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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

U.S. citizen visiting Arizona detained by immigration agents for 10 days, family says Jose Hermosillo, 19, who lives in New Mexico, and his girlfriend were visiting family in Tucson when he was detained, relatives said. His case was dismissed Thursday.

Detained for 10 days

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Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families “It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.”

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U.S. citizen released from jail after arrest under Florida’s new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where the U.S. citizen was held after his arrest for illegally ent...

Read the details of his release here!
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Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.

UPDATED: As of Tuesday night, California universities are reporting at least 92 revoked student visas.

— 50 at UC campuses. New: UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine and a jump at UC Berkeley to 19 total
— 36 at CSU campuses, including San Diego State
— 6 at Stanford

www.latimes.com/california/s...

NICAR25_Javascript Why use D3? Can build charts with just HTML and CSS. The height of each bar would be set with height: 20px <div class="chart"> <div class="bar bar-1">150</div> <div class="bar bar-2">...

Also, my outline for the presentation with the helpful section: "Is that an old version of D3 or old JavaScript?" docs.google.com/document/d/1... Remember, D3 is just drawing shapes. If it's still mysterious, I'm always happy to chat with folks: calendly.com/yoli-martinez

Loved being able to jump back into D3 for this #NICAR25 presentation. For those that missed it, here's the tip sheet for the session docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez. Bezos is in a tight fitting shirt, heart-shaped sunglasses, tight white pants, and a white belt. The shirt has a red, gold, and blue pattern in the style of a kitchen backsplash. Sánchez is in a two-piece, sparkly outfit.

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

It's been a few years, but I'm excited to be going back to #NICAR25 next week! I'm always happy to talk to early career folks and students, so reach out for coffee 👋 Also reach out if you have veggie/vegan friendly recs

Thousands of refugees destined for Minnesota in limbo under Trump Thousands of refugees can no longer resettle in Minnesota after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing immigration to the United States.

Thousands of refugees can no longer resettle in Minnesota after President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing immigration to the United States.

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Donate to Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union, organized by Ashok Selvam On Thursday, December 5, nearly 40 members of the Vox Media Union, Thr… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Stand with the Vox Media Union and Thrillist Union

A bunch of my colleagues were laid off on Thursday and we are trying to get them as much money as possible to ease the blow, if you have anything to spare www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Hey new followers! 👋 Longtime Twitter lurker making my way over to Bluesky and hoping to be less lurky here. But enough about me—go follow @capitalb.bsky.social! We’re an independent newsroom covering the issues that matter to Black folks, both locally and nationally, with real depth and care.

I think they trust billionaires even less.

Imagine putting a lot of engineering resources into building AI tools that more easily surface news articles and then using those tools to hide your own newsroom's reporting.
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The unionized members of The Atlantic Editorial and Business and Technology units are deeply troubled by the opaque agreement The Atlantic has made with OpenAI, and especially by management’s complete lack of transparency about what the agreement entails and how it will affect our work. Atlantic staffers have largely learned of this agreement from outside sources, and both the company and OpenAI have refused to answer questions about the terms of the deal. Instead, they’ve directed staffers to the very same outside reporting. The Atlantic has defended the values of transparency and intellectual honesty for more than 160 years. Its legacy is built on integrity, derived from the work of its writers, editors, producers, and business staff. OpenAI, on the other hand, has used news articles to train AI technologies like ChatGPT without permission. The people who continue to maintain and serve The Atlantic deserve to know what precisely management has licensed to an outside firm and how, s

Statement on The Atlantic agreement with OpenAI from the Atlantic Union. www.nyguild.org/front-page-d...

This is why it's important to support local news. While this: www.wsj.com/politics/ele... focused on the issues motivating tech millionaires to get involved in city politics, @missionlocal.bsky.social followed the money and dug into the relationships instead: missionlocal.org/2024/02/expl...

The LA Times Guild has walked off the job. ✊ I’ll be joining my colleagues for a rally today at noon in Grand Park. ✊ Please support us by not crossing the digital picket line and feel free to join us for a rally in Grand Park at 12 pm noon. ✊

The LA Times Guild is asking supporters to not cross the picket line as the staff walks out tomorrow. As a subscriber, I'm standing in solidarity with them ✊🏼

Local news is vital and newsroom cuts not only hurt the reporters but end up hurting the local community.

Cannot recommend a Roxie membership enough! Glad we can support independent cinema in SF, where else could I have watched a 6-hour long restored version of The Battle of Chile? Which only didn't make the list because of the 2023 restrictions 😅

The film that surprised me the most was actually Barbie. While I've loved most of Gerwig's work, I went into this with very low expectations, to the point where I had considered skipping it completely. But I knew it was a winner after the Pride and Prejudice joke.

Every year friends and I share a list of our fav films. This is my 2023 list, with a special shout-out to The Roxie in SF, which screened most of these!

1. Joyland
2. Four Daughters
3. Afire
4. Fremont
5. Barbie
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. Enys Men
8. You Hurt My Feelings
9. Showing up
10. Broker

A chart of a poll question. The question was: Overall, how concerned are you about the use of artificial intelligence by news organizations? 80% of all respondents said they were concerned. The chart then provides a demographic breakdown: 86% of women and 76% of men were concerned. 72% of 18-34 year olds, 79% of 35-49 year olds, 84% of 50-64 year olds, 88% of 65 and older. 84% of white people, 73% of people of color. 87% of Republicans, 77% of Democrats, 72% of independents. 81% of those familiar with AI, and 80% of those not familiar with AI.

A chart of a poll question. The question was: How comfortable are you with news organizations using artificial intelligence in the following ways? In response to "write and publish news articles", 81% were not comfortable. "Produce images to include in news articles": 74%. "Write news stories for human review": 72%. "To create headlines for news articles": 67%. "To fact-check information for news articles": 64%. "Recommend news content that is most relevant or interesting to you": 59%. "Produce audio versions of news articles": 55%. "Translate news content into other languages": 42%.

80% – EIGHTY PERCENT — of Americans are concerned about news organizations using AI. The only task a majority felt comfortable with AI performing was translation. But by all means, let's continue down the spiral of shit with Silicon Valley. futureofnews.computerhistory.org/measuring-th...

The wrong people will be laid off…again "When layoffs come, those who sold us the false business ideas of 'pivot to video' or 'get me their emails' or 'put on live events' or 'we need new podcasts' or 'let’s get IP to sell to Netflix' are...

"Yet when layoffs come, those who sold us the false business ideas of “pivot to video” or “get me their emails” or “put on live events” or “we need new podcasts” ... aren’t the ones paying the layoff price." - THIS, from @webjournalist.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-...

Last week, I testified about AI in journalism in front of the California Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bottom line: There’s no journalism without journalists.

Plaschke: Can you believe it? Shohei Ohtani, baseball's new Babe Ruth, is a Dodger Shohei Ohtani signing with the Dodgers gives them the perfect player at the perfect time in the team's pursuit of another World Series title.

Sentences that make me smile: "he’s really coming up the 5 to the 101 to Stadium Way to perhaps live out the rest of his wondrous career" www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

From the report: "None of the evidence indicated the presence of any military objective near the journalists. The attack on the journalists’ position directly targeted them, with two consecutive strikes within 37 seconds."

Workers at the Washington Post deserve a living wage! The Washington Post says it supports writers. So why won't it pay its workers a living wage? We've been bargaining with the Washington Post for over a year. Journalists, copy editors, designers, mark...

I'm walking out with the rest of my 700+ colleagues at the Washington Post as we demand fair pay after 18 months with no contract.

Please consider joining us in collective action: actionnetwork.org/letters/work...

This week brought wonderful news on the labor front

The UAW—fresh off a historic, victorious strike against Detroit's automakers—announced plans to unionize more thanr a dozen of the remaining non-union auto companies in the US: Tesla, Toyota, Honda, VW and more
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I'm not a Post Guild member but am proud to support journalists as a reader by not crossing the Dec. 7 picket line. The Guild asks that supporters not read or listen to post content & instead share info about the strike & send letters of support to Post leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...