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The quest for a straight white ethnostate already has so many victims. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/27/i...

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Dave Parker. Sigh. As a kid, I loved the Pirates, the As, Reggie Jackson, and J.R. Richards. What a loss. andscape.com/features/dav...

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The latest gymnastics by the Times to not see what is glaringly obvious is something else. As if these two developments are completely unrelated to each other 🙄 To say it plainly, the clamor for “the principle of neutrality” is the Trojan horse for extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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There is a reason that my Facebook account going back to 2010 and and IG started in 2013 had zero photos of friends and family. Meta is using your photos for AI and now they are expanding to use your unpublished photos: www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...

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I have been a friend of Diana since we became colleagues in LA County’s Office of Independent Review in 2010. She is one of the most thorough and tenacious lawyers with whom I’ve ever worked. So, of course, she repeatedly pissed off the Sheriff’s Department and became a target for retaliation.

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I spent time early this morning reading the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Community Safety plan. It is far from radical. In fact, it’s a sensible plan that closely reflects the very innovations to get upstream of harm that my team funded from 2020-23. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“If we know somebody is coming here to do warrantless abductions of the residents of this city, those are not our partners. I don’t care what badge they have on or whose orders they’re under. They’re not our partners.” — LA City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Personnel shell game, where DEA agents have been dragooned into immigration raids, so the Guard is now backfilling the agency.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Passing innovative policies and running a city are two completely different animals. It’s the latter that is excruciating, relentless, mostly thankless and sometimes soul-crushing. It’s the most satisfying work I ever did, but be careful what you ask for.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This will be the coda to the most bizarre negative campaign I’ve seen. Every pro-Cuomo ad elevated Mamdani’s positions with an assumption that voters would be turned off. What they did instead was normalize his platform and made Mamdani increasingly more attractive outside the progressive circle.

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It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

This is an excellent summary of the woeful state of privacy amid the rapid emergence of the normalization of surveillance as more governments lurch towards authoritarianism.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.

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When I went to Houston frequently, I’d go see the Rockets when they were a 15 win team. It was clear that Jalen Green was a future star. Will this trade of him for an aging KD be like the Clippers letting go of SGA for Paul George? (this finals wouldn’t have been w/o PG trades)

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A big deal is being made about Tesla “robotaxis” debuting in Austin. Caveats include that they are geofenced, by invite only, and have a human safety monitor on board. All things Waymo didn’t need during my ride in Austin this April.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

overheard while one of the not the least bit Islmaphobic anti-Mamdani ads played here in New York: “Why is he so hot in every photo they picked?”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

To that candidate and aligned PAC that are tailoring their mailers based on assumptions of what certain surnames suggest about their politics — good luck with RCV!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Yet another reason why AI writing police reports (it got picked up by the body worn camera so it must be relevant!) is such a bad idea and renders probable cause declarations meaningless. Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/b...

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Without so-called “publicity stunts,” there would be no attention paid to how DHS is manipulating immigration proceedings to trigger deportations without hearings. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

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Guys. One of the primary talking points of Flock Safety is interagency visibility of plate data. I’ve seen the demos. I sat with police chiefs who have Flock back in 2023. They all lift it up as a virtue. To act surprised shows how behind policy makers are went it comes to surveillance technology.

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“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

del.ico.us -> pocket -> raindrop.io Nearly two decades of bookmarks keep traveling.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Here in Chicago- at least at Miller’s - it’s Pacers country.

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Tomorrow, Council will vote on a settlement for Claude Garrett. It pales to his suffering, but I hope it brings some small healing to his family. His story is one of injustice. Since he can’t be here, please read his story & think of him. @lilianasegura.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/05/14/c...

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Tomorrow is here - now we just need to wait for the jump from plant safety to public safety: www.siemens.com/global/en/co...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

My parents came to America for my dad’s post-doc fellowship and stayed. The discoveries he made in atmospheric physics still shapes policy decades later. We won’t even know what we are losing but the impact will be felt for many years.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Is anyone that disappointed that Apple is behind on AI? 9to5mac.com/2025/06/01/g...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

It is tricky to attribute changes in crime to one particular factor. Mayor Johnson tries anyway and credits 200 more detectives leading ⬆️ clearances. % of being caught does have a deterrent effect, but only if actual perpetrator is caught. So no wrongful arrests! chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/0...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

@404media.co with yet another example of untested unregulated AI tools being developed for law enforcement use. This one let’s anyone with a credit card create a profile of a YouTube user by analyzing their comments. www.404media.co/developer-bu...

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This could be a big deal. There was a “where did this come from?” reaction to the 10-year moratorium on state and local AI regulations in the House reconciliation bill. Senators are now asking the same question and the potential answer is surprising. www.theverge.com/news/676378/...

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Five years after George Floyd, one of the remaining positive outcomes is the growth of alternative responses to policing. My friend, @barryfriedman1.bsky.social, with Max Markham and Scarlet Neath, from the @policingproject.bsky.social explain why: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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