📚 VPDLNY Tools

Vulnerable Persons Defense League of New York — open-source intelligence toolkit

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Who We Are

VPDLNY (Vulnerable Persons Defense League of New York) is a collective of technologists, artists, and researchers based in New York City.

Our mission: use knowledge and information — never violence — to defend marginalized and vulnerable people against powerful entities and institutions.

Information asymmetry is how the powerful stay powerful. We close the gap.

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Our Tools (All Open Source)

Tool	Description	Status
FaceHeatMap	US facial recognition contract tracker	🟢 Live
WarHeatMap	Global conflict intelligence platform	🟢 Live
StraitTracker	Strait of Hormuz geopolitical intelligence	🟢 Live
CapWatch Public	Capitol surveillance tracker	🟢 Live
EdgeIntel	OSINT news aggregation platform	🟢 Live
CF OSINT Toolkit	Cloudflare Workers OSINT patterns	🟢 Open Source
Bluesky Campaign Engine	AT Protocol campaign automation	🟢 Open Source
VibesMom	AI mental health support bot	🟢 Open Source

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Architecture Philosophy

All VPDLNY tools are built on the same stack:

Cloudflare Workers  (edge compute, zero cold start)
     + D1           (SQLite at edge, primary data)
     + KV           (cache, flags, rate limits)
     + R2           (images, documents, blobs)
     + Anthropic Claude (AI reasoning)
     + AT Protocol  (Bluesky, open social)
     + Bitcoin      (sovereign payments, no middlemen)

No AWS. No GCP. No Azure. No vendor lock-in. No surveillance capitalism.

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Quick Deploy (Any Tool)

Each tool in this org deploys as a standalone Cloudflare Worker:

# 1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/indicaindependent/<tool-name>
cd <tool-name>

# 2. Install Wrangler
npm install -g wrangler
wrangler login

# 3. Create required D1 / KV bindings (see each repo's README)
wrangler d1 create <db-name>
wrangler kv namespace create <kv-name>

# 4. Set secrets
wrangler secret put ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

# 5. Deploy
wrangler deploy

All tools require only a Cloudflare account (free tier) and an Anthropic API key.

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Support the Mission

All tools are free at the point of use. If you find them useful:

₿ Bitcoin: bc1qyrtasy0naxauhf3yeg05ztu2x5vmx9jxjzsq2a

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Get Involved

• 🐛 Open an issue on any tool repo
• 🔧 Submit a PR — all contributions welcome
• 🦋 Follow on Bluesky
• 💬 Join the Discord

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_{Staten Island, NYC | Founded 2026 | Building for the vulnerable}