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Prosecutor or Predator? Tonight we will look at an Indiana County Prosecutor with a predator mentality. Plus a discussion on Data Poisoning and your comments and questions.
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Are Flock cameras a National Security Threat? Cyber security researcher, Joshua Michael has spent over a year building the case that they are and he has the receipts. Join me on Monday, October 12 at 7:00 pm Eastern as he joins me to share his research and findings. If you want to read the receipts before the live stream, visit his website at FlockSurveillance.org to see and download 6 GB of data showing the location of over 300,000 Flock connected devices across North America.
Here is the link to the livestream youtube.com/live/yVhUYNMCmDs
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Office Hours with Dr. Padfield begins at 7:00 pm Eastern tonight. We will be discussing privacy apps / products / services some people claim are "honeypots". We will also be discussing if private healthcare is possible in 2026 and answering YOUR questions.
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As a part of my ongoing experiment to optimize my thumbnails (and grow my channel) I am reverting back to my old style (Pre-2026) style of thumbnails. These consist of a real photo in the upper left corner, my logo in the bottom left corner and stock art photos (or screen shots) with a text overlay covering the majority of the thumbnail.
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As promised, after receiving some negative comments on recent thumbnails and community posts in which I used AI to create illustrations, I ran a test on the video I uploaded today. I made two versions of the thumbnail for my interview with Constantine, one using AI and the other simply using a still image from our interview with the same text on the thumbnail. After nearly 13,000 views, 50.2% of my watch hours came from the AI thumbnail and 49.8% (a tie for all practical purposes) came from the non-AI version.
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