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You can really see this cop deliberately take aim at the reporter while she talks to the camera They are often intentional like this, but it's not always caught on video so clearly

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

"it's not peaceful for people to be on the highway" -LA Mayor Karen Bass right now. This is what I mean when I say the word "peaceful" as applied to protesters is about prescribing placidity, not nonviolence. Calmly marching on a freeway is pretty inarguably nonviolent. " Peaceful" you can debate

submitted 11 hours ago • 136 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

There is also a fundamental inconsistency in the premise of such tools. It means you think 1) Students shouldn't trust AI to do their work 2) Teachers should trust AI to assess the authenticity of student work

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a great episode

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Reduce stranger murders by a third with this one weird trick

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

talking with @miriamcb.bsky.social reminded me of a project I did a while back mapping Chicago's school attendance boundaries. My goal was to identify what I call "zone proximity conflicts", places where the zoned school is not the closest school. There are a lot! publicdatatools.com/zpc_map.html

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

talking with @miriamcb.bsky.social reminded me of a project I did a while back mapping Chicago's school attendance boundaries. My goal was to identify what I call "zone proximity conflicts", places where the zoned school is not the closest school. There are a lot! publicdatatools.com/zpc_map.html

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

we were recently asked in an interview how we handle the stress of ~waves hands~ and i think about how @anthonymoser.com makes music, tools and jokes and how @aoife.bsky.social plays sports, rides buses with me and takes photos and i just love that we have each other and art in our lives ♥️

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm always talking about how much AI sucks In the words of the great @levarburton.bsky.social, "But you don't have to take my word for it"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

one reason for this is how few US newsrooms are willing to interview and hire immigrant and international journalists due to legal costs for work visas, and how often non-white immigrant perspectives are considered 'bias' instead of expertise

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

You know what else generates probabilistic answers that are sometimes true? when somebody says, "we just need to improve the accuracy" or "we can fix the hallucinations," you should think about the magic eightball An LLM is fancier, but it has the same fundamental relationship to truth

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"So what do you call this act?" "The Ethicist!"

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I think LLMs / associational models could be useful in a context that centers human judgment and uses association to surface source material the reason we don't see those approaches with "AI" companies is that "AI" isn't about the technology. It's a political project to centralize power

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The police exist to preserve inequality with violence. And the amount of force increases proportional to the amount of inequality

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone is curious about the air quality in London, Ontario rn or the fact that n95s keep shizz out of your lungs…

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

LAPD firing impact munitions at Los Angelenos while DHS arrests their neighbors.

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

"The governor of California is the host of a conservative podcast" is a simple literally true sentence

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

To be fair it's easy to be vindicated when your commitment is "the border Gestapo are evil and should not exist" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

it's upsetting to see alders doing a dog and pony show instead of going through vulnerable points in city services to prevent things like this. all of this is highly predictable, if you make lists of undocumented people, they can be used ....

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

transparency and surveillance are two sides of the same glass

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

i played a small role in helping shape the original implementation of citikey after trump got elected the first time. the core principle was *do not make a government list of vulnerable people* for this precise scenario. this is a gross betrayal of the public trust. valencia should resign.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

WHAT THE FUCK!

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CityKey was originally designed to be safe by explicitly not collecting the exact information ICE is now going after. Chicago made a deliberate choice to start keeping those records in *December 2024* which is, notably, AFTER November 2024

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I was reminded today that the Public Access Counselor in Illinois, which is supposed to review FOIA decisions by public bodies, has thousands of unresolved cases dating back to 2018 #FOIAfriday

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