“Berkeley Copwatch has been galvanizing the community to lobby city council members to stop the deployment of FLOCK cameras and to end mass surveillance in Berkeley…

The evidence suggests that BPD may have intentionally lied in September of 2025 when they promised Berkeley City Council that Flock data collected in Berkeley would never be used for immigration enforcement. In fact, searches had already been conducted and BPD either knew or should have known it.”

#Berkeley #Flock #BPD

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/28/18881850.php

“Berkeley Copwatch has been galvanizing the community to lobby city council members to stop the deployment of FLOCK cameras and to end mass surveillance in Berkeley…

The evidence suggests that BPD may have intentionally lied in September of 2025 when they promised Berkeley City Council that Flock data collected in Berkeley would never be used for immigration enforcement. In fact, searches had already been conducted and BPD either knew or should have known it.”

#Berkeley #Flock #BPD

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/28/18881850.php

🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.

#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ripple-bugs-robots-skate-on-water-fan-feet-vortex-physics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=ripple_bugs

#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video

🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.

#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ripple-bugs-robots-skate-on-water-fan-feet-vortex-physics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=ripple_bugs

#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video

"When speech about Palestine has been smeared as “antisemitic” and prohibited, an entire constituency of #students has likewise experienced the silencing of their #grief, which is too often bypassed even in the discourse of #socialjustice. #Palestine is here at UC #Berkeley, as well as there, in the ongoing Israeli #genocide in #Gaza."

https://truthout.org/articles/computer-science-lecturer-at-berkeley-is-on-day-36-of-his-hunger-strike-for-gaza/

#tears4palestine #hungerstrike

"When speech about Palestine has been smeared as “antisemitic” and prohibited, an entire constituency of #students has likewise experienced the silencing of their #grief, which is too often bypassed even in the discourse of #socialjustice. #Palestine is here at UC #Berkeley, as well as there, in the ongoing Israeli #genocide in #Gaza."

https://truthout.org/articles/computer-science-lecturer-at-berkeley-is-on-day-36-of-his-hunger-strike-for-gaza/

#tears4palestine #hungerstrike

Danggg! 4.6 in the East Bay: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/map

Fill out a "Did you feel it?" report to help with building a picture of the event: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/tellus

#BayArea #Oakland #Berkeley #earthquake

Danggg! 4.6 in the East Bay: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/map

Fill out a "Did you feel it?" report to help with building a picture of the event: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/tellus

#BayArea #Oakland #Berkeley #earthquake

Scientists are learning how special #brain cells play a role in detecting #illusions - and such studies could eventually reveal how #hallucinations arise, or point the way to better computer vision systems. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/laser-light-brain-cells-illusions/ HT @span AllenInstitute#Science#Neuroscience#Berkeley#AllenInstitute

"The University of California (UC), Berkeley in the United States has provided information on more than 150 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump’s administration, as part of a federal investigation into 'alleged incidents of anti-Semitism' on college campuses nationwide."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/13/uc-berkeley-shares-information-on-160-staff-students-with-us-government

#Palestine#Israel#Berkeley#California #academia #education#USpol

"The University of California (UC), Berkeley in the United States has provided information on more than 150 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump’s administration, as part of a federal investigation into 'alleged incidents of anti-Semitism' on college campuses nationwide."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/13/uc-berkeley-shares-information-on-160-staff-students-with-us-government

#Palestine#Israel#Berkeley#California #academia #education#USpol