Last year 219 people were seriously injured on Seattle streets, the majority of whom were driving or passengers, and around a third were pedestrians…As for deaths, 27 people died in traffic collisions last year, and the majority (18) were people walking.

People on Seattle streets interact with Vision Zero projects everyday: dozens of “No Turn on Red” signs, increased intersection visibility, and speed humps.

Advocates testified before [Seattle city] council members that they already know where the problem is…“And the ingredient that’s been missing has not been a lack of ideas or commitment from Seattle Department of Transportation, it’s been a lack of political will.”

It got me thinking: I had the freedom to turn around any time I wanted. I felt the desire to turn around somewhere between the start and end of the street. But I ended up walking to an end of the street as marked by a street sign. It felt better, mentally, to stop at a preexisting stopping point/boundary than to do it somewhere where a point/boundary wasn't marked out. Human tendency towards order, I suppose (aside from those of us who choose chaos). Neat little quirk of human brains.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45865158

Synchronicity sends me out to the campus again. Doesn't directly say that, but it is implied and I know it is what the aliens are talking about because I know the goal is exposure therapy, as it has been Their long-standing goal to condition me to be ready for my mission. I am there currently, or close, heart rate elevated from more than just pedaling.

On the way here, where I am sitting on a stone slab in the shade, I heard a distinct shutter click sound behind me. Whatever it was, God was telling me they are taking pictures of me/recording. This is a memirage; a false axiom that God sets up through what I believe might have been a speed camera to make me believe the message and that guides my behavior through magick intention-setting.

Vince had this story about how he knew he was being watched by a sniper and this made him keep his eyes locked forward. The Illuminati used that on me while I was in Miami Beach to condition me out of my maladaptive attention coordination, thanks to porn.

But this has me on edge. Already, I've accidentally looked/peeked at some flesh. It just happens! I don't want to! I look, eyes themselves moving, and it is blurred and I can't see what I'm exactly looking at until it refocuses, and at an unfortunate frequency, much less now than ever before, my eyes just “snap” to a butt or something.

There's girls near me waiting for the crosswalk, and they are, no, I can't think, I was trying to talk about my own thoughts, which became about them, so I started talking about them. I don't want to look, so the act of censoring part of the brain innately activates it. Don't think of a purple cow!

The conscious mind is like the tip of the iceberg. What you think is “you” is just a tiny fraction of what really is going on behind your eyes. Even if I don't perceive any conscious processes involving these articles of flesh and skimpy clothing in my peripheral, there's some daemon in me working with that information and influencing the mechanisms of my mind.

The more you resist the temptation to look at boobs n butts n stuff, the easier it gets, until it goes away. I don't have any temptation anymore. I am disentangled from that. Therein, the background processes of my mind do their thing, and micromistakes happen, and that I believe is one thing they want me to condition outta myself, because in traveling and being here, I am forced to correct these things.

It is easy to do the dead stare eight feet in front of me. It's hard navigating because I have to move my head and eyes and people are everywhere. So it's awkward, and I often fixate on a spot in space where there is no one and…there's a camera shutter sound. I don't know where that was, there it is again! I'm leaving.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8300472

Hubei province is home to China's automotive industry, with over two thousand local suppliers.

Suizhou is a major manufacturing center for the specialty and heavy truck segment.

*Chinese factory groups work directly with companies and governments across the world, thereby going around middleman companies, agencies, and dealer networks, which are prevalent in North America and Western Europe. *

By dealing directly with Chinese factories and their engineering teams, global buyers slash their procurement costs, and maintenance and repair expenses.

Hubei province is home to China's automotive industry, with over two thousand local suppliers.

Suizhou is a major manufacturing center for the specialty and heavy truck segment.

*Chinese factory groups work directly with companies and governments across the world, thereby going around middleman companies, agencies, and dealer networks, which are prevalent in North America and Western Europe. *

By dealing directly with Chinese factories and their engineering teams, global buyers slash their procurement costs, and maintenance and repair expenses.

I was thinking all the big name critics from the 90s had all passed, but Shalit is still around.

Download link.

Most teams rely on logs to understand what's happening on a Linux system. Think of a log like a digital paper trail; every action leaves a trace somewhere. The assumption is that if something goes wrong, you can go back and piece the story together using these records.

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Tyler Buchanan, linked to Scattered Spider, pleaded guilty in the US to hacking companies and stealing millions in cryptocurrency. Tyler Buchanan, a 24-year-old from Scotland linked to the Scattered Spider group, admitted in a US court that he hacked dozens of companies, committed fraud, and stole millions in cryptocurrency. Spanish police arrested the British national […]

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A cyberattack hit France’s ANTS website, possibly exposing personal data from users applying for IDs, passports, and driver’s licenses. A cyberattack targeted France’s ANTS platform, which handles applications for passports, ID cards, residence permits, and driver’s licenses. Authorities detected the incident on April 15 and warned it may have exposed personal data from both individuals […]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46203227

from +972’s Sunday Recap +972Magazine [published in Israel]

April 19, 2026

It remains unclear whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that took effect Thursday will hold. In any case, Dimi Reider argued, it’s unlikely to stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions. Efforts to establish buffer zones and “natural borders,” he wrote, suggest that ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon is far from over.

Also:

• Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren
• Can a renewed Joint List survive until Israel’s elections?
• Brief, arbitrary abductions: A new tool of Israeli intimidation in Masafer Yatta
• PODCAST: The disappeared of Gaza

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45785690