An iPhone owner sent the asset protection forces of America (e.g. slave catchers) after his missing electronic assistant (e.g. digital slave). How could that even be a thing? Let’s take a look.

The owner had showed police a massive four block diameter circle on an Apple map, vaguely estimating location of interest. More to the point of the story, the owner said he had already searched around that circle and decided police should invade a particular home without further thought.

…the blue circle pictured in the screenshot is only shown “if a device’s location cannot be determined precisely.”

Apple has made the “blue circle” lack of integrity very clear in a way that everyone investigating anything must surely know. Just look at it:

…if your location can’t be determined precisely, you’ll see a blue circle around the marker. The size of the circle shows how precisely your location can be determined—the smaller the circle, the greater the precision.

The circle in this case was imprecisely four blocks wide, a half dozen houses or more.

No brain activity apparently was registered as the asset recovery machinery rushed approval and dispatched gunships on an urgent invasion mission into one specific house only.

To reiterate, an asset owner drove urgency of asset recovery by being sloppy and uncaring while rushed. That should have been the first giant red flag.

He allegedly informed police he had left his big truck with six guns sitting overnight in a hotel parking lot.

Definitely sounds like the sort of thoughtless person whose word can be trusted by police at face value. Police should have arrested him.

A SWAT then rapidly and violently broke into the falsely targeted home to destroy an innocent woman’s life.

A very obviously innocent elderly black woman.

Nudge. Know what I mean? “Find my”… what?

Let’s be fair to Apple. This probably would have happened even without any iPhone in the story. It does make for interesting comparison to history, though. Nothing accelerated slave catchers like a missing slave with guns.

A guy who loses track of his big truck full of guns sends a SWAT into a fool’s errand to destroy a black woman’s 40 year castle… sounds like something Abraham Lincoln warned about.

It’s timeless corruption in that sense. Think of it also in terms of moral failure we’ve been seeing lately from the other side of the world, where 98% of missiles very carefully pinpoint innocent Ukrainian civilians… because Russians holding high-tech with itchy trigger fingers aren’t smart enough to find their supposed targets.

This emerging “digital hell” is a major step worse than the old blindness blamed on bad math, because it’s willful inhumane targeting taking advantage of new tech.

The police allegedly rapidly punched holes into their target’s ceiling in the kitchen, while claiming it was all part of their search for a big truck in a garage.

DPD stood on the top rail of one of Ms. Johnson’s newly purchased dining room chairs and used the handle of her kitchen broom to break apart the unsecured ceiling panel to search her attic.

You sure you didn’t just drive a giant truck full of guns into your attic ma’am?

Everyone knows this is not how targeting works unless targeting is purposefully designed to work in a brutally imprecise way.

The real question should be are any of the other houses in that giant blue circle owned by a black woman.

The police were extremely efficient and accurate in attacking… the exact wrong place.

[Police Officer] Staab told [the victims that] DPD would pay nothing to repair the damage from its failed search.

They’ve been that way for decades.

That’s the real story here, which has been a complaint against the police in America since their origin story (e.g. slave catchers).

Tesla’s “dumbest” factory yet, located in Germany, already has become one of the least attractive for workers.

One current employee, who requested anonymity out of fear of losing their job, describes the Berlin gigafactory as “total chaos.” […] In the last year, Tesla dropped from being German engineering graduates’ second preferred employer (behind Google) to sixth. It is now behind German car manufacturers like Porsche, with some respondents pointing to Elon Musk’s comments about firing employees who wanted to work from home.

Comments about firing? That’s an understatement.

Elon Musk: If people working for me do anything dumb anytime even in the distant past I fire them without notice or explanation and call them a mistake. They’re always accountable for everything.

Also Elon Musk: I run fast and dumb with scissors, making as many cuts as I like in constant improvisation and failure. Yet I’m never accountable in anything. Change really applies only to someone else.

Elon Musk’s ideas rarely work and he’s often exposed for intentional lies, yet he insists everyone keep him, get it?

It’s a failure of basic ethics, another emperor has no clothes lesson of America.

…the depiction of the empty evil inherent in climbing the ladder could not overcome that their [lack of accountability in] success still looked better than most American lives. […] Marc Andreessen, who also invested in Twitter, albeit much earlier than Musk, could have ridden off into the metaphorical sunset looking like a genius for developing Mosaic and then Netscape, pioneering how we would all experience the internet. Instead, he showed us all of his mental shortcomings, by tweeting about the harms of anti-colonialism; liking tweets from people like date-rape apologist and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich; and being thin-skinned by blocking anyone who said anything slightly less than complimentary about him. Again: He did all of this on a platform he funded. Elon Musk bought Twitter and Twitter makes people dislike Elon Musk.

Who wants to be treated like a piece of garbage by these techno-tators?

Elon Musk fired nearly 70% of Twitter staff before begging the skeleton crew he left behind to find him someone to hire — submit their wider network to his immoral and unpredictable firing antics.

Employees were encouraged to make referrals, according to two people who attended and a partial recording obtained by The Verge.  The announcement came after a number of staff in Twitter’s sales department were fired on the same day….

I wonder if Musk has rolled out the dumb idea to pay staff a hiring referral bonus but double that amount if he fires the newly hired person right away…triple bonus award if he fires both of them without any cause other than to hate someone!

Musk took to saying “I’ve got to fire someone today,” one executive recounted. “No, no, I just do. I’ve got to fire somebody.” […] Some came to work fearing every day would be their last at the company. As one former executive said, “Everyone in Tesla is in an abusive relationship with Elon.”

Recently it was reported Tesla’s aloof chief heard a rumor about a prediction and immediately illegally terminated 10% of staff without required warning or severance, before saying he plans to hire only positions easier to fire.

CEO Elon Musk earlier this month emailed executives saying he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy and that Tesla would cut 10% of salaried workers…[adding to] a blizzard of lawsuits in recent years over working conditions at Tesla facilities.

It looks far too convenient to illegally fire any number of people to cover up his own failures, instead of being accountable himself.

A Tesla employee survey in 2018 literally called him a tyrant.

…an unapproachable tyrant who devalues the contributions of the staff, and may fire them on a whim … we treat people, the fundamental unit of a company, like any other expendable resource.

With that in mind, it’s no wonder Germans are avoiding or abandoning the fascism of Tesla — ignoring a car no German really wants to drive, as its logo may as well be a swastika.

The newest factories built by the Hitler-admiring CEO now read like a sad repeat of Ford failures way back in 1941.

Such willful and abusive ignorance from Elon Musk is legendary, yet it somehow continuously gets worse.

In September, the Tesla factory’s fire brigade was unable to put out a large cardboard fire itself and called in help from local firefighters. It then emerged that Tesla had no working fire alarms. 

Talk about a self-own.

Tesla is infamous for inability to manage fires, while claiming they manage risk by firing anyone and everyone other than Musk himself. The problem couldn’t be any clearer.

Failures in factories and products have gone on for over a decade, unique to them, and they haven’t changed because Musk is still there doing the wrong things. It’s 2022 and Musk’s brand new factory in Germany to showcase his best effort, couldn’t engineer its way out of a burning cardboard box.

• Tesla Had 3 Times as Many OSHA Violations as the 10 Largest US Plants Combined
• Ignoring search warrants and pulling strings: How Tesla corruption avoided important safety inspections
• California: The factory has a history of costly fires, including multiple fires at its paint shop, as CNBC has previously reported.
• Australia: …fire occurred “within one of the Tesla Megapacks at the Victorian Big Battery” during initial testing of the system…
• Nevada: …fire broke out at Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada’s Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center late on Saturday…contained [four hours later at 2AM] on Sunday…
• Texas: …complaints of wage and safety violations at new plant — Safety Violation complaints from the Construction Workers Who Built Texas Gigafactory

The last one cites an electrical worker who reported Tesla for issuing bogus completion certificates in fire safety classes that never happened. Without question Tesla thought it could speed construction deadlines by willfully undermining safety.

The CEO has, as intentionally dumb as ever, thus built himself a German dumpster fire with no fire alarms — a literal hell. Of course nobody should want to work in his hell.

If you read German language news, they openly discuss Tesla being a total fraud with a CEO completely clueless in a delusional rush to take over the world.

A Siemens chief for example describes doing all the hard work behind the scenes. But even more to the point of history, he said it involved ignoring angry rants being thrown at him by an unhinged Elon Musk as if describing a Hitler meme.

Der Bekannte habe bei Kaeser angerufen und gesagt: “Ich hab da einen, der will elektrische Autos bauen, aber der hat keine Ahnung, wie das geht.”

Der hat keine Ahnung –> Musk has no clue how to build a car.

Es gab demnach Probleme beim Hochfahren der Fabriken, Musk wusste sich nicht zu helfen.

Musk wusste sich nicht zu helfen –> Musk has no clue how to build a factory.

The story goes on to describe Musk screaming obscenities and threats. The German executives didn’t do anything Musk said and unfortunately made his dangerously dumb anger look competent (instead of just quitting).

Das Problem wurde trotzdem gelöst.

The problem was solved anyway (overlooking overt racism in “hard labor” camps, not to mention ignoring CEO who throws around Hitler memes and thoughts).

That certainly gives context to Tesla recently arguing if they can’t rope Germans into the chaos and hell it’s creating, it expects to just roll into Poland. Not kidding. Tesla tried to tell Germany that the border could be moved east to recruit Poles into hard labor.

Dumber and dumber, Tesla is in total opposition to law and order.

People raised in America might still idolize such nonsense, but Germans know their history better.

Intentional criminal acts are being reported in North Carolina, as utilities describe a wide and “complicated” recovery ahead.

Utility company Duke Energy said nearly 38,000 customers were without power in Moore County, while the Randolph Electric Membership Corporation reported outages affected nearly 3,000 customers in the county’s southern area, WRAL-TV reported. Both Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields and Brooks report that the potential cause of the outages could be vandalism. Brooks said he could not further describe the nature of the possible crime.

This will be important to track not least of all because of how it will fit into the hacking threat narrative I sometimes opine about here.

If the vandalism is all physical as recently warned by DHS (e.g. shooting substations at night, cutting underground cables and wires), it will shadow similar reports elsewhere in the country some years ago.

Nearly five years after a sniper fired more than 100 rounds at the PG&E Metcalf power substation in San Jose, the California Public Utilities Commission has issued its suggestions on how to improve security for all of the state’s power facilities.

Some may remember the details.

In the early morning of April 13, 2013, a sniper targeting PG&E’s Metcalf Transmission Substation south of San Jose, fired 100 rounds of high-caliber ammunition, which resulted in approximately $15.4 million in damage.

The outcome of that attack was utilities were supposed to focus for the past decade on fast recovery from terrorist attacks, which is why someone should be asking NC officials in 2022 how they can be talking about long timelines instead.

Another warning came just earlier this year in February when an interstate domestic terror conspiracy (white nationalist) group was caught trying to incite race war in a plot to shoot at power stations.

See also: The History of Russian Involvement in America’s Race Wars.

America in past incorrectly concluded major attacks on infrastructure were domestic only, as I’ve written about before.

From at least the very beginning of WWI in 1914, if not earlier, [long before American involvement] Germany was running clandestine terrorist operations throughout the U.S.; They organized information gathering as well as very violent terrorist activities…

It thus begs uncomfortable questions about foreign military intelligence, even if only indirectly involved through observing and taking notes.

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Update December 5 (next day): without mentioning any of the CPUC, DHS or DOJ reports above, it has been confirmed now by the utility that infrastructure again was damaged by gunfire.

As I warned back in April, we now are exactly where anyone could have predicted.

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find.

Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, slurs against Black Americans showed up on the social media service an average of 1,282 times a day. After the billionaire became Twitter’s owner, they jumped to 3,876 times a day.

Slurs against gay men appeared on Twitter 2,506 times a day on average before Mr. Musk took over. Afterward, their use rose to 3,964 times a day.

And antisemitic posts referring to Jews or Judaism soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Mr. Musk acquired the site.

These findings — from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Anti-Defamation League and other groups that study online platforms — provide the most comprehensive picture to date of how conversations on Twitter have changed since Mr. Musk [removed safety and security].

Exactly what I said would happen.

Twitter has become a direct threat to global security, but especially toxic to American national security.

The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy. These changes are alarming, researchers said, adding that they had never seen such a sharp increase in hate speech, problematic content and formerly banned accounts in such a short period on a mainstream social media platform.

Tesla has the worst engineering in car history, given that it rejects basic quality and safety. It’s predictably killing people. Why would anyone expect different from Twitter now?

It’s willful harm from technology produced by a CEO who allegedly boasts to his staff that he believes everything (e.g. hate crime) is legal in America.

“Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “They have reacted accordingly.”

Elon Musk is often caught promoting racism (Tesla called Black staff thin skinned for objecting to racism, right before it said it is proud to fight to defend itself). So it seems only natural he would turn Twitter into a seething anti-American honeypot.

The next sentence is absolutely critical to highlight and understand clearly.

…Tuesday, he ended enforcement of a policy against Covid misinformation.

Elon Musk’s money comes directly from disinformation. His theory of profit is well documented as fakery and lies, so trust nothing he says.

But Mr. Musk has denied claims that hate speech has increased on Twitter under his watch.

Truth denial? Science denial? Is there a more perfect example? In 2013 Musk told cheering and jeering boys that Tesla would deliver the safest car on the road, which of course has been proven every year since to be totally false.

Now Musk says he will not filter misinformation about safety… including his own intentional disinformation.

Last month, he tweeted a downward-trending graph that he said showed that “hate speech impressions” had dropped by a third since he took over. He did not provide underlying numbers or details of how he was measuring hate speech.

Of course he didn’t have evidence or any basic prediction capability. Musk can’t deliver anything but smoke.

Contrast his graph last month with this month:

Mr. Musk … agreed with a tweet that said hate speech spiked last week because of Ye’s antisemitic posts.

Agreed with a spike in antisemitism? It’s not being reported as him personally being opposed to hate speech, just that it will spike and he’s feeling unaccountable for deaths caused by saying the opposite. A hate speech analyst from the ADL puts it clearly:

“His actions to date show that he is not committed to a transparent process where he incorporates the best practices we have learned from civil society groups. Instead he has emboldened racists, homophobes and antisemites.”

Musk welcomed a known antisemite to the platform and then agreed the antisemite was being antisemitic.

As I’ve also warned before, Musk uses many tactics and even phrases from Adolf Hitler, such as declaring a false emergency (“bleak financial picture”) to terminate anyone disloyal to his constant charades.

For those who don’t like taking about well documented history, Lance Armstrong used similar scare tactics to keep his charades going.

Step one of quality decline.

“Going private” is what Lance Armstrong was known best for after being exposed — abusing secrecy to cheat.

Musk delisted the company’s stock to hide financials and reduce regulatory scrutiny.

Step two of quality decline.

Musk held loyalty tests where anyone he sniffed as independent minded was terminated. Nearly half the company had no job after Musk performed the most basic test, intentionally unrelated to success of the company (because success now is just measured in lying and avoiding accountability).

Terminations were so rushed and poorly engineered, Twitter immediately started begging staff it fired to come back.

Even more to the point of disinformation, Musk allegedly sent email to staff telling them they no longer had a job due to lack of quality.

Keep in mind the teams measuring quality (a difficult profession requiring expertise) were gone already, there was no standard of quality, and the email itself was such low quality it likely violated multiple laws.

A lower quality of leadership does not exist.

Step three of quality decline.

Musk rushed through his idea that authority should be the inverse of poverty. He literally declared that by charging $7.99 a month (and then dialing up the cost just like the fraud of Tesla) he would turn fraud into giant profits (boasted that he could charge fees faster than criminals could pay them).

If you walked into any bank anti fraud department and pitched $7.99 as your idea for an integrity test, they’d laugh you all the way to jail.

We thus saw an accelerated version of everything wrong with Tesla as increased cost meant to deliver quality immediately crashed (e.g. “self driving” is a lie that of course gets increasingly expensive despite getting worse over time).

Integrity was turned intentionally by Twitter’s clown in charge into a predictable dumpster fire.

Total havoc caused by Musk under a “be dumb” directive to his sycophant staff meant high-profile brands and personalities faced a deluge of targeted disinformation. Surprisingly Twitter didn’t just ride the mistake right to people’s grave, as Tesla does all the time. Perhaps social media is inherently more regulated than transportation.

Step four of quality decline.

Musk promised moderation of content while promising zero moderation. He said he sees regulation as reasonable while saying he believes in no regulation. When advertisers departed, cutting a lack of moderation, Musk viciously attacked them for being anti-freedom.

This works just like an angry man with a pot of soup yelling at his customers they hate freedom if they refuse to get sick from his obvious lack of hygiene.

Musk is in no better position to lead Twitter to deliver any kind of moderation than he is to stop the rapid increase of deaths from Tesla fires.

His whole “be dumb” mantra is predicated on extreme short sighted privilege (catch me if you can), a total rejection of the long term aims of moderation.

There is no question the quality of Twitter is crashing and burning.

Human safety is their lowest priority because they have taken multiple steps to remove themselves from any accountability.

There is simply no way that Musk intends to comply with anything, especially not the Digital Services Act. It’s like saying Hitler never intended to comply with borders. A European law that social platforms must reduce online harm is 180 degrees from every reason Musk raised money to turn Twitter into a deadly sewer.

It was well known that an increase of hate speech was coming long before Musk made himself CEO. This means his comments about rushing into mass terminations, deregulation and “dumb” ideas was meant to unleash the harms already predicted. He basically saw a hurricane coming and bought the mayorship to fire all the emergency rescue staff and destroy the levy system — because he believes in profitability from flooding.

The EU should be banning Twitter in a manner like they would advise their citizens not to travel to apartheid South Africa.

The Anti-Defamation League, which files regular reports of antisemitic tweets to Twitter and keeps track of which posts are removed, said the company had gone from taking action on 60 percent of the tweets it reported to only 30 percent. “We have advised Musk that Twitter should not just keep the policies it has had in place for years, it should dedicate resources to those policies,” said Yael Eisenstat, a vice president at the Anti-Defamation League, who met with Mr. Musk last month. She said he did not appear interested in taking the advice of civil rights groups and other organizations.

National security and terrorism analysts from watch groups point out Twitter is enabling the worst criminals.

In the first 12 days after Mr. Musk assumed control, 450 accounts associated with ISIS were created, up 69 percent from the previous 12 days, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that studies online platforms.

And last but not least, security professionals are saying the obvious too about a decline in global safety. Twitter lights are on but nobody’s home:

When Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, found accounts associated with Russian and Chinese state-backed influence campaigns on its platforms last month, it tried to alert Twitter, said two members of Meta’s security team, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The two companies often communicated on these issues, since foreign influence campaigns typically linked fake accounts on Facebook to Twitter. But this time was different. The emails to their counterparts at Twitter bounced or went unanswered, the Meta employees said, in a sign that those workers may have been fired.

Elon Musk fired anyone who cares about integrity and quality, or he forced them to quit.

Again, this all is similar to the Tesla story. Engineering is tossed out the window as the company is organized to profit from propaganda, minimal effort and willful negligence.

I told you back in April this would happen, but really I warned everyone way back in 2016.