Hacker News: cyberphobe

Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"

cyberphobe — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860000

Points: 118

# Comments: 58

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:51:28 +0000

Fortunately we can use our brains to think and realize that while both sides are calling the other a danger to democracy, only one of them made a concerted effort to overturn the results of an election (an overtly anti-democratic act)

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:04:50 +0000

> all it will take to lose your democracy is for a dictator to proclaim his opponents a danger to democracy.

This is true, but your framing of it as something that could be stopped if… something? is absurd

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:31:18 +0000

Except no one’s really doing that, they’re just generating outrage bait to prop up a retarded billionaire’s obviously nonsense claim that Twitter, a huge company, is (or was) secretly staffed exclusively by the far left. All evidence that has come out has shown not that, so they’re trying to come up with something else to be outraged about. FBI asking Twitter to stop criminals seems entirely unsurprisingly.

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:26:28 +0000

I’m fine with the government shutting down anti-democratic movements. I’m not fine with anti-democratic governments shutting down legitimate discussion that looks bad on them, or serving a foreign power. These are not the same thing.

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:11:26 +0000

What am I missing then?

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:00:14 +0000

Yes, this website full of brain dead right wingers.

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:57:43 +0000

Yeah, these people are just desperately trying to generate outrage over nothing. It’s really really dumb. No need to give them too much thought

New comment by cyberphobe in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

cyberphobe — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:52:02 +0000

I didn’t notice the author, almost took this in good faith, then I got to this banger:

> After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles

these people are delusional

New comment by cyberphobe in "Don't force users to register before they can buy (2015)"

cyberphobe — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:59:24 +0000

I used to refuse to use those services, but then I got libredirect [1] which does a great job of decrapifying them and a lot of other anti-user websites.

[1] https://libredirect.codeberg.page

EDIT: I will still attempt to avoid your shitty substack/medium blog if literally any other sources are available. Please stop using this garbage.

New comment by cyberphobe in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

cyberphobe — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:41:12 +0000

we were talking about if Elon is stupid. The answer is, obviously, yes. Being stupid has nothing to do with success, also obviously.

New comment by cyberphobe in "Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]"

cyberphobe — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:27:52 +0000

I wonder if pg still thinks Elon is "a smart guy"[1]?

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218210821/https://twitter.c...

New comment by cyberphobe in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

cyberphobe — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:21:19 +0000

> If they were actually concerned with people fleeing why would they do something which is more likely to make creators leave?

you're asking this in a sub-thread about if Elon is smart or not? I thought the answer was obvious.

New comment by cyberphobe in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

cyberphobe — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:30:06 +0000

I don't think people are calling Elon Musk stupid because they disagree with him.

New comment by cyberphobe in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

cyberphobe — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:25:35 +0000

This is true. Wealth is what matters in this world, not intelligence.

New comment by cyberphobe in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

cyberphobe — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:23:03 +0000

Yeah it's probably that, not that everyone is fleeing Elon's $44 billion dying platform and he's is trying to stop it in whatever way he can.

New comment by cyberphobe in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

cyberphobe — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:57:54 +0000

And in the replies to this tweet he insists[1] "Elon is a smart guy" in spite of all the evidence to the contrary

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604557444247539712

New comment by cyberphobe in "The Twitter Files, Part Six"

cyberphobe — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 02:36:15 +0000

Seriously how is this bullshit getting upvoted? Enormous social media company talked to the FBI? I knew HN was right wing but seriously guys?

New comment by cyberphobe in "JxckSweeney suspended (ElonJet guy's personal account)"

cyberphobe — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:47:52 +0000

Also according to Elon Musk, who hasn't even taken this down yet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

New comment by cyberphobe in "JxckSweeney suspended (ElonJet guy's personal account)"

cyberphobe — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:43:40 +0000

more likely non-crackpot non-conspiracy: perhaps Elon is actually just this stupid.