An activist collective dedicated to creating a more socially just, equitable, and accountable science. Chapters in LA, East Coast, & remote (anywhere)!
ANNOUNCING: Our #DefundSurveillance campaign w/ @stoplapdspying has been working to dissect & defund LAPD’s $3.1 billion budget. Today, we’re launching our demands focused on the extreme harm of LAPD’s spending on surveillance, tech, & community policing: https://t.co/K3ys4LS9P1
This investigation is wild - in the one city they could get the data for, it turns out PredPol was correct only ~1% (!!) of the time.
It literally enrages me how rampant this kind of dysfunctional "AI" technology is. What a dangerous waste of money.
https://t.co/GjyNww9KB5
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 (🧵)
Pp. 54-61
Pg 54 – LASER dismantled
https://t.co/Yjf2Lvbaz1
Profile on @stoplapdspying's fight against predictive policing & how they dismantled LAPD’s Operation LASER.
Pg 57 – Scissor cutting ties
https://t.co/u0eAGUHr1V
Article on Amazon employees fighting to cut ties with ICE.
Solidarity with @uaw2865 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.
"My people are known as the Salmon People. To sustain our wild salmon is to sustain our culture and our way of life," says Rachel Heaton, Muckleshoot Tribal Member and co-founder of @MazaskaTalks 10/
Different communities have different traditions, but for Salmon People collectively, wild salmon are a sacred gift from the Creator, to be honored & protected. For many, genetically engineered salmon is a threat to their heritage, sustenance, livelihood, and sovereignty 9/