The Upper West Side has no flock cameras, while surrounding parts of NYC appear blanketed with them. One of Manhattan’s wealthiest neighborhoods somehow sits inside a surveillance dead zone.
Axon Lightpost is an infrastructure-mounted ALPR camera that converts existing streetlights into real-time vehicle detection tools. It originates with Axon Enterprise in partnership with Ubicquia, announced by CEO Rick Smith in 2025. Backing includes major institutional holdings such as BlackRock’s multi-billion-dollar stake in Axon stock. At the core it works through Axis Q1800 cameras plus Ubicquia Hub for power and LTE, delivering ALPR, vehicle attribute recognition, and livestreaming. The dual-use vector is rapid conversion of public lighting into continuous tracking nodes that cannot be easily removed by cutting poles. Established facts: installs in under an hour with no new poles or trenching. Open questions remain on long-term data retention across the Axon Fusus network.
The system interfaces with the public through seamless mounting on everyday streetlights that blend into urban infrastructure. It is marketed as a public-safety expansion tool that accelerates deployments, a claim that is partial given the shift from visible poles to elevated, harder-to-access positions. Its matching and streaming engine enables real-time vehicle intelligence and hotlist alerts. The structural weak points are limited independent oversight of the combined ecosystem and the permanence of streetlight integration, gaps where community consent and practical opt-out are exposed.
For people this means surveillance coverage expands using infrastructure already present on nearly every block. The right in tension is privacy in public movement. The pattern follows earlier ALPR rollouts that began as optional tools. Left unexamined, the capability spreads through municipal partnerships that replace contested systems under the cover of faster, lower-cost deployment. Demonstrated: cities shifting from Flock to Axon Lightpost installations. Precedented elsewhere: prior smart-streetlight sensor projects. Foreseeable but not yet realized: denser nationwide grids mounted beyond easy physical interference.
Taken to scale, Axon Lightpost establishes elevated tracking that leaves ordinary drivers with no practical way to avoid the network. The interconnected threat pillars are infrastructure lock-in, real-time livestreaming of vehicle data, and institutional capital backing. Verify independently via Axon product pages and Ubicquia partnership announcements. To push back: demand local procurement reviews requiring public disclosure of streetlight sensor contracts and independent accuracy audits. Further reading: Axon official documentation and contemporaneous reporting on the Ubicquia collaboration.
Sources
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-lightpost
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fsociety is a decentralized desktop messenger built on the Nostr protocol. It provides encrypted direct messages and private communities, Nostr identities and profiles, contacts, encrypted file and media sharing through Blossom, and live relay-health monitoring. For linux & windows
Updated post to add that there is a directory of public relays here https://nostr.watch/
Portable decentralized social media app offering encrypted private chats, communities, and file sharing over Nostr and Blossom. Available for windows and linux.
Runs on Nostr and uses Blossom for files. Currently in closed beta testing. Is it ok to share here once ready for public beta? Works on linux and windows.
Updated to add that the project is now up on Github
Test output from a video mixer glitch application (in the works), it lets you import video clips, a separate audio track and apply procedural retro visuals, and smooth seeded glitch events.
Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after EVERY SINGLE ONE of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night.
According to the police department, all 8 of the town's cameras were cut down and hauled away.
Police are asking for the public's help to identify the individual, but the public has been leaving comments like:
"The Flock cameras tore themselves down"
"Whoever did it, was fishing with me"
"Whoever it was, was at Bible study with me"
Made with RetroStudio v2.1.8 (free & open source) app for creating retro and glitchy animations
I've been working on RetroStudio, a free and open-source desktop application for creating retro artwork, animated scenes, pixel art compositions, procedural backgrounds, and demoscene-inspired visuals.
The idea is to create a modern workflow for making old-school graphics without losing the feeling of classic tools. RetroStudio uses a non-destructive layer-based system where you can combine artwork, sprites, text, procedural generators, effects, and animations into complete scenes.
Some features:
It is built with Python and released under the MIT license.
I'm sharing it here because I think it might be useful for:
Feedback, suggestions, bug reports, and feature ideas are welcome!
Project page:
https://non-npc.github.io/RetroStudio/
Source code:
https://github.com/non-npc/RetroStudio
RetroStudio is a non-destructive desktop studio for creating retro images, animated compositions, character art, demoscene-inspired graphics, and layered visual effects.
It is built with Python and supports Windows and Linux.
Almost daily I receive calls from third parties on the behalf of Rogers who are pushing offers and additional services. I politely tell them to stop calling but it persists. Next step is blocking their numbers.
Municipalities that ended Flock Safety contracts in 2026 have substituted Axon Outpost and Lightpost cameras that perform the same automated license-plate and vehicle-attribute capture, now integrated into the vendor’s existing body-camera and real-time evidence platforms. Douglas County’s approved package doubles the number of fixed readers and adds a county-wide drone-as-first-responder network; Denver reduced camera count but retained the capability under shorter retention and local data ownership. Lightpost units mount to existing streetlight sockets and begin continuous detection within an hour, lowering the cost of further densification.
Data ownership stays with the contracting agency and default retention is set at 21–30 days unless an investigation is open, yet the continuous stream of vehicle movements still flows through a commercial cloud ecosystem already used for body-worn video. No public technical documentation establishes the presence or absence of predictive pattern models; the systems are documented only as capture, attribute extraction, and live-stream devices. Contractual prohibitions on national database sharing exist on paper, but the practical enforceability of those limits against future inter-agency or federal requests is not demonstrated in the available records.
Comparable vendor substitutions in body-worn video and real-time crime centers have historically preserved and then expanded the underlying surveillance function rather than eliminating it. The June 2026 ACLU report identifies precisely this pattern—private companies assuming operating-system roles over police data—as a structural civil-liberties risk. Oversight therefore depends on local audit requirements, public-records access to query logs, and legislative limits on retention and external sharing rather than on the choice of any single commercial supplier.
The net result is continuity of always-on vehicle tracking under revised contractual terms. Effective response lies with county and city audit ordinances, state open-records enforcement, and statutory caps on data retention and third-party access, not with further vendor rotation.
Sources
Douglas County to replace Flock cameras with $22.8 million Axon system – Denver Gazette, 15 July 2026
Confirms $22.8 M package, 100 Outpost cameras replacing 50 Flock units, local data ownership, 30-day retention, and drone component.
Axon Lightpost product page
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-lightpost
Documents streetlight-mounted ALPR, vehicle-attribute recognition, livestreaming, and sub-hour installation on existing poles.
Flock’s replacement has fewer cameras and no national database, but City Council members still have concerns – Denverite, 18 March 2026
https://denverite.com/2026/03/18/axon-license-plate-camera-contract-denver-advances/
Details Denver’s 50-camera Axon contract, 21-day retention, local ownership, and remaining council concerns.
In New Report, ACLU Warns Against Giving Private Companies Centralized Access to Police Data – ACLU, 24 June 2026
Primary source for the civil-liberties critique of Axon and peer vendors seeking operating-system control over police data.
Top US body-camera maker reports record revenue amid Trump immigration crackdown – The Guardian, 25 February 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/axon-body-cameras-revenue
Establishes Axon’s market position in body-worn video and contemporaneous federal-demand growth.
What is the real agenda and why are they continuing to push a surveillance state that the citizens do not want?
Gary Harrington built 3 reservoirs on his 170-acre property to collect rainwater & snowmelt for fire protection.
The state demanded he drain every drop. “All water belongs to us.”
He refused.
They hit him with 9 misdemeanors, jailed him for 30 days, and fined him more than $15,000.
