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WOW A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves. One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did. An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY. Link: genocide.live Direct Link: #zoom_to_selection=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">experience.arcgis.com/experience/3fb…

Ustedes me secuestraron en altamar. En la cárcel me separaron del grupo, me metieron a un contenedor, me esposaron, botaron al piso y me golpearon por más de tres horas hasta causarme una conmoción cerebral. Esos son sus valores, estas fotos sólo son propaganda

This is so insane. A evil genocidal country went and illegally kidnapped peaceful protesters on international waters and now they are parading them around like cattle and NOT A SINGLE major news network is covering it.

I’m going to fucking scream.

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.

It’s a coup. A literal soft coup. Eventually everyone will figure this out and start using this word. But it’s taking a really long time.

Flock cameras don’t just grab your license plate. They log: • Dents/stickers/damage/decals on car • Likeness of driver (clothing & facial details) • Direction, speed, duration of time on roads • Accompanying passenger count These cameras are Orwellian & unconstitutional.

If you can see this, you are now legally obligated to tell me your favorite movie using only a GIF.

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here: gofund.me/456d8a193

im a sobbing mess reading this news. she was just a kid. the stab wounds to her hands from trying to defend herself. how terrified she must have been. the cruel brutality of her murder juxtaposed with such a tender name like juniper blessing. im utterly destroyed.

Harrison Ford: “Humanity is a part of nature, not above it. We need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood. The world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”

The meeting lasted 15 minutes

they cut to a draftkings ad in the middle of a moment of silence for a player who just died. you cannot overstate the depravity of our society.

@lydiakauppi They weren't actually able to find out what was wrong with it, even after an ultrasound and a CT scan because its tucked up under my ribs. The bariatric surgery was a last option recommendation from my doctor

@L_Train111 Super interesting, they didn’t want to try taking the gallbladder out instead? Mine is out now and I don’t have to eat any special diet or anything to feel good. Obviously you know yourself better, I’m just surprised because it seems so much more invasive

I lost 75lbs on Zepbound, and it’s true people really don’t talk about the side effects. For instance, now when I bring up a health concern, my doctor orders tests

so nintendo CAN send cease and desist letters to people using their property in ways they dislike? so... basically... they LIKE when the american government uses all of their games to promote nazism, kidnapping, pedophilia, and rape? #interesting!

@MasterTimBlais Which hell is that?

they're inventing shrimp tortures you can't even imagine

They literally threw 45,000 votes away. They threw them away. But please tell me more about the Democrats and election integrity won’t you.

Democrats redrew two states, only after letting the voters decide. Republicans have redrawn, so far, six states, without a single vote from the public. Spare me your bullshit outrage, congressman.

How do you read things like this and not want them GONE