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Clarence Okoh

@clarenceokoh.bsky.social
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Civil rights attorney & writer focused on race, technology & the law. Co-founder of the @noticecoalition.bsky.social Alabama native fluent in country grammar & cuisine. www.clarenceokoh.com Posts are my own

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excuse me, did you say Peter Thiel is delivering the "Antichrist Lectures"...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
“The Charleston Reparations Task Force and members of the Gullah-Geechee community have called on the owners of three former plantations — Boone Hall, Middleton Place and Magnolia — to transfer 7,000 acres of land into permanent Gullah-Geechee stewardship” www.postandcourier.com/arts-culture...
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SC artist's work removed from Magnolia Plantation after reparations message sparks tension
Columbia artist Kolpeace wanted to remove a portion of his art installation at Magnolia Plantation after a tense encounter. When he arrived, the rest of his work had been taken down.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently they weren't caught ...
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The tragic irony is that AI models were likely the last to capture all those stories before they disappeared from the internet. Stories that we may never see again will live on in a technology that plundered Black digital archives to build a trillion dollar industry. A tale as old as time in the US
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I used to warn that AI hype has many parallels to Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scam. And now here we are... But you know what, with RFK running HHS, Dr. Oz in charge of CMS, and the CDC unleashing weekly plagues, I'm sure nothing can go wrong with introducing AI slop to healthcare
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Centrist elites are facing an existential political crisis that makes them especially dangerous in this moment. They're flanked by populist movements on the left and the right and they have no idea what to do to regain an electorally viable constituency
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Or hear me out... Those pundits are part of the same white nationalist project. A lot more people took pleasure in those lynchings than most of you will ever be willing to accept. This country is sick and does not care to get well
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Texans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mass surveillance is incompatible with a free society. It's an infrastructure of social control that manufacturers inequality and protects private wealth. Police will criminalize resistance before they ever concede to it. I hope there are local bail funds to support people caught up in this mess
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
With help from the Bears, Ace Hardware, pro athletes and more Keith Lee and the City of Gary brought a day of relief, community and sorely needed joy to Gary. Over 1,000 meals, 1,000 drinks and 2,000 buckets of emergency supplies were delivered. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... #BlackskyNews
cbsnews.com
Influencer Keith Lee holds massive storm relief giveaway for residents in Gary, Indiana
Thousands of Gary residents lined up for everything from food to household essentials.
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
People confuse safety with social control. I don't think the post-pandemic crime panic was about people feeling less safe. I think it was a political frustration that state violence was constrained by the politics of the moment. That's why the media today could care less about these mayors' success
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Maggie Priceless🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦 @maggiepriceless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Its getting good. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
The Largest Data Center In California Has Been Denied Water For Cooling — Now It's Suing A Public Agency
A developer wants to combine water rights from several plots of farmland to help cool a data center. Regulators said no, and now the developer is suing.
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So I guess we're going on a collective fast because what's left at this point
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Mind you this man teaches career and technical education.... How we got to fungi and literacy in the first week of school when he's supposed to be doing resume workshops is beyond me
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
AI surveillance companies treat schools like a playground for reckless technologies. This was never about safety, it always about profit, power and prejudice. They will keep inventing ways to criminalize Black, indigenous & disabled children, even if it takes automating the school to prison pipeline
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
“The Guardian has identified at least 33 instances of people damaging, vandalizing and destroying Flock cameras, across 23 states, that appear to have the explicit message of protesting surveillance.”
theguardian.com
Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the US
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So Waymo can kidnap your child and send them to jail at the company's discretion??? What's stopping them from turning in people suspected to be undocumented? What about every person with a warrant? What about everybody on a police database? Political protestors? Etc etc etc
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026
Dude is running his own localized surveillance state, including functions that are essentially predictive policing and a gang database, except it’s for people who have said anything remotely critical of the organization, or anyone who associates with those critics.
wired.com
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Despite all of this, he'll end up with a podcast deal and millions in corporate sponsorships and speaking engagements...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”
wired.com
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
“Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.”
syracuse.com
New York to ban smart glasses from all courthouses
The ban aims to prevent people from secretly filming court proceedings.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.
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Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If one night of excessive fireworks can cause such severe air quality issues, imagine what families living under the brutality of American militarism experience each day
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A Code Purple air quality alert is in effect for DC, and residents are advised to limit time outdoors
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Respectfully, we do not know her inner thoughts. She may have felt courage, confusion, fear, humor, violence, exhaustion, humiliation, etc. She's entitled to all of those emotions bc she's a human being. It's enough that she survived racial terror
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I never understood how the Egyptians ignored all the signs & plagues until now
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
ICE has access to school cameras; data centers are being built in kids' neighborhoods; schools are putting AI microphones in bathrooms; and AI is calling the cops on Black children for eating a bag of Doritos.... And the Dems big idea for Project 2029 is to take your kids' phone away...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026
“…several advertisers said Meta's AI tool had also generated bizarre or nonsensical ads for their products, and that some settings, like ‘test new creative features’ and ‘automatic adjustments,’ had automatically been toggled to ‘on.’”
businessinsider.com
REI gets roasted for a nonsensical Instagram ad and blames a Meta AI tool
REI faces backlash over an Instagram ad showing a bike with two handlebars. The company said it was the result of a Meta AI tool.
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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
You wanna know how dumb chatgpt is? I asked it a question about Olivia Rodrigo's 3rd album and it told me she's only released 2 albums. Her third album not only released but was #1, the singles all charting. Chatgpt can't even google shit. If you trust it's info for *anything* you are insane.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026
Meanwhile...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
But hey, at least we got a costly war and tariffs nobody wanted and he demolished half the White House and trashed the reflection pool!
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Algorithmic racism is more than "biased" training data. The political economy of AI requires a racialized underclass. The ppl suffocating from data center turbines are the same ppl surveiled by AI police tech; are the same ppl denied jobs housing & education by AI decisionmaking tools; etc.
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NBA @nba.com · 14/06/2026
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 08/06/2026
Eighteen people have died in ICE custody in the first five months of this year. ICE is on pace to pass last year’s toll, which was already the highest in two decades. So what is ICE doing about it? It is making the deaths harder to count.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/06/2026
Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines on Tuesday to ensure no one was still trapped a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced over 20,000.
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Protect libraries and librarians at all costs
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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Grandma Janet @sweetgrandmajan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I love New Yorkers. #NBA #Knicks
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Pulsa8 @pulsa8.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Systems like Palantir don't just watch us; they convert our freedom into spreadsheets. Every choice, movement, & connection is harvested as human capital, & sold back to states & plutocrats as “insight.” The result is politics where people aren't citizens to listen to, but human capital for profit.
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What is Palantir? And why is this corporation so dangerous?
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Michael Jordan's Space Jam Dunk
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The headlines may have moved on but DC (and other targeted cities) are *still* under military occupation. Local residents are *still* being terrorized by the military that they pay for. And DC residents *still* do not have a voting member of Congress because it does not have statehood
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fuck AI
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In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters
While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Tragically, this includes children
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Peabo Bryson, the iconic singer-songwriter behind the Oscar-winning Disney songs "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World," has died at 75 www.tmz.com/2026/06/02/p...
A photo of Peabo Bryson singing into a mic
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Clarence B. Jones, lawyer and speechwriter who drafted part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. He was 95.
nytimes.com
Clarence B. Jones, Who Helped Shape ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, Dies at 95
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