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It's a start.
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Shuttered NYC migrant shelter highlights Trump’s successful immigration clampdown: NY lawmaker

President Donald Trump's quick action to secure the border has helped alleviate the migrant crisis in places like New York City, one Republican State lawmaker argues.
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They're shifting them from NYC to the Bronx

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Massive new migrant men’s shelter opens in this NYC nabe — and locals are fuming: ‘My worst fear’

It’s outrageous,” a resident said. “In all my years of living in this neighborhood, this has been the biggest let-down. Nobody that lived here asked for this. There was no vote, n…
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New York State Police changing color of troopers’ patrol cars

The current fleet is expected to be gradually replaced.
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They were paying between $600-$700 per vehicle for that specific shade of blue?.... Tell me that's not a racket. :mad:

Where's DOGE when you need them?

I remember when they changed to the dark blue and gold stripes. In CB lingo, they were Midnight Specials. Because they were harder to spot at night.

Not that dark grey is going to be any better. I wonder how much that particular grey is costing us?
 
Avenger said:
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New York State Police changing color of troopers’ patrol cars

The current fleet is expected to be gradually replaced.
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They were paying between $600-$700 per vehicle for that specific shade of blue?.... Tell me that's not a racket. :mad:

Where's DOGE when you need them?

I remember when they changed to the dark blue and gold stripes. In CB lingo, they were Midnight Specials. Because they were harder to spot at night.

Not that dark grey is going to be any better. I wonder how much that particular grey is costing us?
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What??? I just started getting used to them during my trips out to visit the kids in the Midwest, but my heart is still with the old Sunoco Specials...
 
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Looks like Siri has a political view. Coders gone wild...

Apple’s Dictation System Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’​

The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.

While using Apple’s automatic dictation feature to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users reported seeing a peculiar bug: the word “racist” temporarily appearing as “Trump,” before quickly correcting itself.

The message blip, which was replicated several times by The New York Times, provoked controversy after appearing in a viral TikTok post, raising questions about Apple’s artificial intelligence capabilities.

An Apple spokeswoman blamed the issue on phonetic overlap between the two words, and said the company was working on a fix.

The issue appeared to begin after an update to Apple’s servers, said John Burkey, the founder of Wonderrush.ai, an artificial intelligence start-up, and a former member of Apple’s Siri team who is still in regular contact with the team.

But he said that it was unlikely that the data that Apple has collected for its artificial intelligence offerings was causing the problem, and the word correcting itself was likely an indication that the issue was not just technical. Instead, he said, there was probably software code somewhere on Apple’s systems that caused iPhones to write the word “Trump” when someone said “racist.”

“This smells like a serious prank,” Mr. Burkey said. “The only question is: Did someone slip this into the data or slip into the code?”

The issue was the latest stumble at Apple since the company introduced a new A.I. system last year called Apple Intelligence. Last month, the company said it would disable one of the system’s signature capabilities: aggregating and summarizing news notifications. It did so after the system inaccurately summarized news headlines from several media outlets.

In 2018, Siri was the center of another political controversy when the voice assistant displayed a nude image in response to the question: “Who is Donald Trump?” The bug was linked to rogue Wikipedia editors who had changed the source of Siri’s information.

The latest issue started appearing on phones a day after Apple said that it would invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years. The company said it would begin manufacturing A.I. servers at a new 250,000-square-foot facility in Houston next year.

The investment promise came after Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, met with President Trump last week and said the company would invest hundreds of billions of dollars. It was the latest in a series of meetings between Mr. Cook and Mr. Trump. Mr. Cook also donated $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration and sat on the dais during the swearing-in.
 
Really? You can't get intelligent people to join the NYPD when they're treating them like thugs and racist murderers by default?

Whoda thunk?


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N.Y.P.D. Lowers Education Standards as Recruitment Falters

But the department will bring back a requirement that officers pass a timed-run test of 1.5 miles, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
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How does this make a police force better? Nice work BLM. :rolleyes:


N.Y.P.D. Lowers Education Standards as Recruitment Falters
But the department will bring back a requirement that officers pass a timed-run test of 1.5 miles, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.



The New York Police Department, the nation’s largest, has about 34,100 officers, down from a peak of 40,000 in 2000.Credit...Yuki Iwamura/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Maria Cramer
By Maria Cramer
Feb. 26, 2025
The New York Police Department is reeling from an exodus of officers that shows little sign of slowing.

One solution? Scale back education requirements.

The department is reducing the number of college credits that applicants need to become cadets from 60 to 24, Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said on Wednesday.

At the same time, the department will bring back a physical test for candidates, who will have to complete a 1.5-mile run in 14 minutes and 21 seconds, she said.

“It’s no secret that the N.Y.P.D. is facing a hiring crisis,” Commissioner Tisch said at a breakfast hosted by the Association for a Better New York, a coalition of corporations and nonprofit organizations. “These changes will allow the N.Y.P.D. to recruit more quality candidates to serve as police officers, while increasing the physical standards and maintaining academic rigor that continues to surpass what most other police departments require.”
 
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Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees

USDA supervisors are being asked to justify rehires and some employees still haven’t gotten their laptops back.
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Politico

Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees​


The Trump administration touted a nearly $1 billion plan Wednesday to combat the spread of avian flu and mitigate skyrocketing egg prices as the outbreak rips through poultry flocks across the United States.

But the measures come as the Agriculture Department is struggling to rehire key employees working on the virus outbreak who were fired as part of the administration’s sweeping purge of government workers. Roughly a quarter of employees in a critical office testing for the disease were cut, as well as scientists and inspectors.

The dismissals have already helped trigger a partial shutdown at one of the department’s research facilities, according to two USDA employees, interrupting some workers' efforts to fight bird flu and help livestock recover from illness.

:rolleyes:


 
wader said:
www.yahoo.com

Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees

USDA supervisors are being asked to justify rehires and some employees still haven’t gotten their laptops back.
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Politico

Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees​


The Trump administration touted a nearly $1 billion plan Wednesday to combat the spread of avian flu and mitigate skyrocketing egg prices as the outbreak rips through poultry flocks across the United States.

But the measures come as the Agriculture Department is struggling to rehire key employees working on the virus outbreak who were fired as part of the administration’s sweeping purge of government workers. Roughly a quarter of employees in a critical office testing for the disease were cut, as well as scientists and inspectors.

The dismissals have already helped trigger a partial shutdown at one of the department’s research facilities, according to two USDA employees, interrupting some workers' efforts to fight bird flu and help livestock recover from illness.

:rolleyes:
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