Ed Korthals

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.

@atlbell929 The story doesn’t fit the narrative.

Amazing how the Atlanta Media has buried the story of the murder of a 23 yr old woman on The Beltline last week. I still haven't even seen a photo of the victim, Alyssa Paige. Trying not to scare World Cup visitors, what the hell?

@PoeticMarvel @atlbell929 Yuup

@atlbell929 There’s a reason the AJC is no longer in print

@SlavicSuccess I see them wearing puffy jackets in the summer allll the time.

Stupid nigger at the gas station wearing a ski mask when it's 70 degrees out and supposed to be 86, why do they do this?

@DonutOperator That haircut is banned in El Salvador. @nayibbukele 👑

Edgars are a plague on Texas.

@TrumpGirlLove I would’ve opened car door on him.

Yamaha R6 VS Cops!

Iran has more free speech than the UK. Facts don't care about your feelings.

@X_StrayDog1 @malonebarry

Israel has kidnapped the sister of the president of Ireland.

I don’t have 29 friends that would come over if I called and said I had a girl to rape. I don’t have even one single friend who would do that. Yet there are entire races of people that will do that. That should put to rest the idea of racial equality.

@GAFollowers What a disaster she was as mayor. A thief and a liar.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running for governor of Georgia, says she wants to put casino gambling on the ballot in the state 🎰 Bottoms says casinos could generate an estimated $300M annually to help fund education in Georgia.

a decades-long jewish charity scam that uses anthropomorphized money as a mascot might actually be the funniest thing anyone’s ever done, ever. like i think we can all just call it a wrap because i don’t believe this can be topped

@minderbinder007 @UnCancelableGuy @DawnsMission Only bothers people who can’t think for themselves.

@UnCancelableGuy @DawnsMission this does not bother you at all? 🤡

AMAZING I’ve personally used ivermectin on skin areas that looked like cancer — they cleared up completely in about 2 weeks. My friend had stubborn fungus on his toes. I told him to try it, and it was gone in about three weeks too. Just like the guy in the video, I take it every few months and always travel with it. It’s been an absolute game changer for me! 🙌

@R_A_Belcher Never relax around blacks, Richard.

Another thought on the woman beaten senseless in front of witnesses in a MARTA station by the man now charged with the Beltline murder. She says no one tried to intervene. If the name Kitty Genovese isn’t familiar, you should look it up. It’s a sad cultural landmark.

@rexjonesnewz She’s a Jew larping as a Latina. Of course she “folded”.

Shawty folded for Netanyahu

JUST IN: The Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund just filed another $470,000 of spending against Thomas Massie. There has now been more than $20,000,000 of outside spending in this race. It is the most expensive House primary in history. Track election spending on Quiver.

We need more of this

T H O M A S M A S S I E I S M O R E M A G A T H A N D O N A L D T R U M P E V E R W A S DROP A FLAG OR A “FCK YOU” IF YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Hey @grok, who was Charlie Kirk's favorite congressman? Very concise. Just the name.

I never heard of Ed Gallrein until Israel purchased him.