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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 6h

New awareness campaign

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 19h

"..her brother had left home on his bicycle in the morning to get some food when agents picked him..."

“They hit him on the face and head, they were almost choking him,” Suane said. Witnesses told her that Aguayo Rodriguez was taken to the hospital after complaining of chest pain."

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 19h

A man was hospitalized and remains under federal custody after being arrested by federal immigration agents in suburban Melrose Park on Sunday morning, his family told the Tribune.

Man hospitalized after violent federal immigration arrest in Melrose Park, family says

Videos shared on social media show man struggling on the ground while a federal agent keeps him in a headlock.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · Oct 18

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books

In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 3d

As federal helicopters circled overhead, MediaJustice joined 100+ organizers to march through Memphis earlier this month. Organized by Tigers Against Pollution, we resisted the federal occupation of Memphis and Musk’s xAI data center.

Actions like this prove that when we organize, we can win.

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says

Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3d

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using the largest contract — worth up to $9.2 million — to identify victims and perpetrators of child sex crimes, as well as people suspected of “assaults against law enforcement officers,” records show. trib.al/h2hiLSA

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

The administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. “This is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expansion of surveillance without any real oversight or restrictions,” says Jeramie Scott of the Electronic…

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

I got very overwhelmed recently due to, you know, the everything of it all. My latest video unpacks how the overwhelming chaos is part of the plan, and the power of stillness as a tool of resistance youtu.be/_rv1vUNryOk?...

Burnout Fascism & The Radical Art of Stillness

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

Surveillance capitalism is the result of decisions made by the ultra-rich to control the masses. If we want a truly democratic society, if we want technology to be the liberatory force it was supposed to be (or at least not actively used to harm us), we need to exercise our power of refusal.

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

Finally, I examine @hypervisible.blacksky.app's concept of "luxury surveillance," and how the adoption of surveillance tech like smartwatches indicates a tacit support for the same network of surveillance used to oppress marginalized populations from Palestinians to incarcerated people.

When the AI bubble pops, what happens with the data centers?

The most likely use-case: mass surveillance & military tech

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

When the AI bubble bursts, we will be left with huge amounts of latent data center capacity. Whoever is left holding the bag won't simply allow such expensive infrastructure to go to waste. This is where surveillance capitalism and military contracts come in.

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

Trump's deportation regime follows similar patterns as the IOF, accepting civilian "collateral damage," pursuing aggressive deportation quotas. The accuracy of Palantir-built ImmigrationOS doesn't really matter.

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

Israel's surveillance tech has exported all around the world: to the US-Mexico border, to refugee camps, to prisons, to government spy agencies, etc.

Antony Loewenstein said, they are selling “an idea,” they are “selling themselves as a model for how to keep unwanted populations out.”

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

After Oct. 7, Israel ramped up its use of surveillance & AI. The storage of vast troves of data on Palestinians, plus an inaccurate AI target selection tool, overwhelmed their data center capacity.

A state comfortable with civilian "collateral damage," it seems, is a perfect customer for AI.

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 5d

When the circle-jerk of AI spending runs dry, when people wise up to the fact that OpenAI is running the grift of the century, what happens to the data centers?

The most likely use-case, I argue in this piece, is an entrenchment and expansion in surveillance and military tech.

When the AI bubble pops, what happens with the data centers?

The most likely use-case: mass surveillance & military tech

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 6d

From an Amazon Employees for Climate Justice statement:

“They’re pushing this narrative that AI is transformative and that’s why they’re making these cuts. But leadership is spending 100 billion this year alone on the new data centers; they have to find that money elsewhere,” said one AWS engineer.

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Phil Kapitan - Marx Appreciator 🏴🍉 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 6d

Good new video from @storieswetell303.bsky.social 🤩

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Fascism Feeds on a Lack of Rest

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9d

Poster with a photo of Greg Bovino.

JOIN BEHIND ENEMY LINES ON THE DAY THAT GREG
"GÖRING" BOVINO APPEARS BEFORE A JUDGE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE ONLY ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES IS PRISON!

TUESDAY
OCTOBER 28, 9AM
FEDERAL COURTHOUSE - CHICAGO
219 S DEARBORN

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 10d

Damaging use of technology is indeed NOT “inevitable”

Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 11d

The City of Boston became the second-largest city in the world to outlaw facial surveillance — banning both the technology itself and any information it produces.

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 15d

The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action.

For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 15d

Evening all. This is my least favorite part of the job, but until I find a more stable gig, a necessary one.

If you've followed my work today or anytime else, I'd appreciate any tips you'd like to put in my hat.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 15d

Now at the Broadview ICE facility, where ~100 people have gathered to protest. Compared to the carnival-esque atmosphere of the No Kings march in Chicago, the vibes here are tense.

State & local police eyeing the crowd in the "free speech zones" while masked feds watch from the facility roof.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16d

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

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The Stories We Tell @storieswetell303.bsky.social · 17d

I think they are Hamas actually

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 17d

If I’m not mistaken, the founders of antifa have arrived.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 18d

My point is—make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing.

Protests aren’t effective warnings for the powerful if you aren’t backing it up with more organizing outside of it. Find the local coalition partner you like, introduce yourself, and stand under their banner

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