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Rick Bentley

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Founder NASDAQ:CSAI, Founder/CEO Hydro Hash. Formerly Google, Baghdad contractor, and Softbank backed. Personal opinions, not financial/legal/whatever advice.

Silicon Valley Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Be me, at home, in bed: Better looking version of me appears next to my bed with a ghost. Better me: “Spirit! Remove me from this place. Remove me! I cannot bear it! Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!” (both disappear) Me: …WTF?
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People compare Flock to @Cloudastructure because both use AI and cameras. They couldn't be more wrong. So I'll make the distinction as clearly as I can: We help citizens protect their private property. Flock helps the government spy on private citizens. We are not the same.
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The pushback is only accelerating. People are pissed. Rightly so. Government takes their money, without their consent, to build a surveillance state to use against them. This is how supervillain origin stories are made. x.com/TrueOnX/status…
Noah B. Price@TrueOnX

🚨 EXPOSED: What the Flock is going on?! This is The Most Unhinged Surveillance Warning video You Will see All Year 🚨 A man fully painted as the Joker sits in his car and delivers a WILD rant about the exact laser YOU Must Never point at Flock Safety cameras. Flock runs a massive private network of license plate readers that photograph every vehicle, log the plate, time, location, and vehicle details. All that data feeds into searchable databases for police and subscribers nationwide. It tracks movements of millions of Americans every day with minimal oversight and has already sparked privacy lawsuits and city shutdowns in multiple places. The Joker guy dramatically warns against a powerful green laser in the 490 to 570 nanometer range above one thousand milliwatts. In technical reality such lasers can overwhelm and damage camera sensors by saturating them with intense light. Anything claiming megawatts is absurd theater because that power level belongs in industrial or military systems not pocket devices. Pointing lasers at surveillance gear can lead to felony charges for tampering or vandalism. Shockingly this appears to be the same person whose own robbery was solved using Flock camera footage... The irony is off the charts. Now answer these questions honestly... Do these cameras protect public safety or do they create warrantless mass tracking of every driver in America? Would you ever test a laser on one of these systems if it recorded your movements without permission? How powerful does a laser actually need to be to reliably blind these cameras and what are the permanent eye damage risks to the user? Have Flock cameras appeared near your home or commute and does knowing they watch you change how you drive? Is this Joker video hilarious performance art or a sign of growing public revolt against constant surveillance? What happens to society if thousands of people start countering these cameras with cheap tech anyone can buy online? Should private companies like Flock be allowed to build national vehicle tracking networks at all? Why do some cities keep installing them despite the privacy backlash and data breach risks? Is interfering with surveillance ever justified self defense or is it always criminal? The video exposes more than it intends. Watch it. Reply with your real take. The discussion starts here. Let me know what you think, and SHARE THIS so that others may too. And if you're not already following @TrueOnX... What the heck are you doing?! Don't forget to check out the comments below for a FREE Book.

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@awakenwithjp points out, humorously, how patriots are cutting down Flock cameras like crazy, cities are cancelling contracts, etc. Now, I don't advocate any criminal activity, even against Flock, but ... no one can be surprised that it's happening. x.com/AwakenWithJP/s…
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We help citizens protect their private property. Flock helps the government spy on private citizens. We are not the same...
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Worse still: Flock not only denies accountability, their history is erased and they change the deal. Their presence from Internet history. Gone. Memory holed. They decided to keep customer data after contracts are over. They are not the good guys. x.com/MagneticNorse/…
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Do Flock cameras help solve crimes? Sure, sometimes, but the cost is living in a surveillance state full of government violations of our rights. The question is not if mass surveillance is a powerful tool, the question is if it belongs in a free society. It doesn't.
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Another woman was falsely accused of package theft after police relied on a Flock image of her vehicle. She reportedly had to produce her own camera footage to prove she was innocent. Guilty until proven innocent. Because ... Flock. x.com/DailyCaller/st…
Daily Caller@DailyCaller

A Flock camera hit turned an innocent Colorado woman into a theft suspect. A Colorado police officer told a woman he was "100% certain" she committed the theft because Flock cameras captured her truck. He was wrong.

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Flock calls this "precision policing." It's not. Spying on the masses, at mass scale, is mass surveillance. That's the difference.
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Then it somehow got even worse. The plate that started this entire chain reaction... wasn't stolen either. It had simply been misplaced during a photo shoot. Massive consequences. Zero accountability from the Flock dystopian platform.
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After confirming the VIN was clean, the officers told him to go straight home and not drive the vehicle. Why? Because Flock cameras could flag him all over again. One officer reportedly said: "You're lucky we aren't Minneapolis." Implying they could kill him. Holy shit.
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According to the responding officer, four other Jaguar Land Rover vehicles with similar manufacturer plates were also being tracked that week. Think about that. A poorly built AI platform turned an entire fleet into suspected stolen cars.
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I've spent 30 years building AI. The technical failure isn't surprising, but the lack of responsibility of Flock is. One of the first rules of Machine Learning is: Garbage In = Garbage Out. AI doesn't fix bad data, it scales it. A good system prevents that. Flock doesn't.
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The actual plate was: 34 10 DTM The missing plate was: 34 03 DTM Someone entered it into the system as simply: 34 DTM. Flock's AI apparently decided to flag all vehicles with "34 DTM" anywhere in the plate as ... subject to violent arrest.
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A husband took a $155,000 Range Rover out to run errands with his wife. Four police cars boxed them in a parking lot, drug dealer style. Armed police swarmed the vehicle, ordered the driver out with his arms up, and removed his wife from the passenger side too. Because Flock.
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Flock has used taxpayer dollars, largely without taxpayer consent, to build what is probably the largest, and most concerning, government surveillance network this country has ever suffered. Last week, one Flock failure resulted in the violent arrest of an innocent man.
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@weimei1016 > The president is a person too, so does that mean he should just be insulted at will? Yes. Insulting someone is just expressing your opinion, and you are free to do that, about anything, at any time … or you’re not free.
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美国还是太言论自由了。 在中国,这样调侃国家领导人会被警察谈话。 总统也是人啊,难道他就要被随便侮辱? 言论自由不是你想干什么就干什么。
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Big Tech always puts the thumb on the scale in favor of liberal ideas.
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Encore un scandale. On accuse Elon Musk sans arrêt de se servir de Grok pour faire passer ses idées. Pourtant, le @neutralityorg vient de sortir The Neutrality Project : une étude indépendante qui prouve l’inverse. Sur 18 modèles IA testés, 54 positions sur 60 atterrissent à gauche du centre. Moyenne globale : -0.41 (biais progressiste massif, surtout environnement et valeurs sociales). Et Grok 4.5 ? -0.02. Le modèle le plus neutre de tout le benchmark. Le seul vraiment proche du centre. Pendant ce temps, les autres boîtes injectent massivement leur idéologie de gauche dans des IA qui répondent à des milliards de questions par jour. Manipulation des masses à grande échelle. C’est absolument scandaleux. Ça devrait être un scandale mondial. x.com/neutralityorg/…

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