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Tomas Apodaca

@tmap.bsky.social
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freelance computational journalist, formerly at The Markup and CalMatters pfp & banner are photos I took

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 7h
I have left this one up a little longer, just in case folks missed it yesterday. We don't have Bandcamp's fee waived today but proceeds will still be donated.
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Interstellar - TARS and CASE (Bonus Feature)
YouTube video by Guitarfollower22
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/09/2026
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...
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How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27
Apple’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 · 18/09/2026
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
there's a lot of really good South African dance music highlighted in this list daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report...
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The Sound of Gqom Circa 2026
The Durban-born genre keeps on mutating, spawning endless subgenres. We catch up with some of the latest.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Attorneys and legal experts in 2 party consent states “aren’t convinced that Apple’s privacy protections will sufficiently shield users from legal problems. Those states generally prohibit intercepting certain private or confidential conversations without the consent of everyone involved.”
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Apple’s Always-Listening Watch Features Test Eavesdropping Laws
Apple Inc.’s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mudd up! forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/track/port-g...
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Port Gentil, by Porter Ricks
from the album Biokinetics
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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
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Is 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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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Twenty-three years ago today, New York City
A Takashi Murakami sculpture in front of Lee Lawrie’s Art Deco Wisdom sculpture above the entrance to 30 Rock
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
12 years ago today, downtown Ulaanbaatar
A mannequin in a second-floor shop window, seen from street level. A partial sign in Mongolian Cyrillic is on the building: “И ХУВЦАС”. The full word translates to “CLOTHES”
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
great song and video! youtu.be/Zh4t2TaeA38
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Tinashe - Melatonin (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tinashe
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
earthquake felt in SF
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mudd Up! arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/track/soon-t...
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Soon-To-Be Innocent Fun/Let's See, by Arthur Russell
from the album World Of Echo
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
19 years ago today, Paris La Défense
people walk on a path having just crossed a street; a 40ft metal sculpture of a thumb is on the far side of the crossing a large cylindrical tower completely covered with thin, brightly colored tubes, surrounded by modern apartment and office buildings and with pedestrians nearby People walking under a modern building raised on pilotis; on the left is fenced off construction, on the right is greenery behind a fence with an arrow sign with the words “RESTAURANT LE BALLON D’ALSACE”
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Ben Passmore SPX L6 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Black Arms to Hold You Up won the Eisner for Best Reality-Based Work!
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Better copy for the chyron: “Flock cameras put personal data at risk / Supporters claim they help safety response”
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mudd Up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoP7...
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Tu sombra
YouTube video by Enrique Díaz - Topic
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
strange sky business last night
A long exposure of a cloudy night sky; a straight-edged angle appears cut into one cloud
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
watch this video to see some astonishingly beautiful buildings www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eVG...
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Western Africa's Modernist Architecture | MoMA Curator's Tour
YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Mudd Up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondN...
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MC Shan - Juice Crew Law (12inch Dub)
YouTube video by The OldSkool Collective
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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
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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The 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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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A good read on these LLM-generated proofs davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
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The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mudd up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5dP...
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Phase II - Woman Is Boss
YouTube video by IsDePanInMe
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Some photos from last week in San Diego
A store front with a hand-painted facade that says “GOLD FIXER Jewelers” with gold and jewel-encrusted details. There’s also an insert of a jeweler examining a diamond through a loupe. A store covered with advertisements in English and Spanish for buying gold and silver. We buy gold. Compramos oro pagamos cash. Cash for gold. We buy silver. En cualquier condicion. We buy watches. Compramos relojes. A doorway guarded by two large gold-painted lion statues, each with one paw on a sphere and their tail curled around a back foot. An electric sign above the entrance reads GRANDSTAND.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Twenty years ago today, my first day in Kinshasa
A city view from a high vantage point with a lot of trees, a few pedestrians, and, in front of the nearest building, a green lawn with a large sculpted bust in its center
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So painful. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Four Black women. Nine degrees. Not one steady paycheck.
The president promised to save “Black jobs,” but his policies have resulted in fresh pain for the Black middle class as the employment gap widens.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Mudd Up! stellachiwesheofficial.bandcamp.com/track/huvhimi
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Huvhimi, by Stella Chiweshe
from the album Talking Mbira
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
photos from around San Francisco today
an empty shopping cart in front of a wall with similarly-shaped buffed graffiti A parked white food truck with a small illustration of a sombrero on its side A small, mirrored chest of drawers on a sidewalk
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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Type Investigations @typeinvestigations.org · 19/06/2026
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...
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What 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.
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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 14/04/2025
Harry Potter casting announcement like "here's a list of people you no longer have to care about."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
Every time articles compare data center water usage to other things society doesn’t need, I’m like “cool, get rid of those too.”
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
a good story that gives voice to trans kids and their families (gift link) www.theverge.com/features/940...
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Trans teens want to talk about their future
So why are we always asking adults?
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
great song, great video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nup3...
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Tierra Whack - WAX PAPER (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TierraWhackVEVO
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
After years of diversity promises and amid increased safety risks, journalists of color face an industry that still fails to culturally and financially value their labor. objectivejournalism.org/2026/06/joc-...
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Journalists of color face an industry that doesn't love them back
Increased safety risks and an inability to culturally and financially value their labor are pushing journalists of color out of the field.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
great article from last year about the screwworm parasite, good context for recent news of a confirmed case
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Many patients are “afraid that speaking up or pushing back against terms they don’t agree to will make health providers categorize them as inconvenient patients and make it harder to get the care they need.” themarkup.org/privacy/2026...
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The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no. – The Markup
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
one of the best songs ever made
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
An image of a police car on fire; “NO APOLOGIES!” Is written across the top, and “MAY 21st 1979” and “SAN FRANCISCO” along the bottom.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
lol
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which likes to go undercover outside Target stores and a Burlington Coat Factory in San Jose, reported that a sting was ruined last year by activists who confused them for ICE agents and confronted them.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
ten years ago today
two billboards: “Worried Parent? Kid using drugs? Our dogs find drugs! Only $99. TLC K9 Services. Completely confidential.” and “Louisville Independent Business Alliance Buy Local Fair Louisville. May 22, Sunday, Noon-6P, Louisville Water Tower Park”
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 16/05/2026
Data center builders don’t tell the public how much water they use, according to a new report — and the industry is encroaching into water-stressed and vulnerable communities. cal.news/42EUHvH 📸 Gina Ferazzi
An irrigation ditch runs between farm land, on the right, and a proposed 950,000-square-foot data center, on the left, in Imperial County on March 11, 2026. Photo by Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Thanks today and every day to all the moms of trans youth out there fighting like hell for their kids. When the stakes feel like they're rising by the hour and everyone tells you you're wrong no matter what you do, thanks to those who stand between their kids and a world that doesn't deserve them.
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Please join me in supporting National Bail Out's campaign to free mothers so they can be with their families on mother's day!
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Tomas Apodaca @tmap.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
in the garden this morning
a macro photo of a spider facing into the center of radiating cactus flower stigmas
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