Ferrari introduced what it reports as a very cost-effective update to the SF26 at Zandvoort based around changes to the floor. Into the second half of the season the top teams are very aware of the cost implications of any updates as they forecast how to stay within the budget cap by the end of the season.

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We see Manchester City have managed to flip Savinho for quite the profit. Football Daily had previously assumed this sort of wheeler-dealing was restricted to the Dion-Dublin-adjacent property market, or the Harry-Redknapp-infused used car scene, but it seems we were mistaken. We have no idea how City ended up trousering a £44.2m markup on a player who cost £30.8m two seasons ago, and has achieved the square root of eff all since, but they’ve done it. Consider standing stock still and allowing a ball to clank off you and into the net in an FA Cup tie at Newcastle analogous to installing a new bathroom suite and giving the front room a lick of paint, or taking a microfibre cloth and some polish to the crevices of that grimy dashboard. Result! Goal! Ker-ching! That’s 75 million-nil!

Re: the ‘hand of God’ ball’s sale (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). I understand Peter Shilton did, in fact, intend to bid but couldn’t get his hand up high enough” – John Myles.

As much as people dislike Chelsea (the football club that is, not the posh area of London, which is quite nice if a bit dull), Xabi Alonso’s wild experiment to attempt to score so many goals that it even offsets Robert Sánchez’s constant Keystone Cops-style performances in goal is going to be wonderfully exciting” – Noble Francis.

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Wanda and Marion Wulz defied the unbridled patriarchy of fascist Italy by shooting dancers, fencers and other famous women – as well as their cat Mucincina

‘In those fascist times,” says Federica Muzzarelli of Italy in the 1920s and 30s, “women were not free. They were regarded as mothers and homemakers. But the Wulz sisters were determined to create their own destiny. They chose photography as a way of being independent – and to show through their images that women could live that way.”

Muzzarelli is the curator of Wanda and Marion Wulz: Avant-Garde Photography in 20th Century Italy, a show about to open at the Estorick Collection in London. The Wulz sisters experimented with blended and altered images more than half a century before Photoshop was invented. The most famous image to emerge from their studio was I + Cat, a self-portrait of Wanda superimposed on the face of the family pet. But the show aims to cast Marion in a new light, showing that she was no mere assistant, but rather equal to her sister in terms of photography, as they championed feminism in fascist Italy, keeping the idea of women’s emancipation alive at a time of unbridled patriarchal ideology.

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Always wondered what everyday stuff celebrities buy, where they shop for food, and the basic they scrimp on? The former reality star and author talks family heirlooms, organic veg and splurge-worthy jeans with the Filter

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Millie Mackintosh rose to fame as part of the original cast of the reality show Made in Chelsea, filming five series before leaving in 2013. She has since established herself as a fitness, health and beauty ambassador, releasing her own beauty collection with Boots in 2017, and publishing Made: A Book of Style, Food and Fitness.

After choosing to go alcohol-free, she shared her journey in the bestselling Bad Drunk, co-written with Dr Ellie Cannon. Mackintosh speaks candidly about the realities of motherhood, mental health and self-care on Instagram.

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Robert Corrigan has been dealing with the ‘smart’ rodents all his life – and believes there are better solutions to deal with the growing infestation in the world’s cities

“The rodents have paid for every single bill I’ve ever had – every mortgage, every car payment, every pint of Guinness,” says Dr Robert Corrigan. “It’s been a great ride and I’m still at it.”

New York-based Corrigan is one of the most respected voices in the world of rodentology. Now in his 70s, he has devoted his entire adult life to studying rats and our relationship with them.

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After decades of declining religious affiliation, churches in southern California have seen an increase among gen Z

Alicia Martinez pulls on an oversized, chocolate-brown leather jacket – an incongruous choice for the July heat in Los Angeles. Later that day, she plans to see The Odyssey in a frigid theater. But first, there is mass.

Martinez, 24, enters Our Savior Parish, the castle-like church beside her workplace, the University of Southern California. Inside, she dips her fingers in holy water, makes the sign of the cross on her forehead, and enters the main part of the church in hushed reverence.

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BREDA (ANP) - De rechtbank in Breda heeft Klaas Otto, oprichter van motorclub No Surrender, in een ontnemingsprocedure veroordeeld tot het betalen van ruim 1,6 miljoen euro aan de staat. Volgens de rechtbank heeft de 58-jarige Otto dit bedrag niet op legale manier verdiend.

Otto werd in 2018 veroordeeld tot zes jaar cel voor witwassen, afpersing en bedreiging. Deze zaak loopt nog in hoger beroep. Voor de beoordeling van de ontnemingszaak maakt dat niet uit. De rechtbank gaat uit van de feiten die door de rechter in de strafzaak bewezen zijn verklaard.

Het Openbaar Ministerie had in de ontnemingszaak bijna 1,9 miljoen euro geëist. De rechtbank komt op basis van een iets andere berekening tot een lager bedrag. Ook trok de rechtbank nog 5000 euro af van het totaal omdat de zaak jarenlang heeft geduurd.

Otto richtte in 2013 de inmiddels verboden motorclub No Surrender op. Het leiden van de club kwam hem ook op een veroordeling te staan, omdat die werd aangemerkt als criminele organisatie.

NEW YORK (ANP/RTR) - Een rechter in New York weigert de veroordeling van de tot twintig jaar cel veroordeelde Ghislaine Maxwell te herzien. Ze had dat in een verzoek gevraagd te doen.

De rechter uitte zich kritisch over de argumenten van de 64-jarige Maxwell om te overwegen de veroordeling uit 2021 te herzien. Ze werd destijds schuldig bevonden aan "handel in kinderseks" op grond van haar nauwe relatie en praktijken met de zedendelinquent Jeffrey Epstein.

De rechter oordeelt dat Maxwell, die zichzelf vertegenwoordigde, geen argumenten van waarde heeft aangevoerd. Hij stelt dat haar betoog vrijwel geheel lichtzinnig en juridisch niet ter zake doend is. Ze stelde onder meer dat haar advocaten agenten van de regering waren en zich als aanklagers gedroegen. De rechter beschouwt dit 'nieuw bewijs' als irrelevant.

De invloedrijke investeerder en zedendelinquent Epstein werd in 2019 in een zaak over seks met minderjarige meisjes aangehouden. Hij overleed later dat jaar in een gevangenis in New York.

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De recente neerslag in het stroomgebied van de Rijn voorkomt een verdere verslechtering van de aan- en afvoer naar de haven van Rotterdam. Maar van een terugkeer naar een normalere situatie is nog geen sprake, laat een woordvoerder van Havenbedrijf Rotterdam weten. "De waterstanden blijven op belangrijke delen van de Rijn te laag voor normale belading van binnenvaartschepen. Daardoor blijven de beperkingen voor het vervoer van en naar de Rotterdamse haven naar verwachting ook de komende periode merkbaar."

Dat ziet ook branchevereniging Koninklijke Binnenvaart Nederland. Die stelt dat de regenval de binnenvaart enige verlichting biedt, maar nog onvoldoende is voor structureel herstel.

Ook volgens binnenvaartexpert Wouter van der Geest is het lage water nog niet voorbij, maar is er geen sprake meer van extreem laagwater. Vooral voorspelde regenval in Zwitserland zal verlichting bieden, verwacht Van der Geest.

WEZEP (ANP) - Het is een dag na het ongeluk tussen een touringcar en een bestelbus op de A28 bij Wezep nog te vroeg om iets te zeggen over de toedracht van het ongeval. Het onderzoek daarnaar "kan weken tot maanden duren", meldt de politie.

Na het ongeluk werden zestien mensen naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. Onder deze slachtoffers bevonden zich ook de bestuurder van de bestelbus, een 30-jarige man uit het Brabantse Rijen, en de bestuurder van de touringcar, een 49-jarige man uit Oostenrijk. Hoe het nu met hen gaat, maakt de politie niet bekend. Volgens de schooldirecteur van de scholieren die in de touringcar zaten, hebben twee leerlingen de nacht doorgebracht in het ziekenhuis.

Leden van het team Forensische Opsporing Verkeer, gespecialiseerd in onderzoek naar ernstige verkeersongevallen, doen onderzoek naar hoe het ongeluk heeft kunnen gebeuren. Daarnaast spreekt de politie met getuigen.

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse roeiers hebben ook een goede tweede dag van de wereldkampioenschappen in eigen land achter de rug. Alle boten plaatsten zich op de Bosbaan in het Amsterdamse Bos eenvoudig voor de volgende ronde. Woensdag zijn er nog meer voorrondes, donderdag de eerste finales.

In de vierzonder wonnen zowel de Nederlandse mannen als de vrouwen hun heat. Zij plaatsten zich voor de halve finales. Ook in de dubbelvier kwamen de vrouwen als eerste binnen. De mannen deden dat als tweede, na de Verenigde Staten. Beide boten plaatsten zich voor de halve finales. Dat gold ook voor de mannen in de dubbeltwee.

Duitse media meldden deze week dat Nederland samen met onder meer Duitsland en Denemarken in Rwanda gesprekken voert over een zogeheten terugkeerhub, om uitgeprocedeerde asielzoekers naartoe te sturen. „Ze zien dit als een manier om zichzelf te presenteren als een net Afrikaans land waarmee je zaken kunt doen.”

Wereldzaken is met vakantie, maar we zijn niet helemaal weg. In de tussentijd kan je luisteren naar onze zomerselectie: vier van onze beste afleveringen van het afgelopen jaar.

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The rare sight of a fast flowing Mambray Creek gushing under the railway bridge.


This is shot just off the side of National Highway 1, between Port Augusta and Port Pirie. I regularly drive between the two towns for work, and with plenty of rain the previous night (and in the week before) I decided to take the camera with me, and have a lunch-break at Mambray.
The nearby highway has a bridge across the usually dry creek bed. This shot is water rushing under the rail bridge then across the old road. Of course there were people driving through it, without first checking to see if it was safe. The water may not have been very deep, but it was flowing with great force, and there was no way of telling if the old road surface below the water was damaged. At the very least, these people could have gotten out of their cars and walked the crossing first, but no. Straight through, some towing caravans.
There is not even any need to cross here. They highway is only 50 metres away. These are the idiots who cause problems for our emergency service workers.

​Als hij het nieuws over de oorlog in Oekraïne leest, voelt de 33-jarige Erik zich vaak machteloos. Hij hangt met zijn muis boven een linkje waarmee hij mensen in Oekraïne direct kan steunen. “Was er maar iets dat ik kon doen.”

“Kon ik maar iets voor die mensen betekenen”, zegt Erik terwijl hij met zijn muis langs een oproep scrollt voor de bouw van een ondergronds ziekenhuis. “Maar ik ben hier en zij zijn helemaal daar. Het voelt allemaal heel ver weg.” Een knop met ‘doneer’ knippert in de hoek van het scherm. “Als individu kun je gewoon niets.”

Protect Ukraine helpt Oekraïne met het bouwen van een ondergronds ziekenhuis. Doneer nu via protectukraine.nl

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Zijn transvrouwen vrouwen, en mogen transvrouwen meedoen in een sportcompetitie voor vrouwen? Een discussie zo oud als de weg naar Woke en die vraag zingt momenteel door Amerika, tot aan het hoogste orgaan (het Witte Huis) aan toe, vanwege Trump. Maar waar draait het om? Er wordt in Amerika allround vrij lacherig gedaan over de WNBA, de basketbalcompetitie voor vrouwen. Nu lopen er desalniettemin een paar sterren rond: Caitlyn Clark bijvoorbeeld, en Sophie Cunningham. Die laatste is een soort all American girl die een virale hit werd met een 'finger pointing meme'. Deze Cunningham sprak zich uit over het 'beschermen van vrouwen en meisjes' tegen deelname van transvrouwen in de sport. De Volkskrant bestempelde haar daarop in een portret als 'MAGA-Barbie', want vrouwonvriendelijke stereotiepen mogen wél als het om een blanke, 'conservatieve' vrouwen gaat. Welke controversiële dingen zei Cunningham dan precies? Nou, dat 'biological men' niet mee zouden moeten doen aan vrouwensporten. "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, 'I never once said that'. I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men."

En nu is er de rel rond Enes Kanter, een hoogst bijzonder figuur. Oud-NBA-speler, een boom van een vent (2.08 meter) en in het verleden een prima center, maar zeker geen all-star. In de discussie of 'biologische mannen' mogen spelen in de vrouwencompetitie heeft hij zich aangemeld voor de draft van de vrouwencompetitie. Hij heeft de 'regels' bestudeerd en claimt zich te identificeren als vrouw. Een andere oud-NBA'er, Royce White, deed later hetzelfde. Hij zei zich 'soms', voor basketbaldoeleinden, als vrouw te identificeren. Kanter werd vorige week als toeschouwer van een WNBA-wedstrijd (van het team van Cunningham) uit de hal geknikkerd omdat hij een t-shirt-droeg met de tekst 'WOMAN noun. adult human female'. Op social media schreef hij vervolgens: "I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA!" Trol-lol: Enes Kanter volgt 1 account op Twitter, de WNBA.

Enes Kanter een conservatieve provocateur? Nee hoor: hij is een in Zwitserland geboren Turkse Amerikaan die naast basketballer bekendstaat als mensenrechtenactivist. Hij organiseert basketbalkampen voor kinderen, probeert daarbij christelijke, Joodse en moslimkinderen samen te brengen, zamelt actief geld in voor natuurrampen als bosbranden, houdt praatjes over de rol van klimaatverandering en spreekt zich (ten koste van zijn basketbalcarrière) actief uit over het lot van Oeigoeren, Tibetanen, dissidenten, mensenrechtenschendingen in China en Turkije, vluchtelingen, racisme, enzovoorts. Daar kreeg hij meerdere prijzen voor, zoals de Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent en de Lantos Human Rights Prize.

MAAR! Ook sprak hij zich uit tegen Hamas, antisemitisme en de gruwelijkheden van 7 oktober, waardoor hij werd gebombardeerd tot 'Israel’s unlikely NBA ally'. Over 7 oktober zei hij destijds bijvoorbeeld: "We have to condemn these actions and stand in solidarity with the innocent people in Israel. Many of my Palestinian friends are not supporting Hamas, each act of Hamas terrorism; taking away hopes for peace in the region." Maar probeer dat in Nederland maar eens uit te leggen, waar de helft van de deelnemers aan de Rode Lijn liever vandaag dan morgen een olijfboom plant voor Hamas. Maar nu komt het: niet alleen spreekt hij zich uit tegen autoritaire regimes, religieuze onderdrukking en mensenrechtenkwesties in het buitenland, ook keert hij zich tegen ideologische orthodoxie in Amerika. En als je eenmaal mee gaat doen aan die cultuurstrijd en je zit aan de 'verkeerde' kaaaaaaant, dan ben je: AF, zoals hier voor het radicaal-linkse opinieblad The Nation. Welnu, de WNBA heeft nu laten weten dat Kanter (en collega White) NIET mee mogen doen aan de draft van de WNBA. Ondanks dat ze zich identificeren als vrouwen! WNBA = vrouwenhaat! Wordt vervolgd.

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OpenAI offered its closest look yet at its spicy new Jalapeño AI accelerator at the annual Hot Chips semiconductor development conference at Stanford on Tuesday. The chips, first teased earlier this year, were developed in collaboration with Broadcom, and are the first in a series of custom silicon from OpenAI, designed (in part) by AI, for AI. Compared to contemporary GPU systems from Nvidia, OpenAI says the parts will deliver both higher throughput and lower latency when they start trickling out later this year and reach volume production in 2027. To be clear, Jalapeño won’t replace OpenAI’s long-time hardware partners, which also happen to be some of its most important investors. OpenAI still needs compute for training, and the highly programmable nature of GPUs means that OpenAI is likely to deploy on AMD and Nvidia first and then transition to in-house silicon later. It’s also worth noting that AMD’s MI455X and Nvidia’s Rubin GPUs, also expected to ramp production in early 2027, are very different kinds of chips optimized for a mix of training and inference, whereas OpenAI’s custom silicon only needs to excel at one job: inference. Memory bandwidth is king When it comes to inference, compute is key but memory bandwidth is king. And based on early benchmarks OpenAI shared with the press before its Hot Chips presentation Tuesday, the chip is shaping up to be an inference beast. Testing on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark suite — presumably this is an unofficial test — shows OpenAI’s Jalapeño-based systems delivering between 1.5x and 1.9x more “AI work” at peak throughput, and 1.7x to 3.6x lower end-to-end latency than the competition across GPT-OSS-120B, DeepSeek R1, and Kimi K2.5. If the latter two seem like weird models for OpenAI to be testing against, it's not that OpenAI plans to use these chips to run competitors' models, it’s just the models InferenceX uses. In any case, the test shows that Jalapeño isn’t some model-specific architecture designed for maximum performance at the expense of programmability… cough, cough Taalas. Meanwhile, for ultra-low-latency inference, which has become the hot new segment for AI infrastructure providers, OpenAI says its chips are 2.1x to 4.1x faster. At a system level — we're starting here because the frontier models OpenAI trains rarely run on a single chip any more — each Jalapeño system with its 128 accelerators packs 1.7 exaFLOPS of 4-bit compute, 27.5 TB of HBM4 and just shy of 2 petabytes a second of memory bandwidth. By comparison, AMD and Nvidia’s latest rack systems are faster, delivering 1.46x to 2x more compute and up to 12 percent more memory on Helios, but just 85 percent the memory bandwidth of OpenAI’s rack. As of writing, OpenAI hasn’t shared system-level power consumption, but based on what we know about the accelerators we’d wager each rack will use between 40 and 60 percent of the power of competing GPU systems. As usual, take all of these claims with a grain of salt. The competitive systems in question are Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 and GB300 NVL72 rack systems, which launched in 2024 and 2025 respectively. OpenAI’s point of comparison also excluded speculative decoding, which uses a small draft model to boost inference performance by predicting the outputs of another. While it can be argued this makes for a cleaner apples-to-apples comparison, when you're measuring inference performance, you’re not just comparing hardware but the platform as a whole. Joining the rack-scale revolution Jalapeño’s system design won’t surprise anyone. The chip is designed around a rack scale architecture similar to Nvidia’s NVL72 or AMD Helios. Each rack is equipped with 128 Jalapeño accelerators on board, each of which, we're told, is capable of churning out 13.4 petaFLOPS at MXFP4. That compute is fed by 216 GB of HBM4 memory (we assume six 12-high stacks) good for 15.4 TB/s of memory bandwidth. OpenAI is expected to shed more light on the system and shipping during its Hot Chips presentation on Tuesday, but from what we gather, the chip also appears to feature a large SRAM cache. According to Richard Ho, VP of hardware at OpenAI, the chip was designed to minimize data movement and keep intermediate operations and things like key value caches, which track state, on the chip. "We designed Jalapeño to minimize data movement and communication delays. This means that model state, including the KV cache used while generating a response, can be explicitly placed and kept local while the system activates the right combination of compute, memory, and networking for each inference phase,” the company explained in a blog post. A large SRAM cache would be the most intuitive way to go about this, and it's what we’ve seen the likes of SambaNova, dMatrix, and others do in their own AI XPU designs. However, unlike Nvidia’s Groq LPX racks, Jalapeño isn’t a one-trick pony. Instead, we’re told, it’s optimized for both the compute-heavy prefill operations where prompts are processed, and the memory-bandwidth-intensive decode phase where output tokens are generated. “A system that excels at one phase can lose that advantage while waiting for data or moving model state between different resources,” the company explained. Designed with AI for AI Perhaps the least surprising detail in all of this is that OpenAI used AI to help design, architect, and optimize the chip for inference, cutting time from inception to tape out (the point at which a semiconductor design is finished and ready to be sent off to the foundry for fabrication) to just nine months. This included using its models to optimize its inference-serving engines and to write custom kernels as new models were introduced. But, as impressive as that might sound, AMD and Nvidia have been doing essentially the same thing internally for a while now. In fact, at Advancing AI last month, the House of Zen opened its ROCm.AI offering to the public. Moreover, building a chip that can scale to hundreds of thousands of accelerators isn’t a trivial task, and AMD and Nvidia likely have the edge with regard to programmability, what with GPUs being general purpose accelerators. In any case, Jalapeño won't be the last chip we see from OpenAI, assuming of course the bubble doesn’t pop before its second-gen chip tapes out. ®

Anthony Ralphs has been showing up to San Diego City Council meetings to speak against Flock's presence in his city for a year. At first, he took the podium during public comment in business casual — dress shirts, pants, suits, "respectable" clothing — to voice his concerns about the city's deal with the surveillance company. 

"I did all the right things. I wore the suits. I said all the correct talking points. I made all the compelling arguments," Ralphs told me in a phone call. He cited Supreme Court precedent, like Chatrie v. United States, which challenged the constitutionality of geofence warrants where police could collect location history data from cell phones. 

"It seemed like no matter how many cases I brought up, no matter how many violations of the Constitution this technology breaks, no matter how many constituents, no matter how many organizations, no matter how well I dress, no matter how fine my talking points, they weren't listening," he said. "That was when I realized, you know, you can't spell activism without 'act,' right? And I decided, well, maybe I'll try something different." 

On August 19, Ralphs stood before city council members in a Darth Vader cape and mask, complete with mechanized breathing and voice changer. "The emperor is a fan of Flock," he began, and, speaking as the Dark Lord, laid out in three minutes why the Empire depends on Flock's warrantless network of automatic license plate readers and surveillance cameras. The video went extremely viral; after our coverage of Ralph's comments, every news outlet on the planet seemingly wrote about the mysterious San Diegan Vader. Coverage of his speech was published in Singapore and translated to Spanish and Arabic.

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“They didn’t understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”

Ralphs is an event producer and has been hosting raves and music festivals in the area for the last 13 years. He founded an event space, Eden Art Garden, about an hour outside of the city. He recently started DeFlock San Diego and works with the Transparent and Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology San Diego (TRUST SD) Coalition as well as other anti-surveillance and privacy rights groups to educate people and organize more widely. "But now we need the musicians, we need the artists, we need the painters, the actors, we need the thespians to bring this together and get some wheels on the movement to help it gain traction," he said.

"I think it's a character that resonates. He's like an archetype for evil. He's an archetype for the Empire," Ralphs said. "Vader is always a servant of the Empire, right? So [Flock] is nothing but tools for the servants of the Empire. Framing it into that context, I think was what was needed to bring this conversation into like a theatrical global component is really framing it in that kind of good versus bad framework. It is such an Orwellian technology being utilized by such comic book villain forces of evil trying to do dastardly things." 

One of Ralphs' first city council meetings was in December 2025, when hundreds of people spoke in person, attended via Zoom, or sent comments online opposing Flock. After six hours of deliberation and debate, and despite the vast majority of public comment coming from constituents who wanted Flock out of San Diego, the council voted to continue the program.

"After that meeting, where city council decided that none of their constituents' opinions mattered and that they were going to vote how they wanted to vote regardless... After that, the movement was so discouraged, and all of us were so deflated that it was really hard to summon the collective energy and to muster the kind of the vitality that we needed to keep pushing forward," Ralphs said. He came back to another city council meeting a week later, and was "shocked and really disappointed," he said, to see the chamber was completely empty of members of the public. In that moment, he said, he realized he had an opportunity to attend as many city council meetings as he could — once every two weeks, then once a week, then twice and week and eventually every council and subcommittee meeting by spring 2026. "Then by May and June, I was so familiar with the process of giving public comment, of looking at the agenda items ahead of time to know what was going to be discussed, knowing how to cede time and get time ceded to you, I started organizing people to join me to speak to city council."

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My small town in South Carolina will soon have more Flock cameras than police officers.

After Vader's appearance went viral around the world, Ralphs wondered if he'd let the character remain anonymous or take ownership of it. "But I think that it's a good time now to follow up with what the intention was, and what the reason and method was behind it," he said. "I think it's important for people to know this wasn't just some antic from somebody who just decided to show up one day and make some noise. This was a thought out plan that was exacted only after cumulative frustration from hundreds of people being ignored and months and months and months of trying things quote unquote the right way and it not working." 

On Monday afternoon, Ralphs returned to San Diego City Council. He carried the mask to the podium with it wheezing on its own, and sat it down on the table. "I think we know who the bad guy is now. But I think what the whole world wants to know is who wants to be the good guy," he said. "I have requests to be interviewed this entire week. And what I would like to ask is, of the five council members that voted for Flock: When will this end? When will you listen to the vast majority of your constituents?" 

At least 50 Russian women serving in the war have been killed, with the annual death toll rising the longer the war has gone on, the outlet found.