Operationally, what she experienced is not distinguishable by multiple counts of assault with deadly weapons, followed by false imprisonment (which, in law, applies for detainment of *any* duration).

All parties conspiring to create this situation should be held responsible (this includes you, Flock); IMNHO, damages should be in at least seven figures. Sovereign immunity should NOT apply.

(Note that for the record, "qualified immunity" is a Constitutional abomination: Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States..." -- and one of the big deals with "Titles of Nobility" was immunity from prosecution.)

Per the statistics, police shoot and kill quite a few white men as well. Nobody gets worked up about those dudes.

OTOH, when you dig into the individual incidents, pretty much all of those dead white men were actively attacking the police, usually with a weapon (), so it's difficult to get to worked up about those deaths.

Copyright law is very strict on copyright ownership, very nearly as strict as real estate law: in the absence of "work for hire" (which doesn't apply here), a specific written-document transfer is required. It is also strict on creation of derived works (which is what's happening here).

META seems to be engaged in the creation of unauthorized derived works here, and as such should be subjected to such penalties as copyright law provides. All the way up to ex parte seizures of their computers for examination of the evidence (thanks, Scientology, for the precedents on that...)

It's turtles all the way down, mate...

Can we please just import Chinese cars now?

AI fanboys downvoting :)

I do not, nor do I use one. This was merely a suggestion to someone who is unable to detect an AI generated text on their own.

No idea whether the author actually exists (nor do I see how it matters), but the text is either wholly or mostly AI generated, with all the usual stylistic hallmarks thereof.
If you do not possess your own ability to discern human vs. AI generated writing, you are welcome to submit it to any of the many "ai detectors" online.

Hate to see AI generated articles in (supposed) magazines. :(

FACESNXT is fed from all Florida-issued photo IDs, including driver's licenses. So pretty much every Florida resident is in the database.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office submitted the poor image to a statewide facial recognition database maintained by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office (PCSO), running a facial recognitio program called Face Analysis Comparison and Examination System (FACESNXT). This draws from a mix of sources including booking photos and all Florida state issued IDs and driver's licenses.

So good luck keeping your face out of that database if you live in Florida.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

As anybody "gifted" with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) can tell you, not being able to forget has major downsides.