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Operation Highmast underway https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/royal-navy-aircraft-carrier-lead-multinational-operation-bolster-european-security
Operation …. not Exercise
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The trend towards data heavy systems that supposedly offer insight into inherent, potential criminality has captured police departments in numerous countries.
The representatives of law enforcement crave results, even those poorly arrived at, and algorithmic expediency and actuarial fantasy is there to aid them.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/04/junk-science-and-bad-policing-the-homicide-prediction-projec/#more-157363
To ponder – would predictive policing weave a new story here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tNgFGFTqo How?
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I keep reading that we in the US suddenly need a huge lot of data centers because we are in an AI race with China but I cannot figure out what the race is. Total users? Who cares and they have a billion people. Technology advances does not depend on data centers. I see no race that depends on having a lot of data centers. Any ideas?
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