Proud to announce a new campaign from the ACLU of Massachusetts to ban the sale and trade of cellphone location information. We must end this predatory practice once and for all. Learn more and get involved: https://twitter.com/ACLU_Mass/status/1668951528009285632?s=20
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interests include technology/power, civil rights, the war on cars, and weightlifting. opinions mine.
Here is a non-Twitter link for folks! Apologies for not sharing this one at first. https://www.aclum.org/en/ban-sale-location-data
Ban The Sale of Location Data
Every day, unregulated data brokers buy and sell personal location data from apps on our cellphones, revealing where we live, work, play, and more. To protect our privacy, safety, access to abortion and other essential health care, Massachusetts needs to ban this practice now by passing the Location Shield Act. Voter Support | Location Shield Act TAKE ACTION NOW BACKGROUND
This is so fantastic. The city of Boston is installing speed humps on ALL residential streets. Thank you Mayor Wu and Jascha! https://content.boston.gov/making-neighborhood-streets-safer
Making neighborhood streets safer
Speed humps are a primary tool to address traffic speeds and make our neighborhoods more comfortable for people who live, walk, bike, and play there. We plan to install up to 500 speed humps on an annual basis. That’s between 40 and 50 miles of traffic-calmed streets each year!
I know it sounds crazy, but what if the FBI was simply prohibited from doing unconstitutional surveillance in the first place? Wild concept right. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/fbi-violated-surveillance-program-rules.html
I’ve gotten so many of these calls. The right wing grift machine is so strong it’s amazing. I say good for them. Better than them using the money to try to influence politics. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/14/us/politics/scam-robocalls-donations-policing-veterans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear
A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates, an analysis by The New York Times shows, nearly all the money went to pay the firms making the calls and the operatives themselves.
New Study Finds a High Minimum Wage Creates Jobs https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/new-study-finds-a-high-minimum-wage-creates-jobs.html
Mother’s Day frittatas. We have a russet potato, broccoli, and cheddar on the left and a sweet potato and zucchini with parm on the right.
Extreme Internet of Shit vibes https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/
Fascinating. People keep saying "we can't let a handful of large tech companies determine the future of machine learning." But what if they don't? What happens if the technology is widely distributed? https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
