Connor Boyack 📚

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Garrett Langley runs Flock Safety, a $8.4 billion company whose AI-enabled cameras, more than 100,000 of them, now line the roads of over 6,000 American communities. Will Freeman is a software engineer whose open-source project, DeFlock, maps the locations of publicly visible surveillance cameras so individuals can see where they are being watched. For this, Langley has called DeFlock a “terroristic organization” whose “primary motivation is chaos.” Sit with that inversion for a moment. A billion-dollar enterprise photographs most cars in America (regardless of whether their drivers are suspected of a crime), logs each vehicle’s movements into a searchable national database, and grants access to thousands of police agencies, no warrant required. A private citizen responds by noting, on a map, where the cameras sit in plain view atop public poles. And in the CEO’s telling, the man with the map is the menace. Consider how strange this standard is. Tens of millions of Americans open Waze every day, an app that lets drivers flag police cars and DWI checkpoints in real time. When the NYPD demanded Google shut the feature down, the company refused, noting that informed drivers make safer decisions, and nobody seriously calls Waze a terrorist network. Freeman's map does less than Waze. The ACLU (rightly) called Langley’s assertion “simplistic, juvenile, and ultimately authoritarian.” But even that seems charitable. When merely watching the watchers gets branded as terrorism, something foundational has flipped in the relationship between citizen and state. Fairness demands we grant Flock its strongest case, so what is that? (Continue reading, link in the thread…)

Graduation is performative meaninglessness in a system where it's nearly impossible to fail.

@PalmerLuckey So excited

Remember when Don Lemon wanted @elonmusk and X to fund his show? Glad that didn't happen. x.com/EndWokeness/st…

@ChrisCillizza Always recline. Nothing wrong with it.

I am 6'3". I NEVER recline my seat. You shouldn't either. Don't be the worst.

@Codie_Sanchez C student here.

C students run companies. A students work for them. Dropouts run the rest of the world.

@LeilaHormozi I’m excited for you guys.

60% of the way there 🐣

Yes.

Row 1: theft Row 2: theft Row 3: theft Row 4: theft

Pray tell, where in the Bible does Jesus say that Caesar should be the middleman for our charity?

Skip college.

Government should get out of the education business. It corrupts everything it touches. It is incredibly inefficient and misallocates resources; central planning is always substandard. Taxpayers can still fund youth education w/o the government being the primary provider.

@RealAngelaMc Congrats! His hand must be reaching out for one of our @tuttletwins toddler books! 🤪

Timeline cleanse. This little guy is 25 hours old.

@LibertyPositive Ah. Depends on the kid. Invite them to sit next to you as you read one. Offer them a little money, if their parents are agreeable, for each book they finish and write a little report on. Or just leave them out during visits and kids are naturally attracted to them many times.

@cboyack Oops, forgot to include the photo.

Yes, separate church and state. And money and state. And education and state. And health care and state. And welfare and state. And everything else and state.

@LibertyPositive These what?

@cboyack Connor, my kids have read these, but I'm trying to find a way to get my nieces and nephews to review them. And possibly get feedback on them. Any suggestions on the best way to organize that? What's a smart way to incentivize that?

Still waiting…

I feel seen.

@OffGridOutlaw Some people also imagine that communism is good

@cboyack Small mutations over time compound. Not hard to imagine

Imagine thinking that something like the human hand evolved from random piles of protein goop over long periods of time. The technological feat in this video required significant intelligence and creative insight. More so for us humans.