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@digitalwitness.bsky.social

Human Rights/Civil Rights Investigator | #OSINT #DFIR | 🕵🏻‍♀️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h ago

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h ago

US says it killed four people in strike on vessel in Caribbean reut.rs/4787SYc

US says it killed four people in strike on vessel in Caribbean

The US Military said it killed four people ‌in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean on Saturday, alleging that ⁠the vessel was involved in drug trafficking.

reut.rs

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3d ago

Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days. ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to. Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3d ago

spoke to Lina Khan today about the AI madness and what the hell we should be doing to hold these companies accountable (in a way that takes their power seriously but doesn't buy into every narrative) full pod coming in the AM!

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3d ago

AI firms are subject to already-existing laws, Lina Khan tells @cwarzel.bsky.social: Part of the conversation around regulating AI “seems to assume that these current developments are happening in some legal vacuum,” she adds, “and that is just false.” theatln.tc/t9IwiQTz #TAF26

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2w ago

Paulina Borsook’s book launch is next week in Oakland. New “Cyberselfish” —with a foreword by me. This event will sell out. Buy tickets now! (See you there?) luma.com/05tl0orh

An evening with Paulina Borsook about her classic book, Cyberselfish · Luma

Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, first published in the year 2000, was a groundbreaking exploration of the culture of Silicon Valley. The book saw the warning…

luma.com

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 5mo ago

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d ago

The Daily Wire crew laughed as they introduced a scene in their new slop movie where a gay guy gets kicked off a roof and a queer woman gets her throat slit.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is the first lawsuit filed on the death of a woman from an abortion ban. It argues that the Texas abortion ban violates constitutional rights. 🧵 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.

The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.

19thnews.org

Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 4d ago

Hey everyone. Things have been tough around here and they are about to get worse. I’ll probably need to make a bigger ask soon, but right now I’m asking for some help covering essentials. Next post has what I’m trying to cover. PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc No Venmo

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 4d ago

Republican abortion bans are killing women—and the worst part is, they knew this would happen. Republicans care more about controlling women's bodies than they do about actually protecting them. Abortion rights in all 50 states.

Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.

The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.

19thnews.org

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 4d ago

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials

This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...

micahflee.com

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool

Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.

findahmedsoliman.org

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 5d ago

The doomsday eugenicist cult has "highly specialized minds" that allows them to see these things he says. No matter how much documentation we provide journalists they choose not to see this.

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5d ago

This is a very good cause for very good people who are facing unconscionable union busting

tekla 💜✨@tekla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Me and many of my brilliant, hardworking colleagues are facing layoffs at the end of this month. if you want to support our union and its members in this tough time, you can do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ad...

Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 5d ago

On this day in 1963, a white man detonated a bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with 400 congregants inside. Four Black children were killed in the blast.

Sep. 15, 1963 | Four Black Girls Killed in Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

calendar.eji.org

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 5d ago

My entire life was shaped by the lack of access to healthcare my birth mother had during & after her incarceration—a circumstance that took her life. I’m proud ThurmanPerryFoundation.org is partnered w/ the FIT Clinic for an annual grant for free dental care for formerly incarcerated women & girls.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 6d ago

We had over 1,000 people nationwide apply last month and hundreds apply this month! Applications close TONIGHT for September so make sure you get yours in and apply for rent or mortgage relief at thurmanperryfoundation.org

MD365 Sept.
Extended!
SEPT 6-14, 2026
Apply at:
thurmanperryfoundation.org/md365

Mother's Day
365 Housing Relief Fund
Mission: Ensuring Secure Housing for Mother's Impacted by Incarceration

Wanda Katja Liebermann @wandakatja.bsky.social · 6d ago

Feel free to donate 5 or 10 bucks

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 6d ago

Another fundraising text from DSCC that ignores Angie Nixon—even as polling shows her tied at 47-47, poised to flip Florida Blue! Dem Party praises Black women as its base then refuses to give Black women candidates the resources needed to win. Donate to Angie: secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect

Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

prospect.org

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago

The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point
@FTC
emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.

As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study).

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.

4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my
@FTC
tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2w ago

my beloved sister-in-law Kristy (my sister Cat’s wife) is a medical caseworker for CAP NW, formerly Cascade AIDS Project. Their annual AIDS Walk helps fund so many programs for LGBTQ+ Portlanders. please toss Kristy’s walk team a few bucks if you’re able! www.aidswalknorthwest.org/fundraiser/k...

AIDS Walk Northwest 2026

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · last wk.

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · last wk.

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

variety.com

Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · last wk.

2/ The tool is called InquiryIQ. WIRED found code showing it could take information from a Clearview facial-recognition search, fan out across the web, analyze pages and images, and assemble what it finds into a profile of the person being investigated. www.wired.com/story/clearv...

Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

InquiryIQ, a previously unreported prototype, tested a model from xAI, maker of Grok, to surface associates, social accounts, and other information about people identified through Clearview.

wired.com

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · last wk.

It begins

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · last wk.

"Leon County, Florida’s mail ballot envelope design placed the words “return service requested” 0.236 inches away from its election office’s return address, when it was supposed to be 0.25, leading the USPS to reject it" newrepublic.com/post/215342/...

Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · last wk.

LAPD is asking the LA Board of Police Commissioners to approve a no cost three month pilot using AXON’s license plate readers. The vote will take place Tuesday next week.

INTRADEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE
August 20, 2026 1.17
TO:
The Honorable Board of Police Commissioners
FROM:
Chief of Police
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES AND AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.
FOR THE LIGHTPOST TEST PILOT PROGRAM
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. That the Board of Police Commissioners (Board) REVIEW and APPROVE the attached
Memorandum of Understanding for the Lightpost Test Pilot Program between the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD or Department) and Axon Enterprise, Inc. (Axon).
DISCUSSION
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) authorizes a no-cost, three-month pilot evaluation of the Axon Lightpost public safety solution, comprising streetlight-mounted hardware and automated license plate recognition (ALPR) software (the Product), to be conducted by Axon Enterprise, Inc. (Axon) for the Los Angeles Police Department (Department). The Product will operate in a live production environment at Department-approved locations, collecting ALPR information during the Testing Period.
The MOU establishes that the City and the Department retain sole and exclusive ownership of all data, images, video, plate reads, metadata, and derived or algorithmic outputs generated through the Product (collectively, LAPD Data). Axon may not assert any ownership, lien, or license interest in LAPD Data, and any residual rights that might otherwise vest in Axon by operation of law are expressly assigned back to the City. The Department retains full control over retention, access, deletion, and export of its own data throughout and after the Testing Period.
All LAPD Data must be stored and processed

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Donald Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Attorney General Blanche said Trump’s ‘weaponization fund’ was dead. Now DOJ is appealing

The DOJ said Friday it's appealing a judge's finding that Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration was "improper."

democracydocket.com

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.

Toby Ord, Cofounder of the Effective Altruism movement, longtermist who believes humanity's goal is to create vast amounts of digital beings to colonize the cosmos, is the one advising your lawmakers on "AI".

Toby Ord tweet: 72 lawmakers in the UK have sent a letter to the Prime Minister, calling for an immediate ban on the development of superintelligence and the championing of an international treaty to do the same worldwide.

Quote tweeting

Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley
@alexsobel's tweet:
With 71 colleagues I am calling on the Govt to work with us on my bill to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI and champion an international agreement

We can then lead on preventing the extinction risk posed by superintelligence

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · last wk.

Excellent story from @jwashing.bsky.social about Pietro Graza, a Brazilian man also being held in Equatorial Guinea. He’s been silent for two days. www.lookoutnews.org/ice-sent-gay...

ICE Sent a Gay Brazilian Man to Equatorial Guinea. Now He’s Gone Silent.

Pietro Graza was granted protection from deportation to Brazil because he feared torture due to his sexuality. He says he was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees re...

lookoutnews.org

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.