Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈

@ryanboswell@sfba.social
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💻 Software engineer turned manager.
❤️‍🔥 Passionate about privacy, security, content systems, emojis, and the outdoors.
🌐 Webhttps://ryanboswell.com/
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@rmondello A decade of using Chrome's monopoly power to suck all the air out of the room and fend of anyone else's attempts to improve privacy on the web platform, while making life incredibly difficult for the other browser makers. Then, right on the verge of moving to the industry standard of blocking cross-site cookies and suddenly there's cold feet. Whomstsoever amongst us could have anticipated this turn of events?

"Clearview’s business model is based on “weaponizing our own images against us without a license, without consent, without permission”

this new reporting paints a chilling portrait of an ideologically driven company whose powerful surveillance technology is now in the hands of the Trump administration"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Mother Jones
The city should give citizens that report citation worthy things a commission each time they successfully issue one. We’re literally doing the city’s job for them, and making our streets safer, we deserve some recognition.

It’s a good thing we allowed SFPD to do more car chases using the $100+ million in overtime we pay them to cause even more crashes costing another $500 million.

#SanFrancisco #SFPD #PublicTransit
https://sfba.social/@SafeStreetRebel/114389470679623608

Safe Street Rebel (@SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social)

yearly costs from car crashes: $500 million stopping Muni cuts that would make people buy cars: $7.2 million someone please help me budget this, my city is dying https://sfba.social/@MLNow/114389440475044251

SFBA.social

“As Fielder put it, the city is trying to serve 500 homeless families. If HSH gave them each a $3,500 monthly housing voucher, the annual cost would be $21 million. That’s…about 20 percent of what the city spends on police overtime. It’s also, Fielder points out, less than the city is prepared to spend building a habitat for pandas at the zoo.”

https://48hills.org/2025/04/fielder-proposal-to-protect-unhoused-families-runs-into-opposition-from-moderates/

Fielder proposal to protect unhoused families runs into opposition from 'moderates' - 48 hills

Sauter, Sherrill try to kill a measure that would give a bit of hope to some of the city's most vulnerable residents

48 hills
@drdrang capturing training data to summarize and re-use for their own trial.

I’m getting fed up of making the rich, richer

We're hoping that we can work in the open with community support and sponsorship. The end result? People get genuine real world education that's free at the point of entry.

https://piccalil.li/links/im-getting-fed-up-of-making-the-rich-richer/

I’m getting fed up of making the rich, richer

We're hoping that we can work in the open with community support and sponsorship. The end result? People get genuine real world education that's free at the point of entry.

Piccalilli
Everyone's a Designer

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Elon Musk isn’t – and never has been – “crazy”.

He’s always been a privileged little bigot and a fascist.

It’s just that while he aimed the worst of his behaviour at his employees, you were all too busy applauding him as a captain of industry to notice.

So, get it right, yeah?