San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2011
Remember when Daniel Lurie’s bodyguard assaulted a homeless person in the Tenderloin and Lurie told the press his motorcade had been attacked? Then the video came out and Brooke Jenkins charged the homeless guy anyway?
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The cops and techies put up cameras everywhere but when the Mayor’s entourage or SFPD goes around cracking skulls we have to rely on a single shaky cellphone POV from a window and we’re lucky to have that
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President Trump posted a more than 1300-word rant against Bill Maher, in which he tucks in that he is “not building a swimming pool in the White House briefing room,” but is still considering moving the press out.
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Dan Raile retweeted
New: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. propub.li/47FL1Uh
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The woman engaging w Ryan Grim here can be seen live on stage with Garry Tan at the Commonwealth Club on Monday evening
I haven’t stopped laughing at this for about an hour
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Joshua Michael found an access token on Flock's public website. No login required. No authentication. Just sitting there. He downloaded Flock's entire database. 300,000 device locations. 170,000 cameras. 130,000 other hardware units. 27,000 acoustic detectors. Made a map. Published it September 23. The Senate held a hearing on Flock the same day. Cited Michael's research. Flock panicked. Sent a cease-and-desist. Used a brand-protection vendor called Doppel to claim trademark infringement. The map said it wasn't affiliated with Flock. Doppel didn't care. Michael's site went dark. Then Proton moved it to Swiss servers. Now it lives on protonmcp.org. Untouchable. Uncensorable. Hosted by an encryption company in a country that doesn't care what Flock wants. The irony is crystalline. Flock left an access token on the internet. Michael used it to download their own data. Published it. Flock tried to suppress it. Proton said suppressing it is suppressing information. Which is true. The map shows Flock has 150,000 more cameras than they publicly claimed. Shows acoustic detection units mapping human speech across the country. Shows which police departments have access to the whole network. Flock doesn't want that visible. So they tried trademark infringement. Which only worked until Proton decided transparency matters more than Flock's feelings. Now everyone can see exactly how many cameras are watching their car. Where they are. Which cops can see them. Michael warned Flock about the exposed token in November 2025. Flock ignored him. Then got mad when he used it. The surveillance company that claims to protect privacy just tried to suppress the only map showing how much they actually surveille. And failed.
‼️ Proton is hosting a map of 300,000+ Flock surveillance device locations that Flock tried to get taken down. Researcher Joshua Michael says he pulled them from Flock's own systems via a token left open to anyone. Proton calls the takedown "an attempt to suppress information."
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Leon Black, of Epstein Files fame, owns Lifetouch (ew), the company that does student photos for most of the schools in the US The guy has portraits of every US teen on his hard drives, and has for decades. He is a real pedo’s pedo.
Anyone recognize who’s sitting next to Jared Kushner? Oh that’s just Leon Black. The one who’s suing to avoid testimony after he was served a subpoena from the Oversight Committee…regarding Jeffrey Epstein. No biggie. I’m sure it’s nothing.
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Dan Raile retweeted
Anyone recognize who’s sitting next to Jared Kushner? Oh that’s just Leon Black. The one who’s suing to avoid testimony after he was served a subpoena from the Oversight Committee…regarding Jeffrey Epstein. No biggie. I’m sure it’s nothing.
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If prop 40 fails, California should exile billionaires to their private islands
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If you think Palmer’s dog experiments are creepy just wait till you see his dolphins!
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Brought to you by Sequoia Capital (which Michael Moritz ran for decades), Joe Lonsdale (a founder of both Palantir and Daniel Lurie’s favorite government contractor OpenGov) and the CIA! Ultralethal Cyborg police dogs
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I was handed this Oakland Watch booklet today that claims Sheng Thao and Barbara Lee lead the political machine responsible for corruption in Oakland. I was wondering who was associated with Oakland Watch and then the guy walked by again with Seneca Scott. Of course.
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Team Flock and AI on the left
Can’t get over the congressional-race optics at this big Dem presser in SF right now. On one side of the podium… Connie Chan is standing next to Pelosi and Lofgren. On the other side… Scott Wiener is standing next to Newsom, McGuire and Nancy Tung
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Checking in on the Gundo bros
Go to El Segundo, young engineer
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Replying to @behindthenet
I hope the entire bay area gets bulldozed and turned into Manhattan
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Sorry, what now?
Hey @grok, is this true?? Some data centers now run on lab-grown human brain neurons derived from stem cells, wired directly to silicon chips via electrode arrays, and kept alive on life support. Fed sugar every few days. They play Doom. We don’t know if they’re conscious.
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All good we just need to bar him from returning
JUST IN: Google co-founder Larry Page has reportedly moved into a $173M home in Miami to avoid $15B of California taxes
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Palmer Luckey is such a try hard comic book villain. Everything about him, every choice he makes, is like if the "muahaha" evil laugh became a real boy.
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Rest assured that whatever happens with Prop 40, Silicon Valley will continue to pursue the aim of “smaller and more scarce public programs” everywhere on Earth.
Replying to @DanRaile
They can move to another state and you can enjoy smaller and more scarce public programs because the tax base atrophies.
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