Sad HAM Society

Sad HAMs are sad.

Let's cheer them up, shall we?

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

On the Fourth Amendment:

[John David Trolinger @SSN709]

@DolioJ The Original Intent, it was written specifically to prevent "general warrants" — the practice where British crown officers used broad, open-ended authorizations to inspect anyone, anywhere, without specific evidence of wrongdoing

[Texas2AAttorney @CJGRISHAM]

'Merica!

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Pflugerville, Texas just killed its Flock Safety contract unanimously after a resident filed a public records request and found 459 outside law enforcement agencies had run 1.6 million searches on the city's 28 cameras in six months. Local police ran 5,078. That's 315 outside searches for every one by Pflugerville PD. The city had told residents nationwide data sharing was turned off. The city manager ordered the lenses physically covered before the council even voted. Pflugerville joins 56 municipalities that have cut ties with Flock in 2026.

My Take
One resident with a public records form did what the city, the police department, and Flock either couldn't or didn't want to do. That's how thin the oversight was on a system searching 1.6 million plates. Nobody was auditing this. Nobody was checking whether the assurances they gave residents were true. It took a guy filing paperwork to find out.

56 cities have walked away from Flock this year and I think that number accelerates once other communities realize they can file the same request. Flock has $500 million in VC money and contracts in 4,000 cities, and civil liberties groups say under 1% of scanned plates ever connect to a crime. Pflugerville's police chief looked at his own data and wouldn't recommend keeping the contract. Every city still running these cameras is one records request away from finding out what their own ratio looks like, and most of them haven't asked yet.

Hedgie🤗

[Daniel Rood @DanielRood11]

@Support @X @elonmusk Are y'all gonna suspend Grok too? Bring back @4nt1p4tt3rn!

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@CultLaser Purchased. In honor of @4nt1p4tt3rn

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@LARPerSquid @Support @elonmusk @glangley @4nt1p4tt3rn Be hilarious if someone printed some of the stuff out, in color, and posted them on signs directly in front of Flock cameras.

Just sayin'.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@CultLaser In, for obvious reasons.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

And then sell it to people for money.

But if you do it for free? They come down on you HARD.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

Understand that it's perfectly fine for multi-billion-dollar corporations to collect, aggregate and track everything you do, everything you say, everywhere you go, all your accounts, all your online activity, all your financial info, everything about your home and your family.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@IhateATF @4nt1p4tt3rn With his butt.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

Yes, we saw y'all earning that trust with respect to privacy when y'all got @4nt1p4tt3rn banned yesterday for posting publicly-available, non-private information available to anyone with access to a search engine.

[Flock @flocksafety]

Trust is earned through action.

Our CEO Garrett Langley shares new updates to privacy, security, accountability and transparency at Flock.

Read more: https://t.co/jAlzfR3P2F

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@sir_thekraken @cattlemanON Lake house. Owned by (I think) his mom.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@R3st4rtY0urL1f3 @4nt1p4tt3rn @Brushbeater Also, he really doesn't feel like grovelling to ask his supposed masters pretty please for permission to keep being able to say things.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

I'm a good friend of @4nt1p4tt3rn . Very close. Help me find frens? @Brushbeater et al.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@R3st4rtY0urL1f3 @4nt1p4tt3rn @Brushbeater That was the one, and probably the only, attempt. He doesn't have the time or patience to keep trying.

As he likes to say, be grateful when people show you who they are.

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@2600Hz_ @4nt1p4tt3rn @Brushbeater EHLO

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@NotWill42 "Hey honey, I just checked work, and your bull's just five miles out."

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@criticalcivil That probably made him a full-on innie.

[DissidentRexy🦖 @DissidentRexy]

Flock CEO demand you give up your privacy while blurring his house on Google. Lulz.

[NotWill @NotWill42]

Hey Garrett, which corner did you put the cuck chair in so you can watch your wife get railed by random dudes?

[Sad HAM Society @Sad_HAMs_]

@GLogistician @WooderChip If it's that house search thing, DM me the email you sent him; he's got it ready and waiting to send.