I’m seeing conflicting reports of LRAD use in Minnesota (probably not by ICE/CBP despite some reports, more likely to be state police).
Most detailed report here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-state-patrol-long-range-acoustic-device/
LRADs have been used for civilian crowd dispersal in the US before and have quite a range of operating settings, from benign focused audio transmission over a distance to REALLY EFFING LOUD AND DAMAGING TONES AT 160 dB
One of the original use cases for an LRAD is actually to communicate between ships across distances prior to boarding to provide warnings (e.g., mounted to a coastguard vessel). They weren’t really designed for civil urban use (although that’s a slippery one) but have wide military applications both as communication (including psyops) and in a more weaponised form.
Sounds louder than 85 dB(A) require hearing protection at work for context).
Interestingly even the CIA back at the height of black site torture recommend that music or noise louder than 79 dB(A) shouldn’t be used in ‘interrogation’ so that gives you another interesting yardstick.
State police say above that they are using them at the benign end of the spectrum but I haven’t seen anything that confirms this.
(I spent a whole year researching sonic weaponry/use of sound in interrogation so know far too much about this stuff most of which I never used)
#LRAD
I’ve done too much cycling 😱
The main reason the right hate Universities is that they are international communities. Just under half of the community I support come from overseas, and over half of my leadership team grew up outside the UK (and some of them did their doctorates here before becoming academic staff). More than half of the largest School in my home Faculty were impacted directly by Brexit as they were/are EU citizens from mainland Europe. Our Provost grew up in China and our President is from the US.
So when we make decisions and go about our business of education and research it is always within a global context informed by those global backgrounds, and that is anathema to the right’s ethno-nationalist agenda. Long gone is the recognition of the soft power we have bought, never mind the direct economic benefit of our work.
I’m seeing conflicting reports of LRAD use in Minnesota (probably not by ICE/CBP despite some reports, more likely to be state police).
Most detailed report here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-state-patrol-long-range-acoustic-device/
LRADs have been used for civilian crowd dispersal in the US before and have quite a range of operating settings, from benign focused audio transmission over a distance to REALLY EFFING LOUD AND DAMAGING TONES AT 160 dB
One of the original use cases for an LRAD is actually to communicate between ships across distances prior to boarding to provide warnings (e.g., mounted to a coastguard vessel). They weren’t really designed for civil urban use (although that’s a slippery one) but have wide military applications both as communication (including psyops) and in a more weaponised form.
Sounds louder than 85 dB(A) require hearing protection at work for context).
Interestingly even the CIA back at the height of black site torture recommend that music or noise louder than 79 dB(A) shouldn’t be used in ‘interrogation’ so that gives you another interesting yardstick.
State police say above that they are using them at the benign end of the spectrum but I haven’t seen anything that confirms this.
(I spent a whole year researching sonic weaponry/use of sound in interrogation so know far too much about this stuff most of which I never used)
#LRAD
I’ve done too much cycling 😱
The main reason the right hate Universities is that they are international communities. Just under half of the community I support come from overseas, and over half of my leadership team grew up outside the UK (and some of them did their doctorates here before becoming academic staff). More than half of the largest School in my home Faculty were impacted directly by Brexit as they were/are EU citizens from mainland Europe. Our Provost grew up in China and our President is from the US.
So when we make decisions and go about our business of education and research it is always within a global context informed by those global backgrounds, and that is anathema to the right’s ethno-nationalist agenda. Long gone is the recognition of the soft power we have bought, never mind the direct economic benefit of our work.
Working yesterday was a mistake had to take today off in bed. I’ve been ignored most of the day by Nansen but he’s fallen asleep on me now #CatsOfMastodon
Click, miaow! Nansen returns after about 50 hours…
He came upstairs looking for me before even eating (only because he he knows I am main food wrangler). He is very hungry. But seems OK, still has his collar.
I had woken up and was reading in bed…
He’s just finished his premium canned food I whipped out and now is onto two days worth of dry food from the robot…
#CatsOfMastodon
My institution is hosting this conference next week. I spoke at the first iteration, just an attendee this time.
Contrary to popular opinion Universities aren’t yet equitable ‘woke’ organisations we are actually well off the pace and have a lot of ground to make up especially on race equity (but also gender, disability etc.). And before you right wingers come at me it is our legal duty to do this work under the Equality Act and Public Sector Equality Duty…
https://ukcge.ac.uk/events/3rd-ukcge-conference-on-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-in-pg-research
#HigherEducation #PostgraduateResearch #DoctoralEducation #RaceEquity
I have (as planned) taken to my bed this afternoon to help me get over this cold. Nansen has joined me. #CatsOfMastodon
Nansen hasn’t occupied his sofa in ages #CatsOfMastodon
Nansen and his shadow #CatsOfMastodon
Definitely the high point of my day #BikeTooter #cyclng #commute
Monday was good too #cycling #BikeTooter #commute
Luke