Breaking: We're suing the dangerous face surveillance company Clearview AI for violating the rights of Illinois residents by capturing massive numbers of people's faceprints without consent. aclu.org/news/privacy-t…

Two Black trans women were murdered this week while the world marched for #BlackLivesMatter. Both Riah Milton and Dominique Rem’mie Fells are being misgendered and deadnamed in the press, but the details are spreading quickly in the LGBTQ community. Our hearts are broken.

Sign our Open Letter: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) College of Computing Must Address Systemic Racism. As we enter the fourth week of mass protests against police brutality in the United States, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing has yet to release any public statement condemning anti-blackness. medium.com/@macprac/open-…

now more than ever it's important to urge otherwise "neutral" institutions to take hard stances on racial justice - i want to see future students at the college address these problems with their work!

Can't say I'm surprised. Wait. Isn't this college of computing the same one thats supposed to have "ethics" or whatever as a core that was just announced with however billion dollars?

MIT colleagues, please sign

Please continue to sign and reshare! We've delivered our letter with its current signatories to MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, and are awaiting Dean Huttenlocher's reply. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

UPDATE: MIT's College of Computing published a statement regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion after the publication of our open letter. Their private response to us as of today has consisted only and exclusively of a verbatim copy of the statement published on their website

Protect All International and Immigrant Students and Workers at MIT! Sign this open letter written by MIT EECS students! docs.google.com/document/d/1yF…

Update: MIT College of Computing Still Must Address Systemic Racism medium.com/@macprac/updat…

"Discussing racism in such an abstract way defangs the political imperative of anti-racist activism and enables institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) College of Computing to ignore or deny their role in perpetuating systemic racism."

"Notably, the College’s statement includes no response to our key demands to sever ties with companies that sell technology to police and ICE."

"Discussing racism in such an abstract way defangs the political imperative of anti-racist activism and enables institutions like the MIT College of Computing to ignore or deny their role in perpetuating systemic racism."

Activists at MIT inc. MIT Students Against War & Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices have protested its new $350 million “Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing”, arguing that its aims are aligned with the interests of the defence industry and large corporations, rather than the public good thetech.com/2019/02/14/cel…

"@adriennemaree's work invites us all to collectively and imaginatively engage with social justice, whatever our internet-related work, so that we no longer need isolated heroes," says @_pmkr. #BlackHistoryMonthUK #BHM OxfordSocialSciences @png_marie Sholei Croom oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/black-her…

In the last month, Schwarzman has donated 15 million to republican super pacs to sway the Georgia races that will determine which party controls the US senate. That is 15 of 105 million total that has been donated. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…