Layoffs at the @TexasTribune - the #nonprofit #journalism world's most significant success story - raise concerns about whether nonprofit news sites can function at scale. The Tribune laid off its entire copy desk and most of its criminal justice team. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/the-texas-tribunes-first-ever-layoffs-worry-the-news-industry/

Techbros now own about about 50% of Eastern #Solano county and are suing #farmers who won't sell land to them for their new "planned city". #CaliforniaForever https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/solano-county-farm-ranchers-18343048.php

Take me out to the #ballgame with #Dronedog. https://www.biometricupdate.com/202309/facial-recognition-equipped-robot-dog-to-prowl-us-sporting-venue

Chair of civilian #jail #oversight board in St. Louis roughed up, forcibly removed and charged with trespassing after he made inquiries about an in-custody death at the jail. https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/jail-oversight-board-chair-arrested-after-asking-about-detainee-death-40777908

"#CDCR staff routinely assume people in their custody are deportable #immigrants — even when their own records indicate they are U.S. #citizens or immigrants who should not be deported — and report those individuals to #ICE. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-08-29/californa-prisons-ice-records-us-citizens?s=03

Stuff you can't make up: @Amazon's attack dog against the #FTC, Lina Khan and the return of meaningful #antitrust is Robert #Bork Jr, the son of the notorious rejected Supreme Court judge. https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazon-enlists-right-wing-scion-robert-bork-jr-to-battle-antitrust-action-with-ftc?

"The reason Oakland saw its funding projection slashed by 56% and South Central Los Angeles by 77% — versus an overall statewide reduction of 17% — may be due to telecom companies wanting to avoid areas where people can’t affordto pay". #Broadband https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/08/26/good-old-fashioned-redlining-why-was-oakland-cut-out-of-state-plan-for-high-speed-internet/

#NYPD announces that police #drones will surveil private #backyard gatherings over Labor Day weekend. https://apnews.com/article/drones-labor-day-eric-adams-nypd-jouvert-c2787e87bcad8fa87aa8d34b454ee6cf

In a month, El Cajon shared 12 million California license plate scans with police in #Texas putting people at risk for immigration, abortion care and gender care enforcement. Not passing #AB1463 is putting people at risk. #CALeg #ALPR https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2023-08-27/el-cajon-police-sharing-license-plate-data

Texas governor Abbott's Operation #LoneStar was found to be running an "unauthorized foreign #intelligence operation. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-national-guard-migrants-whatsapp-intelligence/

They say #prison is about rehabilitation, but any serious look at prison policies exposes that it is only punishment. No gifts of #books? https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-08-29/missouri-prisons-ban-friends-and-family-from-sending-books-to-prisoners

#Facebook appears to have learned nothing from January 6th and fails to listen to their #OversightBoard. "Doing so would “not be consistent with our policies, including our protocol on restricting accounts of public figures during civil unrest.” https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4176843-meta-rejects-recommendation-to-suspend-former-cambodian-prime-minister/

BART set up a portable #police #tower over 24th Street. It's true their #surveillance ordinance allows them to use security cameras, but that is on BART property, not the public right of way. https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/police-watchtower-installed-at-24th-st-bart-plaza/

Before we jump to the conclusion that artificial intelligence #AI will replace human beings or even animals ...... https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruise

Young CA women heading off to college in other parts of the country are getting #IUD's and other contraceptive implants to head off any possibility of an unplanned #pregnancy. https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/californians-headed-to-hbcus-in-the-south-prepare-for-college-under-abortion-bans/

@marlinspike You mean not just dumping it into the ocean a la Fukushima?

The anti-democratic instincts exposed on Jan 6 aren't isolated. "Until Braxton decided to throw his hat in the ring, people in Newbern did not realize they had the option to run for mayor or council, or that elections were at all possible. Braxton said he never heard anything about #elections in Newbern. We can’t have elections here. We don’t have ballot boxes,, Stokes told him". https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out?

Social media "pixels" in website #analytics strike again. #privacy https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

SF Superior Court goes with state plan for five more years of nuclear-plant-on-an-earthquake-fault gambling at #DiabloCanyon. https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-power-diablo-canyon-california-c3d2fc23916daada9bfa72160e83db1d

Reagan-appointed judge gives Abbott 10 days to get his migrant-injuring #buoys out of the Rio Grande river on the Texas-Mexico border. https://original.newsbreak.com/@the-e-texan-1622709/3135220562769-judge-gives-texas-only-10-days-gov-abbott-must-immediately-remove-the-rio-grande-buoys