Lane Fox

Blessed to lead winning marketers and sellers. Mostly casual tweets here on Twitter. See LinkedIn for business postings:

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Ambition is the real separator in life. You cannot coach ambition into someone. It’s having an internal fire that refuses to let you stay where you are. People who are deeply connected to a mission for themselves, their family, or their future move differently.

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Zoomers: “Boomers have all the money.”

Boomers: “Baby, that’s because we’re still eating the same pot of beans we started cooking in 1974 while y’all DoorDash a smoothie with a service fee, delivery fee, convenience fee, and emotional damage fee.”

[Jmy @JmyLss]

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.”

— G. K. Chesterton

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C.S. Lewis > dating podcasts

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light."

—Russell Kirk

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook."

—Harry S. Truman

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Nietzsche, Don't ask!

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the others enter into no rivalry with him".

— Aristotle

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Maybe not the quote you'd expect from Wernher von Braun:

"For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all. My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?"

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."

— Leonardo da Vinci

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Nassim Taleb, what. a. line.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Karl Popper, he was right

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”

— Italian Proverb

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.”

― Saint Augustine of Hippo

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

G.K. Chesterton nails it on the head

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t."

— Charles H. Spurgeon

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this

California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America

“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.

Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.

They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up

The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.

Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.

Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.

We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”

I looked more into this and he is 100% right

Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries

Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.

This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure

If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just reduced American crime politics to a single question on Joe Rogan.

And answered it like it was arithmetic.

Musk: “While obviously not everyone who’s a Democrat is a criminal, almost everyone who is a criminal is a Democrat.”

That’s not a partisan attack.

That’s an observation about how incentives work.

If you’re a criminal, you don’t vote for the party promising longer sentences and more cops.

You vote for the one gutting bail laws and calling enforcement racist.

This isn’t opinion. This is game theory.

Musk: “Because the Democrats are the soft-on-crime party. So if you’re a criminal, who are you gonna vote for?”

Nobody wants to follow that logic to its conclusion.

But the math doesn’t care.

The softness isn’t accidental. It’s architectural.

No-cash bail. Decriminalized theft. Sanctuary cities. Defund the police.

These aren’t compassion. They’re infrastructure.

Every policy that removes consequences builds a constituency that needs them to stay gone.

That’s not ideology. That’s customer acquisition.

You don’t protect criminals because you care about them.

You protect them because they show up in November.

The people paying the price are never the ones writing the policy.

It’s the working-class neighborhoods getting hollowed out.

The immigrant families who played by the rules watching the system reward the ones who broke them.

The small business owners boarding up windows because the DA won’t prosecute.

They’ll spend the next week calling Musk reckless for this.

But he didn’t build the incentive structure.

He just described it.

And that’s what they’ll never forgive.

[The General @1776General_]

END THE FED!

[Lane Fox @LaneFox]

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