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Human filmmaker and photographer

Joined February 2021
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This segment on the study of guns is one of the best, most intense, live discussions I’ve heard—well mediated by Brian Lehrer and team, excellent journalism
Join us this Summer Friday for some recent favorites with: @_ericblanc on the Left in 2024; @innovjustice on a study of guns in Crown Hts; @fmkaplan on Oppenheimer; @katie_honan on "THE sandwich" @houreidja on hair braiders Tune in: 93.9FM, AM820, wnyc.org/radio
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This week on @onthemedia I'm making the case that the New York Times has become a tech company, set on occupying our every second. Plus, I went to the @Defector vs @HellGateNY softball game to learn about worker-owned media. It's a good show! Should be online in a couple hours
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"IMEI numbers can give police the ability to determine the location of a phone, and track communications to it and from it"
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🚨EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS TWEET🚨
.@AJLUnited has been sounding the alarm about new TSA tactics to scan your face during international travel. Today, boarding an intl flight at Boston Logan, TSA tried to scan my and @LiceagaYara faces - but we knew we could opt out! See fly.ajl.org for more info.
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.@AJLUnited has been sounding the alarm about new TSA tactics to scan your face during international travel. Today, boarding an intl flight at Boston Logan, TSA tried to scan my and @LiceagaYara faces - but we knew we could opt out! See fly.ajl.org for more info.
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Sotomayor to Thomas: "The three Justices of color on this Court graduated from elite universities and law schools with race-conscious admissions programs, and achieved successful legal careers, despite having different educational backgrounds than their peers."
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Fringe conspiracy theorists [squints] the IMF
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At the end of the day, the Titanic Missing Billionaire Submarine story is a perfect distillation of 21st Century capitalism: A small group of very rich people assume a clearly irresponsible risk. It goes predictably wrong. Scores more in public resources are used to save them...
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Adam Friedland: [America] is a fading empire… Chris Cuomo: A fading empire? That’s what you see us as? Friedland: We hit a jackpot off World War II, we rebuilt Europe, probably blew it in one and a half generations. [silence] teapaw.org/funnierhandle/status/1…
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Nice!
An elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed early Sunday in Philadelphia after a vehicle caught fire, closing the main north-south highway on the East Coast and threatening to upend travel in parts of the densely populated Northeast, authorities said. to.pbs.org/45ZZXKC
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This is a deep, dark rabbit hole of a tweet right here.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/v… 2/
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Targeting this bail fund isn't just an an attack on activism, it shows the erosion of rule of law in this country. This isn't just trying to intimidate 1 organization, but is taking aim at national movement opposed to jailing Americans without a trial. theintercept.com/2023/05/31/…
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Interesting new FTC settlement with Ring. Really damning findings that 1000s of employees/contractors had unlimited access to Ring videos and that more than 55,000 US devices were compromised because of lax security. Sadly the fine is a slap on the wrist ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
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At OpenDeathStar, we are proud to say that our initial planet smasher mock-ups will be shared publicly (later designs may be partially glimpsable via API). Do Death Stars pose a threat to the galaxy? Yes, but if we don't build it first then the rebel alliance will.
At OpenPotato, we believe it would be unintuitively risky and difficult to stop the creation of the Doomsday SuperPotato. Do exploding napalm potatoes pose a real and imminent existential threat to humanity? Yes - but via our responsible stewardship of a global licensing system,
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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But the white saviors will save us from “existential risks” you know “catastrophe” and stuff. These are just little things.
🧵Alonzo Sawyer spent 9 days in jail for a crime he didn’t commit after an analyst using face recognition identified him as the person who assaulted a bus driver. He’s the latest Black man falsely accused of a crime involving face recognition in the US wired.com/story/face-recogni… 1/
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There’s something Freudian about the NY Times’ obsession with putting photos on the front page of people firing weapons with the projectile visible
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