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This is what I got when I asked Meta AI about plans for Los Angeles being transformed into a Smart City👇👇👇
Los Angeles' SmartLA 2028 initiative is an ambitious plan to transform the city into a highly digital and connected urban environment by 2028, coinciding with the city's hosting of the Olympics. The plan focuses on leveraging technology to improve the quality of life for residents, businesses, and visitors.¹
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Key Components:
- Infrastructure: Developing a unified digital payment platform for public transportation, deploying 10,000 public electric vehicle charging stations, and implementing smart wayfinding kiosks.²
- Digital Services: Enhancing online services for residents, businesses, and visitors, and improving digital inclusion to ensure equal access to technology.³
- Data and Analytics: Utilizing data tools and practices to enable effective information sharing across departments, and to identify areas for improvement in government services.⁴
- Connectivity: Deploying ubiquitous, ultra-high-speed 5G connectivity across the city to support emerging technologies.
Strategic Challenges:
- Improving shared usage of IoT sensors across city departments and the private sector
- Avoiding over-investment in physical infrastructure
- Ensuring equitable access to technology and digital services
The SmartLA 2028 initiative is a comprehensive plan that aims to make Los Angeles a model for smart cities worldwide.
Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after every single one of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night.
According to the police department, all 8 of the town's cameras were cut down and hauled away.
Police are asking for the public's help to identify the individual, but the public has been responding with comments such as:
"The Flock cameras tore themselves down"
"Whoever did it, was fishing with me"
"Whoever it was, was at Bible study with me"
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Nearly 20,000 people are publicly vouching for a man accused of cutting down Flock cameras in a small West Virginia town.
People commented:
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"He was saving my neighbor's dog from a fire all day, couldn't be him."
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"This man is innocent. I saw him serving at a soup kitchen."
-"Couldn't be him. He was helping me replace the roof on a homeless shelter."
The man, Wesley Jackson, has pleaded Not Guilty.
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US diesel crack surpasses $100 a barrel for the first time on supply disruptions
... and the supply of refined fuels is already nearly exhausted. A hard landing is visible ahead, for farmers, for trucking, and ... well, for everything that requires food (people) and energy (the entire economy).
These are very likely the final days of relative normalcy during which to prepare. Get ready.
🌾 🌍 🚜 JPMorgan warns a massive global food supply crisis could begin next year as fertilizer shortages tighten agricultural supply.
JPMorgan is the latest institutional research desk to warn that the next global food crisis may already be taking shape, driven by what its analysts describe as the "Five Ws": War, Weather, Warehousing, Water, and Waste.
In a new report titled Food Security Is National Security: A Compounding Storm, a team led by London-based senior global economist Nora Szentivanyi warned that disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz and the emergence of a potentially historic El Niño could weaken crop yields, constrain agricultural production, and keep food inflation elevated through the first half of 2027.
"Successive shocks since COVID have compounded, eroding food production capacity and keeping food price pressures elevated into 2027," Szentivanyi said, warning that "this is not a short-lived shock; it has reduced the likelihood of near-term disinflation, and the food ...
