Artist, writer & activist. Author of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Rescued Farm Animals.
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DHS just confirmed the plan to roll out a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces to verify their immigration status. Agency said this is related to the 287(g) program; more than a thousand local and regional police departments are part of that www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...
it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.
ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.www.404media.co
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.www.hollywoodreporter.com
Republicans only hate bureaucracy if it makes it harder for rich people to get richer.
Police officers across the country are abusing their unfettered access to Flock's nationwide network of automatic license plate readers to stalk their exes. This is a dangerous violation of our privacy.
Our communities must continue to fight back against this invasive surveillance tech.
This story starts out fun and badass and ends extremely sad
This is Diesel. His bed has been taken over by a two-pound kitten. Wondering if you can ask them to please move. He is too scared. 13/10 (TT: lahdeedahdee)
Another great comms day for the dipshits at Flock www.404media.co/flock-leaked...
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There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
"Whether the data center resistance is a blip or a beginning of a new political imagination, it refutes the idea that you cannot have it all: populist energy, an economic message and a multiracial coalition that crosses class divides, in the South and beyond."
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June 11, 1926: The police raid a lesbian-friendly cafe in New York City’s Greenwich Village and arrest its owner, Eva Kotchever. Eve’s Hangout is a discreet hole in the wall where avant-garde poetry is read, sexual topics are freely discussed and a sign reads: “Men are admitted but not welcome.” 1/3
Mayor Elyse Tipton said while she trusts local South Portland police to use the data properly, she's worried it could be misused by other agencies that have access.
“The only way to make sure the data is not misused is to not collect it to begin with," she said Thursday.
this is my pandacam www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
Republicans always like to pretend that they hate "government bureaucracy," but they love putting up every possible bureaucratic hurdle to people getting health care.
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After city councilors voted to disable them in South Portland, city officials said the Flock cameras are no longer sharing data with Maine agencies. Contractors will remove the cameras as soon as poss...
