Diego Alcalá Laboy
Assistant Professor of Law, Afro-Latino, abolicionista, Puerto Rico será libre, teaching criminal law and criminal procedure while researching surveillance, law, technology, and decoloniality. Creando un mejor mundo con @amartinez-orabona.
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- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyNew from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyThe Trump administration’s attacks on Head Start are an attack on working and immigrant families. We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.
- Humbled to see my work published. Thanks to members of the Editorial Board of the Seattle University Law Review Online for their incredible assistance in making this article better. Pa' Lante. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyThe charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy“In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans’ sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections.”
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy58% of women in prison are mothers to minor children. Of those women, most are single mothers. Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth. Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyThey are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”
My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyState department official filed affidavit to comply with Judge Xinis’ order for daily updates on Abrego García. Says he is alive at CECOT and being “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” which is something that the plaintiffs will certainly dispute
- Thanks Delaware Law for inviting me to speak at your Dignity Law conference. Incredible event.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyNew from 404 Media: we've seen an ICE database that filters people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Experts say possibly helping ICE identify and deport people. Scars, location data, immigration status, eye color, much more. Created by Palantir www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
- Spend my afternoon talking about citizenship, using Captain Picard, Walter Rodney, Marx, WB Dubois, Dussell, Bosch and el rockero Meléndez-Badillo in our panel hosted by The Bell Collective at Albany Law. Pa’Lante.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyCheck out my new Nature article. I call for avoiding distractions like false solutions to climate change, following environmental justice and Jemez Principles, strengthening EJ-labor collaboration, & redistributing organizing resources away from the big greens & into the hands of grassroots groups.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy“‘Que vergonha!’, disse a funcionária da Microsoft Ibtihal Aboussad, dirigindo-se diretamente ao CEO de IA, Mustafa Suleyman. ‘Você é um mercador da guerra. Pare de usar a IA para genocídio. Você tem sangue nas mãos. Como vocês têm a audácia de celebrar enquanto a Microsoft está matando crianças.’”
- Debí tirar más foto de cuando te tuve, debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que puede. Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden. Y si hoy me emborracho, pa’ que me ayuden. Toy bien loco, toy bien loco.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy#publicdefender friends, I'm looking to diversify my pool of potential expert witnesses. Can anyone recommend any of the following who work for defense? - SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients - Forensic or ER nurses - Forensic pathologists - Toxicologists
- Orgulloso por compartir el borrador de mi artículo, Puerto Ricopticon: las nuevas tecnologías de vigilancia en Puerto Rico y su inconstitucionalidad. Cualquier comentario es bienvenido. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyInterested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE
- Some time ago, a student told me that when she told her mom that her law professor in the U.S. was from Puerto Rico, and that he spoke Spanish, she started to cry. She couldn’t believe that her daughter would find someone in this space she could relate to. That was a very special conversation.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyExcellent coverage of forthcoming research from Prof. @jennoliva.bsky.social, who has examined the use of AI algorithms to determine patient coverage.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyNewsletter: Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF. A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case heavyweather.media/weather-repo...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyVisa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”
- My paper Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all, co-authored with Dr. Michael Chou from Providence College, has found a home at The Ohio State Technology Law Journal, Vol. 22. If you have any comments, feel free to reach out. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Excited to present my paper: The Founder's Gaze, How the 4th Amendment is a surveillance technology that enables AI to scale control over the subaltern next Friday @ St. John's Center for Race and Law. Register here to attend this conference vitrtually. Thanks. www.stjohns.edu/law/academic...
- Perfect time for nations to delink from empire.
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- Excited to share that my short piece: Towards a Critical Legal Technology Education: A Decolonial Approach has a home with the Seattle University Law Review Online. Pa'Lante. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
- Excited to share a short piece on how I plan to critically interrogate the intersection of law and technology in my academic scholarship and pedagogy. Hope you enjoy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Excited to share my new article: Legal Tech Abolition: using technology to free them all. Thanks to my co-author Dr. Michael Chou, from Providence College. It's available here: download.ssrn.com/2025/2/11/51...
- 2 years sober. I hope this helps anyone out there asking themselves if they can.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy🚨What the hell is going on? 🧵 Another PUERTO RICAN family detained, a man tells Telemundo his sister, her mother in law, & a child were taken by ICE in Milwaukee & driven to facility where his sister explained they’re US CITIZENS. ICE response to this flagrant violation? “Sorry”
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyAgentes federales de inmigración condujeron esta tarde un operativo en Barrio Obtero, epicentro de la comunidad dominicana en San Juan, como parte del endurecimiento de las políticas migratorias de Donald Trump www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/seg...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyI wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.
- Washington Commanders are one win away from the Super Bowl! Wow. Amazing. Let’s go! “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere”.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyOccupation forces blow up a residential area around the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip #Gaza #Palestine
- Feliz por comenzar el año compartiendo experiencias en la educación legal. Acá por San Francisco, CA. #AALS
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyA federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates. Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy. This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.
- Abrazar la nacionalidad no es la meta. Es chévere, nostálgico y es importante, pero no se compara con lo que podemos lograr con un movimiento de base para que el Pueblo pueda participar en su futuro. Se requieren proyectos económicos y políticos equitativos. La liberación exige más que un momento.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyHe penetrated the top ranks of prominent right-wing militias & devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials. He was so successful, he became a militia’s top commander in Utah. The latest must-read from @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @propublica.org
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyY recuerden, contrario a lo que dicen lxs diletantes por encargo, esta distopía que vivimos se debe a que Puerto Rico es una utopía neoliberal.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboycompartan por favor #BlueskyPR
- The governor of Puerto Rico wants environmental protestors that interrupted her "coronation" charged with a crime. Police and Prosecutorial discretion will be tighly controlled and they will go after hard against those who exercise their right to protest. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/gob...
- #PuertoRico Fanon highlighted that the toursism industry was a neocolonial project meant to be an entertainment arena for the colonizers. "Live Boricua" and "Proyecto Esencia" are just 2 examples. But we must also contend with the harm of space colonization. newsismybusiness.com/puerto-rico-...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy🚨Big news!🚨 I just launched "Freedom Papers"—a newsletter where personal storytelling meet critical scholarship, exploring law, justice & culture through creative writing. Subscribe to join this journey and stay updated on my future creative projects: open.substack.com/pub/freedomp...
- The debilitating conditions of Puerto Rico’s power grid responds to a neoliberal interest in taking over public resources for private gain. Every private actor will make a profit and the losses will be socialized amongst the masses. Cannot think of a better example than this.
- Waking up to a general power outage in Puerto Rico. Neoliberalism at its finest!
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy“No quieren que nosotros existamos”: la comunidad LGBTQ+ se prepara para enfrentar a los nuevos gobiernos de Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico - www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/loc...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyAll this dystopian x-risk AGI futurist BS is (1) an expression of male technological ego and (2) a distraction from present-tense crisis. Fascism is upon us, folks. Stop with your p-doom doomer bullshit and pay attention to now.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyPlease do not quote Hinton in professional development for teachers. He dismisses the real harms of AI in favor of science fiction nonsense. #EduSky
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyNota para el 2025: El sistema de permisos que los constructores del patio aluden como obstáculo a la construcción es el sistema que ellos mismos diseñaron en el 2009.
- Working on a paper and I have too much information! Too many things to look at for my factual analysis, and I really am loving it. I must focus but my handicap is that I'm currently in Puerto Rico and our celebrations keep going for another 3 weeks. Let's go.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboywww.suny.edu/PublicGoodU features @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social @cathyndavidson.bsky.social dozens more speakers coming together February 7-9 in Albany to strengthen the case for public higher education, including w/ @higheredlabor.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyIt’s weird how scrolling on this app you wouldn’t know that Israel burned down a hospital yesterday in Northern Gaza, or it murdered 103 Palestinians, or that that 4 children froze to death…
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy2025 countdown in publications: 4. The beginning of a new project. read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-...
- Estoy leyendo Capitol Vol. 1 de Karl Marx, se me ha hecho difícil de entender el desarrollo de sus ideas. Me recomendaron este recurso por el Prof. David Harvey, el cual fue grabado en el People's Forum de NYC. Busco un grupo que le interesa discutirlo. Me avisan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vu...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyAt risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyJust read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy🚨 I had the privilege of being interviewed for the "Leading Queer" podcast some weeks ago and the episode is out. Check it out if you are interested in social justice, data science, math, and/or their intersections. I come in around the 7 minute mark. #iteachmath open.spotify.com/episode/65OI...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyWhen the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇
- Reading Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx, recently translated by Paul Reitter and Paul North, and it is kicking my ass! Gotta need help with this text.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboymentioned this earlier and it’s finally out: “The Illumination of Black Twitter: Charles Mills, Race, and Digital Media Theory” Shoutout to Kathryn Sophia Belle for help with this! mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/12/12/andre-br…
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy“The Atlas of Surveillance currently captures more than 11,700 deployments of surveillance tech and remains the most comprehensive database of its kind”
- Me encanta cuando las agencias piden prórroga el día antes de Navidad. Suelta esos documentos que dicen más de lo que quieres que sepamos.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyImportant people understand a part of the development of these projects is making sure the use case for the police is built in. We’re not getting ever more intrusive surveillance as a side effect of convenience but with the idea police departments etc will buy them for the purpose of surveillance.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyMy article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyTo celebrate the end of 2024, here is a short thread about what I blogged about this year. First, a round up 2023 and its necropolitics. (Though 2024 went hold my beer mode.) folukeafrica.com/2023-wading-...
- Looking for articles on the reliability of AI object identification tools used in surveillance videos. Any reports out there?
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyThis is tonight! Hope you can join us!
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyBREAKING: S.T.O.P. Welcomes OIG Report On NYPD Violations of Surveillance Transparency Law In Drone Usage "Once again, the OIG is clear that the NYPD is hiding crucial data, and its spiraling use of drones isn't going to fly." @foxcahn.bsky.social #drones #NYPD www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá Laboy"Patented yesterday."
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyWhoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...
- Decir que una persona privada de libertad no merece el derecho al voto por sufragio es reproducir argumentos esclavistas reduciendo la capacidad cívica a solo ciertas personas. El sistema penal criminaliza al oprimido, como técnica de control. Argumentos de supremacía blanca.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyIncredibly excited to share our new paper, What is Civic Participation in Artificial Intelligence? by @resieber.bsky.social, myself, Suthee Sangiambut and Abigail Adu-Daako This paper has been in the works for *years*! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Investigando el uso de cámaras de vigilancía en los municipios y es díficil ignorar la cantidad de horas que he dedicado en la búsqueda de información pública. Encontrar "reglamentos" o "contratos" resulta casi imposible, y cuando solicito directamente, para algunos estos son "secreto nacional".
- Como académico relativamente nuevo, he notado que en este momento estoy "deconstruyendo" mi temas de estudio generando nuevas críticas. Pero quiero llegar al punto en mi trayectoría que me permita desarrollar estudios que ayuden a construir, que inspiren, y que sean crítico de mi posturas previas.
- Reposted by Diego Alcalá LaboyThere is a recent wave of papers looking at how storms affect housing markets afterwards using semi-experimental designs. These are very important contributions. However, a reminder: Storms don't *cause* anything. They're just wind and water. They don't evict renters or buy properties.
