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🚨 BREAKING: Federal agents recovered $88,000 in cash from the home of brothers Anwar and Asad Adow. They are accused of defrauding more than $1.2M in Medicaid payments through fraudulent Minnesota HSS businesses. They were literally stuffing your tax dollars under a mattress.

GrageDustin's tweet image. 🚨 BREAKING: Federal agents recovered $88,000 in cash from the home of brothers Anwar and Asad Adow.

They are accused of defrauding more than $1.2M in Medicaid payments through fraudulent Minnesota HSS businesses.

They were literally stuffing your tax dollars under a mattress.
GrageDustin's tweet image. 🚨 BREAKING: Federal agents recovered $88,000 in cash from the home of brothers Anwar and Asad Adow.

They are accused of defrauding more than $1.2M in Medicaid payments through fraudulent Minnesota HSS businesses.

They were literally stuffing your tax dollars under a mattress.

What you can do: Opt out of data brokers (search “DeleteMe”). Ask your city council if predictive policing tools are being used. Turn off app location access you don’t trust. The future of policing isn’t futuristic anymore. It’s in your pocket. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. What you can do:

Opt out of data brokers (search “DeleteMe”).

Ask your city council if predictive policing tools are being used.

Turn off app location access you don’t trust.

 The future of policing isn’t futuristic anymore.
It’s in your pocket.
medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

No one’s in jail for thoughts — yet. But the algorithm’s already circling your name. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. No one’s in jail for thoughts — yet.

But the algorithm’s already circling your name.
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Supporters say it’s smart policing. Critics call it “surveillance on steroids.” Either way, the line between prediction and pre-judgment is disappearing. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. Supporters say it’s smart policing.

Critics call it “surveillance on steroids.”

Either way, the line between prediction and pre-judgment is disappearing.
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ICE uses it to track migrants. German police use it nationwide. L.A. and New Orleans tried it too — until lawsuits revealed it kept targeting the same low-income neighborhoods. A digital feedback loop of bias. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. ICE uses it to track migrants.

German police use it nationwide.

L.A. and New Orleans tried it too — until lawsuits revealed it kept targeting the same low-income neighborhoods.

A digital feedback loop of bias.
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Enter Palantir — the data giant co-founded by Peter Thiel, seeded with CIA money. Its platform, Gotham, connects your purchases, search history, and location into a single “risk score.”

PresentPixel's tweet image. Enter Palantir — the data giant co-founded by Peter Thiel, seeded with CIA money.

Its platform, Gotham, connects your purchases, search history, and location into a single “risk score.”

Then came 2020. Lockdowns, contact-tracing apps, and cameras on every porch supercharged surveillance. Today, systems don’t just predict where crime happens — they predict who might do it. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. Then came 2020.

Lockdowns, contact-tracing apps, and cameras on every porch supercharged surveillance.

Today, systems don’t just predict where crime happens — they predict who might do it.
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A company called PredPol packaged the idea and sold it nationwide. Chicago built a “heat list” of 400,000 residents flagged as high-risk for violence. By 2016, 40% of U.S. police agencies were using or testing predictive systems. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. A company called PredPol packaged the idea and sold it nationwide.
Chicago built a “heat list” of 400,000 residents flagged as high-risk for violence.
By 2016, 40% of U.S. police agencies were using or testing predictive systems.
medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

The results? In L.A. and Santa Cruz, burglaries dropped nearly 20% in six months. Other cities wanted in. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. The results?

In L.A. and Santa Cruz, burglaries dropped nearly 20% in six months.

Other cities wanted in.
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It started small. After 9/11, the LAPD wanted to predict crime the way scientists predict earthquakes. By 2010, computer models were drawing red boxes on maps—500 ft by 500 ft—showing where the next break-in might happen. medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

PresentPixel's tweet image. It started small.

After 9/11, the LAPD wanted to predict crime the way scientists predict earthquakes.

By 2010, computer models were drawing red boxes on maps—500 ft by 500 ft—showing where the next break-in might happen.

medium.com/@pixel-past-pr…

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