Matthew Casey

What's going to happen next is those elites, the middle class, the ones who are 40, 50, 60 years old, who have wealth, who have power.

And the difference now is that I think, and I'll quote from Matt Casey is a long-time... friend of mine he wrote a great sub stack about this he's been walking around um or traveling around the united states getting a sense of what people were talking about and he he alluded to the idea of peter turchin's idea of elite overproduction um and just talking to people and their common enemy to your point was not war or foreign policy it was more about artificial intelligence in part because they feel like ai is finally starting to come for their jobs and i'll just quote him he said you know um though it is those who protest basically he's saying it's by no means those who consider themselves at the bottom of the k robes pierre lennon and castro were all failed as lawyers before turning to revolution there is something in that that the elite overproduction that we've seen that the economy that we are creating we have too many elites and if you want to rise to the ranks of the elites the path there is not at all clear we know this from the mailbag i mean how many i've been forwarding you the mailbag questions that we've had how many different mailbag questions are from people in their 20s or 30s who are saying hey I want to get to where you are how do I do that in the context of a media environment where it looked like the internet was about to shut down because of a hack that we're going to lose everything as a result of this like are you kidding I can't access the internet anymore like there is something operative there so I hear you on war and foreign policy being a common enemy but I think you can also see that artificial intelligence and the technocrats I think it can be both or another it can be both too but like you got to pick one eventually so

I don't know if you do.

I think, well, you do.

anything.

So here's what I would say.

First of all, it is absolutely correct that what your friend Matt Casey is saying is correct.

AI and anti-AI sentiment is demonstrably very high.

A Maricopa County Superior Court commissioner has given a former Phoenix police officer accused of assault and kidnapping permission to visit California.

Matthew Casey has the latest on that.

Commissioner Sigmund Popko gave Luis Vasquez Jr. a green light to travel this weekend.

to his godson's first birthday party in Anaheim.

Popco noted that Vasquez had the lowest score possible in a flight risk assessment and brief travel to a neighboring state is not uncommon.

Vasquez's defense attorney declined to comment.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Shifting to some education news, the Mesa College Promise Program is entering its sixth academic year with more than four times the number of students it had when it was established.

Money services businesses are often used by people without bank accounts to pay bills and send funds to family abroad.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

A 19-year-old ASU student is running against a former Republican state lawmaker to head the clerk's office at Maricopa County Superior Court.

Both candidates running say they want to keep the office running smoothly.

Maricopa County is appealing a federal judge's decision to not end independent oversight of the sheriff's office.

Matthew Casey has the latest on that

thatJudge G. Murray Snow oversees a long-running racial profiling case against the sheriff's office, which focuses on traffic stops and internal affairs.

Maricopa County and/or the sheriff have now appealed Snow's orders to the Ninth Circuit at least five times since 2011 and have yet to win a full victory.

Last month, Snow rejected a county request to end years of monitor oversight, writing that the sheriff's office has failed to show reform goals have been achieved, and the agency has not set safeguards to ensure it won't revert back to old behavior.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Well, the number of cows crossing into Arizona each day has nearly doubled.

In, uh, less than two months, the border has been reopened to live cattle imports from Mexico.

So for these following stories, I'm going to be reading through the comments of what other submariners wrote about their experiences working on submarines.

The first story comes from Matthew Casey, 5059, another submariner.

He writes, I was stationed on the USS Florida and one night on watch, I felt a presence and later come to find out there had been a crewman who had killed himself and his ghost ran around the ship.

I thought it was nonsense till I found in the torpedo room a small mural dedicated to him.

He was an RM-3 radioman.

I don't remember his name, but as far as I know, the mural is still there in the room.

Another user with the handle thefruns.198 responded to this comment by asking, I'm three months late, but damn, a ghost on a ballistic missile submarine? Matthew Casey responded to him.

Yep, the kid who hung himself did so in machinery room one.

Scottsdale leaders voted Tuesday night to have city staff draft an ordinance to govern the use of automatic license plate readers and have it ready for review on December 1st.

Matthew Casey has that.

After an in-depth presentation by Scottsdale police on their use of license plate readers, the city council heard from about two dozen members of the public.

Roughly half called on leaders to support continued use of the controversial system.

The city currently has eighty-five license plate readers.

Data is kept for about six months, and the program costs about two hundred eighty thousand dollars a year.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Activists say several more people have been arrested in the tiny border town of Loqueel.

The Pinal County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved filing a state bar complaint against its own lawyer and top local prosecutor.

Matthew Casey reports.

reports.The relationship between Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller and the Board of Supervisors has been rocky since a legal fight started over Miller unilaterally signing up to work with ICE.

The supervisors met in private last week to discuss whether to file a bar complaint against Miller.

Arizona Supreme Court rules ban disclosure of the complaint while it's under investigation, but attorney disciplinary records are public.

A spokesperson for Miller did not immediately comment.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Back in August, the Trump administration approved a permit to expand a Navajo coal mine that could extend its life by more than a century.

Well, the Scottsdale City Council will convene a discussion this week on the use of controversial automatic license plate readers that are being used in the city.

As Matthew Casey reports, they have scheduled that meeting for tomorrow.

The meeting agenda shows the Scottsdale Police Chief will make a presentation on how the city uses the cameras in question.

Several companies make the cameras and the city contracts with Flock.

Since early August, several other valley cities have canceled contracts with FLOC and discontinued using license plate readers.

Some local law enforcement agencies have self-reported system misuse.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Well, Tennessee's top prison official who oversaw the botched execution of Krista Pike has officially resigned.

Well, Tempe officials are scheduled to hold informational hearings tomorrow to review a proposed ordinance that would ban automatic license plate readers.

Matthew Casey has the latest on that.

Tempe's proposed ban includes protections for whistleblowers and staff ordered by a supervisor to use an ALPR system.

The measure has exceptions, such as using ALPR data for business reasons not related to law enforcement, as well as using ALPR data from an outside agency to respond to a search warrant or subpoena.

But if the measure is approved by City Council in October, all existing ALPR data under city control would be purged.

City employees who violate the ordinance would face termination, and the ban would take effect in mid-November.

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Education committee chairs in the Arizona legislature are now joining calls for an investigation into an ASU hockey practice that left a player hospitalized this past August.