Hannah Pullen-Blasnik

@hpullenblasnik
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I study the political economy and technology of the carceral state, its relation to urban spaces, and forms of resistance. PhD Sociology @ Columbia
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikApr 27, 2023
Esteban MoroApr 22, 2023
New paper in Nature Communications! Changes of behavior during (lockdowns) and after (working from home, less exploration, etc.) the pandemic decreased by 15-30% the diversity of encounters in cities. This is likely the single most impactful event to affect experienced segregation in years. Fantastic work led by Takahiro Yabe and the rest of the team https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37913-y
Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters - Nature Communications

Mobile phone data reveals a significant decrease in the income diversity of urban encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, even though overall mobility returned to pre-pandemic levels by late 2021. This was mainly due to persistent behavioral changes including less willingness to explore new places.

Nature
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikMar 16, 2023
Charles OrnsteinMar 16, 2023

NEW: Execs Make Millions via Timely Trades of Competitors’ Stock

Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock @emsimani and Robert Faturechi @ProPublica

Wealthy Executives Make Millions Trading Competitors’ Stock With Remarkable Timing

Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.

ProPublica
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikMar 16, 2023
Unicorn RiotMar 16, 2023
[2017]: National Sheriff Association Secretly Waged “Information War” on #NoDAPL Movement:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2017/sheriffs-association-secretly-waged-information-war-nodapl-movement/
Sheriffs' Association Secretly Waged "Information War" on #NoDAPL Movement - UNICORN RIOT

Morton County, ND – A new investigation by DeSmog and Muckrock reveals the behind-the-scenes role played by the National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) in crafting narratives for law enforcement tasked with protecting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from resistance by indigenous peoples and their allies. Emails obtained through public records requests show the Sheriffs’ Association contracted […]

UNICORN RIOT
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikMar 2, 2023
BrendenMar 2, 2023
Police in Ferguson, MO prioritized generating revenue. Did that play a role in the death of Michael Brown? In a study out today, I find that police in cities that relied on fine & fee revenue killed more people. The article is free to read. https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/9/2/161
Police Killings and Municipal Reliance on Fine-and-Fee Revenue

High-profile police killings in the United States have drawn attention to how municipalities generate revenue through citations and arrests. This article investigates whether killings by police are more frequent in places that rely on fine-and-fee revenue by first describing the types of municipalities that collect the most money from monetary sanctions. It then analyzes whether fine-and-fee reliance and a municipality’s status as urban, suburban, or rural are associated with police killings. Descriptive statistics and negative binomial models reveal that suburbs with large Black populations rely the most on fine-and-fee revenue and police killings are higher in central cities than suburbs or rural towns. Cross-sectional and longitudinal regression models find that municipalities that rely more on fines and fees have more police killings, suggesting municipal fiscal imperatives influence police violence.

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikFeb 1, 2023
Show threadUnicorn RiotFeb 1, 2023
ATL officials stated that the city resolved an administrative impasse w DeKalb County & that forest demolition & construction for the widely opposed militarization training center dubbed 'Cop City' can now proceed. (Its paper name is the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.)
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikJan 29, 2023
David Hull 胡大衛Jan 29, 2023

from @QasimRashid on Twitter. It's always worth rewatching this short clip:

"When people say we must give more time for progress and justice in policing—I think of this wisdom from James Baldwin.

“How much time do you want, for your progress?”

Justice Can’t Wait. #TyreNichols"

https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1619443238599008256

Qasim Rashid, Esq. on Twitter

“When people say we must give more time for progress and justice in policing—I think of this wisdom from James Baldwin. “How much time do you want, for your progress?” Justice Can’t Wait. #TyreNichols”

Twitter
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikJan 26, 2023
TJ McIntyreJan 26, 2023

Major CJEU judgment on indiscriminate police capture of biometrics:

“The systematic collection of biometric and genetic data of any accused person in order for them to be entered in a police record is contrary to the requirement of ensuring enhanced protection with regard to the processing of sensitive personal data “

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_3871291/en/

Hannah Pullen-BlasnikJan 26, 2023
Daniel SchwarzJan 13, 2023

The Amazon Ring surveillance network reaches every corner of New York state, partnering with over 200 police departments.
The vast centralized data collection, function creep, deputization of the public, racial bias, and circumvention of warrant requirements are gravely concerning:

https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/nypd-teaming-amazon-ring-new-yorkers-should-be-worried

The NYPD is Teaming Up With Amazon Ring. New Yorkers Should be Worried

The NYPD already has an enormous number of surveillance technologies it uses to peer into the lives of untold numbers of New Yorkers.

New York Civil Liberties Union
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikNov 30, 2022
Dr. Josie Barnard PFHEANov 27, 2022

'In addition to labeling data scraped from the internet, some jobs have gig workers supply the data itself, requiring them to upload selfies, pictures of friends and family or images of the objects around them ... Data labeling interfaces have evolved to treat crowdworkers like machines' - Adrienne @milamiceli & @timnitGebru in their Noema article 'The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence' https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/

#AI #GigWorkers #Ethics

The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

NOEMA
Hannah Pullen-BlasnikNov 21, 2022
Jess HagmanNov 21, 2022

Last week, I asked for examples of well-described qualitative analysis to share with researchers new to #QualitativeResearch.

I've compiled the suggestions, plus some examples of my own here: https://www.jesshagman.info/posts/1135-qualitative-analysis-examples

cc @NoraGottlieb who nudged me to share these back out and @DonnaLanclos and @adam42smith for sharing examples, and the many who boosted my request.

I'll happily update with other examples if you think of them.

#qualitative #CAQDAS

Jess Hagman - Qualitative Analysis Examples

Last week, I led a workshop on planning qualitative data analysis for our state Extension conference. The attendees were great, and asked lots of good questi...