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I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook to share with police

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

Business Insider
Is this place cool now? I think the other place is going to hell.
If you're trying to find a "creative" worker like a graphic artist or web designer and are having trouble, consider paying someone for a few months without asking them to do any actual projects. You won't make any money out of it, but it will be good exposure and show your potential employee what a good employer you might be one day.
Look, companies that are having a hard time finding staff need to realize that in this economy, looking for workers is a full-time job. You can't just post an ad on Indeed and call it quits. You've got to be out there all day everyday working the phones, working your network. Make an impression by sending thank you notes to candidates who grant you an interview. And always remember: if you keep at it every day and never give up, you will eventually find a worker. You can do it!

Twitter just suspended the account for Washington D.C.'s public transit system, maybe for posting the buses' real-time assassination coordinates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/01/10/dc-metro-twitter-account-suspended/ @faizsays

Twitter temporarily bans account for D.C.-area bus system without explanation

The social media app suspended the @metrobusinfo account on Tuesday for about six hours and gave Metro transit officials no explanation why.

The Washington Post
Looking for #nebraska #neleg #lincoln #omaha #unicameral folks to follow on the mastadon thingy.
I like how many instances are bothered by the prospect of the defederation.

They often make the erroneous claim that it will create an isolated experience for instances that do this, which is ridiculous because this assumes more instances will not be created.

What they are really worried about is
their instances being isolated, and they are protecting that fear to the rest of the fedi.

They are terrified of the prospect of there being consequences for bad behavior. Choosing to give bigotry and hate space will be relegated to its corner of the fedi where all they have is access to each other.

And this is what bigots fear the most—lack of access to us.

NEW: LibsOfTikTok's Chaya Raichik appears to have trespassed at the Capitol on Jan 6

https://newsletter.extremism.io/archive/did-chaya-raichik-trespass-at-the-capitol/

Did Chaya Raichik trespass at the Capitol?

Newly-released analysis of footage appears to show Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the LibsOfTikTok account, trespassing on restricted grounds of the U.S....

A majority of Americans, including 77% of young people, approve of labor unions.

Just thought I'd pop in and remind you of that.