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Lilly Irani
@gleemie.bsky.social
Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Ana Muñiz:"Although interventions in specific surveillance tools that authorities use to criminalize and control subjugated groups can momentarily disrupt the system of state violence, they're not particularly useful unless situated within radical political opposition that rejects [criminalization]"
July 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
New report by @sandiegotrust.bsky.social on Automated License Plate Readers points to:
- error-prone technologies,
- racist outcomes,
- abuse by police officers,
- SDPD's law breaking data sharing with CBP, ICE, and other out-of-state law enforcement agencies.

trst.fyi/ALPR
June 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs.

Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies.

#sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...
June 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
25 year old finds it shocking that people from underrepresented communities in academia might have novel approaches and topics that lead to disproportionate intellectual innovation.

How is this kid not "playing the race card"?
May 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Feeling it is important to teach what some do not want me to help our students remember in Critical Design today about race, class and displacement.

No, apple, I meant resegregate. Stop autocorrecting.
February 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It might be an AI article, or just understaffed editorial humans, or both, when @themirror.com says George Clinton, musician, is a two term president.
January 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Buying this tonight! Thanks Walden pond books!
November 24, 2024 at 1:35 AM
A stunning view down the walk through UC Berkeley of the Golden Gate Bridge, and that island below it is Alcatraz -- a prison island reclaimed by "Indians of All Tribes" for 2 years as part of American Indian Movement in 1969

www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
October 3, 2024 at 4:41 AM
New @samsung Terms of Service for One UI claims "irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to copy, reproduce, adapt, modify..." It claims you as AI fodder forever. Boilerplate AI ToS like this show up everywhere. They should be illegal.
April 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM