We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
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.
Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
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My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
