Caroline Haskins

This week, I reported that CBP is asking tech companies for help w/ real-time facial rec on ppl *entering* the US by car Logging individuals *exiting* by car, never mind w/ facial rec, is unprecedented. It also happens to align w/ the admin wanting to track self-deportations

Caroline Haskins @car0linehaskins

SCOOP: CBP says it plans to bring real-time facial recognition to outbound vehicle traffic lanes at US border crossings. This could be used to log every person who leaves the US by vehicle, and track the number of people self-deporting by vehicle. https://t.co/SXWMBhzVCE

SCOOP: CBP says it plans to bring real-time facial recognition to outbound vehicle traffic lanes at US border crossings. This could be used to log every person who leaves the US by vehicle, and track the number of people self-deporting by vehicle. https://t.co/SXWMBhzVCE

RT @Popeyes: pope yes

love when a PR flack opens their email with "As you may have seen,..." and then describe a story that you wrote lmao

decided to mess around and ask the various AI chat bots who they think is gonna be the next pope. at least for me, this is what they said lol ChatGPT: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi Grok: Cardinal Pietro Parolin DeepSeek: Cardinal Pietro Parolin Copilot: Cardinal Pietro Parolin

RT @JohnDiLillo: enjoying the new york times live blog on how many sea gulls there are at the papal conclave https://t.co/uE6e2Evjhn

Alex Karp's new letter to Palantir shareholders quotes the following ppl/things, in this order: -St. Augustine -The Book of Matthew -Michel Houellebecq ("the sardonic & uncomfortably insightful French author") -Michael Sandel (Harvard prof. quoted in his new book) -Richard Nixon

RT @WIRED: NEW: A DOGE recruiter told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government emp…

SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project. The project's goal, he said, is to automate work that's currently performed by 70,000 federal workers. w/ @telliotter: https://t.co/w2STeBVqml

any time a reporter links directly to the pdf of a court filing they’re reporting on, automatically you’re on the heaven list

Read @michaelwwaters: “Sex screenings are back in vogue on the right because they provide an easy mechanism of social control while also selling partisans on an appealing vision: put everyone’s bodies under the microscope, and meritocracy can return.” https://t.co/qZmJ7pKmMR

NEW, with @HudsonGiles @LeahFeiger @ZoeSchiffer: Here’s all of the sensitive data systems DOGE has access to at the Dept. of Health and Human Services https://t.co/4vqKeJcF8X

RT @kellymakena: 🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are already cross-refere…

RT @WIRED: In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new progra…

NEW: ICE is paying Palantir $30 million to make a tool called “ImmigrationOS” that would provide “near real-time” info on self-deportations and help ICE choose who to deport, with priority to “visa overstays.” A new document outlines these details: https://t.co/jhDtfArm9A

SCOOP: Thousands of human urine and rodent tissue samples were left behind at a CDC lab after almost everyone working there lost their jobs. Now, researchers from the lab are afraid they could be left to rot: https://t.co/zhagqgu9ZZ

NEW/Exclusive: The AFL-CIO and 3 top former OSHA officials fear the possibility of Elon Musk accessing unredacted whistleblower files that OSHA maintains. There's currently dozens of open OSHA cases across Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company. https://t.co/ZDh1KYchyP