Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

“Instead of pouring more money into militarized forces that brutalize, terrorize, and even murder, we should fund libraries, after-school programs, good jobs, and other investments proven to keep us safe.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/31/tyre-nichols-memphis-police/

Twitter Train Wreck In Full Swing Today
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-locked-private-elon-musk-account

Fine reporting at the Verge on the ethical meltdown at CNET -- https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582046/cnet-red-ventures-ai-seo-advertisers-changed-reviews-editorial-independence-affiliate-marketing

We need much more of this kind of reporting about journalism.

Donald Trump, former Commander in Chief, publicly declares that the U.S. armed forces are incapable of fighting or winning.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-slams-us-military-says-armed-forces-cant-fight-win-rcna68167

This isn't just a Memphis issues. Tens of thousands of "real-time crime" cameras now blanket American cities, bringing their own drawbacks: oversurveillance, unequal policing, wasted money. If they're not deterring crime, what's the point?

“Are we just going to put these cameras in front of everybody’s house and monitor them and see if anybody’s up to anything?”

Here's a free-to-read gift link for this story: https://wapo.st/3Y25Anw

I talked to the former Memphis police surveillance manager who installed the SkyCop camera that recorded Nichols' beating (and who now works for SkyCop).

He said, “Crimes of passion cannot be deterred. ... In the Nichols case, that was a crime of passion, and it was caught on video."

He says surveillance is the future, so get used to it:

“It’s the most indiscriminate form of policing there is. The camera doesn’t care. It just records.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/

SkyCop's actual deterrent effect on crime in Memphis is totally unproven. People have broken into cars and fired guns in clear view of the cameras and not been caught.

Journalists with the Daily Memphian did an incredible investigation in 2021 that found that the cameras were cited in less than 3% of the more than 74,000 crime reports filed that year

https://dailymemphian.com/section/metrocriminal-justice/article/25348/memphis-skycops-investigation-crime-up-over-decade

One SkyCop camera captured the SCORPION cops' brutality in Nichols' killing. And thankfully so, given how shaky and obstructed their own body cameras were during the attack.

NAACP Memphis president:
“We put SkyCop cameras up to assist the police in fighting crime in our community. And yet they come and commit the very same crimes we are trying to fight against."

But ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/

In Iran, the state is using AI and facial recognition technology to enforce draconian laws.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epze9w/cyber-irans-ai-powered-surveillance-state
#Tech #worldnews #CYBER #Podcast

New: Memphis spent $10 million installing thousands of 24/7 police-linked surveillance cameras, called SkyCops, on the promise they'd deter crime. But crime's only gone up. And even the cops who beat Tyre Nichols to death weren't deterred.

“Surveillance doesn’t prevent crime, even police crime. These officers knew they were on camera, and they still did this.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/skycop-nichols-memphis-crime/

@GIMP you people should get ads for free.

Here's one: "I've been using GIMP for a decade. It's incredible that do powerful software is given away for free, fixed, developed, distributed for free and I'm very, very happy that I can use it. I install it by default on any machine I have."

Your last chance to run https://www.movetodon.org/ is nigh!

Twitter is closing free API access by next week.

.@ECS_GlobalHQ LIVA Q3H is a Japer Lake #miniPC with HDMI output and input ports suitable for #videoconferencing applications. #Windows11
https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/02/02/ecs-liva-q3h-mini-pc-targets-video-conferencing-with-hdmi-output-and-input-ports/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/cnxsoft/status/1621139412800409601

According to The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth considered suicide in the past year and nearly 1 in 5 attempted suicide. We hope this documentary’s release cultivates awareness and acceptance among the public, showing LGBTQ young people that their stories matter and ultimately progresses our goal to end suicide among LGBTQ young people. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/Yf8uH-GOQzc

Donald Trump unleashes a hate filled - lie filled - threat filled tirade against transgender people and those who care for them. This echos Stephen Miller’s lie filled attack ads from America First Legal last year. https://twitter.com/esqueer_/status/1620757034080821248/mediaviewer

@DeanObeidallah
OLD REMINDERS: Plutocrats successfully used #christofascists to enact laws that have attained complete suppression of what was a flawed Democratic Republic. Democratic Republics have citizens. Fascist capitalists have worker units.

Legal documents: Meta paid Bright Data to scrape data from other websites for years while publicly condemning the practice and suing companies over scraping (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/meta-was-scraping-sites-for-years-while-fighting-the-practice
http://www.techmeme.com/230202/p8#a230202p8

What Elon Musk doesn’t realize is that there’s a whole lot of devs who used Twitter’s API, not because of the network effect, but because it was a free API to build neat products upon.

Now you’ve removed the biggest motivation for actually using that API.