Taylor Rackley

it's wonderful to be a husband and father

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

I am going to run for office on a platform of doubling student loan repayments and halving social security

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@thdxr Well said

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

Which scale company is going to step up to complete the Claude diet

[Andy Fang @andyfang]

Today we're opening up the DoorDash CLI in limited beta.

`dd-cli` lets you order DoorDash directly from your agent: search stores, find the best deals, check out, and more.

Early access for US/Canadian macOS developers by waitlist. Excited to see what folks build!

[S2 Underground @s2_underground]

First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times.

Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye.

Note the argument:

"You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL".

Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal.

That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation.

Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to.

They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates.

They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please.

And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME".

You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys".

We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try.

For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court.

That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

I buy a 3d printer only to realize I just needed to be building with 1/8 plywood.

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

Lmaoooo

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@staysaasy Going to have to disagree on this one

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@powerbottomdad1 I'm surprised he hasn't blocked me yet tbh

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@paulg @elonmusk Why are you so set on viewing this issue through an economic lens?

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@paulg @Noahpinion We're not fungible economic assets at your disposal

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@paulg Sure from a economic perspective, but my contention with immigration is about shared principles and culture, as well as the proportion to the citizens.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

4K discs really do look a lot better than streaming video, but spending tons of money on assembling a library seems wasteful.

A good business idea — call it “Internet flicks” — might be a subscription service for disc rentals by mail.

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@thdxr I would really appreciate this

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

He taught me how to live Jeremiah 29:5-7 in practice.

[sucks @powerbottomdad1]

every body say something nice about your father

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@powerbottomdad1 ITS A BIG DAY

[Taylor Rackley @Taylor_Rackley]

@selentelechia I fear the day my toddler finds this tool on her own.