Joseph Cebak

I sort glass. It's my job.
Professional noticer.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@TRHLofficial I'm just gonna leave this here 😮
https://t.co/kBDU840h1w

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@OwenShroyer1776 It's definitely an illusion. His only lead is among people who have an online gambling problem.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@followtmorgan The only way justice would be served is if he gets the death penalty.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@ChefGruel Listen again. He was definitely not referring to himself or his wife when he said "they".

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Most important thing you'll read today. The whole "we are open to winding down foreign aid to Israel" argument from Netanyahu and others is a ruse. The NDAA will make the US military permanently intertwined with the IDF.

This must not be allowed to pass.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@HouseDemocrats And yet it's still not e
nearly enough!

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@bumbadum14 I feel like you didn't read the post you quoted...

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@aakashgupta It's safe to say that no coin is 2.5 cm thick.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@ExplosiveMediaa The big question: is that bun seeded or seedless? 😄

[Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet]

Get the fuck outta here.

Ted Cruz should NEVER hold office again. A total disgrace to Texas

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@ronrule But how many people make $8k per month?

(I still think SS should be abolished)

[regular guy @regularguyguns]

Maybe you wonder why I, a mere gun blog, makes a big deal about Flock and similar tech?

OK here’s a real world situation that can easily happen and has likely happened.

Unfortunately to drive on public roads without getting hassled by the cops, your car needs a license plate. That’s tied to you, the owner of the vehicle.

Flock isn’t just a traffic camera, it’s an AI/ML enabled (wait for it) flock of cameras that transmit all their video and audio to the mothership. Not a government server somewhere but, to keep it simple, a big giant cloud computer instance owned and run by Flock, the company.

Government users, as well as Flock employees here in the US and overseas, can log in and query the system based on license plate number or even vehicle description and get a full history of that vehicle’s movements throughout the Flock network over multiple jurisdictions. Someone in New York can track a car from Armonk all the way to Homestead FL if they feel like it from the comfort of their desk.

On a daily level, someone can get a pretty accurate picture of someone’s life just by monitoring their movements via Flock. And I’m using this example to rattle the cage of the “back the blue unconditionally” crowd in 2A.

OK - your car has license plate ABC 123 - and Flock knows this. Someone can enter your tag in Flock and see what you are doing on a daily basis. You leave your home where the neighborhood is under the Flock panopticon. Flock sees you drive to Dunkin’ on Main Street, then you drop your kid off at XYZ Daycare. Then you go to work at the local IT consulting firm in ZZZ industrial park. You go pick up a quick deli sandwich for lunch at Food Lion. You go back to work. On the way home you stop off at Bob’s Guns, and stay for 20 minutes while buying some ammo. Then you go home. Everywhere there’s a Flock camera.

Now Flock knows the following about you:

- You live at 123 Wisteria Lane
- Your kid is in daycare (means he’s likely under 5)
- You work at ZZZ
- You go cheap on lunch
- You own at least one gun

Your license plate is tied to you so they now have your name and assumed-to-be-private details of your life, like that you are armed.

On the reverse of that, the Flock camera outside of Bob’s Guns has been recording the plates of everyone going into the parking lot. No need for a firearms registry when Flock is doing the work.

All of this is done without a warrant and the data is available to anyone with a certain level of access to the system, whether it’s a cop, or a Flock technician in the Philippines. FYI Flock uses overseas contractors for support and AI annotation.

The 2018 Carpenter decision at SCOTUS ruled that pervasive surveillance where one can divine private details of someone’s life is a 4th Amendment violation in absence of a specific warrant.

Flock is illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.

And a danger to everyone, not just gun owners.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@Oilfield_Rando My god, his replies in the comments. This Jack guy is a total piece of shit.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Kind of but it leaves out a critical part of the story

The founders believed that standing armies were a danger to the nature of free republics where citizen militias should be the norm

Citizens weren’t supposed to be able to rival the army, they were supposed to be the army

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

We gotta build data centers on every street corner so we can beat China in the AI race…

but also

We gotta let China buy up all the farmland and educate 1/2 a million of their kids per year because we don’t want to offend them.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

We just relaxed tariffs on importation of Argentinian beef because the lack of U.S. supply relative to demand was jacking up prices, but now we are going to export the U.S. beef we were told we were short on to China? Make it make sense.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@govt_corrupt Disagree. You shouldn't need to move in the first place.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

“We should ashkually let Congress commit insider trading so they can supplement their incomes.” Have we lost our minds?

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@JimmyTraina "We"? You're the one massively overpaying for snacks.

[Anna Valkyrie ⚔️ @AnnaValkyrieX]

Do you guys remember when we toppled the Venezuela regime a couple months ago and they told us we were getting their massive oil reserves?

Then gas shot up to 4/5$ and no one is asking where the Venezuelan oil is?

Just lmao.

[Joseph Cebak @JosephCebak]

@SomeBitchIIKnow Now I'm curious: why don't you hate data centers? Nothing good comes from them being built.