Tomas Apodaca

Tomas Apodaca

@tmap.bsky.social

freelance computational journalist, formerly at The Markup and CalMatters pfp & banner are photos I took

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Andy Carvin
@acarv.in

Bellevue Police Capt John Stuck: “We get kids that once that school resource officer has put the gloves on, or they see that the gloves are on, they immediately comply without even touching them or doing anything. Which again, that’s a complete success for us.” Hmm, where have I heard this before?

cnn.comElectric shock gloves were used on students. Now Nebraska parents want them out of schools | CNNThe devices have been banned in California and distressed Army testers. In Nebraska, some school leaders still want officers to carry them.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

iOS 27 gives us Siri AI, which can dig deep into your device to find information, but introduces some new privacy problems to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgHow to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more

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Jason Leopold
@jasonleopold.bsky.social

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
Tomas Apodaca
@tmap.bsky.social

Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social

Japanese team have observed directly, for the first time, noctule bats hunting birds The images they provide astonishingly resemble that painted by Brueghel over 400 years ago... maybe he had actually seen the hunt!! Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ebdonana.bsky.social

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Chandra Russo
@chandrarusso.bsky.social

My newest piece with proud Appalachian organizer Shawna McCown in @convergencemag.com We argue that while data center resistance is winning many of its immediate fights, it can accomplish something bigger: building a multiracial movement of the many. @surj.org j.org @stanfordpress.bsky.social

convergencemag.comIs Data Center Resistance a New Vehicle for Multiracial Democracy?Anti-data center sentiment, from Kentucky to Michigan, is proving to be an effective way to overcome racial divisions and carve out new winning coalitions.

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Dhruv Mehrotra
@dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.social

wired.comA Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban SurveillanceThe SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Type Investigations
@typeinvestigations.org

Gavin Newsom promised a crackdown on crime. But in the first year of the surge, state troopers arrested very few violent criminals. Instead they stopped 15,000 Black and Latino drivers. typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

typeinvestigations.orgWhat happened when Gavin Newsom sent a ‘surge’ of state troopers to fight crime in Oakland - Type Investigations© Type Media Center document.write(new Date().getFullYear()). All Rights Reserved.