"What's on the squawk box"

A pigeon has been hanging out with my chickens for a few hours. I wonder what they're talking about

Surveillance Watch has reached a milestone: we have catalogued over 1,000 surveillance entities and 1,180 funders, across 182 countries and 15 categories of surveillance technology.

Friend inshallah I will see you in Ballhalla: Georgia edition

Marisa is a real one. She did a big cover story for Bay Area Derby when we were raising money to stay in our space and has been covering the Valks since Day 1. One of the best in the women's sports journalism game.

Three things media pretends are responsible for humans’ actions: guns, cars, ‘AI.’

Y'all denied her tenure

UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

Ballhalla is church, in the Durkheimian sense. In this essay I will

you forget, it IS a Commonwealth country

Social media companies have spent millions of dollars and subjected countless content moderators to horrifying content to remove graphics of political violence from the internet Meanwhile, this administration wants to put them on cable

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

I don't know; I feel like it's pretty clear why living under queer-hating fascists would make people less likely to identify publicly as queer.

Yes I am feeling it explicitly in my knees

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities