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Decolonizing the Intersection: The Case for Abolishing the Tyranny of the Traffic Light
American NewsMaya Chen
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Decolonizing the Intersection: The Case for Abolishing the Tyranny of the Traffic Light

Before proceeding, I wish to acknowledge that I am writing from the unceded ancestral lands of the Lenape people. I further acknowledge that the entire American transportation grid is a scar of concrete and asphalt laid violently upon lands stolen from countless Indigenous nations. Trigger Warning: The following discourse engages with themes of state-sanctioned spatial violence, carceral infrastructure, chromo-normativity, and the epistemic erasure inherent in urban planning.

The Panopticon in Your Parlor: Amazon's Ring Sentry AI and the Commodified Conscience of Neoliberal Surveillance
American NewsMaya Chen
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The Panopticon in Your Parlor: Amazon's Ring Sentry AI and the Commodified Conscience of Neoliberal Surveillance

Before proceeding, I must acknowledge that this text is being composed on the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish people. We must also acknowledge that the digital infrastructure mediating this discourse—the servers, the fiber optics, the very code—operates within a global framework of resource extraction and labor exploitation disproportionately impacting Global South communities. This article interrogates Amazon's new Ring Sentry AI, a techno-solutionist nightmare that commodifies allyship and deploys a carceral logic directly into the domestic sphere, reinforcing hegemonic power structures under the guise of 'safety.'