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💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵

I spent 6 months as a security guard, protecting what the industry has nebulously deemed the "Thin Purple Line." It's a strange, quickly proliferating job at the nexus of law enforcement + capitalism. My dispatch is the new Harper's Magazine cover story: harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Just think, in a perfect world, each state could play a Sufjan Stevens song off his 50 States project.

Ok what tax law changed that’s being exploited here, there’s no way the market for Christian chicken sandwich hospital themed content is this high

The Democrats quietly dropped abolishing the death penalty from their party platform. This is the first time since 2012 the platform doesn't call for abolition and the first time since 2004 there's no mention of the death penalty at all huffpost.com/entry/democrat…

You know the Butcher? That freaking nutjob that goes around just chopping people up? Well, the feds or whatever heard that he’s going to be giving a speech at the DNC tonight, so they set up a trap for him. This whole convention, it’s a trap.

ICE's use of electronic monitoring is rapidly expanding. Now, more than 200,000 people on any given day are regularly surveilled & detained by ICE – over 4x as many as a decade ago.

My Harper's Magazine piece on security guards made Top 5 of the week at @longreads! Their blurb perfectly distills the story, including when they describe my training instructor as "basically every Danny McBride character rolled into one." Read it! harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

I’m happy to share that my reporting on Poe Hall for Technician is a finalist for Best Investigative Story from College Media Association’s Pinnacle Awards. It’s an honor. Here’s the story: technicianonline.com/news/leading-e…

The NYPD's deputy commissioner for intelligence, Rebecca Weiner, says that a couple of weeks ago, the NYPD opened its first international liaison office in South America -- in Bogota, Colombia. Part of its mission is to fact-find on a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Agua

Reminder: Last call to submit responses for this year's National Survey of Syringe Services Programs (NSSSP) before the survey closes Aug. 31! #harmreduction #harmreductionishealthcare #harmreductionworks #harmreductionsaveslives #harmreductionislove #syringeexchange #SSPs

Looking forward to #ExcitedDelirium book events in Sept/Oct. Meet me in Minneapolis, S.F., Princeton, Brooklyn, D.C., and Philly with amazing interlocutors: Michael Walker, Tianna Paschel, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Elizabeth Hinton, derecka, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.. Hope to see you! Duke University Press

It's been a long journey but thrilled to see my new book in print. Many thanks to the team at LSU Press for the fine work to craft a beautiful book.

“A visionary book . . . rekt is an absolute stunner.” Paul Tremblay > be me, 26 > about to end it all > feels good, man So proud to present the cover for @NahitsjustAlex's debut horror novel, rekt, with the illustrious Nightworms. Preorder today! nightworms.com/blogs/news/cov…

In a hugely expansive reading of victim's rights, the Supreme Court of Maryland holds that Hae's brother had the right to attend the vacatur hearing in person, didn't not receive reasonable notice of that right, and had a right to be heard on the merits. courts.state.md.us/data/opinions/…

Incredible Rachel Swan scoop: Police called to crime scenes are increasingly scanning for Teslas parked nearby, hoping their cameras captured evidence. And they’re even resorting to obtaining warrants to tow the cars to ensure they don’t lose the video. sfchronicle.com/crime/article/…

In "Access to Justice as Access to Data," Georgetown Law Prof. Tanina Rostain discusses barriers created by inaccessible court data. She emphasizes making such data freely available for research to increase access to, and identify gaps in, our justice system. (1/2)

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