“There’s been a trend over the last couple decades of law enforcement being able to pretty easily, and without much oversight, get and implement whatever surveillance technology they want…”

A network of cameras is quietly watching every car in N.J. Here’s what it knows about you.

In New Jersey, automated license plate readers can be found in almost every corner of the state. What does that mean for privacy?

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Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

The National Archives are seeing unprecedented cuts, which are affecting access at regional and state facilities. Join the campaign to preserve access to our shared histories. www.saveournationalarchives.org

Are you a journalist, genealogist or historian who has ever used records from the National Archives? It's time to step up and take some simple steps to preserve federal records. And save our nation's history. Please visit this website. And share widely. fundnara.com

fundNARA.com - Congress must fund the National Archives at the current level!

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides core government functions necessary to preserve, protect, and make accessible records from all three branches of the federal government...

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"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

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The list of people personally profiled in Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition database is wild. It includes anti-surveillance activists like @evangreer.bsky.social (whose then-recent tweets are included in the profile) and @adamdschwartz.bsky.social at EFF.

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

The news shows that Madison Square Garden, operated by Jim Dolan, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/madison-squa...

Libraries also show that it's possible to organize and credit the production of knowledge without reducing credit to ownership. Cataloging, citation, preservation, and circulation all make research more available as a public resource, not more exclusive as private property.

Why would I not long for ownable, repairable, offline, secure, non-data scraping, unshittified, easy to use technologies?

Utterly deranged.

Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s really frightening.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans

They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

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I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

Exit Condition

On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...

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“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”

As smart devices multiply, so do fears over digital surveillance

We are living in a time of extreme self surveillance. We carry with us devices that capture our every location, info about our health, and data about our private lives. This information can be saved, ...

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It's been such a joy working with @jimccasey1.bsky.social and the @ccp-org.bsky.social team to bring #DouglassDay to UCSB and @ucsblibrary.bsky.social!

Jim Casey@jimccasey1.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Moving Douglass Day to a new school has been absolute joy! Our program was made possible by the work of 28 people at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. Plus an extraordinary show of support from the UCSB Chancellor, Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts and University Librarian. Already looking forward to 2027!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

#DouglassDay is off to a great start at UCSB! Join us tomorrow for the public transcribe-a-thon and birthday party! douglassday.org/ucsb/

Jim Casey@jimccasey1.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Last night we had a quilting workshop for Douglass Day 1. We made quilt squares! 2. We had 60+ students. Literally ran out of fabric?! 3. Can't wait to share our whole quilt on @douglassday.bsky.social! Huge shoutout to my new colleagues in the UCSB Library for making it happen.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

In our latest, we’re joined by @melissagiragrant.com to discuss how Minneapolis is fighting back against state violence with extraordinary acts of community care, Melissa’s reporting on ICE surges across the county, and ICE paying a visit to our own home soundcloud.com/deathpanel/d...

Dispatch from Occupied Minneapolis w/ Melissa Gira Grant (01/29/26)

Beatrice is joined by Melissa Gira Grant to discuss what’s happening on the ground in Minneapolis, the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the broader currents of fascism nationally producing t

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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 8mo ago

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww

Yes, literally.

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

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“The kidnapping hasn’t stopped in LA. The degrees of separation between neighbors you see to neighbors you know abducted by ICE is shrinking.”

Joey Scott@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

In this cold!!! The level of determination is humbling & inspiring. We will win.

Dan Immergluck@danimmergluck.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Chicago. Now. Ice out of everywhere. Snow and cold not slowing folks.

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued

The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

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As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

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M. Gessen, who wrote a memorable piece in November 2016 about what the election of Trump meant for the US, names and explains what we plainly see before us now: state terror. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

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"It’s become normalized in the world for Palestinians to die."

“Emperor” Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance

As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning...

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