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ANNOUNCING: Our #DefundSurveillance campaign w/ @stoplapdspying has been working to dissect & defund LAPD’s $3.1 billion budget. Today, we’re launching our demands focused on the extreme harm of LAPD’s spending on surveillance, tech, & community policing: defundsurveillance.org
This investigation is wild - in the one city they could get the data for, it turns out PredPol was correct only ~1% (!!) of the time.
It literally enrages me how rampant this kind of dysfunctional "AI" technology is. What a dangerous waste of money.
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Oh, so you wanna catch up on the impacts of selfie-related facial recognition, AI model training, and data stealing/sharing/selling? But you want it fully illustrated and in rhyming verse and as a Dr. Seuss parody? HAVE WE GOT THE THING FOR YOU (🧵)
ALT A drawing showing a group of people protesting with signs that read Alto a los drones para LAPD, no drones for LAPD, and no LAPD drones. To their right, three people have torn a machine in half. The light haired person is showing the black-haired person this scene. The text reads, In Los Angeles, the coalition Stop LAPD Spying... Dismantles the programs, Of police lying and prying.
ALT A drawing with two frames. In the left frame, the two figures (light and black hair) are holding scissors and a megaphone and standing in front of a group of people with picket signs and scissors. The sign reads No tech for ICE. In the right frame, a figure that is presumably Jeff Bezos and an ICE agent hold a ribbon with a money sign, with scissors under the ribbon. The text reads, If being out on the streets, Is where your strength lies...Join the protesters demanding, Amazon and ICE cut their ties.
ALT The person with lighter hair and the person with darker hair walk holding hands through a scene strewn with books, social media posts, picket signs, and tools. The text reads, So enough talking, persuading, And research and reading. Get moving! Take action, Through working and leading.
ALT A drawing depicting a group of people holding up a big wrench, a big hammer, and a large net, going to catch a claw with wings. The text reads, I’m here when you’re ready, The whole community too. When we come together, There’s nothing we can’t do!
Thanks for reading and sharing! Stay curious, stay critical, build power!
ALT A blue background with a drawing of the main character of the comic, the person with shoulder-length black hair. Under the drawing is text that reads, Data Seuss is a project of Free Radicals created out of the hivemind of Alexis Takahashi, Chrystal Li, and Sophie Wang. Free Radicals is an activist collective dedicated to creating a more socially just, equitable, and accountable science. To learn more go to FREERADS.ORG! Under the text are the Twitter and Instagram handles for the organization, both FREERADSORG.
Solidarity with @uaw2865 student workers! ✊🏿
This building is the site of a disgusting piece of "art" celebrating UCLA's role in the racist and discredited PredPol "predictive policing" program, developed with LAPD and tested on our communities.
"My people are known as the Salmon People. To sustain our wild salmon is to sustain our culture and our way of life," says Rachel Heaton, Muckleshoot Tribal Member and co-founder of @MazaskaTalks 10/
Different communities have different traditions, but for Salmon People collectively, wild salmon are a sacred gift from the Creator, to be honored & protected. For many, genetically engineered salmon is a threat to their heritage, sustenance, livelihood, and sovereignty 9/