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• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  Cameras at the check-out line. Cameras at the gym. Your face uploaded to data server farms. So why worry about Flock?

  Well then, maybe it's time to start worrying about all of it. Maybe we should rethink the wisdom of this edifice of photo surveillance we've constructed around our daily lives.

  Oh, but that would mean rethinking related artificial edifices of modernity, such as overrunning our society with a hundred million nonwhite invaders.

  20 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  Why are these cameras stationed at trailheads? What the hell does a consortium of private and government agencies need to know about hikers?

  If you can't get away from Berg Brother in the woods, then what's left as an escape? The bathroom?

  20 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  The best aspect of Patriot Front is that it reminds the System that White racialism as a political movement didn't die with Charlottesville.

  And Patriot Front will be just one organizational reminder. Others are coming.

  20 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  The safest parts of America -- where people keep their front doors unlocked and lemonade stands have honor system payment jars -- didn't get that way because of Flock cameras.

  20 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  Garrett Langley has that same unsettling, waxen look of Jared Kushner. There's something disturbing going on with the appearances of so many of our "elites".

  20 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  Imagine if Flock were required to send a notification to your phone every time you were detected by one of its systems, with a link to see the photo / video / data, on a page with a button allowing the user to delete that data? How quickly do you think people would become alarmed?

  https://selfevident.connorboyack.com/p/safety-is-the-tyrants-sales-pitch/comment/296782551

  I like the idea of mandated Flock notifications. If the average person were to get continual phone updates of their Flock detection, complete with paparazzi-like photos of him or her eating an ice cream cone or nose-picking or stretching after a jog, at numerous random locations, I bet there would be a mass outcry.

  And people would start to seriously wonder if the authorities in whom they put their faith are in fact working for them....or for something else.

  20 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  Part of the human experience is the pleasure of not being seen, not being known, not being assessed....of getting away from prying eyes, even if for a moment.

  The Mass Surveillance State coming to life like some Flockenstein monster will rob us of that part of our humanity. The prying eyes will be everywhere. There won't be any escape. You will feel those cameras groping you, from nooks you can't see.

  The stress and despair this will add to every person's life will dwarf the sense of safety from the perception that crime is being curtailed.

  21 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  To those with entrenched political power, dissent is domestic terrorism.
  To those with entrenched institutional power, the experts must never be questioned.
  To those with entrenched cultural power, heresy is hatred.

  21 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  Who will watch the watchers?

  Apparently, no one. Because that would be domestic terrorism, according to our new techtopia overlords.

  22 hours ago
• Gaul Atreides @gaulatreides

  In May 2025, Flock was developing a new product called Nova that the company referred as a "public safety data platform," which would supplement ALPR data with information from data breaches, public records, and commercially available data in order to track specific individuals without a warrant, and which as of May 2025 was already in use by law enforcement in an Early Access program. The Electronic Frontier Foundation described Flock Nova as a "dystopian panopticon".

  You won't be able to take a nature walk without Flock and government employees knowing about it.

  I feel safer already.

  22 hours ago

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