Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans

ICE is developing its own model of smart glasses
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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Black Zine Fair Your engaging and descriptive copy for social media.

NYC! Come celebrate all things Black & independent publishing on Saturday, May 9! Black exhibitors & educators can gather, trade or sell zines, & exchange knowledge surrounding zine-making, publishing, & DIY culture. For more info, click the link:

Former ICE Detainees Find Healing, Companionship in New Support Group - Documented Dozens of New York area immigrants come together monthly to relive — and heal from — their experiences in detention centers.

The emotional trauma inflicted by ICE on our immigrant neighbors is devastating — and often neglected.

So it’s really beautiful to see @envfreefund.bsky.social create this support group. (1/2)

Couple in hats hold a giant sign: WE CLOSED OUR CITIZENS ACCOUNT OVER ICE COMPLICITY.

De-ICE Citizens Bank.
They’re still financing Core Civic & GEO Group, the corrupt & greedy private prison cos behind cruel, inhuman ICE detention at Dilley, Delaney Hall and more.
Other banks cut them off.
Citizens should too or they’ll lose more customers (like me & @paulthedogman.bsky.social)

tremendous content here

Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing

"Hundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as Walmart and Target"

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

America is losing a talented researcher today.
Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility."
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We all have days like this

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games.

The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket.

📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social

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The Sonic Afterlives of Afro-Latin Form Date: Friday, April 17, 2026 Time: 7:30pm Address: Espacio de Culturas, 53 Washington Square South Join us for this latest colloquium in the Música de Vaivén series! We are a study group dedicated to...

Stop by NYU tmrw to see me present at the Música de Vaivén series, w/ Melissa Moorman (U-W Madison) and Alejandro Bronfman (SUNY-Albany).

Música de Vaivén is organized by Sybil Newton Cooksey (NYU), and focuses on "the sonic afterlives of Afro-Latin form"

RSVP:
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How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses.

NEW YORK CITY: May 4th, join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study & strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. Featuring our own Mariame Kaba. Register here ⬇️

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Pervert glasses should be shunned.

Bluesky shitting the bed. It’s just a screenshot of blank posts that Bluesky shows when it’s loading

Honestly this is probably the platonic ideal of this website

ITV has announced 70 Up, the documentary following contributors every seven years, is to come to an end.

The director Michael Apted died in 2021. The Up film series has aired since 1964. Final episodes this year.

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Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

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How Raoul Peck Became a Cinematic Griot The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.

In Issue No. 10, Hammer & Hope’s culture editor Lovia Gyarkye profiles the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, who has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.
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Why aren't students protesting?

Wonder where the kids have gone bsky.app/profile/alex...

Media outlets have infrastructure to support such investigations — experienced reporters and editors, newsroom lawyers, resources to fend off lawsuits. The content creators had none of that. Both women said they independently took out umbrella insurance policies to protect their houses and other assets in case they got sued. At one point Fodor, feeling increasingly overwhelmed, sent a message to Hunt: “I think we have bitten off more than we can chew here.” The influencers agreed that specific allegations needed to be broken in a news story. While reporters dug into the allegations, they kept up a public drumbeat, insisting that Swalwell was a shady character and promising the details would come out soon. The tease infuriated many on social media, who accused the influencers of being irresponsible by lobbing accusations without backing them up. But the threat of a soon-to-drop news story was enough to dry up Swalwell’s fundraising and unnerve supporters. Political operatives of all stripes were disconcerted watching the influencers play by their own set of rules, different from the norms of media outlets, and wondered if this would become a new normal in campaigns — a prospect that even unsettled the influencers. “I have a lot of fears about the blurred lines between content creators and journalists,” Hunt said. She knew her personal familiarity with Swalwell’s reputation would never have been sufficient basis for a reporter to write a story. “It was enough for me to feel confident in not getting sued, and to want to let other women know that they weren’t alone, and only from that place would we be able to break his story in a traditional news media outlet,” she said. “I don’t want this to be a green light to creators who think that they should be breaking sensitive news.”

The series of events that resulted in Swalwell's downfall bring up a really interesting (and depressing) conversation about traditional media vs. independent and how money in journalism controls who has the safety to tell the truth

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Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Detained in Kuwait as Gulf Cracks Down on Free Speech During Iran War Shihab-Eldin, who is a US citizen and long-standing critic of Israel, has been imprisoned for six weeks.

“Journalism is fundamentally about telling the truth; it is essential work, an act of service, and one the public needs in order to make informed decisions,” Prashar said.

#FreeAhmedElDin

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Writing this from a newspaper based in Zohran's New York and saying the kids are on their phones and not opposing Trump gtfoh

Announcing the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

Margaret Brown! Reid Davenport! Stephen Maing! Documentary doing brisk business at the Guggenheims this year

CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws.

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#FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin

Our 2026 Innovators The first cohort of the Innovator Circle is comprised of nine founders representing a company or organization they founded, work at, or contribute to. Products generated and updated as a result of this partnership will be positioned as the landing pads for a migration led by and for us. Here are some of our Innovators:

@blackskyweb.xyz is among the inaugural cohort of @designitforus.bsky.social Innovators!

As a community of founders and builders we share the belief that safety, privacy, and human well-being aren't tradeoffs. In fact, they're what make great products.

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