"In correctional healthcare, bankruptcy is not the unfortunate result of bad management, it is the business model. These corporations routinely deny people care knowing that people will be injured and die, but also knowing when the burden gets too big, bankruptcy is there to offer an exit with no responsibility or consequence". #prison https://worthrises.org/blogpost/2025/6/24/what-we-learned-from-the-wellpath-bankruptcy

"If your goal is a policy program that supports the most vulnerable people in society, this approach makes no sense whatsoever. But if you're trying to integrate critical assistance into a machinery for hunting immigrants and breaking up families and deporting people without due process — this is exactly how you do it." #privacy https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/nx-s1-5423604/trump-doge-data-states

"Your relationship with the fridge was effectively private. Only you knew about that midnight snack or whether you ogled a co-worker’s lunch. Now, smart refrigerators can respond to voice commands, show images of the items in your fridge, track who opens it, suggest recipes, generate grocery lists and even contact your car to let you know the milk has expired". #IOT https://theconversation.com/how-internet-of-things-devices-affect-your-privacy-even-when-theyre-not-yours-251592

Trump FCC announces push to end limitations on how many broadcast outlets can be owned by the same company. #MediaMonopoly https://www.newscaststudio.com/2025/06/19/fcc-deregulatory-broadcast-ownership-limits-tv/

Remember those #IKE kiosks. Yeah, probably not. No one is using them. "Each one averaged 11 visits per day — roughly the equivalent of one visitor every two hours and 10 minutes" https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/06/16/berkeley-video-kiosks-ike-smart-city-usage-popularity

El Tecolote did a deep dive on San Francisco's attacks on #RV communities in the city's western edge. #homelessness https://eltecolote.org/content/en/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking/

LA Press Club, First Amendment Coalition and others sue LAPD for beating the crap out of #journalists during the LA immigration protests. https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/journalists-sue-los-angeles-police-for-unlawful-use-of-force/

As empathetic as one is to the financial struggles of news organizations, #paywalls are just plain not working. The country is dumber and less informed. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/24/few-americans-pay-for-news-when-they-encounter-paywalls/

Not a big surprise. "Researchers from MIT conducted a four-month study titled "Your Brain on #ChatGPT" and found users of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's chatbot "consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels". https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-writing-study-mit-cognitive-cost

"“I feel betrayed,” Alejandro Barranco said. “My dad has no criminal history. He wasn’t doing anything bad. He was just working. The way they (federal agents) attacked him, I don’t think it’s right.” #ICE https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/23/video-of-landscaper-repeatedly-punched-by-federal-agent-in-santa-ana-sparks-protest-fundraiser/

"#AI data centers are being approved at a breakneck pace across the country, particularly in poorer regions where they are pitched as economic development projects to boost property tax receipts, bring in jobs and where they’re offered sizable tax breaks" https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Less than 20% of the #NationalGuard troops supposedly deployed to Los Angeles showed up and those that did were pulled off of #wildfire mitigation efforts as the state enters the 2025 fire season. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/national-guard-troops-los-angeles-20386413.php?

#Chatbots now get defensive when they screw up and get caught. "With the conversation going round in circles, Smethurst said he did not believe the chatbot and told it: “Just giving a random number to someone is an insane thing for an AI to do.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number

#Immigration rapid response phone numbers in every Bay Area county. From the SF Public Press. Can't be reposted enough.

California to get a new federal #immigration detention camp at California City in Kern County. #CoreCivic https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-city-largest-migrant-detention-center-20386228.php

"“It seems like no one, [Riverside] Sheriff [Chad] Bianco included, knows why those location data searches were done in Riverside’s [license plate] database" #ALPR https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/

NY Legislature passes law to ensure journalist access to police scanners. Gov. Hochul has not yet signed the bill. #police #encryption https://apnews.com/article/ny-police-encrypt-radio-233dae52aa5da91f53fa4258f40756d0

Sonoma County sued for #drone flights over county residents homes searching for code violations. https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/sonoma-county-drone-aclu-lawsuit-20363620.php

"The Feb. 1 blaze at the Martinez Refining Company sent a large plume of black smoke over Martinez and released more than 7,000 gallons of hydrocarbon materials. Some of the chemicals released in the fire can cause cancer, heart and lung disease" https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/06/05/martinez-refinery-fire-lack-of-contractor-personnel-insufficient-training-supervision/?