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Clarence Okoh

@clarenceokoh.bsky.social

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Civil rights attorney & writer focused on race, technology & the law. Co-founder of the @noticecoalition.bsky.social Alabama native fluent in country grammar & cuisine. www.clarenceokoh.com Posts are my own

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · Jan 24

Interested in learning how folks protect Black & Brown youth from Big Tech & AI-powered surveillance, discipline, censorship & criminalization? #School2PrisonPipeline2.0
Do you want to see how we can envision liberated futures with young people? Then follow @noticecoalition.bsky.social

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TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social · 12h

Our teammate @clarenceokoh.bsky.social co-authored this wonderful essay about a fellowship program that the @noticecoalition.bsky.social created to imagine and enact freedom from the violence that AI is wreaking on marginalized communities, particulary Black youth. Read + share!

“No Data about Us without Us”: An Afrofuturist Reflection on Digital Liberation

Here, Chelsea Barabas and Clarence Okoh (a 2022 Just Tech Fellow) reflect on the work of the No Data about Us without Us Fellowship (NDAUWU), a program of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization...

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 17h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 21h

This is a modern Fugitive Slave Act. Federal agents going into free states raiding buildings, busting down doors, and snatching up children. Rounding up every person of color without papers and sending them god knows where. If the government can do this, you are not a free person.

Poster from antebellum era cautioning colored people in Boston of kidnappers and slave catchers.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 2d

I'm beyond grateful for the millions more who are fighting back and working their asses off every day for all of us. But it's just sad af seeing how down bad so many people are rn

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 2d

It's so wild that millions of people will accept an authoritarian takeover so long as they collect a paycheck every two weeks & have stable Internet connection. COVID & capitalism completely hollowed us out. The only freedom we value is consumption & convenience. A bunch of dollar tree zombies

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · 4d

The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected.

So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure.

If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 4d

The fall of Chappelle is so tragic. I'm old enough to remember when he left the country to avoid money. Now he's out here tap dancing for dirty dollars. He's just a bitter & hateful old rich man doing dated stand-up. His art used to challenge power & privilege. Now he's become it.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

Stand up comedians go in the same vocational bucket to me as podcasters where the ones I enjoy are some of the most talented and wonderful people in the world but at a baseline I regard them as human scum

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 4d

Ughh I hate autocorrect, it's "insidious" not "industrious" lol although the second kinda applies too bc these ideas are produced at an industrial scale

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 4d

In the US, we are conditioned from childhood to devalue historical atrocities against nonwhite people— if we are ever taught about them at all. It reflects a racial hierarchy of human life that shapes how we interpret the world around us today. It's industrious, but it can be unlearned

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 4d

A big tell is when they can only compare ICE raids to Nazis and never to slave patrols or white settler violence. It's low-key a sign of internalized racism.

Ask yourself why authoritarianism is a *foreign* concept in your imagination? Who taught you that? Who benefits from that thinking?

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 5d

My favorite armchair comment is Americans don‘t understand authoritarianism, because so many of you don’t count Black people as Americans. Learn the history or shut up.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 5d

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. 🏴‍☠️

Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today · 5d

Not sure if you've ever read Rudy's three-part series "Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space" from a couple of years ago but it's great grounding for the work he and the team have done since then.

blog.rudyfraser.com/blacksky-par...

Blacksky: Expressing the Black Everyday in a New Digital Space (Part 3)

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. - Black Panther Party 10 Point Program

blog.rudyfraser.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 5d

This is very bad journalism. The experts cited are highly controversial figures that do not reflect the consensus of the field. Suggesting that the military use predictive policing as an "evidence based" strategy against civilians is reckless, unethical & irresponsible. I expect more @npr.org

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 6d

Should've said Nicki....

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 21d

I'm so happy for her and her family, this is such great news. But also.... Somebody needs to take Offset's phone away from him IMMEDIATELY. Delete all socials. Cancel his TV subscription. And book a six month silent meditation retreat. we not doing any more Jerry Springer theatrics

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21d

Cardi B tells Gayle King she and her boyfriend Stefon Diggs are having a child:

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 7d

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating.

These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

slate.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 7d

Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿‍♂️

They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.

No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡

And people stop caring before truth hits

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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WIRED @wired.com · 6d

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They're Getting Ready

As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 8d

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter:

"There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 7d

We also need to revisit "not voting as a form of protest" after the 2024 election. the lack of popular support for the centrist candidate did not change the party's behavior, at all. If anything, it pushed Dems even further right. The protest vote failed & we have to remember that in future cycles

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 8d

Not voting for Kamala is your right. But saying both candidates were the same is a lie and everyone knows its a lie.

Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 8d

ChatGPT is such a powerful distraction from the evils that are necessary to make AI work. You can't build these machines without environmental degradation, mass surveillance and other structural injustices.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8d

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It

AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

www.bloomberg.com

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 8d

And then they treat you like the problem for making them feel "uncomfortable" when all you did was tell the truth

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 9d

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 9d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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