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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

First of all, fuck attacking reporters for just bringing us the fucking news, second of all that's an incredibly fucking low bar to clear.

That said, I do think the Democratic party is handling this a lot better than they've handled dissent previously (e.g. giving the uncommitted delegates a panel to raise awareness about the Palestinian genocide was a step in the right direction), it's just that cops are still prone to doing cop bullshit like this and there's only so much they can do about that.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

NATOpedia

About that source,

The Grayzone has downplayed or denied the Chinese government's human rights abuses against Uyghurs, published conspiracy theories about Xinjiang, Syria, and other regions, and published disinformation about Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which some have described as pro-Russian propaganda. Grayzone staff Blumenthal and Aaron Maté acted as briefers on behalf of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations at UN meetings organized by Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone?wprov=sfla1

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (29 children)

If she honestly believes that she's an idiot, and if she doesn't she's way too comfortable with lying to the American people about important issues. The truth of the matter is that if a person has supported the Republican party in the last five decades they are dangerous garbage, and unless they're willing to put in the work to recycle themselves into something more positive we need to contain them and have their toxicity diluted to the point where it can't hurt anyone, just like we would with any other waste. Elected Dems ignoring this difficult but painfully obvious truth is why our politics have kept getting worse as the Republicans have gotten crazier and faced no consequences for it.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No, we didn't miss it, it's only just being reported on today, and even then only because anonymous sources told us about it.

Fong should have made a public statement or held a press conference Monday afternoon raising the alarm on this, fascists have a harder time doing their worst when everyone's watching and they're forced to keep justifying their unhinged behavior. If nothing else, she's already going to be punished like she did this anyway.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, and never forget the "fund the police!" Democratic party members who put us in this situation

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, you're demanding a positive change instead of the border crackdowns that Harris and Trump have vowed to carry out?

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't see how she could have made a statement Saturday about being physically ejected from her office on Monday

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Me: oh boy i cant wait to unify against all the republican jerks that have been messing stuff up for literally my whole life

Harris: i promise to put a republican on my cabinet have you met my friend liz

Me: oh boy i can't wait to die

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You think Palestinian lives weren't being threatened and taken by Israeli violence before October 7?

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The sad part is this is how people in the DNC must actually think to give these assholes speaking time at their convention when the only commendable thing they ever did was admit to making a mistake most Americans were smart enough to not make in the first place

 

The Justice Department has agreed that the federal government will foot the bill if former President Donald Trump is found liable for violating the rights of protesters when National Guard troops and police forcibly drove racial justice demonstrators from a park near the White House in June 2020.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/235Vg

 

In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a public information request. The deal is nearly twice as large as the company’s $2.7 million two-year contract with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Tangles is an artificial intelligence-powered web platform that scrapes information from the open, deep, and dark web. Tangles’ premier add-on feature, WebLoc, is controversial among digital privacy advocates. Any client who purchases access to WebLoc can track different mobile devices’ movements in a specific, virtual area selected by the user, through a capability called “geofencing.” Users of software like Tangles can do this without a search warrant or subpoena. (In a high-profile ruling, the Fifth Circuit recently held that police cannot compel companies like Google to hand over data obtained through geofencing.) Device-tracking services rely on location pings and other personal data pulled from smartphones, usually via in-app advertisers. Surveillance tech companies then buy this information from data brokers and sell access to it as part of their products.

WebLoc can even be used to access a device’s mobile ad ID, a string of numbers and letters that acts as a unique identifier for mobile devices in the ad marketing ecosystem, according to a US Office of Naval Intelligence procurement notice.

Wolfie Christl, a public interest researcher and digital rights activist based in Vienna, Austria, argues that data collected for a specific purpose, such as navigation or dating apps, should not be used by different parties for unrelated reasons. “It’s a disaster,” Christl told the Observer. “It’s the largest possible imaginable decontextualization of data. … This cannot be how our future digital society looks like.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240827115133/https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/

 

The U.S. Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them.

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A Reuters review of the probes shows that the Justice Department under Biden has moved at a slower pace than it maintained in Democratic President Barack Obama’s first term.

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During Obama's first four years, the department opened 17 such investigations and reached negotiated settlements with four jurisdictions - Seattle; New Orleans; East Haven, Connecticut, and Portland, Oregon. During Obama’s second term, an additional eight investigations were opened and the department obtained 14 more agreements or court-ordered reforms.

Most involved a consent decree, a court-approved settlement that typically commits police departments to systemic reforms and often involves oversight by an independent monitor.

Archived at https://archive.is/qB45D

 

JUHASZ: DiBenedetto now works for Louisiana's Department of Education and is in charge of bringing Amira into more classrooms. He says by the time the state's two-year pilot is over...

DIBENEDETTO: I think we're going to see some interesting impacts, and we'll definitely have some data to make prudent decisions in the future.

JUHASZ: Like whether to spend even bigger money on AI. The company behind Amira says 2 million children already use the tool. Experts caution the technology isn't a replacement for teachers or even all tutors. It can't build relationships with students like humans can.

MONTAGNINO: I'm old-school. I still believe people, especially with reading for little kids - that's where it's at.

JUHASZ: Montagnino, the principal in Gretna, says for that reason, she was skeptical at first.

MONTAGNINO: But this, to supplement good science of reading instruction in the classroom? This is great.

JUHASZ: And it's likely to get better because just as kids are learning from Amira, it's learning from them, too.

[Bolding added]

So it seems an alternative headline for this story would be "Private for profit company gets paid to collect training data for its AI from children who could face disciplinary or legal consequences for non-compliance"

 

Original article at https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/09/12/inside-columbias-surveillance-and-disciplinary-operation-for-student-protesters-3/

(FYI, I'm direct linking to the archive instead of the original because there's some issue with how Lemmy World is interacting with the Spectator's website that makes it absorb the whole article into this post and violate rule 10)

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