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"I Dream of Horses Eating Cops"
a poem by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
https://lithub.com/i-dream-of-horses-eating-cops/

who was shot nine times by cops during a raid (for marijuana) and left paralyzed, and later sued them
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-143-knock-and-announce

I tried https://ai-art.tokyo/en/ with this photo of Angela Davis and this was the result

there's even an 'Ethical Considerations' section ... which is something I can't even unpack, it's really worth a read if one has the guts

from the 2nd link:

"These images are, in turn, collected from Reddit posts that link to the imgur.com service. Examples of the underlying Reddit posts can be found in the “progresspics” sub-Reddit3."

they scraped a dataset of progress pictures from a weight loss subreddit

fuck this shit

yet-another chapter of bullshit when you throw on the plate a little more pseudo-science and fatphobia

'Detect faces and predict BMI, Age and Gender using Keras'
https://6chaoran.github.io/data-story/deep-learning/detect-faces-and-predict-BMI-using-keras/

here the wording of the abstract is really amazing
'Face-to-BMI: Using Computer Vision to Infer Body Mass Index on Social Media'
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03156.pdf

'A computational approach to body mass index prediction from face images'
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.imavis.2013.03.001

etc

We need to talk about racism in the climate movement
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/06/30/need-talk-racism-climate-movement/

periodical reminder that this book is a damn treasure
https://www.are.na/block/3940589

We Are in Palestine, Habibi, and Palestine Is Heaven
https://www.thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/27-palestine/

Spies, Lies, and Stonewalling: What It’s Like to Report on Facebook
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-on-facebook.php

great newsletter
https://nazar.substack.com/

Facial Recognition, Algorithmic Inequality, and a Racial Reckoning ft. Virginia Eubanks
http://shobitap.org/the-received-wisdom/2020/6/30/episode-8-facial-recognition-algorithmic-inequality-and-a-racial-reckoning-ft-virginia-eubanks

The Loss Of Public Goods To Big Tech: What has not been questioned enough during the COVID-19 crisis is unrelenting capitalism itself.
By Safiya Noble
👏 👏 👏
https://www.noemamag.com/the-loss-of-public-goods-to-big-tech/

these fucking monsters https://blog.aboutamazon.com/innovation/amazon-web-services-unveils-new-space-business-segment

Police and Big Tech Are Partners in Crime. We Need to Abolish Them Both

by Edward Ongweso Jr

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8898g3/police-and-big-tech-are-partners-in-crime-we-need-to-abolish-them-both

The Sci-hub Effect: Sci-hub downloads lead to more article citations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14979

We Be Imagining - Episode 14
Hidden Fibers: Mapping the intimacies and infrastructure between information capital and policing (with Brian Jefferson)
https://americanassembly.org/wbi-podcast/hidden-fibers-mapping-the-intimacies-and-infrastructure-between-information-capital-and-policing

if one can bear the outlet for a moment, this is a good break-down of the issue with Yann LeCun's (& fanboys) behavior in answering Timnit Gebru
https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/26/ai-weekly-a-deep-learning-pioneers-teachable-moment-on-ai-bias/

Abolition: Study Group Guide
https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/