Nels

Post Production Person
Current VFX Coordinator

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Per the FBI, Trump knew and funded underage sex parties in Palm Beach.

[iza @izamamaa]

Wasn’t her husband assassinated in broad daylight here in the U.S. while Trump was president?

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Disgusting.

So disappointed in Governor Whitmer’s support of data center expansions in our state especially when so many Michiganders are opposed.

[Nels @NelsMan6]

Remember when the @NBA website said OKC was “finals bound” a week ago? We’re watching the refs make that a reality right now. What a joke of a league for elevating this joke ass team’s flopping into championships.

[Y @tinscognito__]

Incredible. If an English broadcasting company did this Starmer would launch a missile

[Nels @NelsMan6]

@AaronParnas @MeidasTouch @RepRobertGarcia What happens to the congress person who sneaks in a phone or recording device to a hearing like this and then leaks it? These fuckers work for us and I’m so sick of important hearings happening in the dark. Drag this corrupt bullshit into the light of day!

[Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera]

Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

The Spurs have the ball down 98-88

• Refs miss a goaltending call
• Ball goes off Chet’s foot
• They ignore the coach’s challenge request
• SGA gets free throws
• Mitch Johnson is hit with a tech
• Lu Dort and Tony Brothers laughing on the sideline

Us fans deserve better than this smh

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Genocide.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Zohran Mamdani is 34 years old. YOUNG PEOPLE CAN LEAD EFFECTIVELY. You don't have to be 70 with "life experience" to do a good job.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

[Mindy Fischer Writer @mindys4Biden]

KY has a "sore loser law" that prevents Massie from running in the general as an Independent. But 1 thing he could do is run as an official write-in candidate. Lisa Murkowski successfully did it in Alaska. And Massie is a whole lot easier to spell than Murkowski. Just a thought.

[Kyle Blomquist for U.S. Congress @BlomquistForMI]

At some point we need to stop calling them centrists and start calling them what they are: conservatives.

[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.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections?

When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

[Nels @NelsMan6]

@JSODonoghue @LouisianaLtGov Would be a real shame if someone irreversibly damaged the statues in question before this regressive bullshit happens

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Do not let the media get decorum mogged by Susan Collins. Reply to every story about her asking why they aren't reporting on her obvious tremor. The ONLY reason they'll ask her is if the social disapproval for not doing so is greater than doing so

[Nels @NelsMan6]

@DetroitPistons The hell even is this?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism and the Jewish people. I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people. The single most dangerous thing they’ve tried to tell us is somehow they can extend the definition of antisemitism to include a foreign government and its leaders. I call bullshit”