Tuesday Notes

A woman was wrongfully arrested after a false face recognition match

Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.

People are keen to recreate Black Twitter elsewhere

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/06/musk-black-twitter-spill/?mc_cid=3f3a9ae0bb&mc_eid=UNIQID


Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’ Debuts at No. 1

Travis Scott Debuts at No. 1 With the Year’s Biggest Week for Hip-Hop
The rapper’s “Utopia,” his first album since his Astroworld Festival in Houston turned tragic in 2021, opens with the equivalent of 496,000 sales in the United States.

Arrest warrants issued for Alabama riverfront brawl

Arrest warrants issued for Alabama riverfront brawl - New York Amsterdam News
Police said Monday that arrest warrants have been issued in connection with a riverfront brawl in Alabama’s capital that drew nationwide attention after video showed a group of white people pummeling a Black riverboat worker, an exchange that sparked a massive fight.