It’s actually an important image. It shows how post-9/11 “security” infrastructures (like fusion centers, from which this was almost certainly tweeted) serve as anti-left wing political police and double as emergency responders. Bad.
We must shut down police fusion centers and replace them with emergency response intelligence and response organizations that do not have any interest in arrest, and are not police. Tbh we need climate response centers. Fund that not police.
Just want to be crystal clear about a couple of things regarding the ACLU and 40+ civil rights groups' call on @amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to cops:
1. If we don't stop its rollout nationwide, this technology will inevitably be used by the worst people (think Trump and his supporters) to do the worst things (think round up immigrants).
2. Proponents of authoritarian systems of control (and this is that) always say we need to use these systems to protect children and to stop terrorists. Have we not now, 17 years after 9/11, learned that authoritarian surveillance doesn't keep us safe?
Five years ago today, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people died, and hundreds were injured. Later that week, all hell broke loose in the Boston area. We still don't know who built the bombs.
In 2015, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty of bombing the marathon and killing an MIT police officer. He was sentenced to death. The FBI seems to have moved on. But key facts in the case are missing. This is a thread about the loose ends.
The bombings happened on Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013, at around 2:50pm. For days, the government wouldn't say anything about whether it had suspects. Then, on Thursday April 18, at around 5:20pm, the FBI released photos of its suspects.
Massachusetts residents and everyone who cares about the health and safety of drug users and technology users should be EXTREMELY concerned about two wiretap amendments the senate will vote on tomorrow. privacysos.org/blog/massachus…
The prosecutors have been pushing for wiretap expansion for years. Now, they've come close to tacking expansive new wiretap powers onto a bill that's meant to address racial disparities and mass incarceration. Madness.
The wiretap expansion is dangerous for two core reasons:
1. It massively, dangerously expands the types of investigations in which prosecutors can conduct wiretaps.
2. It enables wiretapping of ALL existing and ALL future digital technologies—in perilous ways.