Councilmember Landau asks about whether the City is using AI for public safety.

CIO says no, they aren't.

Councilmember Landau says that it's a matter of public record that the City is using Shotspotter and facial recognition.

#PhillyAIHearing

Are you a T-Mobile subscriber? Your carrier is funding Elon Musk. Sign our petition and tell T-Mobile you’ll ditch your plan if they don’t ditch Musk. #StarlinkTakedown #TmobileFundsMusk
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Thank you @justfutureslaw.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social for your work showing how surveillance in the hands of the state destroys lives for profit. Deep piece in today’s @nytimes.com on GEO groups cranked up brutal harms for immigrant communities under Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives.

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Guess losing $150 billion got under the old boy's skin. No surprise, he's responding by throwing around tired old conspiracy theories meant to intimidate and discredit us. Guess we better make #teslatakedown so big no one can hear him over our noise! And lol he's signing his tweets now?

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

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As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting.

This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.

Aura, you’re amazing and Mother Jones in making a huge mistake by laying you off right as the administration changes. I’m so sorry. And Mother Jones, whew. Very short sighted.

FTC's 2 Dems Slaughter and Bedoya to Trump's chair Ferguson: You "promise allowing more mergers, firing civil servants, and fighting something called 'the trans agenda.' Is all of that more important than the cost of healthcare and groceries and gasoline? Or fighting fraud?"

Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️

I could not sit silent while an elected official who spreads hate & lies that are getting trans people killed pretends to care about the future of the Internet. So I spoke up during Rep Nancy Mace's speech at the Project Liberty Summit & I would do it again www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...

Hello world! Also how do I find my buds on here?