Even the tower of power, Foucault, would be shocked at the terrifying depth of Alexa's bio-political surveillance powers (from patent app = "Alexa would listen out for if users are crying and then class them as experiencing an “emotional abnormality."") h/t @katecrawford
Home care workers have had some success improving their pay and benefits by organizing their own agencies and through campaigns organized by the National Domestic Workers Alliance. @domesticworkers https://t.co/sFHlAEKu7S
President Trump is accused of paying $130,000 in hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels to hide an affair a month before the election. In what is probably just a coincidence, the Trump campaign transferred $130K to the Trump businesses a month after the election.
"Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The 2 imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive."
#RIPUrsulaLeGuin
"It’s easy to feel overwhelmed at a time like this, but the antidote to despair is acting on one’s most deeply held beliefs." -John Tarleton, editor of the paper.
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The first round of federal prosecutions surrounding Inauguration Day protests in Washington, D.C. is underway. Nearly 200 people are looking at decades in prison in a case civil liberty defenders are following closely. https://t.co/p9dOaLrLVS #J20
#NYC: Indigenous rights activists from @decolonize_this & their supporters across town stormed the American Museum of Natural History, conducting a boisterous “Anti-Columbus Day Tour.” https://t.co/d1z27lPULN #ColumbusDay