The Essay applies a critical race and technology approach to examine a dimension of policing and criminalization that is taking new shape through advancing technology: collective state and private partnerships to control and monitor Black lives. It theorizes these practices as a form of crowdsourced surveillance that manifests in at least three ways: (1) in instances where law enforcement is given direct access to privately owned surveillance technology; (2) when private citizens are encouraged to use publicly owned surveillance technology to surveil fellow citizens; and (3) through digital public surveillance that is financed by wealthy private citizens and other third parties.
— Read on papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

oh si
la playa mexicana 
oh si 
la playa mexicana
oh si
la playa de mi tierra 
a mi no me abierta 
oh si 
la playa floridita
a mi no me entrega
oh si 
la playa californita 
no me da becita 

To protect their own interests against the growing enthusiasm for communism, the capitalist class of the West permitted the passing of worker-friendly social policies. Here, I’m going to walk through a few examples of these policies that were motivated by fear of the U.S.S.R. and its influence in the world. I want to show how these were strategic concessions by the capitalist class rather than the result of the establishment coming to see reason or bowing to the force of the better argument.
— Read on redsails.org/concessions/

The coastline of southern California between San Diego and Los Angeles lies generally in a north/south direction, but as it proceeds northward, it slowly curves toward the west until at Santa Barbara, the coastline lies in an east/west direction. At the extremity of this westward curve lies Point Conception. The Chumash call it Humqaq, ”The Raven Comes”, and regard it as one of the most sacred sites not only in Chumash territory, but in all of North America, the ”western gate” of the continent.
— Read on www.angelfire.com/sk/syukhtun/westgate.html

It turns out that US military and intelligence agencies have a long history of using UFOs as a psychological instrument, having discovered their hyper-mimetic qualities in the 1950s. Decades before Doty’s variations on the theme, UFOs were a well-known self-replicating cultural trope capable of infecting individual and cultural consciousness and spreading like a virus.
— Read on www.e-flux.com/journal/147/623330/society-of-the-psyop-part-1-ufos-and-the-future-of-media/

Days after Abe’s assassination, the Japanese media lifted a longtime taboo about reporting on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s deep links to the Unification Church, the anticommunist religious cult founded in 1954 (with assistance from the Korean CIA) by the self-proclaimed Korean messiah Sun Myung Moon. Soon, these shady relationships, and the politics behind them, became the number one issue in Japan, obscuring much of the positive coverage that usually follows a political assassination.

— Read on timshorrock.com/japan-is-americas-new-proxy-army-thanks-to-pm-abe/