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  • ~2012ish: Palantir receives contract with city of New Orleans

    2015: Privately owned Project Nola surveillance cam program created

    2018: City cancels very shady contract with Palantir that helped them create and test their predictive policing tech

    2020: Peter Thiel becomes major investor in Clearview AI facial recognition technology. Free trials are given to ICE and multiple local law enforcement agencies across the U.S.

    Late 2020: Ban on facial recognition tech and predictive policing in New Orleans

    2022: ~18 months later, Cantrell requests City Council lift the ban, and it is replaced with shady surveillance ordinance giving the city some very concerning privileges in certain circumstances

    2024: Cantrell says she won’t fight Landry establishing Troop Nola as a permanent police presence in the city, despite concerns from civil rights advocacy groups

    Feb 2025: Forbes reports that Clearview AI remains unprofitable due to multiple ongoing lawsuits and previous inability to secure federal contracts. The company says future focus will be large federal contracts.

    May 2025: Washington Post reveals NOPD has been ignoring the fairly lax laws regarding facial recognition tech in the 2022 surveillance ordinance while working with Project Nola. NOPD pauses use of tech, but Troop Nola and federal agencies continue use bc they’re not under city jurisdiction









  • It’s funny how all 3 countries involved in this (4 if you count Russia) are being hurled towards catastrophe and likely world ending destruction by powerful men who are not even admired by a large percentage of the populations they control.

    Nobody that actually wants a regime change in any of these countries, wants this war to happen.

    A destabilizing war, allegedly necessary to create regime change, will act as a chaotic distraction from questionable leadership, and help each of these men, at least temporarily, tighten their slipping power grips.

    The people of Iran, Israel, and the U.S. are not fighting each other. 3 or 4 men are fighting with angry threatening words and tweets, and making the choice to put all of humanity at risk to do so. Fucking absurd.