has wasted $Billions on the border wall, Operation Lone Star…
TX Republican leadership doesn’t seem to care about Texans, unless it helps them politically with their Republican donors, & occasionally, their R voters. Since some of the victims were at a private Christian camp, hopefully they'll spend state funds to prevent future tragedies.
#Texas #GOPDeathCult #PublicSafety #Flood #USPol
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/kerr-county-texas-warning-system-upgrade-costs-20603296.php
PressGazette: Former Newsnight presenter warns of misinformation deluge. “Society is being ‘deluged by misinformation’, according to former BBC Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler. Speaking at the University of Leeds, where Esler studied for his MA, he said the ‘toleration of lying’ has resulted in society being ‘deluged by misinformation, disinformation, deliberate falsehoods, deceit and […]
"Siri, show me what it looks like when an authoritarian party that campaigned on turning the country into an ethno-police-state ordained by God controls all three branches of government."
-S Cotlar
#NationalSecurity & #PublicSafety: severely weakened.
#Fascism #Racism #WhiteNationalism #TrumpRegime #StephenMiller #DHS #ICE #PoliceState #Immigrants #DueProcess #Constitution #Rights #Protest #BBB #USPol
“Kerrvilledidn't have weather sirens used by other cities; Kerr County had asked for $ for new flood warning system since 2018; online warnings may not have been seen b/c Camp Mystic banned cell phones/smart watches/iPads.”
-M Grant
Texas’ pol leaders don’t believe in a social safety net, or virtually anything the costs the state, bc #publicsafety isn’t a priority: guns, worker & workplace safety, regs that protect the environment, health, lives…
#GOPDeathCult #USPol
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/kerrville-didnt-have-weather-sirens-used-by-other-cities/