People confuse safety with social control. I don't think the post-pandemic crime panic was about people feeling less safe. I think it was a political frustration that state violence was constrained by the politics of the moment. That's why the media today could care less about these mayors' success

RoseMarie@rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 6d ago

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

Its getting good. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

The Largest Data Center In California Has Been Denied Water For Cooling — Now It's Suing A Public Agency

A developer wants to combine water rights from several plots of farmland to help cool a data center. Regulators said no, and now the developer is suing.

yahoo.com

So I guess we're going on a collective fast because what's left at this point

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Had to happen www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Mind you this man teaches career and technical education.... How we got to fungi and literacy in the first week of school when he's supposed to be doing resume workshops is beyond me

JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 5d ago

Y’all… I’m done. 😭😭😭😭

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

techcrunch.com

AI surveillance companies treat schools like a playground for reckless technologies. This was never about safety, it always about profit, power and prejudice. They will keep inventing ways to criminalize Black, indigenous & disabled children, even if it takes automating the school to prison pipeline

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

“The Guardian has identified at least 33 instances of people damaging, vandalizing and destroying Flock cameras, across 23 states, that appear to have the explicit message of protesting surveillance.”

Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the US

theguardian.com

So Waymo can kidnap your child and send them to jail at the company's discretion??? What's stopping them from turning in people suspected to be undocumented? What about every person with a warrant? What about everybody on a police database? Political protestors? Etc etc etc

J.P.@johnathanperk.bsky.social · last mo.

Anyone who follows this account knows I’ve been warning about Waymo since they went live. Waymo willingly works with I.C.E. as well as cops. It’s NOT written explicitly in their policy, but Waymo’s actions are clear. I’ve personally witnessed evidence obtained from Waymo. This is very, very bad.

Dude is running his own localized surveillance state, including functions that are essentially predictive policing and a gang database, except it’s for people who have said anything remotely critical of the organization, or anyone who associates with those critics.

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

wired.com

Despite all of this, he'll end up with a podcast deal and millions in corporate sponsorships and speaking engagements...

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

wired.com

“Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.”

New York to ban smart glasses from all courthouses

The ban aims to prevent people from secretly filming court proceedings.

syracuse.com

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

static.klipy.com

If one night of excessive fireworks can cause such severe air quality issues, imagine what families living under the brutality of American militarism experience each day

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Code Purple air quality alert is in effect for DC, and residents are advised to limit time outdoors

A Code Purple air quality alert is in effect for DC, and residents are advised to limit time outdoors

Respectfully, we do not know her inner thoughts. She may have felt courage, confusion, fear, humor, violence, exhaustion, humiliation, etc. She's entitled to all of those emotions bc she's a human being. It's enough that she survived racial terror

Dutchy Patrick@dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white Trump supremacists prepare to march on the streets of D.C. Look how proud she is to show her face while they are all too ashamed to show theirs. She’s a hero, they are all cowards….

I never understood how the Egyptians ignored all the signs & plagues until now

Dave Dildine@dildinedave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Direct hit from Dupont Circle.

ICE has access to school cameras; data centers are being built in kids' neighborhoods; schools are putting AI microphones in bathrooms; and AI is calling the cops on Black children for eating a bag of Doritos.... And the Dems big idea for Project 2029 is to take your kids' phone away...

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

“…several advertisers said Meta's AI tool had also generated bizarre or nonsensical ads for their products, and that some settings, like ‘test new creative features’ and ‘automatic adjustments,’ had automatically been toggled to ‘on.’”

REI gets roasted for a nonsensical Instagram ad and blames a Meta AI tool

REI faces backlash over an Instagram ad showing a bike with two handlebars. The company said it was the result of a Meta AI tool.

businessinsider.com

You wanna know how dumb chatgpt is? I asked it a question about Olivia Rodrigo's 3rd album and it told me she's only released 2 albums. Her third album not only released but was #1, the singles all charting. Chatgpt can't even google shit. If you trust it's info for *anything* you are insane.

Meanwhile...

Daniel Knowles@dlknowles.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

But hey, at least we got a costly war and tariffs nobody wanted and he demolished half the White House and trashed the reflection pool!

Algorithmic racism is more than "biased" training data. The political economy of AI requires a racialized underclass. The ppl suffocating from data center turbines are the same ppl surveiled by AI police tech; are the same ppl denied jobs housing & education by AI decisionmaking tools; etc.

molly taft@mollytaft.com · 2mo ago

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.

Eighteen people have died in ICE custody in the first five months of this year. ICE is on pace to pass last year’s toll, which was already the highest in two decades. So what is ICE doing about it? It is making the deaths harder to count.

Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines on Tuesday to ensure no one was still trapped a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced over 20,000.

Protect libraries and librarians at all costs

J. Anderson Coats (she/her)@jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

I love New Yorkers. #NBA #Knicks