For too long, New Yorkers have come to Housing Court with emergencies — and been forced to wait weeks or months for assistance.
Not anymore. The most hazardous Housing Court cases in which the health, safety, or wellbeing of New Yorkers are at risk will now be fast tracked.
This change is for the disabled New Yorkers whose elevators have been out of service all summer. For the parents who fear for their children because there is lead paint in the living room and black mold in the bathroom. For the tenants with cockroaches crawling in through the floorboards.
We are treating the housing crisis with the urgency that New Yorkers deserve.
STOP FLOCK. STOP AI MASS SURVEILLANCE.
Totalitarianism is when a government or another entity with overwhelming power seeks to know, control and influence everything you do, say and even think. I fear very much that if we don't act aggressively, that is where we’re heading.
You may not know it, but you may already be being tracked by artificial intelligence.
Flock, a surveillance company backed by Big Tech oligarchs like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, has installed more than 120,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras across America.
These AI cameras scan and record 20 BILLION vehicles every month across more than 6,000 communities.
What does that mean for you? It means that if Flock is in your community, every time you leave your house, a Flock camera records and tracks you.
If you are dropping your kids off at school, Flock knows.
If you are going to a doctor, Flock knows.
If you are going out on a date, Flock knows.
And that’s not all.
Newer Flock cameras do not just record vehicles. They record people. Flock’s AI system can combine images of you and your vehicle with databases of phone numbers, relatives and court records to find out who you are, where you're going and why.
In my view, this raises some very fundamental questions. Do we want to live in an America where AI companies like Flock can work with the government to track our every movement? Do we want to live in an America where our privacy rights and civil liberties — enshrined in the Constitution — are traded away so that AI oligarchs can collect more information, and increase their profits even more?
The answer must be NO. We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.
We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to do just that.
Did Hasan Piker meet with Jared Kushner? No that was Hakeem Jeffries.
Did Hasan Piker platform Steve Bannon on his show? No that was Gavin Newsom.
Democratic leadership is unserious about stopping fascism. They know it and now with week 40 of Hasan Piker distraction, we know it
Why do progressives have an easier time winning primaries in red-states than swing-states?
Because the Establishment doesn't invest heavily in stopping candidates that represent the will of the voters.
This is one of the more true indications of where the Democrat base is, versus other elections where dark money is spent to artificially inflate centrist candidates.
Tempe has turned off its Flock automated license plate reader system and will end its contract with the company. The cameras are no longer collecting license plate data, and Tempe will not seek another company to replace the system.
While the cameras have helped Tempe Police solve crimes, recent misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide has raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology.
Tempe Police has found no misuse of its own Flock system.
Flock will remove its cameras, and previously collected data will be automatically deleted after 30 days unless it is connected to an ongoing case or investigation.
Read through the slides to learn more about the decision and what it means for Tempe.
Sorry this is an absurd take. It’s AES’s Dem opponents who have not just signaled but made clear they are willing to sacrifice the Senate because of their refusal not just to get behind AES and endorse him but actually actively undermine his campaign with the Piker obsession.
@neeratanden@Mikel_Jollett Girl you talk about him all day everyday it's wiiiiiiild. You gotta chill. Hes never gonna invite you on a date if you keep acting like this smdh
The right-wing fallacious argument posed 25 yrs ago by a libertarian & a republican lobbyist-
My getting radical ideas out w to help build a communist mvmnt, thru capitalist apparatus, is hypocritical-
is now taken up by a few supposed left online ppl against me.
What’s important to understand is that if these IDF soldiers are harassed or attacked in any way the headline will be “Jewish students attacked in antisemitic incident”. This isn’t hyperbole, this exact scenario has played out a dozen times on US college campuses.