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Jordan Taylor
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PhD Candidate @ CMU HCII | Critical Computing + STS + Queer Art | he/they | https://jtaylor.gay | On the Job Market
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gonna offer extra credit if my students go to a sub-200 person venue to see a loud show and write me a little essay about it
September 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
jordant.bsky.social
Right? Like someone had to make logic specifically to check for this
October 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
jordant.bsky.social
More reason to just use an open source pdf editor
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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As Doctorow warned: “I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will”
October 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM