Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Lilly Irani
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Happening now, hear about fights against Flock nationwide including @sandiegotrust.bsky.social and @dsasandiego.org
dsausa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.
This will result in yet another settlement. Even if you don't give a fuck about the huge miscarriage of justice here, you should give a fuck about the fact that our city is setting records for settlements because it refuses to hold cops to account.
If you own the thing that's making up the false information, and not just reporting other people's stuff... WELP!
"a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Some STS colleagues and I have put together a list of talking points to help folks submit public comments on the proposed OMB rule jeopardizing federal research grant funding. (We also explain why submitting the comments are so important.)
Please circulate widely and submit comments *by July 13*!
Dean Cheryl Anderson if UCSD was a coauthor of the piece there experts got ejected for distributing. Scientists are standing up.
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
Hugo Parra was kept in jail for almost a month advised of a violent crime based on a flock search for a "red Alfa Romeo" and police who refused to consider exculpatory evidence. Cops accused a suburban woman in CO based on bad flock reads but they didn't jail her.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Rather than moving to the center, it is about listening campaigns visiting people where they are, building platforms for new coalitions, and constructively alleviating people's difficulties through assistance. Lessons for organizing echoing Raman's tactics in LA
convergencemag.com/articles/tis...
Archangel Beth
Very important perspective 👇
Voters in Imperial Valley reject data center developer-backed candidate. Proposed data centers could "nearly double the amount of power that the entire county used in 2024 and 750,000 gallons of water p/day." Anyone who knows imperial knows this isn't nimby politics
www.kpbs.org/news/politic...
Hugo Parra was kept in jail for almost a month advised of a violent crime based on a flock search for a "red Alfa Romeo" and police who refused to consider exculpatory evidence. Cops accused a suburban woman in CO based on bad flock reads but they didn't jail her.
James Stout
Hi all, The TL/DR A new proposed rule would dramatically empower political appointees to control who receives federal grants in the United States and what can be done with them. We provide some basi...
Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵
Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵
Financial Times
SDPD jailed the wrong person for several weeks based on Flock ALPR. Flock has led to wrongful accusation elsewhere, and now it happened here.
Tell City Council and @MayorToddGloria not a cent more for for Flock!
timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/0...
#surveillance #sandiego
SDPD jailed the wrong person for several weeks based on Flock ALPR. Flock has led to wrongful accusation elsewhere, and now it happened here.
Tell City Council and @MayorToddGloria not a cent more for for Flock!
timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/0...
#surveillance #sandiego
Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting.
The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure.
The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real.
We have to stand up.
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Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
www.science.org
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
A mass call to orient members and the general public on Flock and other Automatic License Plate Readers across North America. The goal is to provide both education & tools to build understanding of ma...
If you’re in DSA
June 11 at 8 pm: Block Flock mass call (Flock is a license plate reader used by ICE)
actionnetwork.org/events/block...
actionnetwork.org
A mass call to orient members and the general public on Flock and other Automatic License Plate Readers across North America. The goal is to provide both education and tools to build understanding of ...
