The Last Carnival

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[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

So AI is even stealing people's fucking homes

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

The LAPD just ended its contract with Flock Safety.

the largest police department in California. one of the largest in the US. let the contract expire and walked away.

the official reason: civil liberties and privacy concerns.

5,000+ law enforcement agencies. tens of thousands of cameras. your plate photographed every time you drive past one. your movement patterns logged, stored, and accessible by agencies you've never heard of.

18 documented cases of officers using Flock to stalk women. a Texas deputy tracking an abortion patient. federal agencies accessing local Flock networks millions of times. ICE, CBP, and DHS all pulling data from city contracts without explicit authorization.

the LAPD didn't cancel for one reason. they cited a pattern.

30 cities have now canceled Flock contracts. Cambridge. Santa Cruz. Eugene. Flagstaff. now Los Angeles.

Flock's CEO called the opposition a coordinated attack from groups who want to defund the police.

the LAPD is not a defund-the-police organization.

Flock has not responded to the LAPD's specific concerns.

the cameras are still up in Los Angeles.

the contract is just gone.

the data collected under the old contract still exists.

Flock has not said what happens to it.

[Adam Koralik @AdamKoralik]

Digital content isn't property, simple errors outside of your control can take away your data and access to it.

Physical matters, this includes physical backups.

To @JoshuaKhane specifically, very sorry for your loss here.

To everyone else, it's just another reminder.

[AnimEigo @AnimEigo]

We'll sell you all the anime you want. We even have generous rewards points for discounts on future orders.

No membership fee required to buy. Because that'd be CRazy.

https://t.co/zZbZgB49PX

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

IBM 1979.

[Nick Ribaudo 🎤 @ribaudo_nick]

This is bullshit and fear mongering. China already has low cost LLMs that run circles around Anthropoo and OpenSurveillance.

Nobody fucking cares and people don’t like giant blocks the size of Manhattan near their homes.

[IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME @solomonmissouri]

Cuba does not have electricity

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Today, I sued the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Miller, a Columbia affiliate, and others under the KKK Act. I will not stop fighting until everyone who willingly contributed to my missing the birth of my son—and 104 days of my life—answers for it. More actions will come soon.

But this lawsuit is about far more than what was done to me. It is about a coordinated, ongoing plot to punish, silence, and intimidate everyone who dares to dissent and speak out for Palestinian liberation. We will hold them accountable.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

I haven't seen a single major news outlet mention this in association with the outbreak. The entire MSM is too scared to criticize this administration

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones, with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it

[Comrade Ohio @ComradeOhio]

Five more pigs investigated for misuse of Flock mass surveillance.
ABOLISH.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

There is no such thing as absolute immunity. The vice president is trying to tell us the president’s personal military can kill people without consequence.

[Guerrilla Prophet @jaykelly26]

ICE just repeatedly murdering people in the street now and the victims aren't even afforded the dignity of having their blood washed from the pavement.

They at least wash the floor of a slaughterhouse at the end of the day.

[elle 🪸⋆˚࿔ @cupidstrick_]

landback includes hawai’i by the way. nobody wants to bring it up with other indigenous struggles because you all want to vacation on indigenous lands violently stolen by the united states that just happen to be tropical islands

[Michael Galant @michael_galant]

Cuba should — like Gaza — be a defining wedge issue. Any Dem that is unwilling to forcefully denounce the criminal blockade of Cuba should be primaried. It's inexcusable.

[魂(Tamashii33) 🥀💢💔| 🆓🍉 @Tamashii33_]

ICE confirmed tactic is to force innocent people in dangerous situations with their cars

They PURPOSELY do this so the person is forced to move erratically (such as moving out of the way to avoid collision with malicious ICE vehicles)

Any fast movement done out of self protection is then used against the person they dehumanize

“they tried to run me over” is an excuse to EXECUTE

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

"The AI wont be used for eugenics" - every AI enthusiast when I point out that it was designed by eugenicists to enact eugenics. Disabled people ALREADY face huge gaps in hiring rates and wages. Now AI will help companies "save" costs by making up random excuses to fire us.