David Dexter
@dwdex.bsky.social
Baltimorean. Jigsaw puzzler. O's fan. 2x cats (they hate each other)
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Tech Policy Press is hiring an Assistant Editor to manage audience engagement, including cultivating relationships with readers and contributors. Here are the details—please share to your networks:
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November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Tech Policy Press is hiring an Assistant Editor to manage audience engagement, including cultivating relationships with readers and contributors. Here are the details—please share to your networks:
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Mayor Brandon Johnson is directing city funds to food assistance operations to combat "the Trump administration’s war on poor and working people,” he said in a statement.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs City Funds To Food Pantries, Non-Profits To Address SNAP Cuts
The funding will go toward local food assistance efforts and independent businesses in the wake of pauses to SNAP benefits during the government shutdown — and looming changes to the federal program.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Mayor Brandon Johnson is directing city funds to food assistance operations to combat "the Trump administration’s war on poor and working people,” he said in a statement.
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blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/16/m...
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In the context of the strategic erosion of civic integrity, the reckless deployment of generative AI, and a coordinated campaign to dismantle institutions of oversight, those who wish to counter disinformation must center their strategy on care and collective action, writes Brooklyne Gipson.
It’s Time to Admit Consumer Education Can’t Deliver Tech Accountability | TechPolicy.Press
Those who wish to counter disinformation must center their strategy on care and collective action, writes Brooklyne Gipson.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In the context of the strategic erosion of civic integrity, the reckless deployment of generative AI, and a coordinated campaign to dismantle institutions of oversight, those who wish to counter disinformation must center their strategy on care and collective action, writes Brooklyne Gipson.
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Montrose Beach, 8:45p
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Montrose Beach, 8:45p
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The importance of preserving memory: Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan...
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The importance of preserving memory: Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan...
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
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Journalists hold power to account and our @pghguild.com strikers have held Post-Gazette management to account for years. Today the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with us. The company broke the law. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
3rd Circuit Court Orders Post-Gazette to Restore Workers' Rights
The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court orders the Post-Gazette to restore workers' rights after a lengthy strike, marking a pivotal victory for union members.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Journalists hold power to account and our @pghguild.com strikers have held Post-Gazette management to account for years. Today the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with us. The company broke the law. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules for striking Pittsburgh journalists - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday morning ruled for the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh in the federal case behind their more than three-year strike at the Pit...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
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I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
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Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Could errors from an AI surveillance tool cause ICE to grab and detain you? The agency’s use of facial recognition — and alarming new details on its reckless procedures for doing so — make that sci-fi-sounding nightmare an all too real risk, writes CDT surveillance expert Jake Laperruque.
ICE’s Reckless Reliance on Facial Recognition Puts Us All In Danger | TechPolicy.Press
Jake Laperruque raises the alarm on ICE’s reckless use of facial recognition and its risks for wrongful detainment.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Could errors from an AI surveillance tool cause ICE to grab and detain you? The agency’s use of facial recognition — and alarming new details on its reckless procedures for doing so — make that sci-fi-sounding nightmare an all too real risk, writes CDT surveillance expert Jake Laperruque.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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we are in an era of unprecedented cowardice in journalism
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
we are in an era of unprecedented cowardice in journalism
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The Media 2070 Project @media2070.bsky.social co-host its latest Black Futures Newsstand exhibit with the PECAN Project. Starts tomorrow in Houston. Attendees will, once again, be asked: "What does a media system that loves Black people look and feel like in a future where reparations are real?”
Front Porches, Trail Rides and Stories of Black Futures
Media 2070’s Black Future Newsstand exhibit in Houston is documenting powerful histories and stories that connect the past, present and future.
www.freepress.net
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Media 2070 Project @media2070.bsky.social co-host its latest Black Futures Newsstand exhibit with the PECAN Project. Starts tomorrow in Houston. Attendees will, once again, be asked: "What does a media system that loves Black people look and feel like in a future where reparations are real?”
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NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
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FULL VIDEO: Baltimore County high schoolers were handcuffed after an AI gun-detection system misidentified a bag of chips as a gun. You can see all of the body worn camera footage from the incident here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs6M...
Baltimore Co. high schoolers cuffed after AI gun-detection system mistakes a bag of chips for a gun
YouTube video by Madeleine O'Neill
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October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
FULL VIDEO: Baltimore County high schoolers were handcuffed after an AI gun-detection system misidentified a bag of chips as a gun. You can see all of the body worn camera footage from the incident here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs6M...
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Jay Neugeboren on the rise in America of “hidden homelessness”: people who work full-time and have nowhere to live
The Homeless We Don’t See | Jay Neugeboren
As housing costs have risen and affordable housing remains in short supply, even Americans with full-time job are experiencing homelessness.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Jay Neugeboren on the rise in America of “hidden homelessness”: people who work full-time and have nowhere to live
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a report from a baseball game I will never forget defector.com/affecting-a-...
[Affecting A Maryland Accent] "Whoa! Go O's!" | Defector
BALTIMORE — With two outs in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday night, the Dodgers leading the Orioles 3-0, all I was thinking about was Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The L.A. ace looked poised to wrap a no-hi...
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September 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
a report from a baseball game I will never forget defector.com/affecting-a-...
Some Orioles legends I remember
September 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Some Orioles legends I remember
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BIG NEWS: @safiyanoble.bsky.social will deliver the 43rd Annual Parker Lecture, Brandi Collins-Dexter will be honored posthumously with the Parker Award, & FCC Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social will receive the Minow Award.
🎟️ Join us in D.C. or online: buff.ly/zwW1uIK
#ParkerLecture2025
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August 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
BIG NEWS: @safiyanoble.bsky.social will deliver the 43rd Annual Parker Lecture, Brandi Collins-Dexter will be honored posthumously with the Parker Award, & FCC Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social will receive the Minow Award.
🎟️ Join us in D.C. or online: buff.ly/zwW1uIK
#ParkerLecture2025
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#ParkerLecture2025
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A judge ordered Alligator Alcatraz to wind down operations (for now). But officials promise more detention centers made in the controversial facility’s image: large-scale operations opened in collab. w/ states. Here's what to expect & why it matters. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/22/f...
What Alligator Alcatraz Portends for State Prisons
Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise problematic questions, attorneys say.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A judge ordered Alligator Alcatraz to wind down operations (for now). But officials promise more detention centers made in the controversial facility’s image: large-scale operations opened in collab. w/ states. Here's what to expect & why it matters. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/22/f...
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Last week, 95 of our union members sent emails to @propublica.org management demanding a fair and transparent disciplinary process. Management hasn't responded and canceled our monthly all-staff meeting, which had been scheduled for that day. We deserve better.
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We took a collective lunch break today to protest @propublica.org management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system.
Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system.
Read more: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...
Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system.
Read more: www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...
We Demand a Pro Worker ProPublica — ProPublica Guild
We took a collective lunch break Tuesday to protest ProPublica management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system — including denying steward representation in disciplinary meeti...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Last week, 95 of our union members sent emails to @propublica.org management demanding a fair and transparent disciplinary process. Management hasn't responded and canceled our monthly all-staff meeting, which had been scheduled for that day. We deserve better.
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In Baltimore’s drug war, ‘public safety’ comes before public health. Nearly everyone impacted is Black
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In Baltimore's drug war, 'public safety' comes before public health. Nearly everyone impacted is Black
At first glance, it may seem that the War on Drugs has all but disappeared in Baltimore. The decades-long campaign decimated Black neighborhoods and fueled mass incarceration in the city under the…
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August 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In Baltimore’s drug war, ‘public safety’ comes before public health. Nearly everyone impacted is Black
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