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An activist collective dedicated to creating a more socially just, equitable, and accountable science. Chapters in LA, East Coast, & remote (anywhere)!
http://defundsurveillance.orgfreerads.orgJoined December 2015

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Pp. 54-61 Pg 54 – LASER dismantled theatlantic.com/politics/archi Profile on 's fight against predictive policing & how they dismantled LAPD’s Operation LASER. Pg 57 – Scissor cutting ties washingtonpost.com/news/the-switc Article on Amazon employees fighting to cut ties with ICE.
A drawing showing a group of people protesting with signs that read Alto a los drones para LAPD, no drones for LAPD, and no LAPD drones. To their right, three people have torn a machine in half. The light haired person is showing the black-haired person this scene. The text reads, In Los Angeles, the coalition Stop LAPD Spying... Dismantles the programs, Of police lying and prying.
A drawing with two frames. In the left frame, the two figures (light and black hair) are holding scissors and a megaphone and standing in front of a group of people with picket signs and scissors. The sign reads No tech for ICE. In the right frame, a figure that is presumably Jeff Bezos and an ICE agent hold a ribbon with a money sign, with scissors under the ribbon. The text reads, If being out on the streets, Is where your strength lies...Join the protesters demanding, Amazon and ICE cut their ties.
The person with lighter hair and the person with darker hair walk holding hands through a scene strewn with books, social media posts, picket signs, and tools. The text reads, So enough talking, persuading, And research and reading. Get moving! Take action, Through working and leading.
A drawing depicting a group of people holding up a big wrench, a big hammer, and a large net, going to catch a claw with wings. The text reads, I’m here when you’re ready, The whole community too. When we come together, There’s nothing we can’t do!
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You can read the whole thing at our website (freerads.org/dataseuss), but for the first time we're going to upload the entire thing here (w/image descriptions)! We'll also link to relevant resources that give real-life examples/info about the ~wacky~ goings on in the story.
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"Oh, The Places Your Data Will Go" is a zine about an innocent selfie who gets uploaded to Instagram and goes on a journey that’s a bit more than she bargained for. And it's (unfortunately) more than relevant to the current Lensa AI conversations.
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Oh, so you wanna catch up on the impacts of selfie-related facial recognition, AI model training, and data stealing/sharing/selling? But you want it fully illustrated and in rhyming verse and as a Dr. Seuss parody? HAVE WE GOT THE THING FOR YOU (🧵)
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Solidarity with student workers! ✊🏿 This building is the site of a disgusting piece of "art" celebrating UCLA's role in the racist and discredited PredPol "predictive policing" program, developed with LAPD and tested on our communities.
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A group of striking Academic Workers occupies the lobby of the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
A group of striking Academic Workers occupies the lobby of the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
A group of striking Academic Workers occupies the lobby of the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
LIVE - workers are occupying the @UCLA Luskin Conference Center. We'll be here all night!
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Alarming stuff. If AQB’s salmon comes to market, it'd open door to unlabeled GE animal products. AQB says we need it bc no wild salmon left. Indigenous #SalmonPeople say otherwise. Nature >>> engineering. We know eliminating dams & factory trawler bycatch will restore wild salmon
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THREAD: Whistleblower comes forth with horrendous conditions at genetically-engineered salmon facility — raising concerns about new GE salmon farm in Ohio run by same company, #AquaBounty. (P.S. This is part 1! Strap in kids, a lot of damning evidence & important context here) 1/
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Replace PredPol with any policing algorithm & this final page from our guide to PredPol w/ still holds true. Abolish carceral tech AND abolish the institutional/structural actors that will continue to replace them (see Algorithmic Ecology freerads.org/2020/03/02/the)
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This isn't the only way liberals are working to revive "predictive policing" after we shut that shit down in Los Angeles and helped discredit it more broadly. Here's the L.A. Times yesterday promoting a new attempt from academics working with police: latimes.com/california/sto
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This fool is complaining that Jeff Brantingham, who UCLA and the U.S. Army paid to start the for-profit PredPol company, got "canceled" because people criticized his racist business.
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My friend & collaborator, Joe Manson, explains why he is retiring from academia & leaving his full Professorship at UCLA. “I’m a professor, retiring at 62 because the woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life….” He has stories. josephhmanson.com/2022/07/04/why
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"we want to build power, not paranoia" thank you for this panel yall ❤️‍🔥
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Will be co-facilitating this @stoplapdspying and @freeradsorg workshop on exposing, mapping, and dismantling Algorithmic Ecologies at @AlliedMediaConf - 7/10 at 10am. Community-led (as opposed to state or institutional) research, action, and care always.
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As fails upward into the Biden administration, L.A. knows what his legacy here is: increasing the criminalization of poverty, increasing LAPD surveillance, and increasing LAPD's budget by 48%. Read our Budget Creep zine with : stoplapdspying.org/zine-lapds-bud
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Breaking: Mayor Garcetti’s nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to India was confirmed today by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. latimes.com/california/sto
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“Abolitionists are sometimes told that we only criticize, that we are too focused on dismantling not building. Our work is building community, growing community power, and uplifting community expertise. What are reformers building besides new policies that are used to hunt us?”
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Data-Driven Policing: Abolition Requires a Culture of Resistance Read our new article in @C_Resistance's The Abolitionist: stoplapdspying.org/data-driven-po
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