Giovanni

Dungeon Master | Man of few words | He/Him

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

These FALSE arrests and stops starting to make sense. Flock is feeding the police ALERTS 🚨 based off of altered, degraded, low-resolution copies of license plate data ALERTS .

If POLICE want a more high-resolution original file with the metadata, the police department is forced to go back to Flock and request the "premium" file from Flock's corporate vault. Flock is deliberately degrading evidence to artificially manufacture a dependence and they’ve altered their TERMS & CONDITIONS 4X MID CONTRACT

Why would a company do this?

Because If the police only get degraded copies, the police investigation relies on Flock to "enhance" or provide the real data. But more importantly, if the police department cancels the contract (like Evanston or LAPD), the police lose access to their own "owned" data because Flock controls the method and medium of access. But Flock retains a perpetual license to use the high-resolution data.

Say a CITY wants to LEAVE and CANCEL FLOCK contract
the police lose access to the high-resolution originals. If THEY have OPEN cases they all die because the degraded copies they have on file are legally useless in court. This guarantees Flock's contracts are practically unbreakable.🚨⚠️

They are holding the original evidence hostage to ensure police departments can never truly leave their platform.
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If the police use a degraded Flock image in court, the defense will destroy it because it lacks authentication (no metadata). This guarantees that cases will be thrown out or wrongful convictions will occur because the original high-quality data is withheld by Flock as leverage.

One example ⚠️

LAPD's audit found that 161 plate matches were confirmed by officers, but the vehicles were not stolen. That means the "hot lists" feeding the alerts are inaccurate.

Why is this allowed to persist? Flock's new T&C expands protections against liability for willful misconduct or gross negligence ⚠️. Flock knows the alerts are false. They know cops are stopping people based on bad data. But they shifted the liability to the taxpayers (the city) and locked the city into mandatory arbitration in Georgia so the citizens can't sue Flock effectively.
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Another case is where

Evanston, Illinois, voted to cancel their Flock contract and deactivate their 19 cameras in August 2025. They issued an official termination notice. During the termination period, the cameras disappeared from the poles. But then, Flock physically reinstalled the cameras back on Evanston streets without municipal authorization🚨👀

Evanston issued a cease-and-desist order on September 18. Flock claimed the reinstalled cameras were "inactive," but they left them up for months, only removing them when a news organization started asking questions.

Why would a company reinstall dead cameras on public poles after being fired?

Look at the new February 2026 contract terms. Flock wrote in a "perpetual" right for themselves to keep using customer data to "support and improve its services" even after a town terminates its relationship with Flock.

Flock wrote the perpetual license into the contract because they are building a shadow surveillance network using the physical infrastructure of cancelled jurisdictions.

A camera that is "inactive" to the local police department is not inactive to Flock's corporate servers🚨👀. The Flock cameras are solar-powered and cellular-enabled. They do not need the local police department's network to operate. They connect directly to Flock's cloud..

When Evanston cancelled their contract, Flock reinstalled the cameras because those cameras were still transmitting raw vehicle data to Flock's nationwide database for their own proprietary use. They bypassed the local city council entirely. Flock is using the physical utility poles of cities that explicitly fired them to illegally harvest location data on American citizens without a government contract or legal authorization

https://t.co/PV9Uwd85K4

@RepThomasMassie

[Bryce Greene @TheGreeneBJ]

A one in three false positive rate is insane until you consider that the purpose of these cameras is not to help everyday people, but to expand the surveillance state

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Terrifying thread.

Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.

[viehcy 🪅 @foreeeeeal]

great time to get an english degree honestly nobody can read or write you might become scribe to the king in the next 15 years if you know cursive the way things are going

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

so real

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

- toni morrison

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Edward Snowden in 2019: "The problem with applications like WhatsApp is, it was actually designed to have very strong encryption, just the same as the gold standard today which would be the signal messenger or the wire messenger, but then it was bought by Facebook because it was so good, and now Facebook is quite aggressively reducing the security of WhatsApp about once a quarter, and they’re trying to do it as quietly as possible, so a messenger that the people are comfortable using now is actually a danger to you."

[ً @ClNEMANYA]

The energy I bring to every function

[Variety @Variety]

Emma Thompson tells AI to "just f*ck off" and calls it an "intense irritation" as a screenwriter.

"I write long hand on a pad, old script actually, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand. So it’s very important to me. And then when I’ve written something, I will put it into a Word document. And recently, the Word document is constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’ And so I end up just saying, ’I don’t need you to rewrite what I’ve just written, will you fuck off?! Just fuck off' I’m so annoyed."

Read more here: https://t.co/zTcKn38tj8

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Guillermo del Toro says “I’d rather die” than use generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”

(Source: https://t.co/oWAHxOGBip)

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

“You need to judge Christopher Columbus by the standards of his time.”

Well, he was arrested and stripped of his titles in 1499 for his tyrannical crimes. So by the standards of the 15th century, he was a monster.

[🔛🔝 @killingherass]

retweet if you actually just fucking hate AI

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

I've seen the way Anthony Bourdain cradled a little Palestinian baby girl with his whole heart and knew he loved humanity in ways we don't love ourselves.

Paula Deen is a racist prune who should keep Bourdain's name out her filthy racist mouth.

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

Hear me out

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

The grand contradiction of America is that they need us to keep consuming but they also do not want to pay us. They will shame you for not spending enough while simultaneously not paying you enough to spend.

[Deep Singh Badhesha @DeepNotShallow]

ERIC ADAMS IS THE CURRENT MAYOR

Literally, what is wrong with the media