> Putting one of those participant’s phone numbers into WhatsApp reveals a profile picture of a law enforcement patch. A pawn with wings sits in the center, surrounded by lightning bolts. The patch reads, “Laredo Sector Tech Ops PITT,” indicating there is also a Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team in the Laredo Sector.<p><a href="https://www.aviatorgear.com/p-52057-laredo-sector-tech-ops-pitt-ocp-patch.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.aviatorgear.com/p-52057-laredo-sector-tech-ops-p...</a>
And that's why need to keep using cash and non-KYC'd crypto.
Minority Report anyone?
This comes straight out of Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism book. If you haven't: read it.
I remember back in ye olde dark ages when "big data" was the hot buzzword people of a certain bent couldn't get enough of this kind of stuff. Everyone was jacking off nonstop to the idea that we could just hoover up everyone's data ad then "efficiently" or "proactively" dispatch enforcement resources. People talked all sorts of big talk about stuff like cross referencing people's Home Depot spend with permit requirements, identifying small businesses that don't have healthy enough financials to be fully compliant, cross referencing invoices and delivery receipts to identify overloaded trucks, and generally finding all sorts of ways to fine the crap out of people for the pettiest of petty deviance.<p>Everyone's head was too far up their asses to look at the magic crystal ball called "history" and realize that these systems would be used to go after <checks notes> weed dealers and brown people.<p>Be careful what you wish for I guess.
palantir?
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> Edit: YESSSS -4 points; those are rookie numbers! Help me pump them up, HN technofascists! Prove my point for me!<p>Whilst talking about the downvotes is uninteresting I will give in to the urge to observe that -4 is the lowest a comment can go. But sneering at the community is also against the guidelines, so a comment like this will attract flags by people who actually agree with you.
I am sneering at only the technofascists in the community, who deserve the derision of those who are anti fascist within the community, or really anyone who is saddened by the way the technofascists are sullying the name of the tech community.<p>But good to know that -4 is rock bottom.<p>If a community prevents you from sneering at fascism, that community is a problem.
Don't bother, it isn't worth your time. Just go organize and vote, that moves the needle, nothing here does. Midterms are coming. This place is just a unique coffee shop. Participate in it for what it is.
The practice of reporting? They optimize for the least costly words for the most clicks. It's more about what's possible than what is reasonable.
Feds send out bulletin to local cops - BOTL suspected drug dealer. Fed’s suspect b/c of suspicious financial transactions.<p>Seems reasonable and not newsworthy.
Just glossing over the fact that no warrant was used and he was pulled over on another pretense entirely.
I think the problem is the parallel construction and lack of warrant
And unconstitutional!
This is unconstitutional (fourth amendment) parallel construction. Combined with a corporate surveillance state
panopticon, this is "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction</a><p><a href="https://www.nacdl.org/Media/Parallel-Construction-Discover-Govt-Evidenc-Source" rel="nofollow">https://www.nacdl.org/Media/Parallel-Construction-Discover-G...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_give_you_the_case_against_him" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...</a>