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Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...

Is your dating app using facial recognition software? Learn more about how surveillance tech is creeping into even our most intimate online spaces: www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online…

"All I want for Valentine's Day is for you, dear reader, to hold your biometric data close."

Dating apps are becoming surveillance tools. Dr. Reagan Nicole explains the connections between Match Group, facial recognition, and government surveillance @revivallab.bsky.social:

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Judge advances Black residents’ lawsuit against Louisiana parish Organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in “Cancer Alley”

Black residents’ lawsuit against Louisiana parish may proceed, judge rules. Community organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in majority Black areas, dubbed “Cancer Alley,” ray levy uyeda reports.

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...

the future of labor is armies of gig workers babysitting robots? www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...

This story plus staff recommendations of work from @datasociety.bsky.social, @404media.co, @theflytrapmedia.com, @chicagoreader.com, and more in this week's Revival Letter. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...

New in today's Revival Letter: It's almost Valentine's Day and we have a dystopian love story about the relationship between dating apps and surveillance tech. Match Group is working with a company that is also quite cozy with DHS. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...

This story plus staff recommendations of work from @datasociety.bsky.social, @404media.co, @theflytrapmedia.com, @chicagoreader.com, and more in this week's Revival Letter. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

"The dating app experience is a particularly vulnerable one. Users provide data to online platforms in hopes of finding meaningful connections, and they deserve safety, which includes safety from surveillance." www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Match Group owns 5 of the 6 largest dating apps, and 45 in total. "Little competition also means that Match Group has less incentive to invest in robust data security," says Dr. Reagan Nicole. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Capture Hearts, Not Data By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...

New in today's Revival Letter: It's almost Valentine's Day and we have a dystopian love story about the relationship between dating apps and surveillance tech. Match Group is working with a company that is also quite cozy with DHS. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

"Did you know a Black woman by the name of Hazel Scott had a nationwide TV show in 1950 where she addressed all of the United States as her peers? I didn’t. And maybe that’s because McCarthy didn’t just blacklist her, he erased her." - Cristina Escobar

Read more: pressingissues.org/5-things-i-l...

This is tonight! Join @aapf.org and @freepress.bsky.social for a "The Story of Us" virtual broadcast and live talkback.

Really great breakdown reminding folks that Ring has a LONG history of privacy violations and shady partnerships with law enforcement.

The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought It is not simple stubbornness that LLMs are not “intelligent,” much less a form of “general” intelligence, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio. www.techpolicy.press/the-illusion...

Listen to @pastorkathleen.bsky.social and read @andreagrimes.com 's latest:

www.theflytrapmedia.com/dehumanizing...

"The violent attacks DHS has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, to make sense of our nation's ongoing crisis."

@josephtorr.bsky.social on @revivallab.bsky.social: https://www.therevivallab.org/media-power-and-my-friend-brandi/

Thank you to @freepress.bsky.social and @josephtorr.bsky.social for helping spread the word about The Revival Lab and the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter. We're working to build something she'd be proud of.

"We know it's possible to create Black media and tech outlets that support the community's well-being, since such outlets have existed for 200 years." -
@josephtorr.bsky.social

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"Brandi knew that consolidation resulted in the loss of Black-owned media outlets that had provided public spaces for the nourishment of Black political thought." -
@josephtorr.bsky.social

Read more from @revivallab.bsky.social: www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

Free Press reflects on the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter.

@revivallab.bsky.social is Brandi's brainchild: A research and storytelling initiative demanding information justice, dignity, and opportunity for all.

@josephtorr.bsky.social writes on her legacy: www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

Media, Power, and My Friend Brandi By Joseph Torres The violent attacks the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, in an effort to make sen...

Thank you @revivallab.bsky.social (Revival Lab) for the honor in allowing me to write this column about my friend, the late Brandi Collins-Dexter, and the impact she had on me and on the struggle for media justice.

”For decades, media consolidation has been the silent war waged on Black communities. When people try that hard to steal your voice, we all ought to be worried.”

This and so much of Brandi Collins-Dexter's brilliance, lifted up in this essay by @josephtorr.bsky.social for @revivallab.bsky.social

Brandi's Dream Brandi Collins-Dexter didn’t take to public speaking naturally. She was an introvert, and early in her career, Brandi used to workshop press quotes and speeches with me. I cherished those moments and…

"Now is the time to go back out into the world and resume rewriting the script."

Our 2025 Parker Award recipient Brandi Collins-Dexter spent her life fighting for media that serves all of us.

@revivallab.bsky.social — her final project — will carry that work forward.

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"As the decisions of powerful media and tech owners continue to shape our political and cultural understanding of whose lives are deemed worthy and whose are not, I’m reminded of how Brandi repeatedly discussed how media and online misinformation harm Black people." - @josephtorr.bsky.social

Media, Power, and My Friend Brandi By Joseph Torres The violent attacks the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, in an effort to make sen...

The latest edition of The Revival Letter is out! In it, the great @josephtorr.bsky.social shares his thoughts on media, power, and the enduring legacy of his friend Brandi Collins-Dexter www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

"We hold in us the freedom to be time travelers, shapeshifters, and border-hoppers, building on the dreams of those who came before us." - Brandi Collins-Dexter (@brandicd.bsky.social)

The Revival Lab The Revival Lab is grounded in community and responsive to reality. We offer solutions and analysis at the intersection of media, tech, and democracy.

This is the second and final post in our Welcome Series. Sign up now and in two weeks you'll get the original writing and analysis you can expect from The Revival Letter going forward. www.therevivallab.org#/portal

Brandi's Dream Brandi Collins-Dexter didn’t take to public speaking naturally. She was an introvert, and early in her career, Brandi used to workshop press quotes and speeches with me. I cherished those moments and ...

The second issue of The Revival Letter features the words of our founder, the late @brandicd.bsky.social, who started The Revival Lab with the hope of building a better world than the one we live in now.

www.therevivallab.org/brandis-dream/