Some Random Writer

here to irritate you daily…writer…I probably gave your wife good dreams 😉

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Reminder: watch what they do, not what they say

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer after it was determined that her report of being raped in her bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a worker's comp claim. (from @Rose_Lori) https://t.co/wYiyEQj1ga

[AdvocateForThePeople 📚 @EverAdvocate]

“And the DOJ believed her enough to hide 37 pages, detailing her abuse at the hands of the President of the United States.”

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🇺🇸 Thomas Massie began reading names from the Epstein files on the House floor.

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

Look at the code WIRED pulled from Flock’s own servers. Flock built an AI tool called OS Investigate.🚨👀

It accesses "commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates." It also accesses "police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records." The prompts can generate dossiers ("workups") on people based purely on driving patterns, without a crime, a plate, or a name. It Can identify drivers, track patterns, find "witnesses," generate suspicion based on behavior without a target. Code was found publicly on Flock's website. 🚨

Flock is performing automated, suspicionless background checks (pulling SSNs, DOBs, relatives) using commercial databases on citizens who have committed no crime, have no warrant, and are not named in any case file. The trigger is purely an AI algorithm flagging their driving pattern.
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NO officer initiates the search for the suspect, Flock's AI essentially acting as the investigator, but doing so through commercial data brokers. Flock pulls consumer reports without a permissible purpose.
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Why did Flock build OS Investigate? Because selling LPR cameras is a hardware game with limits. Selling an "AI investigator" is a high-margin SaaS play. To justify the valuation ($1B+), they need to monopolize the investigative workflow. To do that, they fused LPR data (which they hold) with police records (CJI) and commercial data (SSNs). ⚠️

Why are they doing this? Because Flock’s hardware is a commodity. The cameras are just metal on a pole. The real valuation the nearly $1 billion in venture capital is in their proprietary datasets. To justify that valuation, they have to build a total surveillance map of America that links physical movement to full digital and financial identities. They cannot legally buy that data on the open market because of the FCRA. So they built an AI to force the police to pull it for them. Flock gets the fused data, the police get the dossier, and Flock gets to declare the new AI-generated identity maps as "Flock Property" under their contracts.
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Flock is using the police as a legal shield to run unauthorized mass identity resolution queries for their own proprietary training and profit. The "perpetual license" terms gives Flock ownership of these AI-generated dossiers. They are building a national private surveillance database of SSNs linked to movement patterns, bypassing the FCRA by routing the queries through police terminals.🚨

Now look at their new August 2026 "Trust" updates. They announced a reduction in data retention to 7 days, but they created an exception called "Evidence Mode" where searched data is preserved instead of aging out. 🚨

Here is the trap. If they actually deleted data in 7 days, their AI prompts which ask for people "arrested more than twice in two years" would not function.🚨

The AI needs a multi-year historical window to track patterns. "Evidence Mode" is the backdoor they built to force all searched data into permanent retention so their AI can keep running. The 7-day retention is theater for the city councils. The permanent retention is the actual product.🚨

And the Audit Assistance" they say is to catch police misuse? It is a complete deception. The audit logs track the police officer. But the AI generates the lead before the officer interacts with the system. The AI does the suspicionless searching in the backend. The officer just clicks the prewritten prompt. The audit log captures the officer clicking a button, but it does not capture the unauthorized API calls Flock’s AI is making to the commercial databases to pull the SSNs. They built the logging system to cover their own corporate trail.🚨

https://t.co/iuTZcosABs

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Apparently some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

[Desirée Townsend @Cheering4Change]

For any media organizations or journalists who want to use the clip, here is the C-SPAN footage showing Senate leaders John Barrasso and John Thune observing as a Senate staffer has to flag down Mitch McConnell’s handler to get McConnell to vote. McConnell’s handler then points down, appearing to direct McConnell on how to complete his vote.

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

Flock Just updated its Terms and Service August 21st 2026 …and they are committing a FEDERAL CRIME ⚠️🚨

Flock cameras query the National Crime Information Center, the FBI's criminal database. This data is Criminal Justice Information.

Some of the images Flock feeds into its AI pipeline only exist because an FBI database query triggered an alert.

The FBI has incredibly strict laws (the CJIS Security Policy) stating that any data coming out of their system or anything derived from that data is protected federal property. It cannot be used for commercial profit.

Flock's says they strip the metadata (the GPS location, the timestamp, and the text of the license plate) from the image and claim, "Look, it's just an anonymous picture now! It's no longer federal data."

But Flock's machine learning models have been trained on Customer Data. Section 4.1 explicitly authorizes this. Customer Data includes NCIC hotlist matches.

ALPR reads triggered by FBI criminal database queries are Criminal Justice Information. Flock has fed this data into their neural networks to train their plate recognition algorithms, their vehicle classification models, and their predictive analytics.

When the FBI demands CJIS purging upon contract termination, Flock cant comply. The influence of the criminal justice data is permanently embedded in the trained weights of their neural networks. You cant delete "training data influence" from a machine learning model without retraining the model from scratch. The data has been mathematically absorbed into the model parameters. It is structurally inseparable.

Flock has created a situation where They baked federal criminal data into commercial AI models. They classified those models as Flock Property. They wrote a perpetual license to keep using them. And they made all of it survive contract termination.

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ALSO OWNERSHIP CONTRADICTIONS ⚠️🚨

Flock is speaking out of both sides of its mouth

To Police and the Public: Flock publishes blog posts stating, "We do not own your data. Customers own and control everything." This satisfies privacy advocates and local city councils.

To Investors and Wall Street: Flock’s legal Terms of Service state that Flock owns all "Property," which explicitly includes the machine learning models and the mathematical outputs generated by the system.

Also Flock publicly states they "don't share customer data with 3rd parties like Palantir," they are using hyper-specific legal definitions. They might not share the raw customer footage, but nothing in their terms stops them from sharing or selling the AI models that were built using that data.⚠️
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Red Flag 1 : Section 2.3 Service Suspension. Flock can cut off police access based on "reasonably suspected violation" determined by Flock alone, with no remedy for the police. A private company can blind a police department's surveillance system unilaterally.
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Red Flag 2 : Exhibit A Insurance Limits. Flock carries $5 million in cyber liability and $5 million in errors and omissions, shared. For a company handling FBI criminal data for 6,000 agencies with 120,000 cameras. A single data breach exposing NCIC records nationwide would cost hundreds of millions in liability. Flock is structurally underinsured, which means the cities and the federal government bear the uncompensated risk.
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Conclusion🚨

Flock is not a camera company. Flock is a data company that uses cameras as collection devices and police departments as legal authorization shields. The August 21, 2026 terms reveal the corporate strategy with precision.

The perpetual license. The survival clause. The Flock Property classification of machine learning models. The metadata retention carve-out. The prohibition on police touching hardware. The liability cap. The arbitration fortress in Georgia. Every single term is designed to achieve one outcome: Flock keeps the data forever, no matter what the city decides to do.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

EWW 💩 COULD THIS BE THE MEAT TRUMP IS SPEAKING OF BRINGING IN?

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Holy sh*t

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

CONFIRMED: US Military jamming disrupted medical plane's GPS system before it crashed in New Mexico in May.

4 lives lost.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime.

So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here's what "fighting crime" actually looks like:

> 84% had no case number at all
> The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing
> Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime.
> "Test" and "training" show up as reasons, run on real people's cars
> The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on.

So what is Flock?

FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget.

NOVA: Flock's AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant.

SIGNALTRACE: a competitor's tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn't even need your plate.

Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone's camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein's money.

Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS contractors are demolishing ancient cottonwoods in Lochiel, Arizona for the border wall. These trees are 200-plus years old—older than the border itself.

Protestors are on site. I’m told there has been an arrest. Limited cell service there, awaiting more info.

[Phantom Pain @phantompain1984]

@ShadowofEzra Isrælis literally are now in control of the president, the House, and the Senate, but it’s still not enough!

Now they created a backdoor, as they usually do in all of their tech, to monitor Americans and make it way easier for the ADL to start capturing “antisemitas.” 🧵⤵️

[Songpinganq @songpinganq]

For those who don't mind mass surveillance, remember this: you commit 3 felonies everyday because they make so many laws.

"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" is an infamous authoritarian maxim attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, the ruthless secret police chief under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

The 5-Step Flock Cancellation Starter Pack™

✔️ FOIA Template

Force your city to produce contracts, invoices, hit rates, false positives. I already drafted the template.

https://t.co/wc37lguFB9

✔️ 8 Ways to Legally Take Down Flock

Legal pressure points. Bureaucratic chokeholds. Policy judo. Use their own paperwork against them.

https://t.co/3lUcMuAYDh

✔️ Expose Illegal & Unsafe Flock Installations

Most Flock cameras are installed wrong. Cities routinely violate federal and local safety standards when they install these things. Also zoning violations, ADA obstructions, even poles on private property.

https://t.co/zyloHYX6pX

✔️ Rate/Review Businesses Using Flock

If they want to spy on the public, the public gets to review the experience. Incentives work. Speak up.

https://t.co/isUkEuyP2P

✔️ 5 Flock Watchdog Sites

Crowdsourced intel on deployments, failures, misreads, abuses, and the cities already backing out.

https://t.co/e6FKGYumnr

Surveillance only works when you stay quiet.
Flock dies when we start asking real questions.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

LOOK AT THIS.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.

So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.

It's called World Monitor.

Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.

> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.

+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.

It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.

It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.

It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.

Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

Per my local police department, Flock charges approximately $3000/year per camera.

So American taxpayers are spending $349,671,000 per year to be constantly monitored. Most Americans are unaware this is happening.
@therealDeFlock