🎉Seattle just became the biggest city in the US to pass a data center moratorium. This victory is thanks to the organizing of @troublemakers.bsky.social @350seattle.bsky.social @seattledsa.org @foodandwaterwatch.bsky.social@peoplestechproject.bsky.social and every single person who showed up.

Last year we won Philly’s first AI hearing, exposing a black box with no guardrails. Now reporting shows police have been using AI-powered drones in daily police work since 2024. Tell city leaders: freeze funding for AI surveillance & invest in communities instead: actionnetwork.org/letters/free...

Philly says ICE Out! Join us April 13 from 10am-5pm for the ICE Out hearing & first Council vote! We want our city to be free from Trump’s tactics of fear, surveillance, and violence. Join us to demand that City Council votes YES on all pieces of ICE Out: www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/even...

Data centers are reshaping our communities, and people are fighting back. Hear from frontline organizers and researchers on how to stop them. 📍 Online + Swarthmore College Library 🗓️ Fri, April 10 | 2–4PM. RSVP at bit.ly/stopdatacenters

When ICE terrorizes communities, it’s not acting alone. Palantir builds the surveillance tech powering raids — and PA politicians are taking their money. You can’t profit from ICE violence and claim to oppose it. Tell your reps: No more Palantir money! purgepalantir.com/take-action/

Surveillance, policing, detention — different tools, all part of the same system of harm. We’re gathering in grief and in anger to demand an end to ICE violence. Join us tomorrow at City Hall at 5pm ET.

Data centers guzzle electricity & water, pollute the air & prey on the working class. The only benefit they provide is to the billionaires who build them. With a data center looming over Philly, flex the muscle needed to stop it by showing up for Memphis! Sign up to make calls: bit.ly/NOXAIPERMIT

🚨 New reporting reveals a data center may be coming to Philly. Developers won’t confirm or deny plans for a massive data center in the Bellwether District, leaving our communities in the dark. Tell City Council: No predatory data centers in Philly! 👉 actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

La construcción de centros de datos está aumentando y debemos organizarnos para mantener seguras nuestras comunidades. Para saber más sobre qué son los centros de datos y cómo luchamos para proteger a nuestras comunidades, acompáñanos con de @mediajustice.bsky.social RSVP: bit.ly/centrosdedatos101

MUST READ: After Amazon Web Services broke, shutting down huge swaths of the internet, we're digging deep into this global exposé of how data centers destroy water, electricity, and community—all under cover of NDAs and shell companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

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Packed hearing, dodged questions. At the first-ever City Council hearing on Philly gov’s use of AI and surveillance, City Councilmembers asked powerful, basic questions to open up the city’s black box of technology, and were disappointed by the city’s lack of answers.

Alli Finn joined Philly Tech Justice Collective, TechTonic Justice & Philly Thrive to testify in a city council meeting on Philly's use of AI and technology. Alli cautioned legislators: public tech must serve public needs, rather than corporate power and profits. shorturl.at/t10W5

City government’s use of artificial intelligence scrutinized at hearing – Metro Philadelphia

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📰 Catch us in the Inquirer, and at City Council's first ever AI hearing on Wednesday. Read up: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... & RSVP: www.phillytechjustice.org/hearing

Councilmember Landau asks about whether the City is using AI for public safety. CIO says no, they aren't. Councilmember Landau says that it's a matter of public record that the City is using Shotspotter and facial recognition. #PhillyAIHearing

Multiple councilmembers asked about whether the Parker administration would commit to preventing ICE and access to data from public safety tools powered by "AI". CIO says they would need to get back to the council about that, and confer with the police department. #PhillyAIHearing

Lots of questions about the exact tech and companies that the City is using for tech like license plate readers, or public safety. Melissa Scott, the CIO, doesn't really seem to know much about it. #PhillyAIHearing

Fantastic turnout for Philadelphia City Council hearing on AI, spurred significantly by @peoplestechproject.bsky.social.

📰 Catch us in the Inquirer, and at City Council's first ever AI hearing on Wednesday. Read up: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... & RSVP: www.phillytechjustice.org/hearing

Every AI tool is powered by data centers that guzzle our water & electricity. The Delaware River provides drinking water for 14M ppl including Philly, and that fresh water is at risk. Tell Council we can’t waste water cooling computers - people need it! phillytechjustice.org/hearing

Tech should work for the people, not to surveil or harm us. We have a chance to fight for just that at our hearing in ONE WEEK. What do YOU want to see in Philly instead of AI and surveillance tech? 👇Tell us in the replies & RSVP: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

AI is everywhere in Philly. But where does that data go? Who has access? Who decides how it’s used? How else could we spend that $? We have a critical window to demand transparency, accountability, & community control over how tech is used in our city. Join us: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

Billionaires market tech as innovation & disruption but the truth is AI—& the data centers that power it—are replicating old systems of harm and exploitation. Show up on 10/15 and demand that people, not billionaire, drive how Philly uses tech: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

We know the “child welfare”/family regulation system is racist. Algorithms & AI are making it worse. Right now there’s no way to know if or how Philly is using this tech, reproducing racist outcomes & tearing families apart. Help us get answers at our 10/15 hearing: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

What happens when AI and surveillance tech is used? Bosses monitor workers, landlords exploit tenants and SEPTA polices riders. Philly needs oversight and transparency! 📅 Mark your calendar for October 15 at 10am and turn out to demand accountability at the hearing on AI and surveillance.

Must read: @us.theguardian.com om covers @justfutureslaw.bsky.social's expansive FOIA data on Palantir’s relationship with ICE. Crucial information as ICE massively expands raids across the country. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...

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AI in Philly is a black box: no review, no disclosure, no oversight. Even ICE raids go unanswered. Join our webinar tonight to help bust it open: phillytechjustice.org/webinar

AI is everywhere in Philly—7,000+ cameras track our streets, schools & jobs. Where does that data go, and who decides how it’s used? For the first time, City Council is holding a public hearing. Demand transparency. RSVP: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

Tech bros may be running the White House and board rooms, but in Philly we bow to no one. For the first time, we’re putting Philly’s use of AI and surveillance on the public record. Join us at PhillyCAM on September 22: www.phillytechjustice.org/hearing

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From schools to SEPTA, AI is shaping Philly. Surveillance + algorithms track our kids, our jobs, our lives—while billionaires profit. Wed 9/17 @ 5pm ET: join us to dig into AI in Philly + how we fight back for accountability. Register here 👉 PhillyTechJustice.org/webinar

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While thousands of our neighbors are on strike for fair wages with AFSCME District #33, check out what we found in last year's budget: we know exactly what surveillance tech we could cut to fund the everyday services and workers Philly REALLY needs. To learn more visit www.phillytechjustice.org

Are you a T-Mobile subscriber? Your carrier is funding Elon Musk. Sign our petition and tell T-Mobile you’ll ditch your plan if they don’t ditch Musk. #StarlinkTakedown #TmobileFundsMusk actionnetwork.org/petitions/t-...

T-Mobile: Stop Funding Musk

When T-Mobile launches its “T-Satellite” program in partnership with Starlink this July, Elon Musk stands to gain billions. We’re calling on T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert and the company’s Board of Direct...

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