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A new public website now lets anyone enter a license plate number and see whether it has been manually searched inside Flock Safety’s nationwide automated license plate reader network, complete with the stated reason logged for each query. HaveIBeenFlocked.com aggregates audit logs released by local governments through transparency portals and public records requests. The database currently holds records of more than 241 million searches covering more than 4.6 million plates, per Newsweek’s coverage of the launch drawn from thousands of agencies. A match shows that an operator using the Flock system queried that plate, the agency involved when available, the...

Jody Scaravella never set out to build a restaurant empire. He just wanted his grandmother back in the kitchen. After losing his mother Maria, his Sicilian nonna Domenica, and several other close family members in quick succession, the former MTA worker took the money he inherited, moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island, and bought a small storefront next to the St. George Theatre. In March 2007 he opened Enoteca Maria with zero industry experience and a simple idea: hire real Italian grandmothers to cook the food they had always made at home. https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/2088630900384846328?s=20 The early days were rough. The place sat empty...

Tuesday was like any other day at the construction site but not for long because today something happened that would be a topic all over the internet. Kobe is an 18-year-old Belgian student who got a job digging trenches for a new sewage system but what he found was gold.The discovery happened August 11, 2026, at a former brewery property on Van Langenhovestraat in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, about 30 kilometers northwest of Brussels. Workers from the firm De Brand were removing foundation sections to lay drainage pipes beneath a late-19th-century villa when something shiny appeared in the dirt.“At first I thought...

A four-month-old pet goose named Goosey woke his owners in the middle of the night by repeatedly honking outside a burning barn on their Fort Bend County property, giving the family time to extinguish the flames and save the animals inside — one of several fire-rescue stories that have circulated in recent weeks. The incident unfolded early Tuesday morning, August 4, at the Gerber family’s homestead in Richmond, Texas. Bert Gerber had fallen asleep on the couch after watching television when he heard an unusual series of honks outside. The sound was one the family had never heard from the...