Erin McNeill

If we get nothing else out of this, at least Larry Summers will finally sit down and shut up. #Summers #Epsteinfiles

Karma is a b*tch. #summers #epstein #harvard

Can we just plaster this on a great big banner on the Zakim Bridge? #Summers #Epstein
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

What's in the latest version of Trump's big bill now before the Senate At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

What I'm reading here is that for a $12,000 tax break for the richest, we are taking $1,600 from poorest, gutting safety net (there are poor women who will not get prenatal care) + adding $trillions to the debt (young people will face brunt of this) apnews.com/article/sena...

How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they’re not yours Internet of Things devices are collecting an increasing amount of information, creating a web of data harvesting that ensnares people all around them.

Another in my collection on #privacy #surveillance theconversation.com/how-internet...

Since it can be done, it probably will be done.

Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

I mean, I kind of assumed this, but still. It's not appropriate that we should be tracked and surveilled by the government. Where does it end? What's too much?
www.404media.co/airlines-don...

This is a lie (not just because Nick Clegg said it, tho that's one indicator at least). You absolutely can make "AI" systems while fairly compensating people for data.

And even if it weren't a lie, then any industry that can't survive without theft and consent violations shouldn't survive anyway 🤷🏾‍♂️

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

This whole connection of national camera networks combined with AI capabilities, and general acceptance of mass surveillance, not a good direction
www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

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Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm Tom Homan, a top ICE official, earned an undisclosed amount from a division of the GEO Group, one of two companies that operates the majority of the nation’s immigrant detention facilities.

Border czar Tom Homan, captain of the "zero tolerance" policy that split migrant parents from their kids, was paid money by the private-prison company that profits off detaining immigrants. Drain the swamp www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

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"This will allow agencies to quickly remove employees from critical positions who ... undermine the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives."

Wow.

NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago.

I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.

A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man -- a step too far? www.404media.co/i-loved-that...

Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...

Finally some good news. www.wired.com/story/why-ca... Hard to believe this wasn't obvious from the start

How to Better Design Cities for Families The architecture of housing, transportation and public space could support children and caretakers, writes design critic Alexandra Lange in her Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

Bloomberg News has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for a collection of essays by contributor @langealexandra.bsky.social.

The series published in Bloomberg CityLab explores how urban design and architecture impact parents and kids 🧵

And this is the 12th person to be killed on SODO's 4th Ave S in the last 5 years! At six lanes wide, it's a classic "stroad" where speeding is the norm. Freight and safe streets can coexist, but freight/industry advocates have stymied SDOT's #VisionZero efforts to redesign this street.

Oh, great! Hello! I wonder what the problem was with bsky. I look forward to hearing more from you on transportation, housing and all the things. Everything relates in some way to media literacy, so I hope you join that conversation as well!

But you didn't follow me back.

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

Great. www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

bsky can have a little police surveillance manual, as a treat

GOP blocked Hegseth Signal probe because he is 'indefensible,' says Rep. Adam Smith House Republicans blocked a resolution that could have forced an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., says it's because the GOP knows it can't defend him.

www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

Mass. attorney says DHS told her to self-deport, despite U.S. citizenship Anyone can imagine the U.S. born Nicole Macheroni's surprise when she says she received an emailed letter from the Department of Homeland Security, telling her to self-deport within 7 days.

Mass. attorney says DHS told her to self-deport, despite U.S. citizenship | Click on the image to read the full story

One of the ways that Americans have true power right now is by finding community and starting to build resilience between neighbors and groups of neighbors/community wherever they find it. if we are to survive, it is going to be together. Alone we die.
We have to break the cycle of individualism.

#signalgate Regular use, potentially violating regulations on protecting sensitive national security information from foreign adversaries, and federal recordkeeping laws www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Opinion | Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools (Gift Article) What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.

"Teachers pointed to the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020-21 as the period of radicalization for a “vocal minority” of their male students; these boys were stuck at home and melting their brains on the internet." Missing from article; solutions. Including No.1 #MediaLiteracy
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.

This story is about facial recognition, mass surveillance, insecure CEOs afraid of criticism www.theverge.com/news/637228/...

Why are we not talking about the emojis?