My “non refundable” hotel reservation was just canceled because they overbooked. Fantastic. I booked months in advance because the season is starting and everything books up fast. I checked my credit card, and the inn declined the charge yesterday, but visa said it was nothing on their end. The owner offered one of their Airbnb properties, but I despise Airbnb and stayed at this inn because it was local owned and not a chain. Also, Airbnb doesn’t have catered breakfast and dinner, so not the same experience at all if I have to keep doing housework on vacation.

The whole thing feels sketchy now. I should have just booked a chain. Everything is booked solid, I may just change where we go. Maybe sante fe instead. Or what’s the ufo town in New Mexico? Maybe go there and see if the mothership comes to get me.

#Flock is a company that sells #surveillance equipment. Constantly running cameras that track car tags, colors, and a new product called Nova which combines LPR data with people lookup tools, data brokers, and *data breaches* to “jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person. There are about 5000 municipalities that have these readers installed.

#Police don't need a warrant to search the Flock database, and access to one database is Access to ALL databases, so cops in Florida can troll through Iowa's Flock records. Without A Warrant. That part is important.

#ICE is using cops to search Flocks data to find easy targets to deport. Taxpayers are paying for the privilege of being surveilled by the Gestapo. Who could possibly have foreseen this? (I mean, besides everyone left of Eisenhower...)

https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/

Hey, some fun news! Sir Ian McKellen is headlining an all #trans and #nonbinary reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It’s a delightful play with much playing with #gender and the understanding of it. I’m very excited and am buying livestream tickets. 🥰

#theatre #arts #plays #Shakespeare #yay #GoodNews

(Edit to add hashtags)

https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-ian-mckellen-to-open-historic-all-trans-and-nonbinary-production-of-twelfth-night-484397/