Lilly Irani

If the Supreme Court case Carpenter said that cell site pings give a fine-grained enough location picture to require a warrant to access, how can a dense network of ALPRs not trigger the same exact legal issue? #shutdownflock

Anyone at NeurIPS? I'll be in the Algorithm Collective Action workshop and speaking 2-2:20, and on a panel on "Panel: Organizing and Advocacy in the Age of AI" at 2:30pm. Come through!

acaworkshop.github.io/schedule.html

What we're learning about ICE detention is happening in prisons too. If you're now seeing why we need to abolish ICE, please open your mind and heart to the need to abolish prisons and create real safety through housing, jobs, and health care, and addressing causes of violence.

there are unique aspects of this new immigration detention regime, but as someone with an incarcerated sibling, many of the tactics are, sadly, familiar. international humanitarian law, supreme court rulings, federal rules and regulations, basic decency — all are optional in our prison system.

Surveillance folks, upcoming workshop

Upcoming workshop

I have a conflict but have shared with several people I think would be interested.

That means a lot! Thank you!

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SD City Council votes on Flock next Tues, Dec 9 at 2pm! Mark your calendars to show up or call in.

Tell City Council to shut down Flock.
Pull the plug on out-of-control location data.

Now: Call or message your Council rep. Our mailer makes it quick: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e

Why shut down Flock? A thread 🧵⬇️ Message your Council member and show up at City Council next Tuesday, Dec 9!

Flock prioritizes getting investors rich by building creepy AI and people profiling tools using our tax dollars.
www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

I always try to talk up the great work of my colleague Jen Lundquist (not on bsky) who developed UMass’ Academic Freedom Crisis Toolkit, as a public resource, especially to help guide faculty who face online harassment, doxxing, weaponized FOIA… www.umass.edu/faculty-deve...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

Flock lied about a Texas sheriff who searched Flock to track down a woman for an abortion. Flock asserted the woman was never under criminal investigation. Court documents showed Flock misled the public for months, accusing journalists of lying. #shutdownflock #whattheflock

San Diego County police agencies access many private license plate readers with minimal oversight Dozens of businesses and homeowners associations around San Diego allow law enforcement to search through data from their license plate readers, including Home Depot, Lowe's, and local malls.

Hearing SDPD say if people don't want their plates shared widely they can shop elsewhere is sbad faith when it is only a kpbs investigation that reveals the mall, Lowe's, and Home Depot sharing data.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

And the admin has to go through five levels of getting that reimbursement ticket checked after the fact. And lord help you if they kick it back...

incredible things are happening on x, the every-scam app

Archiving Machines Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

the feeling when someone thinks they've helped you but you find out they unknowingly gave you a chatgpt hallucination #aiproblems

Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit? The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?

Why is UC still negotiating when a judge blocked Trump's extortion and censorship?

https//www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-21/uc-faculty-just-won-big-court-victory-over-trump-but-why-didnt-uc-itself-join-the-case

In awe of how many public dollars are spent on police salaries to pay for time they spend organizing members of the public towards their own particular will, while the rest of us have to run the treadmill of informed citizenship and figuring out how to participate in democracy on our own time.

If you want to do research that is ethically committed and makes labor movements stronger, this is a collection of reflections from those who have been there and done that.

City of San Diego's Privacy Advisory Board votes unanimously to "cease' Flock Automated License Plate Reader Technology. PAB's report: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...

The final decision is with City Council. Be heard by leaving a comment for Public Safety Committee. How to in thread 🧵

Capacitor Collective = @julieychen.bsky.social, @enda-b.bsky.social, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social and myself. Thanks to folks we interviewed including @krystalkauffman.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @katejsim.bsky.social and to @veenadubal.bsky.social for the blurb

It is based on 6+ years of work on the relationship btw knowledge production + organizing across the digital supply chain. We interviewed workers @turkopticon.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org Rideshare Drivers United, Amazon Worker Solidarity, + more about their uses + critiques of research

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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

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Thank you. I just wrote to my department to see what we can do.

We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."