“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
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@gilda.rest is the bird
“Penn recently received a grant from Google to bring more school districts into the program.”
Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
Legit gets me mad bcuz I spend too long looking for the source if they don't even mention publication or where they got the information from. Generally, not this specific account
Ok what
this skeet is dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan
prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible:
www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...
Is Trump trying to become the God Emperor of Mankind w/ name dropping Terra
Spanish. I'm assuming OP first language is not English and uses translator
It is through translation that it gets lost. Fury -> furia -> rage.
Iran is experiencing a near-total internet blackout, with connectivity down to about 4% of normal levels.
Hey just following up on this
Happy #FOIAFriday to those that celebrate! This week I met with journalist @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social to discuss public records requests he'll be filing for @lataco.bsky.social. We're able to work with Joey part-time thanks to all your donations!
Donate here 👉🏾 givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...
Love this collaboration—Joey is such a good person for this work!
Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)
Like, The Handbasket was started because I couldn’t make enough money freelancing but i couldn’t not write, so i just gave myself assignments and started writing. That spirit (perhaps mental illness) is something billionaires will never understand. We want to do this work against all odds.
Currently tearing my hair out because I adopted an urgent rent need for a family that needs to pay $3050 RIGHT MEOW to stay out of eviction court and then I got an urgent request from another rent fund and there’s $320 left in my Venmo account. So much need and I wish I could be everywhere at once 😭
I know I’ve been asking for $ these past few weeks but in light of last night’s barbarism:
if you would like to help trans folks in Kansas get a ride to their nearest DMV + cover any license fees they can’t pay, please consider donating with the comment “TRANS RIGHTS”
donorbox.org/solidarity-w...
for those who may not know.... fpds.gov was just decommissioned :( it's been a retro-looking but extremely reliable tool for surfacing + sorting through data about federal contracts. im mostly irritated at the whole thing, but tbh I'm also a little sad lol
I was just using this a couple of days ago, sad :(
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)
you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS
lyra.horse/x86css/
was having a late night look through the court records in a case I've been following and stumbled across this www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-in-san-d...
Over the weekend, violence erupted across parts of Mexico in the wake of the killing of major Jalisco cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho, leaving stores ransacked, residents sheltering in place and flights cancelled.
LA people who know these neighborhoods, how are you feeling?
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Moms for Liberty ceremony
Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community.
He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.
Are the twitter shirt bots on here now? Bsky really is growing then
