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Vimeo API: Announcing the first Vimeo Hackday! And a new API! »

vimeoapi:

We’ve been hard at work building a brand new version of the Vimeo API (dubbed API 3.0) and we’d like to invite you to join us at Vimeo HQ to try it out!

We’ll be here May 4th from 11am to 7pm to help you build apps on the new API. The best creations will be featured on our blog and dev site.

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Suddenly, NYPD Doesn’t Love Surveillance Anymore | Alternet »

sweendawg:

[N]obody wants to stop police officers from doing their much-needed job. In fact, civil liberties organizations have been pushing for oversight to make sure police are doing all of their job — including protecting individuals’ civil liberties. With  police brutality a persistent and intensifying problem, we should want more officers feeling “apprehension” about breaking civil liberties laws, we should hope more of them “give a lot of thought to what the adverse consequences” will be if they trample someone’s rights and we should crave an immediate “chilling effect” on such violations.

I’ll just come out and say it: I don’t trust the NYPD. Not one single officer. From the traffic cop who played dumb after I was hit by a car while crossing the street not ten feet from where he was standing (with a walk signal, mind you), to the one who responded to my informing him that an MTA bus had changed its route display to read, “HELP—CALL POLICE”, with nothing but disinterest and contempt, the NYPD fucking sucks.

For what it’s worth, Christine Quinn has said she’d override any veto from Bloomberg if she succeeds him as mayor, but sadly I don’t see that doing much to change the perception of law enforcement being any more accepting of the rights of citizens to film and photograph them in public places…let alone oversight by an outside party.

Always distrust government.