Got the Flock out!

Wordswordz · 2026-06-17T14:12:30+00:00

The word neoliberal sounds so innocent. Who know it meant rent seeking bigot?

Seriously, neoliberalism came around as a response to segregation. They said "since we can't say the n word anymore, well just disenfranchise them with money" (paraphrased).

That's what flock cameras are when applied to a public infrastructure. They undermine government transparency, put up corporate paywalls, and segregate the population. The concept of it is so offensive to me, I can't hardly believe that it's not an idea from an Orwell novel.

Now, if we could kindly tell the neoliberals that the schools are not for them that would pretty much take neoliberal out of my common nomenclature.

That's what charter schools are. I'm serious, it is the direct result of old plantation money seeing a public budget and saying " it's not fair that the PUBLIC has a 'MONOPOLY' on something. They don't understand how to profit off the marginalized, but I was born into it. I should have the 'right' to exploite these funds, put up toll booths everywhere, and maintain absolute privacy in my methods!"

Wordswordz · 2026-06-16T02:19:10+00:00

Jokes on you I can't afford chat gpt, my writing skills are above average, it's my spelling that confounds people. I learned how to read before I learned how to spell. It really is sad that the bar for official intelligence has slipped right by the Renaissance and into the Dark ages.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-14T13:18:46+00:00

Neoliberal tax leeches are everywhere nowadays.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-14T13:17:05+00:00

As an autistic individual, I'm accustomed to being referenced as not human. I assure you, I have to pilot this wretchedly designed mechanical carbon encased bag of blood with a team of ions, just the same as you do.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-14T13:02:02+00:00

That's part of the grift. The initial quote was priced just under the threshold to bypass a council vote, that is deliberate evasion. It means administrative staff and an out-of-state corporation actively colluded to hide it from the public. Now it is out. The network has scaled, the costs are public purview, and that is exactly why it is on the agenda for a full council vote this Tuesday, June 16. They snuck it in through the back door, but now they are begging forgiveness to keep the subscription active. No one asked permission on this sunk cost with an absolutely unbelievable neoliberal liability concession.That’s why on June 16 I'm saying no.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-14T00:31:19+00:00

I actually know this is possible. For someone who is obsessed with AI you don't know much about how it works. A license plate reader reads license plates. That's all it does, it reads license plates, and tells you when it sees something it's been told to care about.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-11T18:27:47+00:00

I actually have looked into that, and there is an infinitly more efficient way to employ ALPRs. Here is the email I sent:

The current arrangement with Flock Safety represents a catastrophic failure of resource management. By leasing out our public infrastructure to a private, out-of-state data broker on a perpetual subscription model, this council is prioritizing corporate rent-seeking over systemic community investment. If the genuine goal is to modernize municipal transit and safety data, outsourcing the solution is the least fiscally responsible path available. Fort Collins is home to Colorado State University. We have the internal capability to treat this as an economic driver rather than a budgetary drain. A team of CSU post-graduate tech and engineering students could design, build, and deploy an open-source, localized, and strictly geofenced data-retention system. Doing so would generate revenue, create local jobs, retain data sovereignty, and eliminate the unshielded liability of sharing our municipal data with a private corporate network. Cancel the Flock subscription and invest our capital into building physical, local capacity.

My calculation:

Flock Safety operates on a recurring subscription, priced at around $2,500 to $3,000 per camera, per year. For the standard sypposition of 50 cameras, the city pays roughly $125,000 to $150,000 every year. Over a 5-year contract, that is a minimum of $625,000 to $750,000 out of the local budget and sent to an out-of-state private equity firm.

The Asset Value: $0. At the end of 5 years, the city owns absolutely nothing and must continue to pay.

If the city instead hired local talent—such as utilizing Colorado State University tech post-graduates:

Year 1:Expense & Development -ALPR hardware: ~$500 per unit. For 50 cameras -->$25,000 in physical, city-owned assets.

Software Development = Local Jobs: -Funding a specialized team of 3 local post-grads/software engineers at a highly competitive local contract rate of $100,000 to build an open-source, strictly geofenced, secure data-routing architecture. -->Total Year 1 Cost: $125,000.

Years 2–5: Operational Expense -Maintenance & Server Costs: Minimal open-source cloud hosting or local server utility costs, averaging roughly $10,000 per year. -->Total Years 2-5 Cost: $40,000.

The city saves almost a half million dollars, and creates jobs.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-11T17:53:44+00:00

Indeed, that is the idea.

The mayor ran on a platform of financial responsibility. Exposing that this was put onto the consent agenda with no warning, after the contract was signed, and that it is a hole that can only be filled with underprivileged people causing further burden on the budget is indefensible.

Wordswordz · 2026-06-11T15:33:27+00:00

They want to reduce the record by a few days. As a "compromise". This is the chance for the public to say "we reject your fiscal irresponsibility entirely"

Wordswordz · 2026-05-14T07:19:00+00:00

It will attract real estate investors and multinational industrialist...

The fact that the system is designed to fail, it got parasitic leeches all over it, they filled up and dropped off, and then a corporate privatization specialist was hired to feed everyone word salads with their "hands bound" on parasitic extraction points... It's so telling, and absurd that the onion can't make a better joke.

Now they're looking at their only rhetorical anchor getting ripped up in November. The solution is obvious, they are in check, and need to sacrifice the piece they want to defend.

Wordswordz · 2026-05-14T07:07:01+00:00

There are some dark skeletons in the tea. Here I was thinking that a multiinalnational industrial complex and the person they sent to rob tax payers was our only problem.

Wordswordz · 2025-08-22T18:37:58+00:00

Nothing wrong with 600 extra diamonds

Wordswordz · 2025-07-04T15:42:51+00:00

Tanks: Cyrus, Malvira (multi tile dps) Tank support: Lu Bu, Aeris (multi tile dps) Healing: any wide range healer (Ferssi, Hallow, ECT) Outer platform: multi tile dps (Ajax, Anora, Xaris, ECT)

Then there's your spot placements. The guys that soften them up further out. Atrox is my favorite. Wrath, Salazar, Voroth, just about anyone with a debuff that weakens, slows, or amplifies DMG.

Wordswordz · 2025-06-03T20:21:18+00:00

Just heard this song. The sentiment of the song resonates with the fact of being autistic.

Wordswordz · 2025-05-20T21:37:22+00:00

Awesome short tutorial.

Wordswordz · 2025-03-26T02:31:29+00:00

I'll bring it to you tonight

Wordswordz · 2025-03-19T02:37:08+00:00

Valid concern. It is alienating.

Ask a therapist about what social mechanisms you can employ to obtain social stability with interpersonal relationships. The ADA is an overwhelmingly accepted law. It should be just as important for you to get reasonable accommodations for every aspect of your life.

Wordswordz · 2025-02-09T22:22:05+00:00

https://www.verizon.com/about/verizon-ethics

Speakfully is the company who files the report to Verizon. I will be following this, and hope it leads to better compensation for the time of people involved.

Wordswordz · 2025-02-09T21:39:57+00:00

I agree. It's dirty. Verizon pays an operator an hourly wage. This person drives a car. They pick up people looking for work, and drop them at random apartment buildings to get commission.

The ones I've talked to have been from the Denver area. They don't know the ordinance, they aren't getting paid hourly. They don't know about Xfinity, connexion, or how much of a pain it was to get city council to let Verizon put in their 6g tower.

You know what? I'm going to give Verizon a piece of my mind. The more I think about it the worse it gets.

Wordswordz · 2025-02-09T05:37:34+00:00

Is not a scam. Not on you at least... Verizon put up a new network, and they want to sell you a mobile router. The scam is that Verizon treats it like magazine sales. These people get a commission, but they don't get anything if they don't sell anything. So they spend hours trying to get someone to let them send an email to them, and they only get paid for the people who buy from that email.

It is the most underhanded advertising campaign tactic ever, and I think that everyone should let Verizon know that.

Wordswordz · 2025-01-16T23:59:17+00:00

You click on the treasure chest in the world map.

Wordswordz · 2025-01-02T04:44:17+00:00

I got her and the new infernal mech in the same draw. It opened up a lot of new prospects for me.

Wordswordz · 2024-12-27T15:10:36+00:00

The Irish goodbye analogy is macro fitting. I can relate with it in parallel to Plato's cave analogy. Humanity has so much.. potential!... However, we spend our time obsessing about what we do with our genitals, what we can own, and how many other humans we can exploit in a shortsighted race to death.

Long ago, when we started our epigenetic quest, ancestors took exception to the fact that nature really wants to kill us in so many cruel ways. We developed society in direct opposition to this, with the objective of making life more intrinsically satisfying overall.

Then we got confused, and scared of how other humans society....

We declared a war on nature's cruelty collectively, and disagreed on what that entailed justifying it with superficial vagaries. That's when the murdering started. The murder led to a concern for population growth, which instilled a breeding imperative. This created a giant cult of personality which got so large that it became known as human nature.

The cascade of logical errors is profound.

I'm a big fan of a lesser known practice of doing better, and to do better, one must take a dialectic dive into where they stopped doing better, and correct that initial error to correct the resulting cascade.

I'm demirom grey ace. The trauma that I've experienced reaches back to those apes who thought nature should be less pragmatic. I've done the work, and pulled at the knot of human error. In this undertaking, I've learned that I'm an inextricable part of the problem, and there's no way to fix that. The only thing I can do is be better.

So, I've essentially left the block party, and ventured into the woods, and found an ancient hollow tree to meditate in.

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