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· May 20
Hidden in the “Big Beautiful Bill”: a 10-year ban on state AI regulation that completes the foundation for mass surveillance.
When combined with 4 other recent policy changes, we’re facing unprecedented power to track and control Americans.
🧵 Here’s how:
When combined with 4 other recent policy changes, we’re facing unprecedented power to track and control Americans.
🧵 Here’s how:
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The New Orleans Police Department is the first known police department in the U.S. to rely on a network of real-time face recognition cameras to track and arrest people as they're going about their daily lives.
New Orleans must end this dangerous surveillance program immediately.
New Orleans must end this dangerous surveillance program immediately.
Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras
Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The New Orleans Police Department is the first known police department in the U.S. to rely on a network of real-time face recognition cameras to track and arrest people as they're going about their daily lives.
New Orleans must end this dangerous surveillance program immediately.
New Orleans must end this dangerous surveillance program immediately.
The Hidden AI Ban in the “Big Beautiful Bill” paves the way for mass surveillance, predictive policing, and real time tracking of ALL U.S. Citizens - and it’s not getting enough attention. #BigBeautfulBill #DataRights
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Hidden AI Ban in the “Big Beautiful Bill” paves the way for mass surveillance, predictive policing, and real time tracking of ALL U.S. Citizens - and it’s not getting enough attention. #BigBeautfulBill #DataRights
Hidden in the “Big Beautiful Bill”: a 10-year ban on state AI regulation that completes the foundation for mass surveillance.
When combined with 4 other recent policy changes, we’re facing unprecedented power to track and control Americans.
🧵 Here’s how:
When combined with 4 other recent policy changes, we’re facing unprecedented power to track and control Americans.
🧵 Here’s how:
May 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hidden in the “Big Beautiful Bill”: a 10-year ban on state AI regulation that completes the foundation for mass surveillance.
When combined with 4 other recent policy changes, we’re facing unprecedented power to track and control Americans.
🧵 Here’s how:
When combined with 4 other recent policy changes, we’re facing unprecedented power to track and control Americans.
🧵 Here’s how:
I like democracy. Even a flawed democracy is better than the alternative
March 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I like democracy. Even a flawed democracy is better than the alternative
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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The US Director of National Intelligence reposting a Russian propagandist in Malaysia posting lies that track Kremlin propaganda about an organization that has been a beacon of light to people around the world since 1942. We are entering a very dark place.
March 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The US Director of National Intelligence reposting a Russian propagandist in Malaysia posting lies that track Kremlin propaganda about an organization that has been a beacon of light to people around the world since 1942. We are entering a very dark place.
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This. Touch grass. Take a few deep breaths. Stream “The Wild Robot” and have a piece of pie. Watch Planet Earth.
We fight again tomorrow. Non-violently. Don’t play yourself.
We fight again tomorrow. Non-violently. Don’t play yourself.
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
March 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This. Touch grass. Take a few deep breaths. Stream “The Wild Robot” and have a piece of pie. Watch Planet Earth.
We fight again tomorrow. Non-violently. Don’t play yourself.
We fight again tomorrow. Non-violently. Don’t play yourself.
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This says it all
Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
February 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This says it all
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