Wild Bob

anti-tech extremist

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW: 🇺🇳 UN votes 164-1 to ditch the Mercator projection in favor of the “Equal Earth” map,

The US was the only country who voted against

The dark blue shows the real size of the countries in the world

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

98 OF 100 NEW AMERICAN JOBS IN AUGUST WENT TO WOMEN

The economy added 162,000 jobs. Women took 158,000. Men took 4,000.

Past 12 months: women +870K, men -1.5M.

[Jason Lewris @jasonlewris]

BREAKING: Kingsport, TN is officially in fire sale territory on the motivated seller index. This means they registered a score above 7.5. The max is 10.

The reason Kingsport is still climbing on the motivated seller index (MSI) is sellers are cutting deeper. The MSI looks at price cuts, price cut depth, and price cut velocity. Kingsport is currently the trifecta.

51.5% of the market is cutting with an 8% markdown.

[Lord Miles @Lordmiles]

In 1 month we begin production of the George Floyd lighter that says “shiettt” and “I can’t breath” when opened.

[Justin Flynn @Eternally_Jaded]

Before LSD blotter paper, we had microdots. The most famous of these miniature pills was a batch called "Orange Sunshine".

Dosed at 200μg & rumored to be extremely pure, they were created by Owsley Stanley—a clandestine chemist & sound engineer for the Grateful Dead.

[Paulo Spitzbarth 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱 @PauloSpitzbarth]

🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”

Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”

CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”

Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”

CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”

Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”

CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”

Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”

CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”

Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”

CNN: “Você está polarizando.”

Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Trump allegedly thinking about renaming Lake Michigan “Lake Michelle Obama” is hilarious.

I’d support it just for the chaos.

That long-ass lake sitting there with Michelle Obama’s name stretched all the way down it would have people losing their minds for weeks.

Trump wouldn’t even have to say anything after that.

Just rename the lake, grab a Diet Coke, and watch half the internet spontaneously combust.

That’s comedy.

[Wild Bob @glenrpierce]

@harveyspistols 9

[Harvey's Pistol & Pawn @harveyspistols]

Well..
I found The Rascal.
Straight Chillin'.

Goober sat there enjoying his music, for a long while. I just stood there, pretended to be unimpressed with what he had done to the library, and waited for his dramatic pause to conclude. After a while he just grinned and handed me this Canik Prime Radian in 9mm and grey finish.

"They'll dig this", is all he said.

I left him vibing and got right to posting.

This week Harvey, Rascal, and @SummRidge are proud to offer up the highly coveted @canikarms Prime Radian 9mm pistol.

Do us a all a solid folks and explain the details in the comment section!

Good luck
Godspeed
Keep Vibing!

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Glenn Greenwald on privacy:

"Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody has said to me, "I don't really worry about invasions of privacy because I don't have anything to hide." I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write down my email address. I say, "Here's my email address. What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just stroll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person, if you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide."

Not a single person has taken me up on that offer."

[Muscle Forge @LearnLoopz]

My top mobility moves

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Walmart is using Flock cameras and other devices (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc.) to collect personal information as you enter their property and store
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Walmart Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) Privacy Notice:
https://t.co/fevRx706mr

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

The City That Canceled Its Flock Contract Just Signed a $23 Million Deal for Something Worse…

While every activist in America was focused on tearing down Flock cameras, a 40-year-old company was quietly installing surveillance devices inside existing street lights.

Denver canceled its Flock contract. Then it signed a deal with Axon for something far more capable — and far harder to see.

This is Part 1 of a three-part investigation into Axon Enterprise and the next generation of American surveillance infrastructure.

Part 2: The Network

https://t.co/FD9x8FIWHo

Part 3 of this investigation follows the money — from the $220 million ICE contract that costs $12,359 per Taser to the stock purchases that preceded it.

https://t.co/PE5vAYOxEc

The Distraction Worked
For the past eighteen months, the national debate over mass surveillance in America has centered on a single company: Flock Safety. The outrage was earned. Flock deployed over 113,000 solar-powered cameras across 5,000 communities in 49 states, recording more than 20 billion vehicle scans per month without warrants, without public hearings, and in many cases without the knowledge of the citizens being tracked.
The backlash was real. Citizens in at least 23 municipalities forced their city councils to cancel Flock contracts. Activists spray-painted the cameras. A 20-year-old in West Virginia cut one down and received nearly 20,000 alibis from strangers online. Courts ruled the data was a public record. The Institute for Justice filed a landmark Fourth Amendment lawsuit. A Washington man named Jose Rodriguez won the legal right to see his own surveillance footage — and the state legislature responded by making it illegal for anyone to ever ask again.

The resistance was focused, organized, and effective.
It was also aimed at the wrong target.

The Company You Weren't Watching

While every camera Flock installed was a visible, vandal-prone, solar-powered pillar mounted seven feet off the ground with hose clamps, a far more sophisticated system was being deployed by a company most Americans know only as "the Taser people."
Axon Enterprise has been in the law enforcement technology business for nearly 40 years. It manufactures the majority of police body-worn cameras in the United States. It operates https://t.co/8zgq8ObM7W, the dominant cloud platform where police departments store body-cam footage. It makes the Taser weapons carried by officers in virtually every American police department.

In April 2020, Axon partnered with Flock Safety. Two years later — right before Flock became a household name for all the wrong reasons — Axon quietly ended the partnership and stepped out of the spotlight.

It was not stepping away from surveillance. It was building something Flock never could.

The Camera Inside Your Street Light.
The fundamental weakness of Flock's hardware was that you could see it. A black pillar with a solar panel bolted to a pole is obvious. It requires new infrastructure, municipal permitting, and presents an easy target for anyone with a can of spray paint or a pair of bolt cutters.

Axon engineered a solution to all of those problems by exploiting infrastructure that already exists in every city in America.

The Axon Lightpost, developed in partnership with Ubicquia, is a surveillance camera designed to plug directly into the NEMA 7-pin photocell socket — the industry-standard fitting found on top of over 350 million street lights worldwide. That socket has been on lamp poles for 60 years. It traditionally houses a simple light sensor that turns the lamp on at dusk and off at dawn.
Axon replaced the light sensor with an AI-powered license plate reader.
The device draws regulated AC power (up to 480V) directly from the municipal electrical grid. It requires no solar panel, no new pole, no trenching, and no specialized electrical permitting. Installation takes less than fifteen minutes and can be performed by a utility worker with no network engineering skills.
Once energized, it operates autonomously. A built-in LTE modem provides persistent cellular connectivity to Axon's cloud ecosystem, entirely independent of municipal Wi-Fi or on-site network infrastructure. The unit is encased in IK10-rated vandal-resistant housing, carries an IP66 weather rating, and survives hurricane-force winds up to 150 miles per hour. It operates continuously in temperatures from -40°F to 140°F.
The camera module — an Axis Q1800-LE — captures license plates across multiple traffic lanes at distances up to 328 feet, on vehicles traveling at speeds up to 155 miles per hour, at 1080p resolution and 90 frames per second.
It looks like a street light.

The Lightpost is supplemented by the Axon Outpost — a standalone camera that combines ALPR, live video streaming, and Vehicle Attribute Recognition (VAR) for areas without optimal street lighting. It can be mounted on buildings, trailers, poles, or trees, powered by either 110V connections or independent solar panels.
Both devices use Vehicle Attribute Recognition to identify and index not just license plates but the physical characteristics of the vehicle itself — make, model, color, roof racks, bumper stickers, body damage. If a vehicle has no plate, a stolen plate, or the plate is intentionally obscured, the system can still track it.
Axon also deploys Fleet 3, an in-car camera system that turns every police cruiser into a mobile plate reader. Legacy in-car systems had a capture area of approximately 192 cubic feet. Fleet 3 uses a 60-degree field of view covering three full lanes at 50 feet — a detection volume 90 times greater than previous systems, capturing plates at closing speeds of 140 mph and returning hotlist alerts in under one second.
Between the fixed Lightpost cameras hiding in street lights, the flexible Outpost cameras on any available structure, and the mobile Fleet 3 cameras roving in every patrol car, Axon has engineered a layered optical dragnet where practically no vehicular movement can evade detection.

The Brain: Real-Time Crime Centers
Hardware collects data. What makes Axon's system categorically different from Flock is what happens to that data after it's collected.
Axon acquired Fusus, a cloud-native software platform that powers Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs) — centralized command hubs where law enforcement analysts monitor walls of screens fed by every sensor in the network simultaneously. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance has documented over 135 established or forthcoming RTCCs in the United States, with approximately 20% running on Fusus.
Fusus eliminates the data fragmentation that historically limited law enforcement. Body-cam footage, ALPR hits, drone feeds, gunshot detection alerts, and 911 dispatch data used to live in separate, disconnected databases. Fusus pulls all of it into a single, interactive live map.

It gets worse.

Through the "Community Connect" program, Fusus allows private citizens, homeowners' associations, and commercial businesses to voluntarily share their private security camera feeds directly with the police.
Your Ring doorbell.
Your business's CCTV system. Your HOA's gate camera. All of it can be piped into the Real-Time Crime Center and overlaid on the same map as the government's own cameras.

This creates what privacy researchers call a hybridized public-private surveillance mesh. When an incident is reported, an RTCC analyst can instantly access a mosaic of camera angles — an Axon Lightpost scanning the intersection, a business camera viewing the sidewalk, a Ring doorbell covering the driveway — and track a subject's movements in real time.

The platform can also integrate with facial recognition software. It is used not only for live incident response but for historical data mining and predictive policing. Because Fusus permanently records and indexes the movements of millions of citizens, it transforms passive observation into an active, globally searchable database of human behavior — without requiring a warrant.

The Denver Paradigm
If there is a single case study that reveals how this replacement strategy works in practice, it is Denver, Colorado.

In early 2026, following intense public pressure over reports that Flock camera data was being accessed by federal immigration authorities, the Denver City Council opted not to renew its 10-year, $22 million contract with Flock. The council drafted a letter citing Flock's "disregard for honesty and accountability." Civil liberties advocates celebrated.

The celebration was premature.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston rapidly pushed through a one-year, $150,000 contract with Axon to replace the dismantled Flock cameras with 50 new Axon ALPR systems. The justification was revealing: Axon was deemed a "reliable partner" because the city already used Axon to store its body-cam footage on https://t.co/8zgq8ObM7W.

That dependency was not accidental. Just months earlier, Denver had approved a five-year, $27 million contract with Axon for 2,563 new body cameras and 2,175 Tasers. Because Axon already controlled the city's digital evidence vault and hardware infrastructure, the barrier to entry for their surveillance cameras was essentially zero.
This is vendor lock-in operating as designed. Axon weaponized Flock's public relations catastrophe to capture the market — replacing a highly visible threat with a deeply integrated, less transparent, and vastly more capable alternative. The ACLU of Colorado noted that despite promises of 21-day data retention limits, the dragnet surveillance of innocent civilians remained functionally unchanged.

Denver is not unique. This pattern — cancel Flock, sign Axon — is replicating across the country.

The Constitutional Crisis Nobody Filed a Lawsuit Over
The legal challenges to Flock cameras were built on the "Mosaic Theory" of the Fourth Amendment — the principle, recognized by the Supreme Court in Carpenter v. United States (2018), that while a single observation of a vehicle in public may not constitute a "search," the continuous, aggregated collection of location data over time violates a reasonable expectation of privacy.
That theory was successfully applied by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department (2021), which struck down Baltimore's aerial surveillance program as unconstitutional.
Axon's system presents the same constitutional violations as Flock — but with additional layers that make legal challenge harder. Because the cameras are physically integrated into existing municipal infrastructure, they don't require the same permitting process that triggered public notice and opposition to Flock installations. Because the data flows through Fusus alongside private camera feeds volunteered by citizens and businesses, the line between government search and private observation is deliberately blurred. Because the entire ecosystem is bundled into multi-year SaaS contracts that also include body cameras and Tasers, separating the surveillance component for legal challenge requires disentangling contracts worth tens of millions of dollars.

Legal scholars have warned that the current Fourth Amendment framework — built for an era of physical trespass and episodic investigation — is fundamentally unequipped to regulate passive, ubiquitous, and continuous digital surveillance. The gap between what the technology can do and what the law can stop is widening every month that a lawsuit is not filed.

What This Means for Your City
There are over 350 million street lights with the NEMA 7-pin socket that the Axon Lightpost was designed to exploit. Installation takes fifteen minutes. No city council vote is required in many jurisdictions. No new infrastructure is visible to the public.
If your city canceled its Flock contract, the most likely replacement is already on the market — and it was designed from the ground up to be invisible, indestructible, and legally entangled with the body cameras and Tasers your police department already depends on.
The question is not whether your city has these cameras. The question is whether anyone on your city council knows the difference between the surveillance system they canceled and the one they just approved.

https://t.co/wg2gPsdl3v

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

This is a fascinating coincidence

Is it a coincidence??

[Jen @IlliniJen]

Illinois just agreed in federal court not to force Catholic hospitals and Christian doctors to refer patients for assisted suicide. The deal is temporary, and it covers only the people who sued.

The law still takes effect September 12. The lawsuit says religious objectors would have to comply even if it violates their faith. Pritzker signed it after Democrats passed it over Republican opposition.

A judge paused enforcement for the Springfield diocese, a Lutheran care center, and four Christian physicians until the courts finish a related abortion case. In that case, Illinois already tried to make doctors promote abortion and send patients to a willing provider.

Residents are fleeing Illinois over taxes and crime. Meanwhile, Springfield is busy trying to mandate that Christian doctors take part in abortion and assisted suicide.

📸 @NBCNews | Source: @LegalNewsline

[Desi H-1Bhenchods @desitechsuppoat]

que la verga. Wizard's Vape Shop in Dallas could not find anyone... ANYONE in the Metroplex to be an HR manager.

They told the government on their Labor Condition Application that the "HRing" will be happening from this particular vape store, here.

Guess what: your suspicions are correct. All sorts of "needful" people, who are "critical workers to this nation", and if we insist on a proper journey to America--this will absolutely bring down the American Experiment and our nation will boilover into an unrecognizable PooPooSlavia (without ever showing evidence of their claims)... have their employment anchored to vape stores.

It is not a myth. It is real.

Wizard's Smoke Shop LLC, the HR Manager at $90,000

@USCIS @DOLOIG

[Harvey's Pistol & Pawn @harveyspistols]

In honor of Dolly, one of the great pride's of East Tennessee, we are giving away what, according to lore, could well have been a type of gun she carried. Especially when being pestered on the streets of NY.

One thing we do know for sure, Dolly was a pistol herself and definitely kept one handy, especially in the days before she could afford personal security.

For this rare and occasioned Harvey's Memorial Giveaway we and @SummRidge present a Smith & Wesson 36 Classic snub chambered in .38 Special.

It will not surprise you that this is a "9 to 5" giveaway and will run from 9am eastern today to 5pm eastern on Friday.

The replies to this post are what count and will be drawn from. Say somethin' nice about Dolly or share a post as a reply that you’ve come across over the last 24 hours that was especially insightful and or meaningful to you. Even post a song or clip of Dolly, that you love.

For fear of overdoing it and becoming tacky and dishonoring I will aim for this to be my last focused personal Dolly post for a time.

Love y'all and rest easy Tennessee Girl.

[Wild Bob @glenrpierce]

@harveyspistols dolly!

[Jack’s World 🌎 @itsjacksworld]

Uruguay is much more than Montevideo and Punta del Este. Many of the best parts are completely unknown internationally.

On top of it all, foreigners can buy property in Uruguay with the same rights as Uruguayan citizens.

& Uruguay permanent residency requires no investment or yearly physical presence.

Uruguay is one of the most compelling relocation options in the world today.

If you’re interested in Uruguay real estate or permanent residency, message me or book a call with me at my link in bio.

[Volunteer_Anon @AnonJourna96897]

🚨Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs noticed a deliberate exploitation with the county Flock contracts!

Knox County just held its long-awaited Flock workshop on 8/24. The Flock CEO was supposed to show up and answer questions. He didn’t.

Their people called it a “miscommunication.”

Commissioners spent over two hours going through the details with the sheriff’s office and Flock reps. One detail came out clear: the sheriff’s office has been buying these cameras for years in batches priced at $24,990 — just $10 under the threshold that would have required mayoral review. They kept it under the radar that way.

Mayor Glenn Jacobs isn’t playing along.

He sent Flock a letter on August 12 saying he doesn’t even believe their contract with the county is valid. According to him, the total spent under that original 2020 deal blew past the limits that should have gone through full Commission approval. He’s treating it like there’s no real agreement in place. There’s already about 140 of these cameras under the sheriff’s office.

The big expansion of 270 more is still paused. Next real move is August 31. Commissioner Larsen Jay is amending an emergency ordinance that could order every one of them taken down within 30 days.

One reading. One vote. Needs eight yeses to pass.

August 31st is when we find out if the Commission is ready to shut it down. NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW UP AND BE VOCAL.