The article quotes a Madison County privacy org directly:

“The Sheriff Office claims they are only using this technology for serious crimes, yet published audit logs tell a different story,” a website called Madison for Privacy says. “Madison County has searched the nationwide database over 1,200 times over just a 60 day period. In a county over only 20,000 residents, its hard to understand what could warrant this many searches.”

Holy shit, they’re not wrong. Follow that haveibeenflocked.com link to the Madison County sheriff’s office Flock searches, and the accompanying note:

These are some of the searches performed by Madison County NC SO. We have seen a total of 1,216 searches for this agency, performed by 1 person over 62 days between 3/11/2026 and 5/11/2026 (1 user was active in the most recent six months) The most recent import of records for this agency happened on 5/17/2026.

Madison County is southwest of Asheville on the state line between NC and TN, comprised mostly of unincorporated communities, which is a polite way of saying most residents live in the hills, not in the towns. The entire county has a population of roughly 21,000, and the largest town, Mars Hill, has only 2,000 residents. It doesn’t get much more rural than this on the East Coast.

So given the population and its distribution, and the fact that the sheriff’s office only serves the unincorporated communities because the three towns have their own municipal police, where the fuck does the sheriff’s office get cause or even time for what averages out to 600 Flock searches in a month?

But it gets even stranger. I clicked on a few searches, just to see what I could see, and every single one I clicked on with an unredacted reason* was associated with the same two or three other non-local police departments as the source of the information retrieved, two of which were the exact same ones every time: Forest Park Ohio PD, Tifton Georgia PD, and occasionally the Douglas County Nevada SO. There were a couple others, but always at least one of those three.

This is true whether I clicked on a homicide, a non-DUI alcohol inquiry, a burglary, a car theft, or a sex offense. (If you go to the little i next to the other PDs, it tells you, “This audit record appears in [n] different public record files.”) No matter what reason I chose, no matter how disparate the crime or the date, one if not all of those three law enforcement agencies came up as the source of the Flock information that inquiry pulled from. And this is the same of every search I clicked on, over and over and over again.

(*The sole exceptions to all this were where the crime itself was redacted, and then the associated source of information was Buncombe County, NC, which neighbors Madison Country and could potentially be a valid law enforcement reason to search Flock data.)

And when I selected the Repeat Searches checkbox at the top, defined as “Display filter that hides likely duplicate searches (identical searches within 5 minutes). Does not affect server-side counts or downloads,” an even 800 of those 1,216 searches get loaded. So fully two thirds of those searches across two months qualify as duplicates executed within five minutes of each other, to Flock parameters at least.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand how it all works on the Flock side, but it almost seems like someone in the Madison County, NC sheriff’s office is just sitting on their ass keeping serious tabs on a short list of people living in other places.

I remember that whole thing pretty well: Nicole Brown Simpson was killed in the summer of 1994 and of course no one was talking about anything else for most of 1995, which was the arrest and trial. “If it fits, you must acquit,” remember? These were the days of Windows 3.1 and 3.11, and I even had a screensaver of a little white Bronco very slowly being chased horizontally by a couple blinky blinky cop cars. It was good for a laugh.

But Epstein was not a part of that Hollywood set at all, as far as I ever knew. I could be wrong, but California was not really Epstein’s world, Epstein was very busy with robbing Wes Lexner blind in NY and Ohio at the time, and there was always more than enough history in regard to OJ’s ongoing excessive, abusive behavior toward Nicole to explain why OJ did it, if he did it.

So when I read your comment, it seems a bit of an uphill climb, to be honest. Is there evidence that made you think that? I’d be interested in hearing it if you’d like to share.

When you’re wondering about all that is still hidden, never forget this gem:

“Recall ive told you , i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body”

That’s Epstein – with his own endless sordid secrets – saying that about Trump.

Yesterday’s NYT expose of the Epstein panic in the White House last summer mentions that the name Mar-a-Lago appears in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.

That’s a hell of a lot of orange smoke for a tiny little nothing-to-see-here fire.

Excellent comment.

This is not all they have to say, either. Their blog: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/

As LBJ once noted of a detractor, “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”

The slop company should have just paid them.

South Carolina is an ES&S state. It is also a state where miraculously, every time Graham has a real challenger for his seat, like with Jaime Harrison in 2020 when there was a huge and overwhelming drive to get the vote out down there, at the very last second just enough votes come in to keep Graham in his seat.

This is why Lindsey Graham believes in god. Not the ethereal Divine, and certainly not the orange chancre, but for all the times ES&S voting machines have miraculously delivered for him.

Yeah, no problem, there are just too many to remember. She is always stirring up shit for the press.

For myself I like to source my comments, and I even tried to look up the ones I remembered when I was writing my own comment and there are just too many. It is overwhelming.

The same men telling women in the SBC to get out of the pulpit are the same men telling the victims of sexual offenses in SBC churches to shut up and get over it.

While women may have held a quieter role in supporting the pedo/rapey shit that goes down in the SBC and maybe still do, the VAST list of SCB sexual offenders and their protectors is made of men, the internal hierarchy of power is rigid and unyielding, and for as much concerned pearl-clutching as SBC leaders engage in every time it hits the news, which it does frequently, they still haven’t really done anything to slow it down. A couple of these articles are older, but nothing substantial has changed:

20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms – Houston Chronicle

How an Alleged Predator Remade the Southern Baptist Convention – Texas Monthly

New Lawsuit: Paige Patterson, former Southern Baptist leader, humiliated woman who reported rape – Houston Chronicle

Read these at your own risk: they are thoroughly sickening. But there is a pattern: for every individual who is harmed, there appears to be a machine ready to shut them down, one that was operative as far back as the 1970s.

So knowing what I know about what goes down in the SBC and has for decades, when I see a headline like the above, “Southern Baptists vote to advance a formal ban on churches with women pastors,” I don’t see it as having anything primarily to do with doctrine, especially since if the doctrine were that important there would be any number of things they’d already be doing differently.

Rather, I see a group of predators seeking to ensure that their hunting grounds remain fresh, open, and uncluttered with victims they have already used and/or anyone who would speak for them or act on their behalf.

I’m not a Christian and I have no dog in this hunt, but if there was ever a religious organization that desperately needs to be stopped on its institutional slide back to the 1950s (or 1750s), the SBC would absolutely be it.

Yeah, you’re right. Nixon was still right around 30% or so as he was leaving.

There are so many people that think zero is the bottom floor on any government or leadership approval poll, but it’s not. There are always going to be somewhere between 20-30% of diehards that will claim support even as dear leader is hiding in a bunker from consequences. Nixon’s 30% – “but that’s almost a whole third!” – was actually rock bottom. Even Pol Pot could get 30%, and I have no doubt Hitler could as well. That’s the actual floor, not zero.

You really can’t point this out enough.

Crashing the world economy, especially the first world and the west, and most especially USD also benefits Putin, which is a non-negligible, non-coincidental factor in anything the orange chancre does.

Wasn’t Mace the one who was just consistently nasty to anyone she met even in public? I seen to recall her throwing tantrums at her local airport, in at least one makeup store* in her district, shaking hands, wherever she went.

She’s vicious not just to trans people, though that is certainly her favorite target, but anywhere there are people she deems her lessers, and she seems to go out of her way to start conflict wherever she can make a public show of it.

I mention it only because, while what she did to Sarah McBride was truly revolting and at or near the top of Mace’s own personal list of despicable acts toward other human beings, there’s actually going to be a long, long line of people enjoying the schadenfreude, bless her shriveled little heart.

*Shouldn’t be mean to people when you desperately need their help, Nancy

Breathlessly defending literal Nazis because they said nice things about socialism.

Fucking pick me losers

So you got absolutely nothing more substantial than a lame ad hominem, lol.

I didn’t think you did: speaking of “fucking pick me losers” you’ve been populating these Platner threads with a lot of insulting but empty one- and two-liners that have neither substance nor fact but clearly make you feel better, and your response to me was just as worthless.

So you were ignored, and Maine did pick him. He easily won the primary. Now you have until November to try to convince people to vote for the rotting, stinking, corrupt, useless dinosaur carcass that occupies the office now. “Fucking pick me loser” indeed.

Speaking of Collins, definitely tell me who else you support so I can make sure I steer well clear come November, lol.

What a fucking turd of a source.

Take a look at the front page.

I don’t care if all you do is answer the phones (and let’s be clear, Platner was a certified killer by the time he started working there, he wasn’t picking up fucking phones and I think you know this)

No, I absolutely don’t know this. I don’t even understand what you think he’s done that differentiates him from any other US Marine and/or military contractor with combat tours under his belt.

Here’s what Wikipedia says:

Born and raised in coastal Maine, Platner enlisted in the Marine corps after graduating from high school. He served eight years, including three combat tours in Iraq as a Marine and one in Afghanistan with the Maryland Army National Guard. After his military service, he worked as a State Department security contractor in Afghanistan before returning to Maine and entering the oyster farming business. From there, he took over an operation in 2020, and became active in local government before announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in August 2025.

In 2018, Platner returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, for about six months as a State Department security contractor with Constellis, where he provided diplomatic security to the US Ambassador to Afghanistan.

Everyone who has ever been on a combat tour for any military anywhere is a “certified killer,” lol. And he posted to Iraq the year AFTER the Abu Ghraib tortures were revealed, so that’s going to be a hard sell for me too.

These days he’s loudly against pointless and endless wars, so it doesn’t sound like he still wants to kill people. He’s also for unions, universal healthcare, anti-billionaire, anti-money-in-politics, and kind of surprisingly well-acquainted with US history and the politics of the New Deal.

So, you got anything more than how you personally think he wasn’t just answering the phones for the US Ambassador to Afghanistan? If you do, and I mean this sincerely, bring it. Not just conjecture, but something more than a Jolly Roger tat and nastified military slurs that imply being anything worse than the average grunt.

I should add, speaking solely for myself, that you missed the most obvious thing.

If you REALLY want me to hate the guy, just call him Susan Collins.

Funny enough, it’s refusing to work that will literally set them free: I read another article a few days ago (see the last paragraph) that said it is cheaper to release striking detainees than it is to move them to another facility.

Your point is excellent – arbeit macht frei – but for anyone who might benefit from that bit of knowledge, the flat REFUSAL to work to support the conditions of one’s own involuntary confinement by ICE at an immigration detention center is the faster course to freedom.

That’s never stopped you before.

It has always stopped me personally. I am speaking as a person of integrity to a person of none, as a non-AI individual representing myself as opposed to some soi-disant tool speaking for “the lives and safety of my own people,” lol. What are you, Sacagawea?

It’s funny how the more I go back to what you actually wrote and what you demonstrably said (and I have screenshots too, lol) the angrier you get. Why is that? I didn’t write your comments for you. I just read them.

maybe you should tell her to mind her own business before you start telling us to mind ours.

Lol. No. I am telling YOU, personally, to stop hiding behind a proud country and people you do NOT speak for, to propound overt dishonesties to support the exact candidate you say you don’t want, in an election that you cannot and will not vote in, even as you alternate between telling me I that should or should not vote in my own.

I am not my country, any more than I am fooled into thinking you are Canada – and much less what you clearly wanted in the beginning, which was for your reader to believe that you are an American voter.

And here you are, rewriting and reworking your positions yet again. You shift and twist with the slightest wind. Why? Why should I take you seriously, or even take your feigned concern seriously, when the things you assert aren’t cohesive to start with nor even remain the same over four retellings?

And tell me again: who’s shouting? If my “American reading comprehension” is so inadequate, why do you think personal insults and historical anger and rage at the people in DC will make it better?

Or to put it another way, if I scream at you personally for burning down the White House during the War of 1812, does that validate or invalidate anything else I say?

Of course it does not – but that is now what YOU are relying upon for authenticity. Lol.

If I tell you to go scream at people in Ottowa (or even more uselessly at Chuckie the Third, lol) would that garner your respect? Be absolutely assured that you have garnered my own in exactly that fashion.

For all my American reading comprehension, I had no problem spotting you as a poser and an angry liar who is now all kinds of upset that you got busted in your lies by someone that actually READ what you wrote. Take your Platner concern-trolling to someone who doesn’t actually read.

There of course will be a person representing the AI but they will always vote the way the LLM tells them to.

That means the LLM is voting in all but the actual mechanics of having its vote registered.

Unless they would start injecting prompts into legislation we would be fine.

Yeah, no. The way Congress works right now, the primary attack vector would be internal, not external. Aside from the whole bias thing, injecting prompts would only be the first thing anyone with access would do.

You may not be aware of this, but there is a LOT of legislation not actually written by legislators, who are very busy people, but by lobbyists and lawyers who are glad to do it for them. There is already no actual way of knowing what specific person penned any specific line in any given law outside a legislators’ word that they did it personally or their staff did.

You’re literally opening up that vote to anyone savvy enough to “do it for” a busy legislator, which is already occurring in every other way. Even Jon Stewart was asked to write the legislation for the 911 first responders, and he’s not an attorney, just a passionate guy lobbying for righteous legislation.

And what about the legislators that are already corrupt? If the legislator to whose vote you bind this LLM is already selling their power, why would they not just tell that donor or that lobbyist “hey, now you gotta fix the LLM too” in order to continue doing business as usual?

So for as long as your hypothetical unbiased LLM exists, it would present an open challenge to any comer, both from within Congress and without, to change its recommendations with the prize being the ability to switch any given vote. That’s a hell of a brass ring to reach for when you’re talking about votes worth billions of dollars passing or failing on razor thin margins like they are these days.

And making the LLM “fixed” – static – would not make it safer: if it could be made unfixed in a way that preserved its unchanged appearance, it absolutely would be.

And even then, if it passed all those hurdles and managed to remain incorruptibly non-involved, dependent solely on what it had been fed in the beginning, it still would not have the inherent understanding of humanity required to make correct and rapid decisions in a crisis, because it would not be traveling a cognitive path of understanding relative urgency, but whatever was already baked into it for normal operation.

I hate to quote any bible, but the Orange Catholic Bible had it right:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

“‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind.’”

Cool idea, though. I like the way you think. But for now it’s still science fiction (I very seriously hope).

That’s because Platner’s policies are what we really should be talking about: healthcare for all, union rights, actual representation in Congress, etc.

Platner says a lot about Democrats never having actual policies that will put the money where the people are, and not just empty words like “We have to address affordability!” because that’s not a policy, it’s a marketing campaign.

Platner’s policies are exactly what they don’t want us talking about, and why he shot ahead of Mills by some 40 points before she “suspended” her campaign at the end of April.

Screaming? I think you need a mirror. Didn’t you just switch your position on Mamdani and then accuse me of being AI, then call me friend, then tell me to sit out an election even as you claim to be appealing to Americans to vote out Republicans, and then say there is no point in voting at all because the state is already a lost cause?

You must not have any idea how much we are bombarded with day in and day out from people pretending to be Americans, and here we are talking about American politics with you using an unqualified “we” then getting upset when it is pointed out – and speaking like this:

If anything, the only role I do have in an American election is appealing to Americans not to put the lives and safety of my own people at risk by electing another Republican.

You personally have NO role in an American election, any more than I have a role in a Canadian election. If you cared at all about this you’d already know we got into this via foreign election manipulation, among other things, and a president openly working for Russia.

You even insist you are “appealing to Americans” to vote out Republicans by concern-trolling the sole non-Republican who can win in that primary, and then doing it in English that sounds like you just stepped off the transporter in Star Trek: “the lives and safety of my own people.”

“The lives and safety of my own people,” lol. What a strange “we” you have. And now you don’t want us to vote at all:

there is no point in voting at all the state is already a lost cause.

What the hell are you even trying to say?