#publicsafety — Public Fediverse posts

Talking food safety with University of Minnesota | Psa https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/11693/ #county_news_review #local #Minnesota #MinnesotaDining #MinnesotaFood #MinnesotaGroceryStores #MinnesotaRestaurant #News #psa #publicsafety

Reuters: Indian police to query Google over 500,000 fake Gmail IDs linked to bomb hoax. “Indian police will question Google over a lack ​of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed more than ‌500,000 fake Gmail accounts to send hoax bomb threats to government offices, a police official told Reuters on Tuesday.”

Wildfires Burn Thousands of Hectares, Exposing Albania’s Systemic Weaknesses

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://balkaninsight.com/2026/09/15/wildfires-burn-thousands-of-hectares-exposing-albanias-systemic-weaknesses/bi/

Orange County Register: New app to provide California wildfire updates directly from local fire agencies

https://www.ocregister.com/2026/09/09/new-app-to-provide-california-wildfire-updates-directly-from-local-fire-agencies/

#wildfires #publicsafety

Heather Cox Richardson probes a vital concern: should we pump the brakes on AI development before its too late? Industry leaders like Dario Amodei caution against rapid advancements that could lead to catastrophic outcomes, advocating instead for thoughtful regulation and oversight, while President Trump dismisses these risks to prioritize economic growth and international competition. This important discussion sheds light on the need to weigh public safety against unchecked innovation, providing valuable insights into effective policy approaches. Explore the full analysis to better understand the implications for our shared future. Heather Cox Richardson deserves recognition for her incisive work on this critical topic.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-13-2026
#AI #TechRegulation #PublicSafety #EconomicPolicy

Heather Cox Richardson probes a vital concern: should we pump the brakes on AI development before its too late? Industry leaders like Dario Amodei caution against rapid advancements that could lead to catastrophic outcomes, advocating instead for thoughtful regulation and oversight, while President Trump dismisses these risks to prioritize economic growth and international competition. This important discussion sheds light on the need to weigh public safety against unchecked innovation, providing valuable insights into effective policy approaches. Explore the full analysis to better understand the implications for our shared future. Heather Cox Richardson deserves recognition for her incisive work on this critical topic.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-13-2026
#AI #TechRegulation #PublicSafety #EconomicPolicy

Streetsblog NYC: Empty Quarter: City’s Crash Database Hasn’t Been Updated In Three Months. “The city’s public data on motor vehicle crashes — the portal that provides the underpinning for public-facing, easy-to-use, map-based websites such as Crashmapper and Crashcount — hasn’t updated since June 11, meaning that thousands of crashes are not showing up on those independent websites.”

Streetsblog NYC: Empty Quarter: City’s Crash Database Hasn’t Been Updated In Three Months. “The city’s public data on motor vehicle crashes — the portal that provides the underpinning for public-facing, easy-to-use, map-based websites such as Crashmapper and Crashcount — hasn’t updated since June 11, meaning that thousands of crashes are not showing up on those independent websites.”

Streetsblog NYC: Empty Quarter: City’s Crash Database Hasn’t Been Updated In Three Months. “The city’s public data on motor vehicle crashes — the portal that provides the underpinning for public-facing, easy-to-use, map-based websites such as Crashmapper and Crashcount — hasn’t updated since June 11, meaning that thousands of crashes are not showing up on those independent websites.”

Streetsblog NYC: Empty Quarter: City’s Crash Database Hasn’t Been Updated In Three Months. “The city’s public data on motor vehicle crashes — the portal that provides the underpinning for public-facing, easy-to-use, map-based websites such as Crashmapper and Crashcount — hasn’t updated since June 11, meaning that thousands of crashes are not showing up on those independent websites.”

Streetsblog NYC: Empty Quarter: City’s Crash Database Hasn’t Been Updated In Three Months. “The city’s public data on motor vehicle crashes — the portal that provides the underpinning for public-facing, easy-to-use, map-based websites such as Crashmapper and Crashcount — hasn’t updated since June 11, meaning that thousands of crashes are not showing up on those independent websites.”

Radio Free Europe: Yale Tracking Of Ukrainian Children Taken By Russia At Risk As US Reshapes $25M Program. “Researchers at Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab working to track Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia and Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine could see their positions eliminated by December unless new funding is secured, the lab’s executive director told […]

Easy Reader: Good Stuff Strand Cam ends after 25 years, ‘swatting’ to blame. “For over 25 years Good Stuff restaurant in Hermosa Beach has livestreamed a block of The Strand capturing the daily musings of passing tourists, bikers and 13th street volleyball players to online audiences worldwide. Last week, the Good Stuff Strand Cam was taken down as a safety precaution, according to Cris […]

Easy Reader: Good Stuff Strand Cam ends after 25 years, ‘swatting’ to blame. “For over 25 years Good Stuff restaurant in Hermosa Beach has livestreamed a block of The Strand capturing the daily musings of passing tourists, bikers and 13th street volleyball players to online audiences worldwide. Last week, the Good Stuff Strand Cam was taken down as a safety precaution, according to Cris […]

Easy Reader: Good Stuff Strand Cam ends after 25 years, ‘swatting’ to blame. “For over 25 years Good Stuff restaurant in Hermosa Beach has livestreamed a block of The Strand capturing the daily musings of passing tourists, bikers and 13th street volleyball players to online audiences worldwide. Last week, the Good Stuff Strand Cam was taken down as a safety precaution, according to Cris […]

Easy Reader: Good Stuff Strand Cam ends after 25 years, ‘swatting’ to blame. “For over 25 years Good Stuff restaurant in Hermosa Beach has livestreamed a block of The Strand capturing the daily musings of passing tourists, bikers and 13th street volleyball players to online audiences worldwide. Last week, the Good Stuff Strand Cam was taken down as a safety precaution, according to Cris […]

Easy Reader: Good Stuff Strand Cam ends after 25 years, ‘swatting’ to blame. “For over 25 years Good Stuff restaurant in Hermosa Beach has livestreamed a block of The Strand capturing the daily musings of passing tourists, bikers and 13th street volleyball players to online audiences worldwide. Last week, the Good Stuff Strand Cam was taken down as a safety precaution, according to Cris […]

New York Times: Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views. “Across the world, aspiring influencers trespass on skyscraper roofs. They block highway traffic. They provoke strangers in grocery stores, airports and malls. They dangle from helicopters, cranes, trains and cliffs for clips lasting only seconds. Some are arrested. Others are hospitalized. And, in tragic […]

New York Times: Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views. “Across the world, aspiring influencers trespass on skyscraper roofs. They block highway traffic. They provoke strangers in grocery stores, airports and malls. They dangle from helicopters, cranes, trains and cliffs for clips lasting only seconds. Some are arrested. Others are hospitalized. And, in tragic […]

New York Times: Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views. “Across the world, aspiring influencers trespass on skyscraper roofs. They block highway traffic. They provoke strangers in grocery stores, airports and malls. They dangle from helicopters, cranes, trains and cliffs for clips lasting only seconds. Some are arrested. Others are hospitalized. And, in tragic […]

New York Times: Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views. “Across the world, aspiring influencers trespass on skyscraper roofs. They block highway traffic. They provoke strangers in grocery stores, airports and malls. They dangle from helicopters, cranes, trains and cliffs for clips lasting only seconds. Some are arrested. Others are hospitalized. And, in tragic […]

New York Times: Crashing a Plane for Clicks: Influencers Push Shock Content to Get Views. “Across the world, aspiring influencers trespass on skyscraper roofs. They block highway traffic. They provoke strangers in grocery stores, airports and malls. They dangle from helicopters, cranes, trains and cliffs for clips lasting only seconds. Some are arrested. Others are hospitalized. And, in tragic […]

Backpack: Google Maps Got Two Groups of Teenage Hikers in Trouble in a Month. Here’s Why it Keeps Happening.. “It was early July, and the group of 17-year-olds had set out to hike part of British Columbia’s Howe Sound Crest Trail, a rugged, 11-mile trek across high alpine terrain north of Vancouver. To help them navigate, the group put their intended route into Google, which calculated that […]

Vancouver Sun: Lions Bay search-and-rescuers warn against dangers of Google Maps. “Lions Bay Search and Rescue is reminding those venturing into the wilderness that Google Maps isn’t an adequate planning tool. The warning comes after hikers were rescued this week after attempting to complete the Howe Sound Crest Trail using printed Google Maps directions that said the hike would take less […]

Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: TickZone. “TickZone reads local weather, the tick life-stage, forest cover, and county disease data into a plain 0–100 score, refreshed every day. Calm and sourced, for people who’d rather just know.”

Lincoln Journal Star: Bomb threat at York County school turns out to be AI hoax. “The York County Sheriff’s Office responded to the bomb threat at Nebraska Evangelical Lutheran High School in Waco just after 1 p.m. Thursday. School personnel believe an unknown male called the school’s main line saying explosive devices had been placed inside and outside the building. After searching the school […]

Geospatial Data As Bioethical Evidence
--
https://doi.org/10.4401/jgsg-111 <-- shared paper
--
https://theconversation.com/gaza-we-analysed-a-year-of-satellite-images-to-map-the-scale-of-agricultural-destruction-248796 <-- shared technical article
--
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-satellite-tech-revealing-gazas-destruction/ <-- shared 2023 technical article
--
“Satellite imagery now documents systematic patterns of infrastructure destruction at spatial resolutions and temporal cadences that were unavailable during the atrocities of the twentieth century. Whether and how such data may enter bioethical deliberation, however, remains under-theorized. Quantitative remote sensing produces damage percentages, not normative claims, and bridging the two without committing an is-ought fallacy requires an explicit epistemological procedure. The contribution developed here is normative and epistemological rather than empirical. A six-component admissibility framework integrates, for the first time, geospatial evidence, population-level bioethical principlism, and the coherentist verification epistemology of political fact-checking into a single reproducible procedure for the bioethical use of satellite imagery. The first component specifies evidence admissibility criteria tailored to bioethical rather than strictly legal use. The second requires coherentist triangulation across methodologically independent remote sensing studies. The third operates as a bioethical relevance filter mapping infrastructure categories onto population-level social determinants of health. The fourth operationalizes principlism by translating health justice, accountability, solidarity, and sustainability into measurable geospatial observables. The fifth establishes ethical representation safeguards against voyeuristic or dehumanizing uses of destruction imagery. The sixth demands explicit epistemic humility regarding uncertainty, data missingness, and attribution limits. The Gaza conflict provides the case in point. Two independently produced geospatial studies, one based on SAR coherent change detection and one on very-high-resolution optical analysis, converge on extensive damage to civilian healthcare, water, sanitation, and educational infrastructure, and thereby satisfy the coherentist triangulation requirement of the framework. The resulting inference licenses bioethical claims of systematic survival infrastructure degradation while preserving transparent boundaries between what satellite evidence can and cannot establish about genocidal intent…”
#geoethics #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #imagery #satellite #opendata #conflict #war #military #destruction #infrastructure #spatiotemporal #bioethical #evidence #damagepercentages #spatialanalysis #change #quantitative #metrics #normative #epistemological #admissibility #framework #factchecking #controlled #publicsafety #publichealth #healthjustice #geospatialobservables #observation #uncertainty #controls #boundaries #changedetection #coherentisttriangulation #example #gaza

NJ Spotlight News: NJ has crucial choices on data centers, environmentalist says. “Data centers contribute to heat islands, or higher temperatures locally relative to their regions. Cities, and even some blocks within them, can experience hotter weather in part because of scarce trees and other vegetation.”

Study Highlights Growing Importance Of Multi-Day Storms In Future U.S. Flood Risk
--
https://news.okstate.edu/articles/engineering-architecture-technology/2026/study-highlights-growing-importance-of-multi-day-storms-in-future-u.s.-flood-risk <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ae4f14 <-- shared paper
--
“Extreme rainfall is projected to intensify as the climate warms, yet whether the greatest increases will occur in multi-day or single-day events remains uncertain. This knowledge gap is particularly pressing given recent catastrophic floods triggered by multi-day rainfall events, prompting the question of whether multi-day events could, in fact, intensify more than their daily counterparts, and by how much. This study addresses this question using an ensemble of 34 downscaled Earth System Models under two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5), focusing on changes in extreme rainfall by the end of the century across ten regions of the contiguous United States. [Their] statistical framework evaluates model agreement, ensemble-mean changes, and the significance of these changes for both daily and multi-day rainfall extremes. Results show that extreme rainfall amounts are expected to increase for most regions and durations. The degree of intensification, however, depends strongly on event rarity and regional climate characteristics. Notably, in the U.S. western Gulf Coast region, very rare multi-day events (e.g., 500 year return period) are projected to intensify more than their daily counterparts, a phenomenon that could be explained by increased stalling of tropical cyclones, which can prolong heavy rainfall over multiple days. These results challenge the assumption that daily extremes dominate future risk and highlight the need to consider event duration when updating flood-hazard maps, design standards, and adaptation planning…”
#Flooding #FloodRisk #FloodInsurance #FloodAwareness #Explore #FloodPreparedness #FlashFlooding #ClimateResilience #climatechange #extremeweather #DisasterPreparedness #StormwaterManagement #FloodSafety #CommunityResilience #risk #hazard #model #modeling #floodrisk #multiday #rainfall #precipitation #storm #water #hydrology #hydrography #planning #policy #regulations #climatemodel #CONUS #USA #publicsafety #cost #economics #damage #loss #infrastructure #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #earthsystemmodels #forecasting #meteorology #designstandards #floodmapping #mitigation #flood

PsyPost: Artificial intelligence tools answer addiction questions accurately but lack medical nuance. ” A recent evaluation found that while chatbot responses align broadly with national guidelines, they often lack the situational details necessary for individualized health decisions. These descriptive findings were recently published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.”

Valencia Flood Fallout - Officials Are Under Fire And Under Investigation
--
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/valencia-flood-fallout-two-officials-are-under-investigation/Y5XGPYCXWNCKDOSCVNLF7QEOOY/ <-- shared media article
--
#flood #flooding #water #hydrology #climatechange #extremeweather #rainfall #naturaldisaster #loss #damage #infrastructure #accountability #management #monitoring #alerts #valencia #spain #government #publichealth #publicsafety #death #lossoflife #cost #economics #mud #mudflow #engineeringgeology #urban #preparedness #flood #flooding #risk #hazard

Greater Los Angeles Wildfires - January 2025 – Before (20250106) & During (20250114) Landsat Image Swipe Comparo
--
https://www.usgs.gov/media/before-after/greater-los-angeles-wildfires-january-2025 <-- shared link to USGS images of LA area, with swipe comparo
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #LosAngeles #LA #LosAngelesfires #risk #hazard #loss #damage #cost #economics #model #publicsafety #remotesening #Landsat #landsat8 #landsat9 #opendata #imagery #satellite #OLI #OLI2 #January2025 #wildfire #fire #bushfire #infrared #nearinfrared #burnscars #vegetation #contrast
@USGS

We light outdoor spaces at night for many reasons, among which is to ensure our nighttime safety and security, but there is little evidence that outdoor lighting deters crime. Quality lighting design promotes better nighttime visibility by exploiting the amazing power of human vision across a large dynamic range. Read how the "lighting for reassurance" design ethic empowers users of outdoor spaces at night by giving them confidence in the integrity of their surroundings.

http://www.darkskyconsulting.com/blog/lighting-for-reassurance

📷: Gerd Altmann

#Lighting #LightingDesign #OutdoorLighting #Visibility #Crime #PublicSafety

With The 100-Year Flood Model Seemingly Obsolete, What Now?
--
https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2024/11/06/with-the-100-year-flood-model-seemingly-obsolete-what-now <-- shared technical article
--
#water #hydrology #risk #hazard #flood #flooding #model #modeling #GIS #spatial #mapping #HurricaneHelene #100yearflood #obsolete #weather #extremeweather #climate #climatechange #rainfall #precipitation #massmovement #debrisflow #engineeringgeology #mudflow #landslide #risk #hazard #evaluation #updates #engineering #design #planning #mitigation #infrastructure #cost #damage #future #publicsafety #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

Flood Protection Based On Historical Records Is Flawed – We Need A Risk Model Fit For Climate Change
--
https://theconversation.com/flood-protection-based-on-historical-records-is-flawed-we-need-a-risk-model-fit-for-climate-change-212454 <-- shared technical article
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrospatial #hydrology #flood #flooding #model #modeling #planning #mitigation #naturalhazard #humanimpacts #climatechange #extremeweather #regulations #prediction #floodengineering #floodrisk #floodriskassessment #assessment #risk #hazard #riskassessment #floodmanagement #floodprotection #floodsafety #publicsafety #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #weatherforecast #climatechangesolutions #climateadaptation #infrastructure #flooddamage

⚡️ Today, a 15-year-old male was shot in the upper body in Lexington Park, the third shooting involving a teen victim in three days. The Maryland State Police Helicopter is en route to transport the victim. A separate investigation is ongoing for the second shooting in West Westbury. #PublicSafety #YouthViolence https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/1885405/articles/188325177/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon