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A Takamatsu ci sono luci, insegne, gallerie commerciali e strade serali come in molte città giapponesi. Ma il ritmo è diverso. Non c’è la stessa calca, non c’è la stessa pressione continua di Tokyo. La città resta accesa, ma lascia spazio per camminare e guardare. Anche per questo Shikoku continua a sembrare un Giappone più accessibile, meno consumato dal passaggio dei visitatori.

高松にも明かりがあり、看板があり、商店街があり、夜の道がある。日本のほかの都市と同じように街は動いているが、速度が違う。東京のような混雑や強い圧力は少ない。街は明るいままでも、歩いて見回す余白が残っている。だから四国には、まだ人の暮らしに近い日本が残っているように感じる。

Takamatsu has lights, signs, shopping arcades, and evening streets like many Japanese cities. But the rhythm is different. There is not the same crowding, not the same constant pressure as Tokyo. The city stays lit, but it still leaves room to walk and look around. This is also why Shikoku still feels like a more accessible Japan, less worn down by the flow of visitors.

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handwritten on back of photograph, "6-1-85"

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Saw this while trying to get home from work during a surprise heavy snowstorm that shut the city down. Philadelphia, 2018

In de wasmachine van het leven heeft een 'bezoeker van de Amersfoort Pride' een rondje extra gedraaid: hij is na zijn bezoek op z'n snuit getimmerd door een groepje snoeiharde heteroseksuelen die zó hetero zijn dat ze met de onderbroekjes aan onder de groepsdouche stappen. Meer specifiek: 'jongens op fatbikes'. Of, hoe de NOS dat noemt: 'meerdere jongens'. En dan weet u vast wel weer hoe laat het is, want die grote groep 'fatbikers' verpest het weer eens voor de welwillende kleine minderheid van de 'fatbikers'. Sad.

"Are you armed?!" the police officer screamed. "Get out of the car!"
A writer for the car-news site The Drive describes how "a technological chain linking surveillance cameras, AI, and law enforcement... led to me and my wife being surrounded by police, hands on their guns, in a Kohl's parking lot in suburban Minnesota."


After dropping off our Amazon returns, we'd just gotten back in the Range Rover and reversed maybe two feet out of the spot when four cop cars came flying out of nowhere and boxed us in... The Plymouth Police Department had been tracking me for days using Flock license plate cameras, waiting for the right moment to strike, because they thought I'd stolen the Range Rover. And the reason I was ID'd as a dangerous car thief was a simple data error made 2,000 miles away in California, creating an edge case within an edge case that Flock's AI camera network was unable to handle... "The plates on this car are stolen," Officer Ganshyn said...

This made absolutely no sense. Car companies keep meticulous track of the fleets they loan out to the media. The vehicles all have special manufacturer or dealer plates that are logged every time one enters or exits... The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM, not 34 10 DTM. But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock's system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM. Just the five large characters, no little number in the middle...

Flock's AI tech wasn't registering that non-standard little number when it began picking up the Range Rover around town... I connected the final dot. A lot of vehicles in [Range Rover manufacturer] JLR's media fleet have a New Jersey manufacturer plate with the same alphanumeric structure — 34 ## DTM — and Officer Ganshyn observed that meant it was now a nationwide issue. Anywhere a police department has a partnership with Flock, any other JLR-owned car with the same plate structure is going to get flagged as stolen. In fact, four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week, according to Officer Ganshyn. I was just the first one to get nabbed.

The only way to stop it would be for the LAPD to correct their initial report and update Flock's system, which Jaguar Land Rover was now racing to make happen following the phone call. Still, he warned me to drive straight home, park the Range Rover, and leave it there. If I were to cross into the neighboring town, I'd probably get flagged again and go through this entire ordeal again with a different set of officers. His parting words were ominous: "You're lucky we're in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would've come at you with guns drawn."
Ironically, even the original license plate wasn't stolen either, the article points out. It was reported misplaced during a Los Angeles photo shoot, and "The corporation had to report the plate as lost to law enforcement," according to the police report — and even then, the plate "was reported as NJ 34DTM instead of NJ 3403DTM."
The author's conclusion? "Once these systems have you in their crosshairs, there's pretty much only one way it can go... A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down. I mean, they even had a drone flying overhead during the 'bust'...

"Thank God our kids weren't with us."


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De Zuid-Afrikaanse voetballer Jayden Adams is zaterdag op 25-jarige leeftijd overleden. Een doodsoorzaak is niet bekendgemaakt.