Zach Coplea

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Trained Elite Weather Spotter for Paducah NWS

[Justin @jtm289]

@NWSPaducah video shared from Public looking East towards Ruler Foods near SR 261 and IN 66 Tornado in Newburgh. #SpotterReport #INwx

[Evansville Tristate Skywarn Network @EvvSkywarn]

@NWSPaducah #pahspotter

Spotter Luke F. is reporting a rotating wall cloud and funnel forming just north of Golden Gate IL.

[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 on digital storefronts and at other select retailers.

Check out the official cover art, also available as downloadable artwork at https://t.co/XPwC8URCQ4

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@CriticalOverlo3 Any new Jeepers Creepers updates? Lawsuit updates, JC5, or really anything would be nice...

[NWS Paducah, KY @NWSPaducah]

Live video feed of our workstations if you need to see data from PAH/VWX/HPX. Its an active workstation so will change as needed.
https://t.co/CYGMHY3LaC

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@ahsannoor101 How are you calculating your sleep score?

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@CompWx @225MPH_EF4 Where is the video that this image is taken from?

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@leetxjd @z_a_s_a_z @Nerdrotics Lost's ending was great and made perfect sense if you pay attention.

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@z_a_s_a_z @Nerdrotics Lost's ending was great and made perfect sense if you pay attention.

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@bigsimonwilde @Nerdrotics Lost's ending was brilliant and made sense if you pay attention to the story.

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@thedarkknight_u @OrwellNGoode Incorrect. The ending made total sense and the show literally explains it if you pay attention.

[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.

[StormChaserBrendon_ @chasingstorms01]

um i’d say yes unless you want to be mowing in the air lol

[DFWStormChasers @DFWStormChasing]

I'm wondering if any other storm photographers would like to collaborate on a desk calendar for 2027?
Like one of these but for storm photos for each day 👀

[Zach Coplea @ZachCoplea]

@DFWStormChasing Of course!

[Daniel @Daniel233118]

Dash Cam

bro, I don't understand how people get their drivers license.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"First-time home buying plunges to record low as baby boomers prevent younger Americans from ever owning," per NYP.

[Grace Cohen 🌪️ @GraceCWeather]

if I had like a billion dollars I’m putting up radars in these spots

[Star @StarInBoxWx]

Turns out, you're not really going to get a lot of action with a large displacement of the jet, especially to the North/east.

Feels similar to 4/28/25, with poor jet placement in the OWS. If early convection didn't wash out much of IL, today likely would've been so much worse.