Support Your Local Police Movie

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A rather beautiful shot of Serpico and the Twin Towers headlining the article.

The heroes likewise are strung along a spectrum from the hippie cop Frank Serpico, who nearly paid with his life for exposing the corruption of the New York force, to the uncouth ‘Popeye’ Doyle

The BFI website has quite a nice reprint (if that’s what we’re calling these things…) of a Spring 1974 article on the early 70’s explosion of US cop movies. Many of the movies talked about are ones that have passed me by and appear to have faded from memory, but it is interesting to see how films like Dirty Harry and Serpico were viewed and evaluated at the time.

Read Support Your Local Police Movie at the BFI website.

York Central works on Google Earth

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It looks like Google Earth’s satellite view has updated to show some of the new work around the York Central development. The latest imagery is, as of writing, still about six months out of date – but you can really see how the area is starting to change in comparison to 2023 and 2022.

September 28th, 2024

Google Earth link.

June 16th, 2023

Google Earth link.

September 13th, 2022

Google Earth link.

Using Machine Learning for Geoglyph Detection

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PNAS has an interesting paper on using AI and Machine Learning to try and identify new Nazca Pampa geoglyphs in the Peruvian Nazca Desert. It’s a fun little lunchtime skim with a few nice images of some of the newly found geoglyphs.

PNAS: AI-accelerated Nazca survey nearly doubles the number of known figurative geoglyphs and sheds light on their purpose