Brandon Wallace

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A corrupt Chicago cop destroyed hundreds of lives. Now victims want justice.

Former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team framed people for crimes they didn't commit. Now victims want them held accountable.

USA TODAY

TikTok knows a worrying amount of data about you. Here's what it tracks:

1. Device
2. OS
3. Location
4. Keystroke patterns or rhythms
5. Battery state
6. Audio settings
7. Connected audio devices
8. Objects and scenery in videos
9. Existence and location of face and body
10. Text of words spoken

They can do a lot with that data!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tiktok-data-collection-privacy-1.6763626

If you use TikTok, the app is collecting a staggering amount of information about you | CBC News

One of the hottest TikTok trends right now seemingly is Western governments banning the immensely popular app from their employees' phones and launching probes into its data collection practices. 

CBC
if america ever gets nuked the headlines will say "Millions of workers didn't show up for work yesterday. Is No Call No Show the new standard?"

Today marks the start of Women's History Month - let's celebrate the amazing contributions of women!

#WomensHistoryMonth

Art by: Karen Hallion

Looking forward to an easier life.

Biden promised to reform the police. Why has so little progress been made? - Bold campaign promises to reform criminal justice are stymied at the state level and amid partisan point-scoring in CongressTwo years to the day since George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Joe Biden stood in the White House and signed an executive order he argued should... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/biden-review-police-criminal-justice-reform-promises

Biden promised to reform the police. Why has so little progress been made?

Bold campaign promises to reform criminal justice are stymied at the state level and amid partisan point-scoring in Congress

The Guardian
#Google is actually a secret government organization, and their mission is to control the world's information. #SEO is just a tool they use to keep everyone in line.

“If people want to stay on Twitter to debate fascists, more power to them, but there is a danger in conflating Twitter the technology & digital space with Twitter the people. The platform is made up of people. Musk bought Twitter, but he did not buy the communities that exist on the platform” - @hypervisible and @Kishonna

Essential piece (link is to a Wired article titled For Black Folks, Digital Migration Is Nothing New):
https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-social-media/

For Black Folks, Digital Migration Is Nothing New

Two Black academics discuss the rationale behind leaving Twitter or going down with the ship.

WIRED
I don't want to just be posting about numbers like a clock, but the 2 million mark of monthly active users across the network is a pretty big deal. This is going big numbers! Shout out to all the server operators who are absorbing this wave.