Tempe has turned off its Flock automated license plate reader system and will end its contract with the company. The cameras are no longer collecting license plate data, and Tempe will not seek another company to replace the system.
While the cameras have helped Tempe Police solve crimes, recent misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide has raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology.
Tempe Police has found no misuse of its own Flock system.
Flock will remove its cameras, and previously collected data will be automatically deleted after 30 days unless it is connected to an ongoing case or investigation.
Read through the slides to learn more about the decision and what it means for Tempe.
Bill Maher: “If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck. You are in a bubble. And again I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria.”
Michael Knowles asks Christopher Langan, often called the "smartest man alive" (IQ estimates 195–210, creator of the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU): "Does God exist?"
Langan: "Yes."
Knowles smiles at the elegance: Reality itself has an identity—it's "that which exists." Naming "reality" is identifying something fundamental.
Langan ties it directly: This identity matches the biblical "I AM THAT I AM" from the burning bush—God as identity itself, Being itself.
Through CTMU's mathematical framework, he deduces properties of this ultimate identity (self-configuring, self-processing reality) that align with attributes of God in major religions: omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, sentience.
It's not blind faith—it's a logical deduction from the nature of existence.
In a world of endless debates, this high-IQ take cuts straight: Denying God is like denying reality has coherent identity.
Mind-bending or profound? Where do you stand on reality's ultimate "I AM"?
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"Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love... The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice." Philippians 1:15-18
The entirety of reality runs on God's love and focusing your mind and heart on Christ is the key to making the sufferings and disappointments of this life not only bearable but meaningful.