Tom Royce @TomRoyce

@Grey_0G Praying for you.

What is going on in Chicago? The Chicago Police Chief (less than 3 yrs on the job) submits his resignation. No big deal right? Except the FBI chief for Chicago drops his retirement paperwork same day? You know where I’ve seen this before? Right before an investigation or indictment is announced. Let’s see what happens. 😳😳😳

@nettermike I bet the first pizzas were amazing. As Pillsbury ripped cost out of the recipe and ingredients the name is now tarnished.

@MichaelGannotti @tonysimons_ It fixed some problems I was having with XAI and smoothed out a complicated work flow that I had put on the shelf because previous versions glitched mid process. I am loving it.

@CanesStats John's resume speaks for itself. He has been on a downward spiral for a decade.

@ClassicAhole1 @davidpollack47 Truth!

@LeeOnBlack @davidpollack47 Fortunately I am a Canes fan. But, yes, this year diving was happening more and more in the Cup playoffs.

@ClassicAhole1 @davidpollack47 I enjoy soccer, but as a hockey fan, I hate it when a guy scores a goal and runs away from the guy who made the goal possible with a great pass to celebrate by himself.

@NotKennyRogers Underrated post.

@3YearLetterman @TexasAmerica The ref has money on Belgium going through the round of 16 game... 👀

@AndrewKolvet That is the biggest crime by the incompetent ref.

@JordanSchachtel He has made every 50-50 call in favor of Bosnia. Now taking our best scorer off and not able to play Belgium is a crime.

@pmarca Atlas Shrugged was written as a warning. The left use it as a training manual.

@cantstopmilady @Falkvinge Are the White Englishmen indigenous people then?

Did you know that @Avis does not hire Americans? I just spent three hours going through customer service hell and the last fellow on the phone admitted they do not hire any Americans. It’s America 250, and I am sick and tired of the companies that run this country refusing to give the jobs to the citizens who live here.

Before the Crusades, two-thirds of the Christian world had already fallen under Islamic rule. Your school probably skipped that part. They taught you the Crusades began in 1095, as if Christians just woke up one morning and decided to march east for no reason. But history did not begin in 1095. By then, Islamic armies had already conquered massive portions of the Christian world: Syria. Egypt. North Africa. The Holy Land. Spain. In 711 AD, Islamic forces crossed into Spain. By 732 AD, they had pushed all the way into France. That is where Charles Martel met them at the Battle of Tours and stopped the advance into Western Europe. Some historians consider it one of the most decisive battles in world history. So when people talk about the Crusades without mentioning the 400 years before them, they are not giving you history. They are giving you a narrative. Were the Crusades complicated? Of course. Were Christians perfect? No. But the idea that the Crusades were some random act of Christian aggression is historically dishonest. The real story begins long before 1095. And once you know what happened before the Crusades, the entire conversation changes. They buried this. Now you know.

Palantir's CEO just exposed Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for robbing every Fortune 500 company. Within two minutes, Alex Karp took the entire frontier AI industry apart on national television. His exact words: "Every single enterprise in this country, these people are LIVID. They are paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business." He literally said the entire frontier AI business model is intellectual property extraction dressed up as a subscription. Then he also destroyed the pricing model with a single question that Silicon Valley still refuses to answer: "If it was so valuable, let's say I can make you $1 billion tomorrow. Wouldn't I say I'll make you $1 billion and I want 30 percent? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?" That question breaks the industry. If OpenAI and Anthropic's models truly delivered the productivity gains the labs claim, they would take equity or a share of the profit they generate. They would not sell access by the million tokens. Token pricing is itself the CONFESSION that the product cannot produce reliable value at scale. If it did, they would price for the value. But they price for the compute because that is what they are actually selling. Karp went even further... He called the entire arrangement "a wealth tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes." American businesses are transferring the alpha of their operations, meaning the workflows, the customer data, the strategy memos, the internal models that make them competitive, directly into the training pipelines of a handful of Silicon Valley labs. Once those labs retrain, the customer's own edge becomes the next enterprise product sold back to their competitors. And the part the AI industry does not want anyone thinking about: Every enterprise running its confidential documents, its customer conversations, and its financial models through a frontier model is potentially teaching that model HOW to replace them. The vendor collects the token fee AND the compounding intelligence about that customer's business. That is the mechanism. And that is why Karp used the word "stealing." He claims this is why every executive he meets is furious in private and silent in public. Nobody wants to be the CEO who called out the labs and then discovered their next competitor was built on their own leaked workflows. The entire AI industry has been priced for perfection on one assumption: That frontier labs produce durable, defensible value that justifies infinite compute spend. But Karp just told us that the customers do not believe that assumption anymore. They believe they are being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse. The moment enterprises stop believing, the whole valuation stack shakes.

8 Ways To Take Down Flock Without A Sawzall: 1. Demand An Audit Most cities never independently audit whether Flock cameras in town actually reduce crime. Ask your city council to show evidence that these cameras reduced violent crime. Make them prove it. They usually can't. 2. Find Out When the Contract Expires Every Flock camera program has a contract renewal date. Use FOIAs to request the original contract, all amendments, renewal dates, and termination clauses. This one is SO important because we must organize BEFORE renewal, not AFTER the cameras go up. 3. Demand the Privacy Impact Assessment Before deploying any type of surveillance devices with public funds, many city governments are supposed to evaluate the privacy risks. Ask for privacy Impact Assessment, civil liberties review, and constitutional analysis. If they never conducted one... Ask why not (they hate that.) 4. Show Up Before They Vote Flock cameras aren't installed overnight. They usually require budget approval, council approval, contract approval. Use tools like "Citizen Portal" to setup automatic notifications for upcoming city council meetings. Speak before, not after installation. 5. Follow the Money Want to know why your city suddenly wants Flock cameras? It's usually always grants or cronyism. Ask for grant applications: DHS grants, DOJ grants, Homeland Security funding, ect. Surveillance programs begin because outside money make them "free." 6. Ask About Data Sharing Every city should have to answer this question: "Exactly which agencies can search our city's license plate database?" Ask for sharing agreements, MOUs, list of agencies with approval, and search logs. Most people think it's just local police. It rarely is, usually the feds too. 7. Audit Every Search Public records requests aren't just for the contracts. You can publicly request every audit log showing who searched the Flock system and why. Ask for date, user, reason for search and any case numbers. Abuse often shows up in the logs before it makes the news or a viral social media post. 8. Compare Crime Before & After Download your city's crime data. Compare property and violent crime before and after Flock was installed. If there's no meaningful change... Ask why taxpayers are still paying for it. If officials claim the cameras are effective, ask them to produce the evidence supporting continued funding.