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Johana Bhuiyan
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It's pronounced Boo-Yah. Senior tech reporter/editor at The Guardian US covering surveillance of marginalized groups. Tips: [email protected] & 4156303604 https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johana-bhuiyan
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Graham Starr @gstarr.bsky.social · 1h
Fascinating story from @dropsitenews.com:
Why are The New York Times, CNN, Spectrum News, and The Atlantic sending journalists to participate in a foundation that its founder says was created in part to be a mouthpiece for the IDF in the U.S.? www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...
Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War”
Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d
“Advocates are particularly concerned over the facilities’ use of Pfas gas, or f-gas, which can be potent greenhouse gases, and may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought. Other f-gases turn into a type of dangerous compound that is rapidly accumulating across the globe.”
Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 6d
The officials misclassified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 6d
The Trump admin is separating families again, attorneys & former immigration officials allege.

In some cases officials retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation orders by forcibly separating them from their children, a Guardian investigation found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’
Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 6d
“After two years of obstructing ceasefire negotiations, Netanyahu got almost everything he wanted, thanks to Trump. It’s close to the 'total victory' over Hamas that Netanyahu has consistently promised the Israeli public, but failed to deliver on the battlefield” — my latest for @theguardian.com
Once again, Netanyahu has outplayed Trump | Mohamad Bazzi
Trump considers himself a master deal-maker. But he’s been regularly outmaneuvered by strongmen like Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d
I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d
AI will cure cancer only if we let it steal everything www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
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Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) @alphabetworkersunion.org · 8d
🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨

AWU teamed up with @techequity.bsky.social & @cwaunion.bsky.social to produce a report - Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation - documenting the working conditions of the workers behind the AI boom.
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A TechEquity/AWU graphic with a photo of Kirn Gill III and the following text: “There are low paid people who are not even treated as humans - just little more than employee ID numbers - out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar Al systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future. -Kirn Gill II Search Quality Rater working on Google products at Telus.”
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d
Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 12d
“The actual state of Palestine” — brilliant front page from UK Observer
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d
US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi
US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi
Reports say PR teams are busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the help
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John Saveland @johnsaveland.com · 12d
Women & children are being cast out onto the street b/c the WH illegally froze US foreign aid $$.

“Lefteris Papagiannakis, director of the Greek Council for Refugees, says: ‘We are losing the whole of the international protection system that has been in place for the last 80 years in six months.’”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d
They fled war and sexual violence and found a safe space in Athens. Then the aid cuts hit
They fled war and sexual violence and found a safe space in Athens. Then the aid cuts hit
Thirty women and their children found themselves out on the streets when their shelter closed. It was a direct result of US and European governments slashing their aid budgets
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 12d
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Immigrants with no criminal record now largest group in Ice detention
Government data shows 16,523 people with no record, versus 15,725 with a record and 13,767 with pending charges
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d
Now do wage theft.
Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones
Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 13d
"The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza.

The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which...will retain access to other services."
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 13d
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system. The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian & +972 Magazine last month.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 13d
The Guardian’s joint investigation prompted protests at Microsoft’s US headquarters and one of its European datacentres, as well as demands by a worker-led campaign group, No Azure for Apartheid, to end all ties to the Israeli military. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Five current and ex-Microsoft workers arrested at sit-in over Israeli military ties
Police placed protesters in harnesses and took them in after sit-in urging tech giant to cut ties with Israeli government
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 13d
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system. The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian & +972 Magazine last month.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 14d
Child care in this country works for almost no one, care providers and parents alike.

And yet ... you have to figure it out or your family can't survive.
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Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 14d
KQED is working on stories about the incredibly high costs of childcare here in the Bay Area, and looking for stories from our audience

www.kqed.org/news/1205712...
Tell Us: How Much Do You Pay for Child Care in the Bay Area? | KQED
We want to hear your story. How do child care costs impact your family, your daily life and your spending decisions?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14d
I thought their mission was to eliminate crime 🙄
Flock reinstalls cameras, city orders removal - Evanston Now
City says Flock has agreed to remove them again.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 14d
Must read investigation.

“Now [with access to more federal databases] Ice can use this type of surveillance apparatus on anyone – not only anyone who is undocumented but anyone who this administration wants to criminalize and anyone who the administration wants to put under surveillance”
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 16d
NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir?

A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 14d
In 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen had their DNA collected by CBP at a Chicago airport according to new govt data. They were just one of about 2000 US citizens who had their DNA collected by border agents & shared with the FBI including some as young as 14. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
US border patrol collected DNA from thousands of US citizens for years, data shows
CBP officers took DNA samples from about 2,000 citizens, some as young as 14 and many who never faced criminal charges, new analysis shows
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 15d
Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir via @jmbooyah.bsky.social

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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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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 16d
Docs reveal how deeply embedded Palantir’s tools were in
ICE's investigative unit. For example, they used a Palantir app to plan a gang takedown & when a target was not at the expected location they used the same app to find the person at their family's address. 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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