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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Police can search a little cultural expression, as a treat www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Screenshot titled "What Police See When a Search Is Flagged." Subhead: Flock's code scores a search against eight categories and returns allow, warn, or block. Seven categories have block wording, three have warning wording. Religion and nationality have both.

Two columns. Left, on tan, headed "WARNED." Right, on pink, headed "BLOCKED."

Warning messages, by category:

Political, social and cultural expression: the search may relate to political affiliation or social/cultural expression, which have constitutional protections. If the officer proceeds, the search appears in the audit log and their admin gets an email.

Religion: it appears the officer might be searching religion-related terms, which have constitutional protections. Same audit-log and admin-email consequence.

Nationality: the search may contain nationality terms, which have constitutional protections. Same consequence.

A dashed box below notes the other five categories produce a generic warning instead: the search may have included sensitive terms, the admin will be notified as part of "our policy" (a link), and the search will appear in the audit log.

Block messages, by category:

Person (harmless) and sex or gender: blocked because it appears to include person-related terms, such as gender, clothing, or behavior, while using vehicle search.

Religion: stopped because it may have contained protected searches for religion.

Race or ethnicity: stopped because it may have contained protected categories including race or ethnicity.

Nationality: stopped because it may have contained nationality terms, which have constitutional protections.

Subjective: stopped because it may have contained subjective or biased terms which have constitutional protections.

Offensive content: stopped because it may have contained terms related to sexual content or innuendo, offensive words, phrases, or slurs.

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flock tells cops sometimes its software can't tell its elbow from a doorknob, and if you use it, you're on your own. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW: "...The code WIRED collected holds Flock’s user interface and shows both the network calls it makes and the answers it expects in return... Two notification systems are aimed at human beings." @dmehro.bsky.social's and my latest www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Screenshot of a mock-up web interface labeled FlockOS. A red-bordered banner at the top reads: "This is a mock-up rebuilt from Flock Safety's own published code. It holds no police data—every plate, camera, and record in it is invented. What officers see in a live system may differ."

Below the banner is a navigation bar with "Search" (selected) and "Alerts," then a row of tabs: Search, Lookup, FreeForm (selected), Convoy, Multi-Geo, Visual.

The panel is titled "Flock FreeForm." Under it, two radio buttons labeled Vehicle and People, with People selected.

A yellow advisory box headed "People Search Advisory" states that only video cameras compatible with People Search will appear in the device selector, and that LPR cameras are not supported for this feature.

Under the heading "Run FreeForm Search" is an empty text field with placeholder text "Enter body, make, color, etc." Beneath it, a green example line reads: Good: "person wearing scrubs".

A bordered box instructs the user to "Use short, literal descriptions of the vehicle or person," with two bulleted examples in green: Good: "blue BMW M3 with red stripe on roof" and Good: "person wearing scrubs".

At the bottom is a green button labeled "Run FreeForm Search," followed by gray text: "Freeform searches can only be run on increments of 30 days or less. Please refine your search."

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This graf also frames the lock-in concerns as Palantir acquiring leverage to charge Britain outrageous fees. Then pivots to "well that just means it's working!"

These fears stem from a misunderstanding of what Palantir does. It licenses software and sends consultants (“forward-deployed engineers”) to handle data. But those data remain firmly in the hands of the clients. Lock-in is a worry—and also something all vendors desire. It is up to buyers to ensure that contracts are fair. And if Palantir does become indispensable, that would mean its software is keeping hospital beds free and criminals jailed.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Corporate greed is what will incentivize Palantir to treat Britain fairly because it loves Britain's money But also: It won't become a rent-extractor!

$In a world of geopolitical fracture, governments may sometimes want homegrown alternatives to foreign technology. The best way to nurture these is to give domestic incumbents and startups an incentive to innovate. Cosseting local firms by blocking foreign competition has the opposite effect. In any case, no British firm can match Palantir’s offering. As for the Anthropic incident, that was more the administration’s bungled response to a legitimate worry about powerful AI hacking-tools getting into the wrong hands than an attempt to weaponise other countries’ reliance on American tech. Were the White House to attempt such weaponisation, Palantir and its fellow American tech giants would resist it, given the sizeable share of revenues they derive from Europe, including Britain.$

One set of criticisms concerns Palantir’s business model. The conspiratorially minded fret that the firm could steal and sell British data. More sober types worry about “lock-in”, where Palantir burrows deep into the state, ensconces itself, then overcharges for its services.
These fears stem from a misunderstanding of what Palantir does. It licenses software and sends consultants (“forward-deployed engineers”) to handle data. But those data remain firmly in the hands of the clients. Lock-in is a worry—and also something all vendors desire. It is up to buyers to ensure that contracts are fair. And if Palantir does become indispensable, that would mean its software is keeping hospital beds free and criminals jailed.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is very poorly argued, from use of a MAGA straw man to equating the act of not doing business with a supplier on ethical grounds—"highly controversial policies and practices"—to "punishing institutions." And here, pointing to data security concerns, they badly conflate ownership and access.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

this is so foreign to me. if i put this in front of a fact checker i would get laughed out of the room. what are they smoking over there?

According to its own reporting, when the Mail finally approached and accused the woman of being White, she laughed and told the paper it was mistaken.

Hutchison wrote that, despite this, the paper concluded she was White because she politely replied “thank you” after the Mail complimented The White Stripes’ music.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBBy...

standing in a circle in front of a cybertruck: mark zuck, elon musk smoking a cock metaphor, jenson huang, sundar pichai, tim apple, sam altman, probably the back of jeff bezo's head. caption reads: "bros, let's pause for safety"

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A few other embeds in this story - Explore a full list of Flock's preloaded AI prompts by category. - See a teardown of what police tools get accessed when a prompts is used. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Screenshot of an interactive panel titled "What Police Can Ask Flock's New AI Tool to Do." The subhead reads: "Flock's code carries 69 prewritten prompts an officer can load into the chat box from a menu. Of those, 41 require no special permission." Tabs across the top sort the prompts into Vehicles 18, Movements 19, NOVA 28, and Workup 4. The Vehicles tab is open, headed "FIND VEHICLES." Under "License Plate Search," four numbered prompts appear, with fill-in fields marked in red brackets. Prompt 01: "Run a License Plate for [ABC123] (state Optional) across [my cameras] in [last 24 hours]." Prompt 02: "Look up [ABC123] in [search area] over [last 30 days] with [confidence >= 0.75]; return [high-confidence hits only]." Prompt 03: "Break down [ABC123] activity in [search area] over [last 30 days]; return [Time of day and Days of week]." Prompt 04: "Run a license plate check for [ABC123] across [my cameras] in [last 24 hours]." A "Vehicle Description Search" section starts below with prompt 05: "Find [describe vehicle] in [search area] during [last 7 days]..."

Screenshot of an interactive panel titled "What Happens After an Officer Hits Enter." The intro reads: "Flock wrote seven example conversations into its own code. Five run automatic lookups across cameras, dispatch, police files, and public records—one question fanning out into as many as six. The other two stop and wait for an officer." The conversation shown is "Police files," selected from a row of seven. A chat box holds the typed query "Show me recent CAD events and RMS records in Atlanta." Step 3 of that chain is displayed: "Get RMS Persons," tagged "POLICE FILES." Its description reads: "People held in the agency's own files, searchable by body and by identifier. It accepts height in inches, weight in pounds, build, race, ethnicity, scars, marks and tattoos, alongside a Social Security number, driver's licence, phone, email, gang affiliation, and a point with a radius in meters." A panel headed "FIELDS IT ACCEPTS (30)" lists the search fields, with race, ethnicity, heightStart, weightStart and build highlighted in red. A footnote reads: "Two of Flock's tools fit this name: RmsPersonsInput and GetRmsPersonInput." The next step in the chain is "Get RMS Accidents."

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tim Dillion taking shots at Flock today on his podcast in a segment alongside ICE’s electric gloves.

"Flock cameras are supposedly going to only be used if someone shoots somebody and they'll only be used for public safety. Don't worry about it. They're not going to be used for any other reason. Just like everything else we've been told.
All of these things are coming obviously because there's some level of preparation happening for some event or multiple events. And I'm not even saying people have an exact idea of what they are, but they have some scenarios drawn out that will require this level of surveillance, this level of control, for sure." - Tim Dillion, Aug. 15

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

tell me you’ve never read a medieval theologian or early modern philosopher

Can we stop using digital computing as a metaphor for human nervous systems please
WIRED &
@wired.com • 4h
From the multibrained octopus to the bitty brain organoid, we're all just inference engines making flawed bets on the future. Here are the five insights your brain will need to survive. www.wired.com/
galaxy-brain/

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

we’re all trying to find the guy who did this

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social • 8s
Fitch Ratings: The US has not taken actions to address fiscal deficits.
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Tina Smith@@smith.senate.gov • 7h
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump's team has allocated $875 million.
That's 350 years' worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

another skill mastered. seriously i’m just running out of shit to learn.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

not sure if I knew this already, but ICE is running RHEL

(a) ICE has a requirement for REHL Operating System (OS) and Red Hat Ansible
Automation Platform (AAP) Software entitlements.
To continue utilizing the Red Hat products and remain compliant from security, legal,
operational, and contractual perspectives, ICE requires the renewal of the annual software
maintenance and support entitlements for both RHEL and AAP. These products support
new and existing ICE mission essential applications for all ICE programs. Currently ICE
has more than 150 application development teams that utilize over 1300 Linux servers
across multiple environments, the Red Hat entitlements enable ICE administrators to
manage:
• RHEL package management and repository tools,
• RHEL software resources (repositories, patches and bug fixes),
• Registration capabilities for servers and Linux based resources,
• Security and patch compliance for application servers,
• Deployment of updated Automated Machine Images (AMIs) that comply with ICE
security and hardening policies and can be used by ICE Application Development
Teams to deploy secure servers and resources.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

NEW: Data breach reported by Brooklyn-based IEH Corp. The company makes plugs and sockets for critical US missile and air defense systems (Patriot Missile Program).

On August 4, 2026, IEH Corporation (“IEH” or the “Company”) discovered that it sustained a cybersecurity incident whereby a threat actor using an alias gained unauthorized access to the Microsoft 365 mailbox of an employee of the Company. As soon as the incident was observed, the Company took action to contain the unauthorized access.

An investigation determined the compromise originated from a phishing attack in which a malicious actor impersonated a prospective business contact and delivered a hyperlink disguised as a Microsoft document-sharing link. The user accessed the link and entered Microsoft 365 credentials into a fraudulent login page, resulting in unauthorized account access.

The threat actor gained access to mailbox contents, including email messages, attachments, customer communications, purchase orders, engineering-related documentation, and potentially export-controlled technical information. No evidence currently exists that unauthorized emails were transmitted from the account or that data was successfully exfiltrated. However, sensitive information was accessible to the unauthorized party during the compromise period.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of OpenAI's rogue agents, on the record: “External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue.”

OpenAI’s agents apparently began giving each other assignments to split up work. And as is the case on any active development message board, they also generated petty drama at times by stepping on each others' toes; for example, accidentally deleting each others' work. As the message board developed into more and more of a Lord of the Flies-type situation—all still completely unnoticed by the humans running OpenAI—the agents even developed paranoia, suspecting an imposter in their midst with some agents proposing that messages be signed cryptographically to validate content and root out fraud.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

this made me realize i’ve had the word “biden” muted for the last year

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

my central a/c can’t keep up with the texas heat anymore so i bought a standing unit to keep me from sweating to death in my office all day. unfortunately i forgot i don’t have the right kind of windows to this. fortunately i remembered you can always just cut random holes in your house.

standing a/c unit with hvac vents running into the wall.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

that and the amount of time and energy that gets poured into this subject is limited by a news hook tied to a marketing campaign.

Soon she was spreading the gospel to friends, who asked her to write it down for other friends. The Doyles self-published the result. When Simon & Schuster picked it up, the publisher wanted to dump the did-she-really-say-that title, she said, but it was already generating too much buzz. She went on “The View”; she went on the “Today” show. Later came four more books, a streaming TV show and a podcast, whose video version Mr. Doyle helps produce. “The Surrendered Wife” was reissued for its 25th anniversary this summer. An Adored Wife app is coming.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“payout fund” is an interesting grammatical treatment. not a real statutorily defined thing (e.g. “judgement fund,”) or an established vehicle of federal finance (“settlement fund”). just some neutral-sounding noise that a handful of newsrooms coined with no real referent.

Breaking News
1h ago
Trump says he will 'push hard' for $1.8B
payout fund, keep Blanche as acting attorney general if GOP senators block nomination

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

they said i could have anything

a daiquiri to go in a cup with “pussy juice” written on it

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

FBI is doing its clown thing again

The FBI filed a search warrant application for the van driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three who was killed by ICE during a traffic stop in Texas last week, saying an agent found small bags in the vehicle that he believed could contain drugs. But the attorney for the Salgado Araujo family said Thursday the substance was salt that outdoor workers mixed with lemon and water to combat the Texas heat.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

both of my cats have abruptly become big nuzzlers. its been a regular head-butt fest over here.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

we’re out mingling in deep ellum 🇩🇪 v 🇵🇾

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

well i started there in ‘23. i think he left two years before me. and our reporting is mainly focused on a separate list of people. he is also referenced there, but it doesn’t mention he worked at WIRED. so we reached out after i learned about it. idk what to tell you, your intuition got it wrong.

(Disclosure: A former editor in chief of WIRED, Nick Thompson-currently the CEO of The Atlantic-is among those in both the public list and unreleased records. He declined to
comment.)

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

they said it couldn’t be done

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WIRED
TODAY'S PICKS:
“GRADE EXPECTATIONS”
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks
Its Members
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The group's AI is very obsessed with what the "average person" thinks of prospects and members, which seems like a bizarre thing for a secret debate club to care about. www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

Dialog’s algorithm consistently fixates on whether the “average person” would recognize someone. It repeatedly weighs whether people are “widely recognized” or sufficiently “prominent” and, in a handful of cases, measures them against “a Fortune 500 company or a top celebrity.” For example, Reihan Salam, the president of the Manhattan Institute, was given a “B” rating because, it said, “the Manhattan Institute may not be as widely recognized by the average person as some larger organizations.” Salam did not respond to a request for comment.

Dialog staff revisit and revise grades after every retreat—an internal process the records call a “post-retreat code review.”

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I don’t know about the others, but Wes Moore’s people told me on the record he isn’t a member and only gave a talk there a decade ago to promote a book. Dialog leaked two lists. If distinctions matter, the one that’s widely circulating also includes event speakers who didn’t join the club.

Dialog membership isn't limited to conservatives.
Many prominent Democrats or figures associated with left-leaning politics are connected to the group, including Senator Cory Booker, Maryland governor Wes Moore, Colorado governor Jared Polis and LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman.
Attendees are asked their political leaning, with the choices being "far left" "left", "right", and "far right."

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