Aaron

I can’t vouch for the AI result above but I’m from NZ and we had a citizen mom detained with her kid for weeks, Sarah Shaw, who thankfully got out. However another of our citizens, Everlee Wihongi, has been detained for over a month now. ICEs strategy is to move people so they’re harder to find and they move them when they have a court appearance coming up so they have to “reschedule”.

Absolutely right. It’s not a law for them, it’s a fine.

I think I have four that are top of my current most played songs that aren’t English:

Kaval Sviri, a Bulgarian folk song. Specifically the version performed by KSS, a women’s choir in Oslo. It’s a cappella, and has some great resolving dissonance. Really a fantastic performance.

Next would be Ka Bohaleng performed by Abel Selaocoe. It has some cool string effects and I like the throat singing technique he uses in this song in particular.

Presidente by Goran Bregović (featuring Gipsy Kings) is a fun upbeat celebratory song.

Altay by Ummet Ozcan, featuring vocals from Otyken is a great song that feels like… Mongolian cyberpunk? If that’s a thing. If you can’t tell I’m really feeling throat singing multiphonics right now 😆

I’m no expert, but I was under the impression that their tools use not only facial recognition that can (with a non-perfect record) identify people wearing nose and below masks, but also identifies based on cell phone and geographic data. So if someone plans on relying on beating facial recognition, they’ll need to also beat the other tools in use by wearing a full mask, not carry a cell phone, etc.