For those who find [drag shows] offensive, the solution is relatively simple…just don’t go. – Judge David Hittner
When will amateur women learn cops are dangerous sex predators?
[A Baltimore cop named] Daniel Oxendine…[raped] a woman…[who foolishly approached] him to [ask him to] drive her…home…[when they got there,] Oxendine [forced his way] inside and [raped] her…Investigators [believe]…he may have [had other victims so he]…is being held [without bail]…
[The prominent anti-female autonomy group] Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America [has] signed a letter calling on the Department of [In]justice…to interpret a 19th century anti-obscenity law as a national abortion ban. It’s the first time the country’s largest anti-a[utonomy] organization has publicly endorsed this interpretation of the Comstock Act, signaling that a once-fringe reading of the dormant law has gone mainstream within the [forced-birth] movement—and that these groups are coming for more than just abortion pills…Comstock bans mailing any article or thing that can be used for abortions…including…devices and other supplies sent to brick-and-mortar abortion clinics. These same drugs, devices, and supplies are also used for routine obstetric care, including miscarriage management and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage…
Your regular reminder that regardless of what evil laws fanatics impose, abortion medication will still be available by mail unless the US entirely criminalizes shipping things.
The Last Shall Be First (#1567)
It should be a felony to propose a bill that is facially unconstitutional:
U.S. District Judge…David Hittner [has once again] ruled that Texas’ law banning drag shows around minors is “facially overbroad” and “unconstitutionally vague”…Hittner had originally ruled SB 12 unconstitutional in 2023, shortly after it was passed…[but psychopath-]General Ken Paxton appealed [the] ruling to the…Fifth Circuit…which…sent the case back to Hittner…who…[pointed out that] banning…[any] performance…that…”appeals to the prurient interest in sex”…might…apply to performers as varied as Elvis Presley…Dolly Parton, and Miley Cyrus…
These showboat bills waste public money for politicians’ virtue-signaling; the only allowable defense should be that the politician was too stupid to understand the plain language of the Constitution.
When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals (#1626)
The open internet will soon be a thing of the past:
…[Facebook] has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another [using the excuse of “]child safety[“]…the years-long case…against [it] ends, and [Zuckerberg] pays…approximately $18 billion…[and] will implement a bunch of changes to its platforms…everyone involved knows full well that no government could mandate these feature changes without violating the First Amendment. But now that it’s in a “settlement”…people are cheering this on, without realizing the damage it will do…For a few decades now, when basically all Attorneys General would get together to threaten and/or sue tech companies, it was almost always over bullshit headline grabbing claims where the AGs either had no jurisdiction or ability to legally do anything…these efforts are so resource intensive, so expensive, and so draining that it’s no surprise that most companies end up “settling” by agreeing to do things that the government simply cannot force a company to do. But because it’s a “settlement” people act like it’s not the government doing it…The other bit of background worth understanding here is that [Facebook] has been…practically begging for Congress to pass child safety legislation that only the largest companies (like itself) could comply with…[such as] FOSTA…it’s been pretty consistently losing the innovation race, and the government granting it a regulatory moat that smaller competitors can’t cross would be a godsend…[especially when i]t looks like…“losing” a lawsuit…
He was named “Deputy of the Year” for exemplifying cops’ true nature so well:
[A Florida cop named] Michael Fultz [was allowed to] resign…[rather than being fired] for…extreme…sexual misconduct, racism, and abuse…Brevard County named Fultz its Deputy of the Year in 2025. The day of the ceremony [his] ex-girlfriend sent a letter…to the sheriff’s office with a long list of complaints about his behavior…which [prompted]…the…discover[y that] he’d used Flock to stalk her…[further] investigation found Fultz had posed for pictures as Adolf Hitler, freely used racial slurs in texts, masturbated on camera in his p[igmobile, shoved his gun into]…his ex-girlfriend[‘s]…mouth during sex [and took pictures, and] repeatedly [covered]…his motorcycle [license plate while speeding over 100 mph so he could look like a big man on]…Instagram and TikTok…the sexual encounter where…he [threatened to murder his girlfriend] occurred [immediately after he murdered a man in April 2025, then blamed his victim]…
Cops will abuse warrantless surveillance for as long as it exists:
A…[Kentucky cop was actually]…suspended…and…charge[d] for [repeat]edly using license plate reader cameras to track and harass [his ex-girlfriend] in Kentucky and Indiana…Asad Zahir …used…Flock…to conduct more than 2,000 searches on [her] from January through May of this year, [despite]…an Indiana…[“]protective order[“] against him…Zahir…[abused the system so egregiously Flock’s software reported him to his bosses]…
Cops are angry that people hate unconstitutional surveillance:
A…Florida [cop shop] used “decoy” Flock cameras that a…[pig] 3D-printed at home to “bait” [citizens concerned about unconstitutional surveillance]…then charged a man with three felonies after he cut down and destroyed one…Oviedo, Florida mayor Megan Sladek said she “had NO idea” that [cops were planning this scam]…Despite the decoy camera being worth, at most, several dollars worth of plastic filament, Evan Meyer was charged with…[“]attempted[” felonies]…Meyer ad[mitted that he targeted the make-believe] camera…specifically…[because it] was close…to his house…The [pig scheme] is reminiscent of Amazon “package sting” [scam]s that several [cop shops] attempted several years ago, in which empty Amazon boxes were placed on people’s porches while p[igs lurked to spy]…result[ing] in zero known arrests…
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I did realize that a full-grown turkey could not live comfortably in a henhouse with chickens, but what I did not realize was just how much trouble it would be. First, he injured himself trying to get through the chicken door, so I had to let him in and out through the walk-through door for the past couple of months. He also kept trying to flap his wings inside, which meant every day I had to deal with the feeder getting knocked loose (and the feed consumed 50% faster), most of the water being dumped on the ground, electrical cords being knocked loose, and nasty shit getting everywhere, producing a reek that was intolerable even by chicken standards. But then I realized that in addition to all that, the hens were pecking him so badly he had bloody sores under his tail and on his back between the wings. So last week I shooed him out into the paddock, which was not easy; he whacked me with his wings (which are much stronger than one would expect) and kept running in every direction other than the one where I wanted him to go. That was through the open gate, which meant several of the chickens took advantage of it even though he wouldn’t, which meant they needed to be shooed back in once I finally got him out. He then spent several days just lurking outside the fence, staring in with an expression I interpreted as the avian equivalent of a child with no money pressing his runny nose against the window of a candy store. But on Saturday he started wandering around a bit, and on Sunday he was up in the north paddock hunting for bugs in the grass. He later joined the pigs and goat eating the corn I throw over the fence; I’d been giving him some separately from the pigs, but on Sunday he joined them so I just doubled the amount. All in all, this looks like the way to do it, should I choose to raise more large fowl in the future, but next time I’ll do it before the injuries start accumulating.
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Do you really want to live in a world where everyone must suffer the consequences of every mistake, act of desperation, bad decision, foolish choice and even false accusation forever, without any hope of escape no matter how blameless his life is after that? – “Permanent Record”
- Economists don’t have a monopoly on stupid assumptions about sex work.
- Amazon’s not a library, but given prominence this is a censorship attempt.
- Be skeptical of claims about the sexual habits of the “younger generation”.
- I’m sure you feel safer now that police “investigated” this “sexual assault”.
- Christina Slater on Seattle’s persecution of men who seek consensual sex.
- Houston judge orders hotel to pay off cops & discriminate vs sex workers.
- “Pedophiles” can shoot dangerous “male gaze” radiation through internet.
- Trying to turn Lawrence into a “monogamous vanilla amateurs only” club.
- If there are so many “sex trafficking victims”, why keep making up tales?
- This woman is so puffed up, I think she’d pop if one stuck her with a pin.
- Minnesota tries to cash in on “sex trafficking” hysteria before it vanishes.
- “Sex addiction” is now being used as a defense for violent sex offenders.
- Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
- Sometimes land grabs are more subtle, even if reporters’ language isn’t.
- Are politicians really stupider than other people, or does it just seem so?
- Pompous ass seems committed to braying out of both sides of her maw.
- Being a “legal” sex worker doesn’t protect you, so stop your bootlicking.
- Sweden emasculates its men, wonders why Swedes are having less sex.
- The myth of “sex addiction” sprang from “social construction of gender”.
- Prosecutors claim sex workers are victims and criminals simultaneously.
- Latest battle in France’s ongoing war on Muslimahs’ personal autonomy.
- Cops, lost cities, weird fantasies, flat maps, prohibition and much more.
- I’m glad to see well-spoken & “out” sex workers appearing on podcasts.
- Cop thinks she can “build communication with sex workers” by robbery.
- US “authorities” turn driving a friend to work into “child sex trafficking”.
- Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking”; stupid people will give you money.
- Most politicians are more careful when indulging in drugs with hookers.
- What happens when cops “enforce” laws against acts that hurt nobody.
- Once again, Liz Brown exposes the tyranny of “fighting sex trafficking”.
- Reporters should be ashamed of their attempts to shame sex workers.
- Gary Johnson’s position on sex work wasn’t quite so muddled in 1991.
- Philippine president carrying “War on Drugs” to its logical conclusion.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
- A client who isn’t afraid of the cops and their stupid shaming tactics.
- Imagine if $100,000 was spent on services instead of spreading lies.
- On the fantasy that “predators” use video games to abduct children.
- Not rape, but he sure seems to think it was his privilege to fuck her.
- More groups are speaking up in favor of sex work decriminalization.
- Louisiana politicians destroy scores of jobs with the stroke of a pen.
- Nearly all “sex offender” laws are this unconstitutionally overbroad.
- Ally uses the Desiree Alliance conference to introduce larger issues.
- Another violent cop, another black woman profiled as a sex worker.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- How does this dude think he’ll get around UK brothel & avails laws?
- Why do economists make such dumb assumptions about sex work?
- Despite its appearance in Rolling Stone, this is an excellent article.
- “Punitive and stupid” describes all “sex offender” registration laws.
- You’re supposed to be a libertarian, Gary; this ain’t rocket science.
- Rent in exchange for sex isn’t “free”; it has been paid for with sex.
- Cops frame young men for supposedly “seeking sex with children”.
- They’re not going to like legalization & protectionism if they get it.
- Exactly like the World Cup two years ago. Why can’t people learn?
- Ian O’Doherty with another denunciation of prohibition in Ireland.
- Over 90% of violence against sex workers comes from the police.
- One of the rare times you’ll ever see me actually assist the cops.
- Cops, Orwell, Sweden, King Arthur, laws, magic and much more.
- Why won’t those who know anti-sex dogma is bullshit speak up?
- Putting extraordinary restrictions on cops is not remotely unfair.
- Cops, stubbornness, Ron Obvious, girl-girl BDSM & much more.
- Melissa Petro on the stigma faced by sex workers with children.
- These “experts” don’t criticize “john shaming” when cops do it.
- Canada’s new law “protects” sex workers from lonely old men.
- There’s no “if” about it; Melania Trump is or was a sex worker.
- Transmen are also the subjects of violence and discrimination.
- Mexican police do little to protect the transgender community.
- It’s always so sweet when a rescue industry scam is exposed.
- The problem is not with the act, but with the laws against it.
- Pig invents new excuse for criminalization of sex with goats.
- Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up.
- Yet “leftists” are still surprised that “feminists” are anti-sex.
- The government stole all of Rentboy’s legal defense money.
- “Temporary protective custody” = indefinite imprisonment.
- To what extent is sex work criminalization tied into racism?
- This unsupported and hysterical assertion reeks of racism.
- “Sex trafficking” may be the first truly global moral panic.
- How can a young guy get an escort to take him seriously?
- Two men convicted for non-crimes against a non-person.
- Mounting opposition to “abstinence only” sex education.
- Because female sexual “purity” trumps individual rights.
- Satan, vindication, cops, laws, Sweden and much more.
- Just another reminder of what “rescue” actually means.
- Another health organization issues a pro-decrim report.
- Sydney Brownstone with an update on a sleazy rapist.
- On the slow decline of the devadasis in Indian society.
- In which I announce the return of my ability to travel.
- Not a bad introduction to the concept of whorearchy.
- Amateurs, does this kind of stuff actually shock y’all?
- August is also before the heat death of the universe.
- The result of stigma, encouraged by criminalization.
- “Dear Prudence” calls a reader on her whorephobia.
- Remember, this is pretended to be about sex work.
- Too much for the tiny, narrow minds of politicians.
- Irish cops start implementing the Swedish model.
- Most whores love Dolly as much as she loves us.
- Wow, that’s some MIGHTY “suppression” there!
- How prohibitionists want to “help” sex workers.
- Just a typical case in a typical American prison.
- A policewoman decides to turn to honest work.
- Slowly but surely, we’re forcing them to listen.
- Hmm, where have I heard this pattern before?
- OMG, WHORES KNOW HOW TO USE PHONES!!
- The government is culpable in these assaults.
- In other news, Pope announces he’s Catholic.
- Another murdered transwoman, and another.
- Actually, this isn’t the “Nordic model” at all.
- How can my wife improve her sexual skills?
- This is, as we’ve seen before, pure bullshit.
- This situation is not even close to “unique”.
- A memorable cam duo with Lorelei Rivers.
- On the lie of “negative secondary effects”.
- So much for “negative secondary effects”.
- Why do sex workers prefer older clients?
- The boot has to be on somebody’s neck.
- Sweden’s “liberal reputation” is bullshit.
- Things I’m not going to tell you about.
- Sex drives technological development.
- The end of regular fictional interludes.
- When a sick infatuation is frustrated.
- Kaytlin Bailey at the Fringe Festival.
- Undermining statutes of limitations.
- Getting my vacuum cleaner back.
- Canada wants a “pimp town” too.
- Yet this isn’t called “trafficking”.
- Sweden, the feminist paradise.
- William Blake on politicians.
- Baltimore police are typical.
- The past exonerative tense.
- A week of highs and lows.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Rapist DA of the week.
- Holy idosing, Batman!
- A really intense week.
- Fascism in action.
- Zero equals zero.
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Get on the fucking ground…I will fucking tase you. – cop to “missing child”
Even with all of her songs to choose from, this felt to me like the most appropriate tribute to one of the world’s most beloved human beings. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; T. Greg Doucette; Ryan Cooper and Scott Long; Nun Ya (x2); and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- Aboard the SS Queen of Ulthar.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- R.I.P. Dolly Parton and King Harald V.
- Dust storms are back, now with added fungus!
- They keep demonstrating exactly what they are.
- What part of “never” is so difficult to understand?
From the Archives
- Google has made violating its users’ consent a standard business practice.
- Ignoramus censors don’t understand why people ignore their stupid laws.
- It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the “Campaign Against Toasters”.
- Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion; the press is shocked.
- Pigs may only excuse sexual assault as a “search” if the victim is female.
- Young women are using “sex trafficking” as an excuse for violent crimes.
- Feigned sympathy for “trafficking victims” applies only to “perfect” ones.
- Had he not been caught at this stage, he’d have soon moved on to rape.
- Amateurs repeatedly botch what sex workers have done for many years.
- Keep plunging that ice pick in; the bad thoughts will go away eventually.
- Politicians embrace “magic fentanyl” myth; will the media finally drop it?
- Totally-predictable results of bad laws are happening right on schedule.
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- The government will say anything to ensure Lacey dies in a filthy cage.
- Politicians really believe they can control people’s thoughts via threats.
- A newspaper publisher dies on her feet, at least figuratively speaking.
- The fascist owners of most of these allow cops to root in them at will.
- Unembellished “sex trafficking from a store” scary tales are now rare.
- The sick lust to know everything about everybody has consequences.
- This will continue until there are federal criminal charges for doing it.
- Americans flush incalculable resources down the “culture war” toilet.
- That word appears, but 15 paragraphs in and blunted by qualifiers.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from August 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- This will continue until the evil US immigration policy is reformed.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, Morgus, Phil Donahue, and much more.
- Tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- The cop establishment is trying hard to hide this one’s crimes.
- Cops, faux environmentalism, Arleen Sorkin, and much more.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- An especially vile Gestapo weapon: fake “child porn” charges.
- Bootlickers say child porn is OK if the criminal is a good shot.
- Some cops don’t limit themselves to one type of creepiness.
- You’d think “youth pastor” would be a big red flag by now.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Politicians can always mine tragedy to justify more evil.
- A new film adaptation of Chester Brown’s Paying For It.
- How long before Google becomes completely useless?
- Prohibitionists always end up with egg on their faces.
- This sleazebag tried to frame a woman for his crime.
- Cops, useful idiots, cultural shifts, and much more.
- Con artists use moral panics to fleece the gullible.
- Modern monogamy is becoming increasingly sick.
- Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
- It was obvious this would turn out to be sordid.
- The best year for fruit since I bought Sunset.
- It only starts with demonized minorities.
- The US Constitutional order is no more.
- Rapist cops don’t only target women.
- Throwback Thursday’s Hungry Dead.
- Fracchia vs Throwback Thursday.
- Don’t fret, it’s for your “security”.
- Ghost of Throwback Thursday.
- Redoing the atrium lighting.
- Another round of Durabak.
- Much more of this, please.
- Good weather for slugs.
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We’re coming for the books. – Dan Patrick
Cops usually make up some pretext, however flimsy, for their armed robbery schemes:
Two Phoenix [cops] have been arrested and fired for [brutally robbing two people at gunpoint after tricking them into pulling over under guise of] a…traffic stop…Luis Vasquez Jr. and Antonio Felix…repeatedly shocked [the male driver] with a stun gun and [also] punched [him. They also yanked] his girlfriend…[out of] the vehicle…[twisted her]
arm [behind her back, violently] handcuffed [her] and [shoved her into the back of a pigmobile]…The [cops] also…threatened to shoot [the driver] before…eventually [letting him] drive away…
The only way to fully protect data is not to collect it:
…Microsoft…shared the names of Dutch [bureaucra]ts working for two [bureaus]…with the U.S. House of Representatives…The [bureaucra]ts involved are working on implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European [censorship] law that forces online platforms to [censor anything politicians declare “]illegal[“]…Microsoft shared emails…and [other paperwork]…without redacting their names…due to the Cloud Act[, which also works in the opposite direction by allowing foreign cops to demand US data without a warrant]…
“Coming for” anything or anybody is intrinsically an act of tyranny:
…“Dark, demonic content”…[inanely barfed] Bonnie Wallace, a [pro-censorship] activist…at a press conference…put on by [Texas] Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick [claiming there are] “dirty books” in school libraries…“I’m here because God has given me [a mission],” Wallace [psychotically continued, bragging about her personal censorship crusade before]…Patrick [idiotically claimed]…that enforcement of [a book ban law] wasn’t the state banning books…and…[calling for state persecution and firing of] librarians…“We’re coming for the books,” he later added…[calling very tame sex education] books…“so disgusting, so filthy, so dirty, so vulgar, so pornographic that for the ladies here, I wouldn’t even open it and show you”…His primary example was Let’s Talk About It, a 2021 sex education graphic novel by married couple Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan…[and he specifically flagged a suggestion that readers] consult a medical professional for health information…[the statement that] sex toys…exist…[and the statement that] pornography…can be unrealistic…
This sickness will get much worse before it gets better:
Uber is updating its teen account feature to allow parents to use the selfie cameras on Uber drivers’ phones to [spy] on their teenage [offspring] during ridehail trips. Since first launching teen accounts in 2023, Uber has touted the myriad ways parents can [spy] on their [offspring], from PIN verification to live GPS tracking…the new feature…[is] ready to roll out nationwide over the next few weeks. Drivers who have opted in to accept underage passengers will [for] now…be asked to [allow]…the s[urveillance, but refusing consent won’t be an option for long]…
Local politicians’ virtue-signaling is powerless against the fascist panopticon:
…local officials from at least 75 agencies across Illinois [feed] information to federal immigration [goons]…in…violation of state law…pre[tend]ed [to be] a shield against it…Illinois’s TRUST Act is one of the [most] strong[ly-worded] laws in the nation meant to protect immigrants and has often been cited as a national model. More than a dozen states, including New York and California, have similar laws. But…records…show a pattern of continued collaboration with federal…[pogroms]: Sheriffs honoring ICE detainers the law forbids them to honor. [Cop shops] emailing [ICE goons] the home addresses, employers, and daily whereabouts of people stopped for speeding…[pigs] with a local badge and an ICE email address, sharing immigration data that’s supposed to be off-limits to them. Jails releasing people directly to waiting ICE agents…at least 150 people [so far have been] uprooted from their lives in Illinois and funneled into the deportation system, in a state whose [politicians have falsely] promised over and over again that it wouldn’t happen here…
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (#1614)
A big step forward for treating sex work as work:
…the Nevada State AFL-CIO [has] adopted a resolution in support of sex workers’ right to organize…with unanimous support…“Sex work is work, and these workers deserve to be treated as such,” [Nevada AFL-CIO vice president Marc] Ellis said…“sex workers can know they have the full support of all members of the AFL-CIO”…
Much, much, MUCH more of this, please:
On August 11, a[n Ohio] grand jury re[fused to indict]…Cody Morelock…[for] destroying a Flock S[urveillance camera]…de[spite] surveillance footage…from other Flock cameras on the same network…The no-bill doesn’t legalize destroying cameras…[or] cancel Flock’s Ohio contracts. But when a grand jury declines to treat smashing a surveillance camera as [a] serious felony…that signals something real about where public sentiment sits — and that tension isn’t resolving anytime soon…
Other recent actions by anti-surveillance freedom fighters include eight cameras stolen in Winona, Minnesota, six in Duluth, and two in Plymouth, and two in Pageland, South Carolina. Flock is so nervous about the threat to its fascist revenue stream that it is now demanding a “compromise” between basic civil rights and unconstitutional warrantless surveillance, absurdly claiming that it isn’t the unconstitutional warrantless surveillance company‘s fault if cops predictably use its unconstitutional warrantless surveillance cameras for unconstitutional warrantless surveillance.
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ICE is the worst of the worst. – Peter Moskowitz
A textbook example of McNeill’s Law:
A Florida [politici]an from Donald Trump’s home district could potentially face the death penalty under a law he had championed as a state legislator. Mike Caruso…[one] of Gov. Ron DeSantis[‘ gang], [has been]…arrested for…molesting his [toddler] grandson…on…at…le[ast]…three separate [occasions]…Caruso was previously accused of child sexual abuse [several times], but [always managed to get away with it before]…
Cop deals with problems exactly as he was trained & encouraged to, and everyone is shocked:
A [Florida cop murdered] his [ex-]girlfriend and then [killed] himself…Troy Savetz…was [lurking at his victims’s] house [when she return from an outing with her two children]. He [accosted her] and…[when she] tried to call 911, [he stole her] phone…She then told her children to go in the house and call 911…Savetz…the[n abducted the woman] and to[ok her about]…6 miles [away, where he shot her]…
The 100% predictable outcome of handing this kind of power to thugs:
A new report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance…re[veals]…a [predictable] level of sexual criminal behavior within ICE and CBP. Out of 152 cases of identified [goons] accused or convicted of criminal behavior, 131 of them, or 86.2 percent, were charged with sex offenses. Seventy-eight of them—51 percent of the entire cohort—”committed sex offenses against children—the single largest category on the list”…these are just the [goons] known to be…[sex] crim[inals]. Indictments are rare…
This will never stop without aggressive resistance:
The [Trump regime]…has [install]ed Flock cameras…at [national] parks including…Yosemite…and…rangers are not happy about it…“Surveillance is a disrespectful invasion of privacy”…[said one]…Another…said…“Every American should be free to visit our national parks without…being…tracked by the federal government”…
…Flock S[urveillance] has [lied] for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that…can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone…the tool can pick out potential witnesses by how often their cars pass through a neighborhood, or surface a driver’s “associates” from the cameras they [both] pass…the system also reaches police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records, [so] those plates can be turned into names, home addresses, and relatives. It can search for people in an area drawn on a map based on nothing more than a physical description…and [return]…arrest records, case files…Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates…One prompt Flock pre-loaded into the system reads: “Find me witnesses based on vehicles most seen in [neighborhood] during [last 14 days] during [daily timeframe]…Another prompt instructs the system to list everyone arrested more than twice in two years for “any offense”…and then…map where those people live…
Cops will abuse warrantless surveillance for as long as it exists:
A [Polk County Florida cop named]…Christopher Anthony Goodson…was arrested on Aug. 11…[for using the Flock surveillance system to stalk his estranged wife 717 times in two years, and] was [rewarded with a] paid [vacation]…Goodson[‘s]…supervisor [had no clue about his behavior until the victim was]…contacted by The Washington Post
, which…[had discovered the flagrant ab]use [while preparing a story]…Goodson [tried to excuse] his [crime by characterizing it as “]keep[ing] track of his children’s location when they were with her”…[but he tried to cover it up by inputting bogus] reasons for his searches, [accus]ing [her of] road rage and reckless driving, drug possession, traffic infractions, theft, fleeing police, and assault-battery offenses…other recent
incidents [of Flock abuse include] a…Massachusetts…[cop named Jason Rogers stalking the ex-girlfriend he had abused, and a]…Wisconsin [cop named Cristian Morales stalking his then-current girlfriend]…
These things are designed to appeal to the dregs of humanity:
a…large number…of videos [have been] recorded at middle and high schools using [perve]rt glasses — almost always [Mark Zuckerberg]’s [Pervert] Glasses™, d[isguised as ordinary]…Ray-Ban [glasses] — and shared to…TikTok and Instagram…Much of the behavior on display is plainly harassment and bullying, often filmed without the subjects’ knowledge or consent and uploaded online to humiliate them further. [Predictab]ly, every single one…[was] captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls…[Unfortunately, even though] schools aren’t exactly public spaces…[and] several states…have two-party consent laws…[the schools themselves and the police state they serve have set a bad precedent by spying on students both in classrooms and out for years]…
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We didn’t have a bumper crop of plums this year, but the ones we got are plump and juicy. I made a plum pie, and though Jae loves plum pastries I find them more tart than I care for. I do like plum bread, though, and plum sauce, so I think I’ll make some this week. The tomatoes are just about big enough to make fried green tomatoes; this year I bought only two of a cherry-tomato variety and four of a table-tomato variety, but the former grew so quickly and so large they’ve really overwhelmed the latter, so next year I’m only going to buy one and plant it in a separate planter so the table-tomato plants have more room to grow. I’ve never had a green thumb and I don’t particularly like digging in the dirt, so my gardening is limited to plants I can basically ignore other than ensuring they get enough water. And that typically works out just fine for me.
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