Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for June 29th through July 5th, 2025. It has been a very dynamic week throughout the United States and around the world. So in the interest of time, let's go ahead and jump right to the map and talk about some of the severe flooding in Texas as this is a currently developing situation as I am recording this update. All right, so here we are on the map. I'm going to be using wind tac mostly today instead of my normal ArcGIS maps, uh, which I'll I'll talk about in a moment. As I've mentioned a few times before, I prefer to use WINTAC and ATAC to uh build a lot of these more realtime products so that I can then bring them into my more long-term mapping projects on ArcGIS. I know it's not the best way to display the information sometimes, but uh this will have to do for now. So, let's go ahead and zoom into the flood zone in Texas here, just northwest of San Antonio up in Carr County, Carville, and the city of Ingram. So, waiting for our map to finish loading here. As many of you have seen over the past couple of days, mostly last night, the the evening of July 4th, severe flooding struck this area. The National Weather Service predicted about 3 to 6 ines worth of rain throughout the region due to the collapse of a weather system that rolled in over the Gulf. Didn't form into a hurricane or anything like that, but uh the remnants of it ended up stalling over this area and just dumping way more rain than anyone expected. And this area is very legendary for flash floods. And that's exactly what happened. So, so far a total of 24 fatalities have been reported throughout the area, but this number is probably expected to rise as rescue and recovery efforts continue. Some of the more high-profile uh rescues and incidents occurred over here in the west. Uh so this is probably why a lot of you have heard about it uh due to it receiving national attention. There were three summer camps that were affected by this uh that were host to hundreds of children, you know, taking advantage of the Fourth of July summer camp sort of season, right? And unfortunately, all three of these camps were hit very heavily by flood waters as they are quite literally on the river, right? That's typically where a lot of summer camps end up being. Camp Mystic uh unfortunately was hit the hardest as we can see. Uh it was pretty bad and a lot of helicopter rescues had to be undertaken from this camp. I think there were a few hundred kids there uh when the flooding started and quite literally no one had any warning. There was um uh really no way to predict or determine exactly how bad the flooding was going to be once it uh just dumped all that rain all at one time. The camps to the north along the Guadalupe River itself, Camp Walddemar and Camp Lahonta, uh these camps were evacuated successfully. No reports of trouble there, although there were a lot of kids swimming uh to to make it out of there. So, uh, rescues were conducted here successfully and rescue operations continue along all of these tributaries and, uh, flood planes throughout the whole region. So, for those of you who are in the area, uh, one of the biggest challenges has been trying to find and, uh, re reunite families with one another. So, just for everyone's awareness, there are two uh, reunification points. One of them is the Ingram Elementary School and the other one is uh a historic theater downtown in Carville uh called the Arcadia Live Center. It's a small building there. Uh you'll you'll see it once you get in the in the area. So these are the two places to check if you are looking for uh family members and loved ones. Of course, this is a nightmare when it comes to reunifying families because uh you've got a lot of kids who are, you know, they're not at home, right? So, you're talking about trying to reunify potentially hundreds of people. So, it's kind of a tough situation logistically. A lot of people have been reunited, thankfully. Uh but just for those who may be in the area who are uh still looking for people, uh this these are the two places to check. On the recovery front, there are several shelters that have been opened up throughout the area. The first shelter is in Ingram at the Ingram Fire Department. That's probably a more of a small facility, but it's a good uh good place to rally, good rally point for now. Some of the more substantial resources over are actually over in Carville. Uh mostly churches. So, the First United Methodist Church just across the river there to the south, the Notre Dame Catholic Church and also the Calvary Temple Church are also open for uh those who need to seek shelter during this crisis. And also one of the uh main buildings at Shriner University is open as well as a uh as a shelter temporary shelter. So in terms of road closures, most of the river crossings here that are low river crossings uh over the Guadalupe River are closed. Um a lot of bridges are washed out, smaller bridges throughout the area. So it's just kind of a it's kind of a logistically challenging thing to find out exactly what's still standing. Riverside Drive down here uh to the souththeast of the city is uh is closed and there are random pl random road closures all over the place from where things have washed out. So again, flash flooding is one of those logistically challenging things to kind of get a hold on. So uh that's just something to be aware of as as time goes on. It's kind of a spread out area, hill country, right? So terrain makes these things uh a lot worse when it comes to flash flooding. So this is the situation as it stands. I will continue to build this map product out a little bit further. And for those of you who want this map product, this will be on my ARJS maps here very shortly. And also, I have a KMZ of this. So, if you are a responder on the ground and you want to get my data, uh there's a KMZ for you already built. You just drop it right into ATAC if you want it and we can go from there. So, I should mention that KMZ is also being updated fairly regularly. Uh this will probably change as I get a lot more points and as more reunification points come about and uh more aid and uh resources flow into the region. I'm going to start adding more points as I can find them. It it may not develop much more than this, but uh we'll see. So you can find the the most up-to-date KMZs for all of this stuff. All of my products are on GitHub in KMZ format. And if you want just a live updating map uh that you can, you know, view on your phone, uh you can check out my ArcGIS maps below. So, that's pretty much all I have for the Texas flooding situation. So, let's go ahead and switch gears quite significantly and let's talk about some of the mapping products I've been working on when it comes to the border crisis. So, as many of you know, I have been developing a lot of products that are attempting to track the cartel movements throughout the United States. This is a working project. It is not perfect by any means, but we've got to get started somehow. And this is the best way that I found to to get started with this project. As many of you know, I was hit this week with a DMCA takedown order from ArcGIS from the parent company Ezri due to this exact map layer. It turns out that one of the NOS's that is funneling illegal immigrants into this country has decided to engage in a little bit of lawfare or at least try to. didn't work out so well for him, but this is how things stand as they are. So, I thought it would be good to talk about this agency today and exactly what they are doing with your tax dollars. As many of you know, most of these immigrant safe houses, logistical hubs, uh any kind of agency, group, NGO, company, church, charity, whatever, most of the pucks on this map come from this one agency, the Immigrant Advocates Network. And I would very strongly recommend you guys go to their website www.immigrationadvocates.org to see exactly what they are doing to further illegal immigration into the United States. And you might say, "Well, S2, how do you know that they're funneling illegals into this country?" Well, I'm glad you asked because you can find out very easily. They're very public about it on their own website. So once we get to the immigration advocates network website, we can click find help here at the top of the page and we can select a state. So let's go ahead and pick uh let's say Colorado. Let's just pick a random one here. And since we clicked Colorado, here is a list of all of the groups that this one agency, this is again just one NGO. Uh these are all of the groups that this one agency has partnerships with to help illegals enter the United States. and stay in the United States and evade ICE and all of that kind of stuff. And you might say, well, again, how do we know that this is not just uh some kind of uh legal immigration sort of thing? You know, the kind of um all everything's above board. Well, I can tell you right here. Just look at the second one. Uh the Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Family Immigration Services. These are the things that they do. And as we can see, they help immigrants with removal hearings. So, what does that mean? This means that they are assisting illegal immigrants to stay in the United States and fight their own deportation hearing. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. This is the kind of thing that is going on on a gargantuan scale around the country. That's why I have so many pucks and points on my mapping projects and this is why they want to take my content down. This is a very large uh effort and unfortunately they're using this word charity here uh especially Catholic charities they're using this word here to unfortunately mask what they are doing because we hear the word charity and we instantly think oh okay well they're just trying to help people out right well you know this is not the sort of thing that they're doing sure they may immigrants may show up to to a uh one of these facilities and you know get a bag of food or some kind of you know emergency aid or something like that but they also get an attorney because as we can see they're getting free, that's right, free pro bono legal representation so that they can stay in the United States and fight their deportation orders. So that's exactly what's happening. You can see they even get help completing forms. They don't even need to speak English. They have everyone handle this for them. And as you can see, the these agencies are lining up around the block. That is why this is such a serious thing. I don't think a lot of people tend to understand how much money is in this. Uh these groups are tied again to very very large international organizations uh such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They also get a lot of uh billions billions of dollars of endowment funding from random billionaires you've probably never even heard of before. So this is how they're able to do it. I mean I know it may seem surprising, but I mean this is just kind of how uh a lot of these groups tend to work. Uh it may seem surprising, but that's just the way that it is. So, uh understandably, when it comes to my own mapping projects, it's not exactly a uh a safe thing to be doing. Uh to be honest, this is a very dangerous line of work. I understand that fully, which is why a lot of times I have to kind of tiptoe around things. So, uh in order to stay above board and to avoid the lawfare uh from cracking down too much, you know, it's just the the way that it is. Sometimes we have to kind of operate in a a more lowp profofile sort of arrangement. Like it or not, it's just the truth that if you're an illegal immigrant in this country, you can have hundreds, if not thousands of attorneys just chomping at the bit to help you stay in this country and continue committing crimes. But if I put your agency on a map, I don't exactly have a whole lot of attorneys lining up to help me for free. You know what I mean? So, you may get one or two, but the scale of this is just astoundingly high. So, I know that I don't say this very often, but I'll say it now just for the record. I am fully aware that a lot of not so nice people are watching what I do. They are consuming my products. They're consuming my work. I am not naive to this. So every single thing I do, every comment on social media, every slide, every dot on a map, everything is done through the lens of assuming that a bad guy is watching. That's just the way things are when a lot of your work is public these days. So please do not think that I am a complete idiot. I mean, I may be, but I am not naive to the fact that a lot of not so nice people are watching. This is why all of the data sets that I do, everything that I do is intended to maximize the benefit to the good guys and minimize the effort to the bad guys. So if a malign actor gets one of my work products, be it a slide, a brief, map layer, whatever, I want that bad guy to look at my work and say, "hm, this doesn't really help me continue to be a bad guy, right?" But I want a good guy to get the work and say, "All right, this is very, very helpful." Right? It is a very very careful balance. I will admit and it is not always possible. So a lot of the work that I do simply doesn't make it to the public's eyes because it's either in still in progress, it's still being worked on or some data that I find I just can't make public because it would cause more harm than good. So I know that's incredibly frustrating when I have things like that, but it doesn't happen too often. Most of the time these these groups, especially when it comes to things like NOS's, they're very they're very proud of their work, right? They're very open and uh honest about the crimes they're committing on their own website. They confess to it, right? There's very minimal risk there in these people kind of being found out, right? Really, the best disinfectant for these people and for these agencies and these NOS's is sunlight. And that's what I'm going to continue to do. Uh one point of note, however, for a lot of these immigration projects moving forward, I'm not going to be able to provide a lot of the sourcing. So, I may uh just be able to provide indicators, right? I'm I'm sorry about that. I always like to provide the source data for everything that I work on, but sometimes I may only be able to put a street address and it's on you to figure out exactly why I put that point on the map. I'll make it easy for you, but again, we're uh we're operating in a non-permissive environment. It's unfortunate, but that's just the way that it is. And of course, just because I put a point on the map does not necessarily mean that every single location that I find is truly and utterly guilty of uh some kind of crime. It's just an indicator, right? But again, this data set is new. I'm going to continue building it as long as as long as I'm able to and we'll see how it goes. I think right now the biggest thing, the biggest benefit for this is uh just simply awareness. people being made aware of how pervasive illegal immigration is and the sheer industrial effort that NOS's are going through, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to provide an entire ecosystem of legal support uh at every single step of the way to help illegals stay in this country. This is a very very big thing. And as you guys can probably tell by my other map layers, the border engagement trackers and the more kinetic things like IED blasts, that sort of stuff, we want to keep that south of the border, right? We want to make sure that does not make its way into the United States. And as we can see, we're starting to heat up in that regard. So this is one of the more serious things that I have tracked over over time, both in terms of risk to me, but also risks to this nation. So that's why I am focusing on this quite a lot because really there isn't anybody else. There's a lot of people complaining about immigration. There's a lot of yapping and a lot of yammering back and forth, but there's not a whole lot of people who are trying to do the best they can, you know, as safely as possible, but still assuming some risk because we live in a risky world. Uh, and trying to do the best that they can. So again, it's not perfect, but I will continue to try to make it a little bit better as time goes on. And just in case I forgot to mention it, all of the links to these products will be in the description box below. My border crisis map is still there for now. Download it while you can or at least view it. If you want a total rip of all of the data that's on the map, I provide KMZs again on my GitHub page just so that you can load it into whatever system you use, be it Google Earth or ATAC or whatever, uh, and you can see all of the the data uh, a little bit more clearly. So anyway, I know that's kind of a long digression to to kind of talk about this data project, but I think that it's necessary to understand the importance of this stuff. This is an issue that strikes at the very heart of what this nation's identity is going to be in the very near future. This is one of the defining issues of our era and uh I'm going to try to do what I can to make sure that the good guys come out on top. With all of that being said, that's pretty much all I have for today. Again, I will continue to update the products with regards to the disaster relief in Texas and seeing how that goes. Uh, and I will continue to work on the immigration issues. I'm reworking a lot of my data sets and I'm adding a lot of points that I uh previously had not published just yet. Much more to come over the next few weeks. A lot of this is very hard work or it's not very hard, it just takes a long time, right? So, it's very time inensive task. So, please forgive me if I'm not the fastest at updating a lot of my data sets, but we'll get there. And speaking of getting there, let's uh roll things up today with the intercepted ghost net reports. It was a very fantastic week for the radio. Once again, having a more holistic or all-encompassing view of a lot of the work that I do is probably for the best. I've said it uh many times before, but I'll say it again. If your job is in the information space and if your uh profession or skill set is to do with things like data analysis or something like that or in my case uh information and intelligence analysis, it is also your job to make sure that your information, your work, your effort, your labor can make it to people even in a contingent situation. And that's kind of what I've tried to do with the ghost net here in addition to it being just a more generalized HF radio net. So adding in a radio communications component to all of this stuff is uh is what I've been working on for quite a while now. And as we can see what we have now going on with the ghost net is a lot of people exchanging information uh doing everything from testing and training to sharing real world information from their local area. So, I've I see quite a few people throughout the week, uh, sending news reports from their local area and generally trying to do the best they can to bring a component of off-grid radio use to a lot of the work that we do here. So, that's fantastic to see. I'm glad that it's working out so well, and I can't wait to see how it develops in the future. So, that's pretty much all I have for today. Thank you guys for sticking around for a little bit more of a disorganized one today, but a lot of things in motion, a lot of uh a lot of irons in the fire and we're going to have to uh see how things work out over the next few weeks. A lot of lot of data to crunch through for sure. So, thank you guys all for watching. Thank you guys for all of your support. It really does mean a lot. I would not be able to do any of this work uh without your support. So, I really do appreciate that and I hope that at least some level of success can be had. Uh if not fighting these groups directly, that's going to be impossible, right? But maybe we can have a little bit more marginal success on the lower end and uh make sure that the right people know what's going on around the country. So, thank you guys all again for watching and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

A couple of weeks ago, the chief strategy officer at Flock, the infamous surveillance company, contacted me on X because I called him a tyrant in one of his posts. At the time, I didn't really think much of my own comment, though I certainly stand by it, and I did not notice his message at the time, but I saw it two days ago. And though I do not reply to messages like this, I thought I'd strike while the iron was hot because this certainly struck me the wrong way, and I wrote a public rebuttal, which you can read on my Twitter page if you want. Many of you know that I have tried to reduce unsolicited opinion on things like this for a while, but this guy pissed me off. So, now you get the old S2, and I'm not going to let this one slide. If you have not done so, I would encourage you to read my short response on X, which sums up my own concerns regarding this technology. But since many of you asked, uh if you will permit me for a moment, I will expand on the concerns a little bit more so that we can maybe have a different perspective on what is really going on here. And first of all, let's take a time out. As of two days ago, I have been doing this for six years. So, for anyone out there who's been following me for all this time, the OG crew, you guys ask yourself, why is S2 so upset about this? Why this issue, of all things, and why now? I do not want you to agree with me just based on trust me, bro. I've spent years trying to discourage that actively. All I request is for you to pause and consider why I might be so concerned about this. Is it just because I hate this one company, or is there something else going on here? What do I know? Could it possibly be because I'm not reacting to what we see right now, but thinking forward to what is coming next? Just food for thought. I could fill an entire mini-series documenting my concerns, but for everyone's sake, I will keep it brief. My chief concern is not a camera, or even a network of cameras. It is that we have quietly allowed a national intelligence collection network the likes the world has never seen before to pop up in the United States, and there is not only active deceit being used by this company, but they are steamrolling any opposition to their actions. You see, the Flock cameras are a good analog for a lot of larger problems. It's certainly not just about one company. When Edward Snowden leaked the Prism project years ago and was exonerated by the courts which said that the programs he leaked were in fact illegal, the result of that was that many people generally know that they are now being spied on just parenthetically or generally speaking. But beyond that, nobody really seemed to care in the long run. Or maybe they thought there was nothing they could do about it, so why worry about it? When you log on to social media, you cannot see a little FBI logo on the corner of your screen. When you scan a bunch of bananas at the grocery store, the CIA's logo does not appear on the screen to tell you that your purchase has been monitored. You know generally that you are being watched. Logically, you know this, but you don't really feel it. It's not a part of your existence. A Flock camera, however, is a physical object. It is a monument to the national intelligence collection apparatus and it's planted on your child's playground, outside your bedroom window, and up and down your street. Driving your newborn back from the hospital, looking forward to a new era of happiness with your family, Flock is there, watching. Your child's first words will probably be recorded by a Flock camera. Teaching your son how to ride a bike on a quiet summer night, Flock's gaze lingers on your child, scanning every facial feature. These are the concerns that nobody thinks about when gaslighting and complacency has become the normal American lifestyle. And for those who think that all of this animosity toward Flock is misplaced when really we should be concerned about not just Flock but other things, you're certainly right. Flock is not the only company doing this. Alexa is recording your living room right now and you've probably known about that for years. The difference with Flock is that you are not getting anything in return. Even the claims of public safety are dubious at best. You don't even get your bread and circus. This device is planted in your world just to monitor you. You might say, "But what about regular security cameras? Aren't there concerns there, too?" Yes, there sure are. But the concerns are much, much different. Say, for instance, you have a children's playground and there is a security camera pointed at the jungle gym. If it's a public park, we need to find out who owns that camera. Chances are it will probably be the parks department or maybe the city. And usually there is a process for accountability there. However hard it might be and however much government red tape might be involved, there still is a process. You can go to a city council meeting, you can raise awareness, and you can demand accountability. Whether you get it or not, well, that depends on on the situation and the circumstances, but generally speaking, you have something to work from. It's the same difference between a company who makes a product and they have their customer service in the US versus overseas. With a domestic phone number and a domestic American mailing address in your local area, you have a lot more options for accountability. Also, chances are the minimum wage employee sitting in the parks department office probably doesn't pump that data feed into a centralized federal database. I mean, this might be a false assumption now, but you get the idea. The DVR machine in the back room of a 7-Eleven is not exactly the same level of concern as having every single square inch in a city being logged in a data center where you literally have no idea where the data is going. It is absolutely true that surveillance is a spectrum and perspective matters. In many cases, we want cameras on our streets and in many cases, we want them to be owned by private business owners that can get footage out to the public before anyone with power has a chance to delete the tapes, if you know what I mean. But at a certain point, we go too far and in the opinion of nearly everyone, Flock has gone too far. They started right out of the gate on a footing of deceit and they have never once actually followed through on their claims of transparency. Saying [snorts] you are transparent is not the same as being transparent. Of course, I know that this debate is nuanced. The chief argument right now used by the pro-surveillance factions and useful idiots who support not just Flock, but the entire intelligence apparatus is that, well, you just don't like Flock or you never had a problem with them before or why are you now just getting upset? Well, the rebuttal to that is pretty simple. I don't like any company or entity that is engaging in similar practices. Flock only gets this attention because they have gone above and beyond in using subterfuge to achieve their goals and they shirk providing answers at every single possible opportunity. They call the American people terrorists for wanting to know where Flock cameras are located, but those same Flock cameras can know where you are at all times. That is the act of a hostile adversary and there is no other way to put it. As for the timing, Flock has been concerning for a long time. However, these concerns get dialed up to 11 because they are absolutely sprinting to get these sensors in place and embedded in infrastructure before anyone notices. If someone cannot understand how we might not be so concerned about one company with 100 cameras and one company with 83,000 cameras, well, I can't really help you. Scale is the problem there. Once the internet started looking into what Flock has done, we learn more and the sunlight shown on the issue illuminates the scale of the problem. In short, we should have been concerned about this years ago, but now that we know how bad the problem really is, opposing this now is a better late than never situation. So, we know that this is a pretty hot button topic, don't we? But, what do these cameras actually do? Well, first of all, we need to change our vocabulary. These are not just cameras. In fact, I would argue that the camera portion of these sensors is probably the least important part of it. Flock calling these automated license plate readers is a huge lie by omission. Yes, these cameras can indeed log license plates, but that's not their primary function. Their purpose is to provide an electronic fingerprint of vehicles and people. To accomplish this, they of course have high resolution cameras and AI-driven object detection. They scan the entire vehicle, not just getting the plate, but the color, any kind of defects in the vehicle, any kind of bumper stickers, the passengers in the vehicle to associate the face with the car that's driving it or the passengers. They're logging everything. I cannot directly confirm if Flock itself does this with every device, so I will speak parenthetically and hypothetically to avoid getting in trouble, but the technology does exist to conduct lidar scans of vehicles and also people, which provide a more accurate dimensional map of whatever goes in front of the sensor. In short, it is possible that a lot of these cameras are providing high-resolution 3D models of whatever goes in front of them. Certainly not all, maybe not the ones that we can see, maybe the ones we can't see. Just speculating there. Unfortunately, because Flock has not entirely been forthcoming regarding what their sensor platforms actually do, and the technical specs of each individual device, where they're located, and what the internal sensors are, we have to make a best guess sometimes. And my personal opinion is that I think that these devices are doing more than what they say they are. There has always been a battle between liberty and safety, and a lot of police officers like the cameras that they have access to because of the capability that they provide in quickly catching criminals in some cases. Turns out Flock also lies about that much of the time, too, and because Flock has such an aversion to telling the truth, we cannot take anything they say at face value. They don't even want us knowing where these Flock cameras are located, much less what the guts of the insides look like. To be sure, a lot of the concerns we have with Flock are grounded in confirmed fact, not fiction, hyperbole, or emotion. Flock's entire business model is the complete opposite of transparency, and because of this extreme secrecy, we have to make educated guesses as to what they might be doing with this sensor network, and we have to take those theories, and we have to investigate further. But that's not even the most important part. We have to be able to make decisions without knowing all of the information. My question for you is how much information do you need to make a decision about what this company is doing, the future of this technology, and how much of this technology you want outside your bedroom window. What happens when Flock suffers a data breach, and the biometrics of your face are leaked to China? What happens if you're an American soldier whose face is now cataloged by Flock, a private company, and when combined with a previous breach from the Office of Personnel Management, a foreign adversary can cross-reference that data to now know where you live, your wife and children's names, and everything about you. What about the US Air Force convoys moving nuclear weapons around the country? Flock is logging them and scanning those vehicles. And who's to say they can't sell that data to China? What about the presidential motorcade that drives by a Flock camera? Does Flock have the Bluetooth device ID of Barron Trump's cell phone? I don't know, but I'd say probably. What about the cameras that are logging cargo shipments onto military bases and noting the size and shape of those cargo shipments? Their cameras are high resolution enough to measure the suspension sag of vehicles and using AI to determine the weight of that cargo combined with the general shape of a concealed object, they can probably get a lot of valuable data. Where it goes, nobody knows. But hey, what about illegal immigrants or other criminals? Well, now that is a great question because Flock explicitly states that they do not work with ICE and they do not track illegal immigrants. This is a dead to rights confession that Flock picks and chooses which crimes they want to report to those who enforce the law. They are publicly cherry-picking which laws they decide are worth following. What if they decide to protect the identity of a bank robber, but if you wave an American flag or wear a certain color of hat, then you are public enemy number one. That is, of course, a hypothetical situation, but in that situation, how do we hold Flock accountable? That's the whole point. There is no way to hold them accountable because they are a private company. You would have to take them to court and sue them, but the only way you can sue them is to know that they've harmed you in some way. And since they are a private company, they are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. They don't have to tell you if they are spying on you, but their only customer is the government. So, you get the worst of both worlds. You get the federal intelligence apparatus, but also not even the tiniest shred of accountability or even a process to get that accountability. Here's the thing. We don't actually have to let Flock explain themselves. I personally think that they had a good idea at first and they could have been the next SpaceX of security and of catching criminals. They could have had a good thing, but no, they had to mess it up by instantly betraying trust. And because of that, I think we should make an example out of them by bankrupting their company and hopefully motivating the next company, I'm looking at you Axon, to maybe rethink their actions. We do not have to sit here and listen to this company at all. We can oppose them outright. We don't have to have good faith conversations with them if we're up for it. No, your only client is the government and I am a taxpayer that pays your salary. You work for me and you don't talk to me like you're an HR representative giving me a reprimand. You should be groveling down on your hands and knees begging the American people for your privilege to receive tax dollars. You do not get to treat the American people that way. That is the brutal honest truth here. Did we not learn from COVID and what people like this on all sides of the spectrum did during that time? You do not give these people one single inch. We must nip this in the bud right now. In that vein, what can we do beyond the obvious steps which are being undertaken around the country right now? I would remind us all that this is not just a meme. This is a whole-of-society approach. Not just pushing back against Flock, but against all of the other similar companies that are racing toward this dystopian future at breakneck pace. The very bare minimum that you can do right now is know where Flock cameras are located and do your part in logging them on the map. The DeFlock group has website and a database for this and they just launched an app too, if I'm not mistaken. I would remind you though, using your smartphone in close proximity to a Flock camera is a huge no-no, so just be aware of that. They're logging your Bluetooth device and they know that it is you, your Bluetooth ID, from your phone that is next to a Flock camera. So, just know about that moving forward. This DeFlock database is also public. They have it on their GitHub as well and I'm trying to figure out how I can pull it into my own maps as well just for informational purposes, if that's allowed by the licensing. I don't actually know, but they are adding hundreds of cameras a day, Flock is, and the people around this country are logging probably way more than that. I'm just trying to catch up to the ones that are already out all around the country, so this database is changing quite quickly. Um, but again, Flock can't recommend them enough. They are trying to do the best they can, and I think that's [clears throat] a good effort. The next step is to educate your family. Most people are oblivious to what's going on around them, so something as simple as pointing out a Flock camera every time you see one is probably going to be a good idea. You don't have to be super paranoid about it all the time, of course, right? There's nuance to this and there's balance to life just in general, but if you're driving down the road, you can say, "Hey, you know what that is? That's a Flock camera." And there you go, there's your conversation starter. So, starting the conversation is very, very important. And again, Flock is not the end goal here. Flock is just a catalyst to get the conversation moving. Once people realize the insidious behavior that Flock has been engaging in over the years, maybe they're going to be more inclined to ask questions about other surveillance stuff that's going on in society that we don't know about. Maybe this is a good way to start talking about other technologies as well, like the Alexa in your living room or your smart TV or maybe the cell phone that's in your pocket. You see, we can go a lot of different directions from this. It's just that Flock is such a perfect issue to start with because it is right there, is in your community, and this company has demonstrated that they are malign actors. This leads into the next topic, which is to start thinking about data security. Once again, I'm not saying that I would recommend always carrying your phone around in a signal blocking Faraday bag or to go out and, you know, outfit your whole wardrobe with like anti-AI ball caps and clothing and stuff like that. I mean, you can if you want, but for most of us this is just not feasible. We have to live life even under the umbrella of mass surveillance. We've been surveilled for 20, 30, 50, 100 years by the federal government anyway, and it's going to be a hard sell to get people to realize that this is a clear and present danger because a lot of people just have surveillance fatigue. So, start the conversation. Start thinking about data security. Now is the time to start these thought processes. If I needed to not be surveilled by Flock, how would I do that? That's all you got to start with. The next thing you can do is be aware of what's next. This line of thinking is likely to encourage you to start researching Flock and similar adjacent technologies. Now that Flock is a starting to expand to the use of drones. Instead of these rather nefarious looking black boxes on poles, within a couple of years a Flock drone is going to be hovering over your property and there's nothing you can do about it. Or at least nothing I can encourage in the public forum, so I'll leave it there. The next thing you can do is political activism. If you are so inclined, engaging in political activism in your own way is the bare minimum. I know everybody groans when we say go call your congressman because they think it does no good. Ladies and gentlemen, if a Taliban fighter can sit on a mountain top in the Hindu Kush high above the tree line with a rusty AK and three rounds of ammunition in the magazine. He hasn't eaten in three days and he's been up there for weeks now just waiting for the chance to pop off a single round at a helicopter flying miles away. If that guy can sit on that hilltop and be that dedicated to such a hopeless mission, then I think you can stop doom scrolling for 5 minutes to fill up the voicemail inbox of your congressman. Be polite and respectful because your phone calls are being logged and recorded, but make sure they know what you think about Flock cameras and other similar technology. Think about it this way, money talks and you have to leverage any advantage you have. And if the office staff of a politician is spending 80% of their day fielding and logging phone calls from constituents, that's time not spent talking to potential donors. You are not spamming your congressman to get them to listen to you. You are spamming them because of the opportunity cost in dealing with you cost them time. Make them earn their paycheck or at least take up the time of the unpaid interns answering the phones. The final thing to think about is the carrot and the stick. We must hold people accountable, but we also must reward the good behavior, too. For the towns and cities that decide that Flock and other adjacent technologies are a bridge too far, we have to give them the good credit. You may not want to, I don't know of a single board of commissioners or a single city council anywhere in the country that is not filled with some of the most evil people on the face of the earth. But, if they decide to vote to stop this Flock stuff and to start pushing back against this surveillance effort, then you have to reward them in some way, if nothing more than just verbal praise. And also, if you are a police officer and your department uses Flock, you can decide whether or not to open up the laptop in your patrol car. We are not asking you to make a big scene. All we're asking you to do is be the good cop that we know you can be. We are done with this era of low IQ arguments against the police. We're done with that stuff. And you're not going to be able to associate a distaste for Flock with the blue-haired freaks that have been throwing bricks at you for years. It's not the same argument and you know it. We are not the drug dealer who's trying to turn a speeding ticket into a felony. Most Americans are not like that and we're not like that either. We do not want to alienate people in society who have the potential and the access to do good, but we also don't want you to alienate us, either. You have to admit that it's a pretty screwed-up world. You know this better than anybody being on the inside. Good cops get fired for no reason because somebody screeched loud enough, but the bad cops, guess what? They seem to stay on the roll no matter what. Technologies like Flock encourage all cops to treat us like criminals and it encourages us to view our cops as wardens and that is good for absolutely nobody on either side. That alone should be justification for removing them nationwide. When you turn the whole country into the Stanford prison experiment, very bad things happen to both sides and I do not want that. We know that the average beat cop has zero power to change this at the department level, but what you can do is push back wherever possible. And if you do that, it is our duty to back you up for doing the right thing. That responsibility extends to all of us. Remember the thousands of military service members, it was about 8,000 if I remember, who protested against the jab a few years ago and in doing so, they got separated from service? How many of you applauded them for doing so and said that that was the right thing to do? Now, how many of you gave them a job after you encouraged them to quit because they were serving a tyrannical entity? It's the same thing now. If we want to good cops, we have to support the ones that do the right thing. And right now, it seems like many cops do the right thing eventually get fired. We have to remember that. No matter what we do, we have to get serious. We have to do everything within our rights as Americans to not just push back on these efforts, but also refuse to let people like this dictate what it means to be an American. For far too long, we have entertained the concept of reaching across the aisle to the point that we compromise our own beliefs by even having the argument in the first place. Mr. Rahul Sidhu here is insinuating that we have to engage with them. No, we don't. I am an American, and it is my right to dislike you or your company for any reason whatsoever. I don't have to view you as an equal to me. I don't have to give you the talking stick, and I don't have to grant you any leeway to twist my words against me. We are done with the era of debates, at least with people like this. While it is instrumental to talk out these things amongst our selves, we are not obligated to listen to the opinions of people who want to enslave us, or in some cases kill us for our views. Once you cross that line, as Flock has, we are done. And we're going to not just stop this discourse, but we're going to move it back in the other direction, towards something good. Even if we have to, for now and while we still can, fight in the shade.

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. Today I thought I would take some time to explain some of the updates to the mapping projects that I'm working on because things have gotten quite expansive. It's become quite a large uh endeavor and there are a few different things that I think might be helpful to explain in this sort of format. I didn't want to bury this in the weekend update this week. So I wanted to have a a dedicated video that I can point people to in the future when they have a question about something like an online map or a data layer or something like that. So, just keep that in mind if you're watching this in the future. This is how things stand as of April 2025. If you're watching this several months or even years in the future, things may be a little bit out of date because this is uh changing rather quickly. This is kind of a developmental thing. So, when developmental things are talked about, things change quite a bit. At the moment, I've got four main lines of effort which are in various stages of completion. The first most obvious one that you guys probably have seen me talk about quite a bit are the online maps. So, I am working mostly within the ArcGIS ecosystem. Now, there's pros and cons to this, which we'll get into in a moment, but right now, this is mostly an onlinebased mapping system. I know not perfect, but it's what I'm going with for now. And this will become apparent as to why in a moment. So, the online maps, I have two of them at the moment. One of them is the main one, the SIP cop main, the common intelligence picture, common operating picture main. Uh, I've just renamed it to being the common intelligence picture. It's the main map that I throw most things on. If there's an event going on around the world, check this map and chances are I will probably be zoomed into it watching it or I will be plotting stuff. This is the working document. This is the main place to be for anything going on around the world. I have an entirely separate map altogether for tracking events or showing data layers pertaining to the border crisis. So the United States Mexico border crisis. I have been working on this for a while. And the reason that I have this on a completely separate map altogether is because the the types of data layers that I'm going to need to display on that map are going to be very different than what I'm going to display on the main uh map. So, since these are online maps and they're very very heavy on the RAM usage by a computer, it's really best to keep things as as simple as possible and to keep, you know, tens of thousands of points off of maps if if if you can help it. So, the border crisis map is going to have a lot of imagery overlays. is going to have a lot of random points, a lot of layers that I can bring in from other people and it's it's going to be worthy of its own separate map. So that's why I have things arranged that way. If something else goes on around the world, I already have templates already kind of in my, you know, hidden in in my folders so that I can activate a special map for a special region just in case things start popping off in a very significant way around the planet that would require me to have a separate map for that. The other main project I have is what I'm calling the dashboard. Now, ArcJS calls this experiences. It's their marketing term for essentially a dashboard. The reason that it's a little bit confusing is because ArcGIS actually has a separate feature called the dashboard feature, but it really sucks. It's not helpful. So, the experiences is kind of the way to refresh that. And essentially what it is is a way of for me to display a lot of different stuff in a dashboard format. So, I can display the main uh map. I can bring in the border crisis map. So I kind of leave that. I can display two maps at the same time. I can show multiple of the same map but zoomed into different areas of the planet. So uh for instance I just kind of tend to zoom into places which are a little bit you know more helpful. Something's going on someplace I can zoom in but it's all displaying the same map. I can also display things like maps and charts. I can bring in my Obsidian notes. Uh for those of you who are aware, I all of my wire reports, all of the clickable sources and links for how I put together these uh intelligence reports, all of that is contained within Obsidian, a a sort of third party uh notetaking app. But what I can do is bring that in to the dashboard so that I can display text on the screen and I can update it in real time. So this is something that is I don't know how common it is. cuz I when I was doing this professionally, it wasn't very common at all. But it probably should be more common for I guess uh more professional intelligence groups to have this kind of architecture for arranging how their talk is laid out, their tactical operations center. Right? So essentially what you want to have in your office uh if you're so inclined or you're interested in this kind of thing is you can dedicate an entire monitor to this. So, I created this map dashboard solely for that reason, so that you can throw this uh web page up on a monitor if you've got a spare monitor. You can even throw it up on a projector and just use that. But it's kind of a one-stop shop place where you can someone can walk in, look at this for 30 seconds, and understand what's going on around the world. So, that's kind of the way uh that that works uh with the dashboard. Now, the cons with the dashboard is that it pulls a lot a lot of memory from your web browser. So, chances are if you're running the dashboard, at least for me, I mean, my computer's not that bad. But generally speaking, if I've got the dashboard up, I can't really run anything else in that browser. So, I don't know, your experience may vary, but that's kind of the way uh I use it at the moment is just kind of having a one-stop shop, one screen look at look at the screen to see what's going on around the world. The next line of effort is what I'm calling the Nexus. Now, this is something new. I have not announced this, so this is the first time you're probably hearing about this. So this is essentially ArcGIS has in their ecosystem a very primitive and very simple website builder. So this is what this is. This is what I'm calling the S2 underground nexus. It's just a website template, but it's it's a little bit different than a normal website in that I can bring in a lot of other things inside the ArcGIS ecosystem such as maps. I can show my online map on the web page. I can bring in YouTube tutorials. I can bring in uh other things such as surveys. So on the Nexus, the Nexus will be the chief spot for filing reports. So yes, I finally have not just one but a series of tip lines that you can go in and file a report on. So if you are interested in submitting information, the Nexus here, this is going to be the chief spot for sending me information uh about something going on around the planet. And you can see on the Nexus what kinds of reports are there. So I've got multiple ones. I've got a general tip line. I've got things for spotting aircraft and drones and all kinds of stuff, right? So if you're more of a sigant guy, you're more of a radio nerd and you start picking up hostile radio transmissions, you can go in and there's a special report format for that uh to let me know about these sorts of things. But there's also things like logistical shortages. So, if you go to the grocery store and see that, oh, wow, we're going through another another bout of uh logistical challenges or supply shortages. Remember the COVID years where everything was out of stock or something like that and I was tracking all these logistical shortages around the country? Well, now there's a better way for doing that. You can even scan the barcode of uh items uh just using your phone and report it to me that ah this this item is out of stock. So, I don't know how much use these are going to get right now. I'll talk about that in a moment. But right now, this is kind of the the ecosystem that I'm setting up. Now, again, this may be a gigantic failure. I have no idea. I would be willing to bet that probably 90% of what people submit is not going to be helpful or or usable, but we're going to give it a try, right? So, I've got these tools available to me, so I might as well use them. So, we'll give it a shot. And finally, all of this data, literally every bit of it, is available as a layer. So all of the things that are going to populate on the on the the online maps like the common intelligence picture or some of the stuff on the dashboard too, the online map that you guys see is just the way of visualizing that information. But really if you look down deep, it's really just a spreadsheet. And that spreadsheet has to be created by somebody, right? And that somebody's me in this case. So I'm creating a lot of feature layers that can be used and brought into other projects. So if someone has more of a uh let's just say you're working for a disaster relief group, right? and uh or even even an official group, right? You're like the Red Cross or something and you use ArcGIS in your disaster management system. Well, what that agency can do is if they have ArcGIS access, which most most of them do, you can just add my layers in and it will automatically update on their own internal maps. So, there's no telling where this data goes. As far as I know, the ArcJS uh system doesn't really have a way of uh telling who's using my layers. So, I don't have any analytics at all on any of this stuff. Uh, the only thing that I can see is how many people click on the SIP cop map. That's really it. It's just a total it's just a view counter. Uh, but other than that, I can't really see where this data is going. So, something to be mindful of, which I'll talk about in a moment. But yeah, all of this data is available for anyone who needs to use it, the raw data that is. And since it's available as a feature layer on ArcGIS online, this means that a lot of third-party tools, uh, a lot of thirdparty software packages that can pull from ArcGIS now have access to that data. So, I'm going to have to be a little bit vague on this for now because I'm aware of a few software packages that are still in development that are going to be able to pull from ArcJS online. And yeah, that'll be very, very helpful in the future. But, but for now, it's still kind of developmental. The bottom line is that even though this is underwhelming, you know, you're creating layers, so what, right? Well, it's going to be helpful later on. You would be really, really surprised to find out how hard it is to have a mapping solution where I can put a dot on a map and put a label on that dot and then share it with the world. That is really incredibly hard to do. So, so hard that uh there really aren't that many commercial solutions for it. And the ones that do exist, they don't fulfill all the requirements that we may need for say the backup data or you know uploading images or providing the sourcing for a report or something like that. This whole ArcGIS ecosystem, despite how infuriating it is, despite all the downsides, the ArcJIS ecosystem is still the best way I found for visualizing stuff like this in a more complicated way uh than than you might think. So those are the four main lines of effort that I'm working on right now. Let's go through and very briefly show you an example of what all four of these uh things look like from the end user's perspective. All right, so starting off with the common intelligence picture. This is of course the main uh bread and butter of this whole project. This is the main map that I'm using for most things. Many of you have been playing with this on your own and know how things work, but there are also a lot of features that are not entirely obvious at at face value. So, one of the first things is when you load this map in, you will see it probably zoomed in to to my view. Whenever I am working on the map and I save the map uh after loading something in or changing something, it will save it at the view that I looked at. So, for instance, today I'm I'm working on the uh wildfires in New Jersey. As you can see here, it's zoomed into New Jersey and I also have turned on a couple of layers that that might not be helpful for you. You can change that on your end, however. So, uh, for instance, let's just say you're not interested in New Jersey. You're you're trying to track some other crisis or you're looking around the around the United States or even around the world and the map gets a little bit busy. As you can see here, I have wildfire uh detection services turned on. Uh, and let's just say you don't want that. Well, you can turn that off very easily. Just go over to the layers tab, go into base data here, fire data, and you can turn it all off. Uh this is something you can do on your end. It's easy. Uh you could even turn on various things. So say you don't want the modus data, the the automatic satellite fire detection stuff and you just want the pucks from the national u wildfire agencies that plug into this. Well, here are just the wildfires, right? And if you don't want any of that, you can turn it all off. So something helpful for those of you who just want to visualize certain kinds of data. Another thing that's not entirely obvious is that these icons here, at least uh the icons that I load on on my layers, uh these are clickable. So you can actually click these layers and you will find a lot of data. So let's just say for instance, we click this icon here. We can see that it is indeed a vandalism uh incident. This is one of the Tesla attacks I suppose. And it's got the street address, the attack motive. So again, it's showing you the data that I am loading in on my end. And you can actually have clickable links to the sources for this information. So again, this is uh some of the raw uh data that you will see uh from your end. Not a lot of places do that. Not a lot of places want to share their sources and and I understand why, but if we're going to have a more holistic data driven approach, you know, we've got to have things like clickable links so that people can actually see that we're not making things up, right? And you know, we've got uh stuff like this which is very very helpful I think. So another thing that might not be very obvious, especially on mobile devices. So if you're using a smartphone to view this map, you can, but it it's not obvious that you can do this. You can select different layers and then apply filters. So for instance, I've got everything turned off here uh except for the kinetic activity tracker, the total database. So I've got that loaded in as a layer. Now, you can see here that I've got it loaded in multiple times to show the past seven days of activity and the past uh 30 days of activity. I just have that so that you can easily click on and off uh certain things. So, if you just want to see what happened in the past week, you can do that with just a single click. But really, I shouldn't have to do this because you can apply filters. So, let me show you what that looks like. So, all you have to do is click the layer here so that it's bolded and it will bring up generally the properties tab. Well, now you've got a bunch of tools here on the side that you can use to manipulate this data. So, let's go to filters and let's add a new filter. And let's say I want to only see uh the incidents that are arson. Let's see. I just want to look at arson events over the p over the whole database, right? So, uh I can just add a filter where attack type is arson. And look at that. Just arson attacks. So that's how you apply filters and you can actually get pretty crazy with this. Once this data set gets really really big and we start working with, you know, potentially hundreds of thousands of points on the map. Uh these filters are going to be a little bit more helpful. So let's just add a new one here. Let's go back. Let's add Okay, attack type is vandalism. Well, let's change that to let's see here. Well, vandalism is the biggest one right now. So let's just use that because I think it'll be a little bit more illustrative. And let's add another uh condition as well. So now what we're going to do is filter this map by attack attack types that are vandalism. So vandalism attacks and let's change it by date and let's say in the last let's say 8 weeks. So there we go. Uh now we're only seeing the vandalism attacks that have taken place in the past 8 weeks. So that's a pretty helpful way of of visualizing data if you're trying to do a little bit of data analysis. Now again, you can save this, but that's where RJS gets you. So, uh, they're going to they're going to want their subscription based off of that. So, um, you know, it's not going to be very very easy to do. It's going to save in your browser, but if you wanted to export that data somewhere, well, that's going to be a little bit harder to to get this data off of this map. But while you're viewing it, while you're using it, it's it's free. it's you don't even need to log in or anything. So, just something to to kind of keep in mind. One of the other things that you can do if you are so inclined is add more data. So, say uh you find somebody else who's got a better data set or something different, something you else you wanted to add. So, say like population demographics. I don't have that on my maps, but let's just say you wanted to do that. So, you can come in here and add a layer. Give it a second to populate. Uh you've got a couple of choices here. Living Atlas and ArcJS online. Living Atlas is uh the older format if I'm not mistaken. ARGS online is kind of the newer thing, but let's just see uh what we have here. Let's see. Well, we've got a couple of EZRI layers here for US Census populated place areas. Seems like a relatively new thing. It's it's authoritative and it's by EZRI. So, it's by the parent company for all of this. Well, now that's going to freeze my map, I think. But, uh, let's just zoom in here to a populated area like say Baltimore. And yeah, so there we go. We've got a a completely different layer that's now added to our map. And again, we can sort that if we so choose. So again, it should be clickable and it'll tell you the population of certain areas. So that may be helpful for you. Uh, it may be very useful over time. I don't know. Uh, but you can definitely add in other data. Now, of course, when you refresh the page, all these changes go away. So, uh it just goes back to the standard default. And that's the way this works with ARGS. If you want to save it to your own system, you're going to have to shell out for a very expensive subscription. So, again, I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for people who are just they don't want to log in. You don't want to pay for the service, but you want to have something uh to manipulate some data with. Well, you've got it with these online maps. So, let's jump over to the SIP COP dashboard, the uh dashboard product I've got going. And as you can see, it's a pretty heavy lifting product here. It takes a while to load and it it may uh stress your your computer if you're trying to run this on a laptop or something. Uh you know, good luck. I don't know. Um but it it may or may not load. But anyway, this is the dashboard product. And as you can see here, the reason that it takes so long to load is because it's loading four separate maps or however many maps that I want to put on it, uh, and all of these background projects. So, so say you don't really care about a certain area that I care about and I'm trying to track and do things, well, you could just expand it and and not worry about it so much. So, uh, the the really the world's your oyster here. You can do all kinds of stuff. Say you don't really care about my charts and data. Well, you can just drag it down and make it disappear. Uh likewise uh you can also since this is embedded in in most of the dashboards that I'm going to be using uh you can also access all of my Obsidian notes. So I think that's pretty helpful. So say you want a wire report uh you want to read the wire report in the actual map itself. You can um the default is obviously uh going to be set to the uh situation report. So, if there's some kind of situp that needs to happen, if I need to have text on screen to show a readable summary of what's going on or what's happened so far, I can do that. I know that the dashboard here, this dashboard product fills a really, really niche role. Like, most people probably are not going to use this, but it's there. Uh, I can change the default zoom level so that if we've got multiple crises going on around the planet or around the country or in an area. I don't have to constantly move around and zoom and uh, you know, save the zoom level and I don't have to do any of that. I can just zoom to a specific area. This this main one here that I've got in the upper right hand corner here, this is just a zip cop main and these other two are the same map. So, it's literally the exact same map loaded three times. I've just got to zoom to different areas. So, uh, as the default, this will change. Every crisis is different, right? So, every crisis needs different data loaded. As many of you know, during, uh, some of the aircraft crashes, I was using these two panels down here uh, for live streams. So, I can actually live stream news media coverage. If there's like a YouTube live stream or something, I can put that here on the map. I don't have to just show map data. Similar story with other data. So, I can put in charts and all kinds of data analysis tools based off of the layers of what's populating on these maps. I know it's super nerdy and it's not going to be helpful for everyone, but some situations it might be pretty helpful. And while there's, you know, no crisis going on that I need to track, you know, right now, I mean, there's always a crisis, right? But if there's some kind of major geopolitical situation going on, I can configure this dashboard to be the most helpful for someone to look at it and see what's going on. So, and finally, we have the Nexus. Uh, this is again ArcJS's primitive website builder. It's not pretty. I will admit I'll make improvements on that over time, but right now, again, we're we're working with a working product here. So, I have needed a general tip line for a very long period of time, but I have been very hesitant to implement such for a variety of reasons. So, hopefully this goes well. Okay. So, if you have something to send to me, you can use this general tip line. I'll just walk through it right quick. You click the tab, it opens up in a new tab. You can do this, of course, all on your phone. It's a little bit buggy on phones right now, but I'm I'm working on it. So, just just give me a minute. Uh it's it's going to take a little bit to uh get things kind of ironed out. But here's what it looks like on the internet, right, on a web browser. And you can see it's a pretty simple thing. You can just put uh the date and time something happens. You'd be surprised uh the the number of people who do not uh know what to report. They will a lot of people and and they're good naturatured. They're they're very well-meaning. But a lot of times, I would say 95% of the time when somebody gives me a tip about something or they send something to me, I can't do anything with it because usually there's critical data missing. Date and time, that's the basics, right? When did this occur? Um, that's a very, very critical step. Another critical step is the location. And as you can see here, I have a map actually embedded in the survey here. So, you can do one of two things. uh you can either uh click the map and it will try to suck your GPS coordinate in. But for the data uh conscious, you don't have to worry about that. Uh for for the people who don't want me to know where you're at or where the location the incident is taking place, uh don't worry about it. You don't need to to do that. You can just click the map. So you just click it. Random spot in Missouri. There you go. Uh and that will give me the lat and long of where the incident takes place. The reason that I have this location data enabled is for people who are say on the street, they witness something they and they don't know where they are. Uh but they can tap the map to get their current location right. So it's not necessary. I don't want to know where uh people are sending reports from. I I just really just need to know the incident where the incident is taking place. Uh because you'd be surprised how long it takes me to figure out where something is taking place. So again, don't worry about it too much if you you share as much data as you want. The the data is just coming to me. So obviously, if you're just sending me a link of something you saw on Twitter, please do not use your own location. I don't want to know where your couch is sitting in your living room. I don't care. Uh and I should not have that information anyway. But again, the location of where the incident is taking place is critical. Uh because well, I just need to know where things happen. Otherwise, I can't put it on the map, right? Likewise, I need to know if this is legit. So, if somebody sees something or there's some kind of uh crisis or something and there's no evidence of it or there's no like amplifying information, I can't do much with it. So, I have a spot here to upload media. There is a file size limit, so please don't drop a 12-hour documentary to me. But, yeah, we'll see how we'll see how much abuse that gets. I may have to shut that down pretty quickly. Who knows? And then also contact information. Notice that it is not required. You can submit this totally anonymously. Uh yeah, I don't care. Anons run the internet, right? So if you want to put your email address, a burner email address is perfectly fine. I don't care. It would just be really nice if you're submitting something that you know is not going to get a lot of media coverage and you like have firsthand information of something. It would be really helpful to have your contact information so I can reach out if necessary to get some more amplifying information. Uh because again I fully expect all of these reports to be abused quite thoroughly by malign actors, by spammers, you name it, right? So I fully expect a lot of false information to to be put into these forms. So I'm going to have to filter this quite a bit on my end. But coming back to the other forms, you can go and check them out on your own. Really, you can kind of see where I'm going with this. I'm frontloading effort. I don't expect hardly anyone to go to the grocery store and tell me when they don't have a can of beans on the shelf. But if there are major logistical shortages, again, like during the COVID years, I have a survey. I have a report format already there. So again, if we just open up the logistical shortages one, it's different. It's these are not all the same uh form uh that I need different information. So again, the date of when something occurs, the store name, and the good experiencing shortage. You can even scan uh barcodes with this. I don't know how well that feature is going to work. I guess we'll see. But either way, all of these reports are different. Same thing if you're a SIG nerd. Um we're trying to get ahead of the game with regards to things like jamming and signals interference. As we all know from the Ukrainian war, signals are important and it's going to be a little bit more of a problem as time goes on. For instance, even with my own ghost net, my own highfrequency radio network, I've experienced deliberate jamming. We don't necessarily have to wait for the war in Ukraine to kind of come to our modern society for these things to start existing already. So again, this is just a standard sort of military like uh signals intelligence interference report, right? And of course, it's very very different. It's it's just something that might be helpful. Of course, this is not linked to the FCC in any way. I'm just some guy on the internet, so this is just helping me out to figure out uh where jamming incidents are occurring. I don't think this is going to get too much use, but who knows if you I would assume that most of these is going to come from Ghostnet users who uh want to tell me that they got jammed during the net. So that was that's probably my guess as to where most of this use is going to come from. But again, there are plenty of others. This one, for instance, the report a drone sighting. This is solely in response to the New Jersey drone crisis from a while back. As you remember, nobody really set up a succinct, you know, processed master database for all of the drone reports. It's just people who were plotting what they saw on Twitter. There was no one place for people to report a drone sighting to people like me who were going to plot it on a map. Right? So again, if we have another hysterical case of drone sightings going on around the country, well, look, I've already got the form for that. So again, that's kind of the way things stand for now. Uh also on this Nexus tab, you can see some of the other products. You can click uh clickable links for the different different maps. I've got YouTube tutorials. My ghost notes are here as well. So again, it's just kind of a central hub, a nexus, right, for a lot of the data that I'm using geospatial products for. So I know that that is a lot of information to take in at the moment. It's it's quite a lot to to kind of start implementing now. But if you'll just give me a few more moments, let's cover the issues and improvements. So as you might imagine, there are some significant downsides to this whole line of effort that I'm doing. And one of the major problems with this is decentralization, or rather the lack of it. This is purely a centralized effort. All of the report formats, if you were to submit something, it's just going to come to me. Literally nobody else. Just me. All of the mapping stuff, all of these data layers, all of these online maps, it's all being managed by just me, right? And being a single point of failure is not good uh to me. I I don't like that. Now, of course, this is my work, right? So, it's going to have to have a level of single point of failure for now, but once it starts getting into more widespread use, I hope that this data at least can be used by other people. Of course, security concerns are very real uh these days. So, you know, if something happens to me, uh this whole project is going to die on the vine because not really anybody else can contribute to it. Nobody else can manage these things. Now, the data will hopefully be there as long as my account's there. But again, it's a single point of failure, and I don't like that. So, I would much rather have the ability for someone to, you know, ever so often do a pull uh pull all of my data and store it locally if they want to use it so they can build on it later on. ArcJS makes this relatively easy if you're in their ecosystem, but it's very expensive. It's not free. It's not it's not easy uh either to get involved with ARJS's ecosystem. So, you know, it's a hard thing to do. So, something I'm going to be working on in due time. I don't know how effective it's going to be, but I'm going to try to make this a little bit more decentralized because I just don't like being a single point of failure. Sort of along the same lines are the end user considerations. Again, this data is not very easy to use sometimes if you want to just use the raw data. So, I know that it is not uh the easiest thing to work with in the world and that is a problem. Now, ArcGIS, Ezri, really the parent company has made progress by leaps and bounds over the past few years to make GIS something that normal human beings can understand to some degree. Of course, that's a very loaded statement because this is some of the most complex stuff you could possibly do. Uh, it's not easy to do. There are whole professions, whole careers built around people understanding GIS. It's one of those things that if you understand it, you can potentially make a lot of money at it. But not a lot of people want to go through the effort of spending years and years and years of their life learning how to use this one software program. So either way, for the end user, that just means that it's hard to use, and that that's not good. So I'm working on making it a little bit easier for people who want to use this data, and they don't have to go through the mumbo jumbo of working through some of these really complicated ways of visualizing this data like I have to do on my end. sort of in the same vein as symbology. I know that the symbols are very confusing sometimes on the map. You may be wondering why am I using the certain symbols that I'm using. Well, for those of you who look at this map and don't understand what these symbols are. These are military standard 2525 symbols. So, these are a military format. And the reason that I'm using that is because it's a common standard. the entirety of NATO, most of the world uh uses this symbology in a more of a in more of a wartime setting for wartime mapping, uh things like that. I have found that it is the best way of using symbology on a map. Even though it's not very intuitive, I think it's the best way of visualizing this type of data on a map. If I were to start mapping say logistical problems and things like that, I'll use different symbols. But for say the kinetic activity tracker uh that data layer that that feature class there are symbols for all of these things. So I think using a common format is probably the way to go. Not only because it's a common format and my own symbols probably won't mean very much. They mean something to me but they may not mean something to you. Not only because of that but also because it's probably a very good idea to start learning what these symbols are. For instance the two I have here on the screen the blue rectangle. You know, blue rectangles are a friendly unit. Red diamonds are a an enemy unit or an adversary unit. So, in this case, you're looking at a friendly helicopter landing zone or HLZ. And uh the enemy one is an enemy light infantry unit. So, again, all of these things mean something. It's going to take time to learn what they are. But I think that by putting them in my mapping products, it will be helpful for the general public or the the more prepared public, right? The more the more informed citizen, right, to start understanding what these symbols are as best we can, right? I think it'll be very helpful in the future. So that's what I'm I'm doing with that. But again, when it comes to the enduser considerations, bringing this data in is going to be very helpful. Using it offline is going to be helpful. I know these are off these are online maps right now, right? How how helpful is that in the field? Well, it's not. Now, this was very helpful during the Los Angeles wildfires uh few weeks ago, couple months ago now. And because cellular traffic did not go down, so you've got this crisis where people need to know where to go. They need to know where the fire is located and a live updating map if you have cell service is really, really great. Now, obviously, if you don't have cell service, it's useless. But we're working on it. I'm working on offline uh ways of of manipulating and storing this data. So, one of the main ways that we can do this is by integrating with other products. And one of the bigger ones that I'm sure many of you are asking about is ATAC. Can my data be integrated into ATAC? The answer is yes and no. In classic fashion, many of you may not be aware, but there is an ATAC plugin for ArcGIS, but it's not available to the public. It's only available to the government. So, if you are a government user of ATAC, yeah, it's easy. You just add the plugin and you can pull in my data layers and see everything that I have put on the map on a tech. Really handy. But for the rest of us plebs and taxpayers, it's not possible. Uh at least not with that plugin. What you have to do is a lot of workaround. You have to export this data uh from the you have to export each layer. It's not easy. I can tell you it's not. It's possible, but it's not easy. So I think that the workaround for now is for me to generate if something goes down for me to generate KMZs that you can download and integrate into ATAC. That's just a a file format that's that's more readily common. It's usable with Google Earth and ATAC. And I think that's probably how I'm going to do it. But give me some time. I I got to work on this a little bit more because right now there's no real one-click way of integrating this data into ATAC that's easy for people to do on their end. Um it's possible. There's workarounds. It's just not easy. So, give me some time on that. Another thing I'm working on is automation. I'm trying to streamline the process to make things a little bit easier for me to do on my end. Now, this is a touchy subject because, well, I want to automate things to make things as easier for me and for you as possible, but at the same time, I don't want to just be a simple aggregator of data. And what I mean by that is you may not you're you're not going to see it on your end, but on my end, say these drone reports, say you go in and you file a drone report and you give me the location, you give me all the data that I need, and you click submit. Okay, cool. Well, on my end, I have the ability to turn on a layer which allows that survey response, that report response to autopop populate on the map without me checking it at all. You know, I can do that. Uh, but you guys might understand how that's a little bit dangerous to be doing. So, I don't want to do that so much. So really when you click submit it just comes into my dashboard and I have to go through and manually look at each specific report, figure out what it means and then generate my own puck on the map if I think that it is worthy of putting on the map. You can see how this brings in a lot of subjectivity, right? So now we're starting to add a person in between the raw data and what's displayed to the public. Again, this is 2025. Working on the internet is just not possible without doing that to some degree if you want to have a quality product. So there's going to have to be some interpretation. One of the things that you know may be a problem is say you've got a let's just take the drone example for instance. Somebody a drone flies over Newark again and I've got 200 reports of the same exact drone. Well, does that mean that I have 200 drones? No. It means that I have one drone that was seen by 200 people that filed 200 reports. We don't need 200 pucks on the map. Again, a lot of these uh things are going to have to be interpreted by a person. They're going to have to be processed by a person, in this case me, and that's going to bring in subjectivity. A lot of you are going to submit things that I don't think is worth putting on the map or it doesn't really fit with what I'm trying to do with the map. And, you know, people might get upset about that. A lot of people are going to post spam or fake information and I'm going to have to go through and verify all of this stuff, right? Just because somebody reports something doesn't mean it's true. So, there's going to have to be a lot of background work on my end. These report formats are just to make it easier on me. Uh so I don't have to ask questions. I don't have to go back and forth and I don't have to spend hours digging uh because somebody just sent me a tweet or retweet or tagged me in something on Twitter with no context, right? But again, there's always this battle between automation of the raw data to help me out and also trying to reduce the subjectivity on my end, but also keep a lot of subjectivity in there so that you're getting a quality product. Because I tell you, if I just open this up to the internet, well, one, that's that's a very bad idea. But if I were to allow all of the reports to just autopop populate on the map like I can do, you know, you're not going to get uh the best information. So, there's going to be a lot of processing that goes on on my end that is is going to be again a single point of failure until I figure out a better solution. And all of that just kind of leads to what this whole thing is about. I know I've talked a long time today about this, but really I'm just trying to convey to you what I am trying to frontload and what I'm trying to work on for later. Most of this stuff is not going to be helpful now. I honestly don't know if it will ever be helpful. I'm hoping that it will be, but right now I'm just getting the effort, the work, the templates, all this stuff done on my end so that when a crisis happens around the world, we can easily display the data that is helpful for people in need. That's really what this whole thing is about, to streamline this process, make it easy, because I tell you, you know, trying to go through an ARJIS tutorial that's 4 hours long during the middle of a a minute-by-minute crisis, that's not the time for that sort of thing. If I have a bug or I have to have a problem within this on my end with regards to my learning of ArcGIS, the time to learn is now, right? Similar situation for you guys on your end. The time to learn how to use these mapping tools is now, not during a crisis. Because I can tell you if I were to, you know, just say, you know, Xe event occurs, go in there for all of you, hop into the Nexus and start pushing me information if you've got it. Nobody would know what that means without this video to explain, right? If I were to say, hey, look, dashboard is up. I've got the SIP cop updated as well. Nobody knows what that means unless I've explained it beforehand. So really, this is just kind of a front-loading of the effort so that if something important happens around the planet, we can more easily understand what's going on and it's kind of, you know, bringing bringing the team together, right? So hopefully this has been helpful for many of you. I know this is very longwinded way to talk about online maps. Can you think of anything more boring? I I know, right? It's it's not the most entertaining stuff, but this is the kind of thing that wins wars and saves lives. Uh I know that it it may not seem like it, but it does. Now, of course, we don't want to say this is the best thing since sliced bread, right? But this is some of the more boring things that we have to work through that are going to build the infrastructure for uh cooler stuff later on. Many of you can probably read between the lines on some of the stuff I've said today and some of the stuff I've covered and you can maybe uh see where I'm going about, you know, ways of of using this information in the future, other things we can bring in, other ways of automating things. So, I I'll leave that for a future update. But for now, this is the way things stand and it is, I think, a pretty good start. So, thank you all of you who have stuck with me through this and I'm really excited to see where this goes. I really do appreciate it. And again, a special thank you to all of you on Patreon who have supported me through this uh endeavor and getting this thing going. I I know that it's uh not the most entertaining thing sometimes, but I really do appreciate this because in due time, this is going to be uh one piece of the puzzle that is going to help out some of the other projects we're working on. Right? As you can see, maybe we can tie in a lot of the stuff we've already built. Maybe tie in the ghost net a little bit more. You see where we're kind of going with this? All of it will become a little bit more clear in due time as as we can get more organized and and get some of this uh uh workload out the door. So, I would not have been able to do this at all without your support on Patreon. So, thank you so much for that. So, that's all I have for today. I know I've talked way too long already, but thank you guys all again for watching, and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

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