bradness

The Pope of Bourbon | Ethical Consultant | Born at a very young age | Wishing I could find some hot AI chick thats looking to give her lottery winnings away.

[Make Britain Great Again @UK_Needs_Reform]

🚨BREAKING: A German court has ruled that the Iraqi migrant who pushed a 16-year-old Ukrainian refugee in front of a freight train will serve no prison time.

Liana K. fled Mariupol with her family in 2022 and was living in Germany. On August 11, 2025, while walking home and speaking on the phone with her grandfather, she was shoved onto the tracks at Friedland station. The train struck her and she died from her injuries. Her grandfather heard her scream before the line went silent.

Police initially treated the death as a possible accident or suicide. DNA evidence later recovered from her shoulder showed she had been pushed from behind by 31-year-old Muhammad A., an Iraqi national whose asylum claim had been rejected and who was under an enforceable deportation order that was never carried out.

Despite clear evidence that he deliberately pushed her into the path of the train, the Göttingen court found him not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia. Instead of prison, he has been ordered into indefinite psychiatric detention at taxpayer expense.

Authorities had multiple opportunities to remove him from the country before the attack. Those opportunities were not taken. Liana is dead as a result.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

There are zero Flock cameras in Manhattan’s wealthiest neighborhood

Flock cameras for thee but not for me? I guess the rich don't want to be monitored like common criminals by their government.

Are you mad yet?!

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

**Engineering Wednesday / Policy Post**

An insurance employee told us that with minimal information he can pull up 150 photos of your car on the street through the Flock system in less than 30 seconds.

No warrant required.

That means employees at Flock, insurance agencies, and law enforcement agencies across the country have access to a real-time network of cameras tracking license plates and vehicle movements.

Maybe anyone can pay a fee and get access? An attorney or private investigator?

These cameras sit on golf courses, near gun stores, near playgrounds, by liquor stores, schools, and in ordinary neighborhoods. Some systems already incorporate gunshot detection and are expanding toward facial recognition- they literally told us in their earnings session where they are going.

The stated justification is public safety. The practical result is a system that can be used to monitor, harass, blackmail, or build cases against people who have done nothing wrong. We have already seen Robotic vacuums, Ring cameras, and Alexa devices compromised or used in ways owners never expected.

Now the same logic is being applied openly to public streets and private property, and we are told to accept the loss of privacy because the technology is “too valuable” to law enforcement.

A red-light camera program was once removed from a city after a councilman was caught in a compromising situation his passenger was not his wife. The data was powerful enough to end the program when it threatened the right people. Ordinary citizens do not get the same protection.

We are entering a period of historically lower crime in many places, yet the surveillance infrastructure continues to expand. Expect the companies behind these systems to claim credit for trends that were already underway. The real drivers are control and profit.

Do not expect the federal government to do much outside of possibly the courts. Our Politicians already took the campaign funds, are paying for these with our tax money, they even specified needing a system to charge vehicle per mile outside of gas taxes to justify it, no... this needs to take place at the local level.

We lose privacy and still pay for the cameras watching us.

Engineering has always been about building systems that serve people. Systems that treat every citizen as a potential suspect first are not serving people. They are serving the institutions that operate them.

Question for folks willing to speak up:

Let's play a game - think of a way someone who really hated someone else could misuse this system. Or attach a link to a story so folks are informed on the subject.

Others are welcome to defend it...

Comment below either way.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

Stanford University (@Stanford) has just filed 3 notices of intent to hire H-1B workers

- Marketing Specialist ($170k, working remotely from Ohio)
- System Administrator ($155k)
- Software Developer ($183k)

No American citizens were qualified for any of these jobs.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@BasilTheGreat Doctor of Engineering.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@JuergenSchiff @GarbageHuman24 close but no cigar, drongo.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@mandyarthur @grok Ooooh!

Good looking out, Mandy!

Shit, that went right past me.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@PlumbNick It's by design, Nick.

It's not some freak accident.

If Nick and Brad understand this, what make you think that the people running this shit don't understand it?

The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@realMaalouf It's good to have long-term goals.

It's good to have something to look forward to.

"look, Francesco, in 8-12 we'll bleed this cocksucker dry"

Thats the healthy way of approaching this situation.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@Kittenwaffin It's the 'almost' part that makes me the saddest.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@PeriklesGREAT My thoughts: one round would hit multiple targets.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@TruthNetwork24 You were just unfollowed.

This isn't Instagram.

Enough with the pity-parties.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@IfindRetards Some people stand in the darkness
Afraid to step into the light
Some people need to help somebody
When the edge of surrender's in sight
Don't you worry
It's gonna be alright
'Cause I'm always ready
I won't let you out of my sight

[bradness @bcreech601]

@ChrisAWalk @RandPaul There is this crazy theory that if money was gold-based then things would get cheaper as productivity increases*, instead of getting more expensive, like it does, every fucking year, forever.

* P.S. productivity has increased steadily since the early 1970s.

[bradness @bcreech601]

@RandPaul Oh good, there's gold in Fort Knox, thats a load off my mind.

I cant get a job anymore since I wasn't born in India, but at least I can retire on welfare and food stamps knowing that Rand Paul said there plenty of gold in Fort Knox!!!

I'm so happy.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Wake the fuck everyone

[bradness @bcreech601]

@elonmusk Space is cool and all that but I'm going to need more convincing before I visit "rocks in vacuum".

Cool vision though!

[bradness @bcreech601]

@SecondAmendment Oh yea Mr. Smart Guy, what if some criminal drives his car thru the park leaving a trail of tiny broken bodies in its wake and there isnt a Fuck camera there to take a picture of the license plate and make sure the driver isnt holding his phone?

Think of the children for once.

[Fenix Ammunition @FenixAmmunition]

Your future is a foreign born police officer arresting you in the street for purchasing something used in a sport invented by the West.