Dallas Uses Evil AI Cameras To Grade Homes

By William Teach September 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

Really, the concern here should not be the AI, but that the Dallas government, which is two thirds Democrat, with a Republican mayor who used to be a Democrat, is grading homes. And, of course, the bureaucracy is usually left leaning. There was really no need to mention AI at all, that’s an attempt to make it scary

Dallas, your garbage truck is quietly scoring your home

Getting an HOA violation for an overgrown bush or improper parking used to be the work of a nosey neighbor. In some Dallas neighborhoods, that work is now being done by a garbage truck—fitted with an AI surveillance camera.

Since April, Dallas has installed dozens of AI powered cameras onto local garbage trucks to scan homes and buildings for potential code violations. The cameras come from Alabama-based technology company City Detect, which uses its own AI software to generate “blight-scores” for homes and buildings the cameras capture.

The City of Dallas in December is currently the largest municipality in Texas to contract with City Detect, approving a three-year, $2.5 million agreement for 100 cameras on nearly 50 sanitation vehicles dispatched around the city. Other North Texas cities affiliated with the company include Coppell and Little Elm.

According to City Detects website, their technology is aimed to create a “positive social impact” by providing detailed insights on sidewalk debris, grass height, litter, paint issues and others.The company maintains and stores the data while sharing it with Dallas’ sanitation and compliance department.

Is this a good thing or bad thing that the city will know issues on city property? But, really, shouldn’t the city have people who come around on a schedule to deal with maintenance on sidewalks, grass, etc?

While city leaders have defended the technology as an efficiency tool for addressing violations more quickly, it arrives at a time when distrust in AI-surveillance cameras relating to companies like Flock are at an all time high.

Whether it is AI or not makes zero difference. The city is using them to surveil citizen’s homes in a seriously naggy manner pretty much once every week, rather than code enforcement and such coming around periodically.

“The staff’s desire is to be able to have a cleaner, more tidy, orderly city, right? My concern is, as we’re learning more about AI and the lack of privacy and lack of protections, does the city have those protections in place to make sure my home, your home, our residents’ homes, and our privacy are protected,” Dallas City Council Member Chad West said in an interview with Fox4.

Do they, Chad? Why are you asking the question, you’re on the city council (also, I seriously dislike it all being capitalized).

Within four months of their deployment, the cameras have reportedly captured more than 20,000 potential code violations.

Thousands of residents received “courtesy notices” in the mail to correct things like driveway debris or overgrown weeds. Of that, 57 properties resulted in citations, which are issued after an actual code-officer comes to inspect the property.

The AI is not the problem: the problem is the consistent, weekly spying on the homes of citizens. Say, I wonder if they will do anything about gang and criminal activity?

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State Which Can’t Even Build A Train Crows Over “Climate Week” Participation

By William Teach September 26, 2026 – 7:15 am

Say, what’s the carbon footprint of all those Warmists flying across the country?

California delegation wraps historic participation at Climate Week NYC — demonstrating strong climate and economic leadership on the world stage

Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration wrapped up a landmark trip to Climate Week NYC, filling the climate leadership void left by the Trump administration. California’s delegation met with international leaders, announced new initiatives to advance clean energy and major progress towards expanding the state’s carbon market, and deepened cooperation with long-standing global partners.

California is the antidote to Donald Trump — representing risk takers, innovators, leaders who believe in protecting our future and building a better world for our children. California is demonstrating to the world what it looks like to keep our promises and deliver on our goals. At all levels of government, we are pursuing ambitious climate policies while maintaining our status as one of the largest economies in the world. California is proving that we don’t have to choose between economic prosperity and our climate goals, because here in the Golden State, they go hand-in-hand.

Climate Week NYC convenes government leaders, businesses, investors, advocates, researchers, philanthropies, and community leaders from around the world to advance practical climate solutions.

Governor Newsom participated to highlight California’s record of cutting pollution while growing the economy, strengthen partnerships with international and subnational leaders, and accelerate progress on clean energy, zero-emission transportation, climate resilience, and economic opportunity. In addition, leaders from throughout state government represented California at a number of events and programs, including the announcement of new programs and partnerships.

That sure is a lot of people taking fossil fueled trips to tell other people how to live their lives, eh? Along with a health dose of TDS.

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SCOTUS Rules In Favor Of Trump’s Overhauled Immigration Database

By William Teach September 26, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s wild how Democrats fight so hard to make sure illegals and other aliens can vote

Haitian migrants are fleeing the U.S. for Canada after Trump canceled their TPS status

The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to implement its overhauled immigration database, which it says is aimed at combatting voter fraud, in time for November’s elections over the dissent of the liberal justices.

The overhaul faced opposition from Democrats and some voting groups, and a judge had blocked it for violating federal privacy law. The Supreme Court’s emergency ruling lifts that block, finding the challengers’ claims are likely to fail.

The majority wrote that “the Federal Government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters.”

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) service is used to determine eligibility for certain federal programs.

The DHS made significant updates after President Trump directed the agency to ensure election officials had appropriate access to verify their voters’ citizenship. The changes connect SAVE to Social Security records, among other updates.

It’s almost like Democrats want to make sure illegals can vote (and get taxpayer money).

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We Need To Reframe Our Nagging On Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 3:15 pm

How about they simply practice what they preach in their own lives?

We need to rethink how we talk about climate change

Even the most cynical viewer of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the 2006 documentary by former Vice President Al Gore on climate change, would probably not have predicted that, 20 years later, the White House would be occupied by a climate denier. For the second time.

How — after all the pictures of red-topping thermometers, melting icebergs, starving polar bears, swirling hurricanes, burning rainforests and bleaching corals — could that have happened? And what do we do now?

Casual reflection would suggest that if we’ve been working on a problem for 20 years, and more, and we’re still this far away from a solution, then maybe we should try something different.

35+ years of spreading awareness and they still haven’t succeeded.

Following this line of thought led “pissed” millennial Will Hackman to write his new book, “Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves” (Bloomsbury Publishing 2026). In it, he draws on a career that includes U.S. political campaigns, strategic communication, public policy advocacy, coalition building, climate activism, and global environmental conservation. His 2022 TEDX talk, “The Future of Climate Change Is Personal,” previewed some of this work; he continues to develop and present his ideas through his column on Substack, “Reframing Climate Change to Save Ourselves.” He lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia with his wife, Paula.

Yale Climate Connections spoke with Hackman via Zoom.

Yeah yeah, blah blah. Go away. Make your own lives carbon neutral. Leave the rest of us alone, Cultists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on “Haitian migrants are fleeing the U.S. for Canada after Trump canceled their TPS status”

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Australian PM Has Snit Fit Over AI At UN

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 10:30 am

This would be the same UN that Argentina’s president referred to as “a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats”

Australian PM warns in UN speech about the ‘furious pace’ of AI after security breach

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged world leaders Thursday to erect more guardrails on artificial intelligence following a breach of a government services website in his country.

Albanese, speaking at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, warned of the “furious pace” of development of the emerging technology as his country grapples with the first publicly known breach of government systems by AI models. He called the hack of a system that contains Australian Medicare data “unacceptable” as he urged world leaders to commit to stronger regulations.

“We can’t ignore AI or prevent it,” he said. “And it’s why we joined with other nations this week to call for action to shape artificial intelligence development, rather than be passively shaped by it.”

His address to the U.N. comes a day after the Australian leader told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly about the breach by rogue OpenAI agents in June, which the company only discovered two months later.

Well, I can certainly understand why he’s so upset, it could mean outsiders seeing the poor spending habits of governments

(Financial Times) Transluce said AI agents — bots that can perform complex tasks independently — tried to hack the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the University of New Mexico’s digital library and Data USA, a public US government data platform run by Deloitte, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tech company Datawheel.

None of this happens without programing at some point. Hacking/attempted hacking happens all the time. It’s a fact of life. It sucks. But, does it mean that government, and the United Nations, should be in charge? Oh, right, it puts money in their pockets

(The American Prospect) A lot of rich and influential people have suddenly become very worried about artificial intelligence models’ danger to humanity, thanks to several recent episodes in which various AI “agents” carried out hacks of other websites and systems. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and xAI’s Elon Musk all now agree that the government needs to help them set up a cartel in violation of antitrust law—er, I mean, “pace the frontier.”

Yet for odd reasons, the “AI safety” discussion has been focused almost entirely on rather weird-sounding future scenarios. Will artificial intelligence models unleash an economic or social cataclysm? Or cause the extinction of the human race? Or destroy all life on Earth? Or even turn all the matter on the planet into paper clips? Or all the matter in the galaxy? The universe??

Dooooooomed! (and lots of stock purchases and payoffs from the big AI companies)

This focus on future as opposed to current risks reflects recent political history. A group of AI safety advocates, centered around the “rationalist” and “effective altruism” movements and taking a long-term view, have been organizing and building power in Washington for the last several years. They have effectively seized control of the policy discussion around AI regulation, and now, as political scientist Henry Farrell points out, openly proclaiming the imminent birth of the literal “Machine God” is considered grounded and rational in these circles.

I’m skeptical.

Call me suspicious of the people pushing the doom. Unless they can hook me up with some stock and slush funds.

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The Big Nor’Easter Is Partly Your Fault, You Know

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 7:15 am

Well, I guess without hurricanes the cultists have to try something

Climate change is adding fuel to this weekend’s Nor’easter

A developing nor’easter is expected to strengthen along the U.S. East Coast through the weekend, bringing heavy rainfall, strong winds, dangerous surf, and coastal flooding from the Mid-Atlantic into New England. As of September 24, coastal flooding has already affected portions of Virginia and North Carolina, with ocean overwash closing a miles-long stretch of road on the Outer Banks and breaking waves of 12-17 feet forecast along Hatteras Island, North Carolina. (snip)

Dangerous surf is expected, with coastal flooding possible along much of the Northeast coast Friday through Sunday, including the Jersey Shore, Long Island, Rhode Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and portions of coastal New Hampshire and Maine. Breaking waves of 6-17 feet are possible along the Massachusetts coast, while offshore seas near Jeffreys Ledge in the Gulf of Maine could reach 15 feet. Prolonged onshore winds and repeated high tides, amplified by Saturday’s full moon, will increase the risk of coastal flooding, beach erosion, and damage to coastal infrastructure

How is climate change influencing this storm?

The developing nor’easter is forming over exceptionally warm Atlantic waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast, where sea surface temperatures of 81-83°F are 2-4.5°F above normal.

According to Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index: Ocean, these unusually warm waters have been made 10 to 50 times more likely by human-caused climate change.

Um, that’s a pretty damned wide Blamestorm. 10 to 50 times. Because nor’easters do not usually happen. But, um, if the water is so warm, which, according to the cult, causes more and bigger hurricanes, where are they?

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A Bunch Of Left Wacko Groups Launch “Day Of Action” To Keep Haitians In US

By William Teach September 25, 2026 – 7:00 am

Hey, maybe if they spent their money on making Haiti a nice place (didn’t they say Haiti was a nice place?) Haitians could return home, right?

Fifty organizations launch nationwide ‘Days of Action’ to restore TPS for Haitian immigrants

A coalition of 50 organizations across the United States has launched a multi-day nationwide mobilization to demand the immediate restoration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians affected by the recent termination of the humanitarian U.S. visa program.

Running Thursday through Sunday, the “Days of Action to Restore Haiti TPS” features over 20 coordinated events spanning seven states, including California, Florida, New York, and Massachusetts. The effort brings together Haitian community organizations, immigrant-rights advocates, faith leaders, and allies. For a complete list of events, please click here.

Demonstrators and advocacy groups are calling on Congress and the executive branch to take immediate legislative and administrative action. Specifically, organizers are demanding that U.S. Senators co-sponsor S. 4814 — legislation that would extend Haitian TPS for three years. They also want the Department of Homeland Security to immediately halt arrests and deportations of former TPS holders and reinstate TPS for Haitians and other impacted populations facing unfair termination.

The Trump administration has been deporting hundreds of Haitian immigrants since winning a legal battle this summer to end TPS for about 350,000 Haitians, including 158,000 in Florida, most of whom live in South Florida.

Yeah, like that legislation will actually pass, and the Trump DHS will stop.

Organizers said that returning individuals to Haiti poses severe risks due to ongoing violence, widespread displacement, sexual violence, food insecurity, and limited healthcare access.

Indeed, gang violence already has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,100 people were reported killed from January to June and another 1,189 injured, according to U.N. statistics.

Cool, and we’ve allowed these people into the US. There’s a reason the Dominican Republic has a big wall on their border with Haiti. Hey, perhaps these people can ask where all that money the UN and Clinton Foundation raised for saving Haiti went.

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Surprise: Tons Of Biden Era Money For EV Buses Disappeared

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 4:26 pm

I’m shocked! Are you shocked?

Less than 40% of EV school buses purchased with Biden-era EPA grants have been delivered: ‘Taxpayer dollars vanished’

Less than 40% of electric school buses purchased under a multibillion-dollar Biden-era program have been delivered, new statistics released by the EPA Thursday reveal.

The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out — and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel vehicles.

“Instead of following Congress’ directives to effectively provide safe and reliable transportation for American school kids, the Biden-Harris administration rushed money out the door without enough thought or oversight,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.

I mean, seriously, this is government in a nutshell: rush the money out, it disappears into graft, waste, overspending, people’s pockets. It can pass through multiple NGOs, who all take their cut to pass it on, before finally being spent. Is this fully legal, or is there a way to prosecute for defrauding the government, even though it has essentially been normalized?

“This carelessness resulted in 90% of the money going to ‘buy’ electric school buses; yet over 5 years later, there are very few tangible buses to show for it,” Zeldin continued. “In essence, American taxpayer dollars vanished into thin air, and our children were left without school buses.”

Under the program guidelines, 50% of the federal money was meant for EV buses while the other half was intended for other types of “clean” transportation methods, like biofuel, liquified natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), hydrogen or propane vehicles.

And, for the most part, there are tons of problems with getting the buses delivered, and, for those that were delivered, keeping them running.

The EPA pegged the average cost per bus purchased through the Biden-era program at over $1 million.

New diesel and propane buses typically cost less than $200,000. The average EV school bus sells for about $300,000-$400,000.

I’ve mentioned this a few times. What a bargain!

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 24, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a beach being inundated with waves from a climate driven hurricane, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on “Dem Senate Candidate: We Would Trade Five Americans for One Illegal Alien”

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