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🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP. We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

A musician once cost an airline $180 million because they wouldn’t pay him $1,200 for a broken guitar. In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll was on a connecting flight when a passenger behind him looked out the window and said, “My God, they’re throwing guitars out there.” When Carroll opened his case at his destination, his $3,500 Taylor acoustic, an instrument he’d saved for months to buy, had a hole smashed through it. He called the airline. They bounced him between departments for nine months. He was told to fly to another country to file his complaint in person. He was hung up on, ignored, and eventually told the matter was closed. His final request for $1,200 in flight vouchers to cover repair costs was rejected. So he asked himself: “If Michael Moore was a singer-songwriter, what would he do?” He wrote a song called “United Breaks Guitars,” filmed a music video for $150, and uploaded it to the internet. His goal was one million views in a year. It hit 150,000 on the first day. Within a week it was the number one music video in the world. Within four weeks, news outlets reported the airline’s share price had dropped 10%, wiping roughly $180 million in value. The airline called him. They offered the $1,200 they’d originally refused, plus $1,200 in cash. The owner of Taylor Guitars personally rang and told him to come to the factory and pick out two guitars as a gift. Carroll became an international speaker on customer service. The airline used his video for internal training. He still flies with them. A United employee once walked up to him at an airport, looked around to make sure no colleagues were watching, shielded himself with his jacket, and quietly reached out to shake his hand.

This made me happy. It’s a thing😍

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

You've heard of Palantir, what about Blueskeye AI? It’s a biometric-monitoring company and a likely contender for the 2027 vehicle monitoring mandate. Blueskeye AI specializes in: -Eye‑tracking -Facial expression analysis -Head‑position monitoring -Drowsiness & distraction detection -Behavioral pattern analysis using face + voice The law requires the technology but doesn’t say which company has to provide it. 🚩 This is the exact kind of “quiet infrastructure” that fuels surveillance creep: -No opt‑out -Private vendor -No public vote -Biometric data collection normalized as “safety” -Can be repurposed for control or behavioral scoring Their tech could sit in millions of cars, tracking drivers while the company itself stays invisible to the public.

There's a rule of thumb about losing competence in an organization. I learned this through change management and watching PE firms and venture capitalists gut organizations. It used to be formally taught but... CFO don't care. It starts with lay offs for financial reasons. 3 months is how long it takes before systemic issues hit where sustaining and experienced personnel took care of systems in ways not formally documented. Often the folks replaced took it for granted that it was obvious these operations, tasks, and procedures were necessary. The system will hobble along but the clock starts kicking now the 40% rule takes over. Any organization that replaces more than 40% of it core personnel will go into intellectual bankruptcy starting two years from that point. By years 3 complete collapse of institutional know-how is irreversible and the organization will decompose into silos that do nothing but firefight until competition takes them over or takes their customers. Amazon is tracking this perfectly. It's inevitable. It's hitting every institution in lock-step. Microsoft, imo passed it a while back. This isn't the first time either, many large corporations have suffered this over the last century - cycle of life when finance or HR take over hiring and firing.

Keep an eye on this. Potential breakthrough technology. Looks like it has a network gate and a product functionality gate to pass. I’m bullish on Brian because he has a history of successful execution.

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Most recent private commission. More pics in the thread. Anniversary 22” x 33.5” Basswood, paint, pastel