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featured here in a zine on counter surveillance by 8-ball at the NY State Zine Fair in NYC: fun zine fair find today Cabal: Now defunct international hacker collective combatting tech-enabled abuse. You can still view their resources (cabal.cx/resources/)

Thanks for letting me present @brooklynwebworkers.com ! For anyone who missed the link, here it is, chock full of useful resources - aramzs.me/privacynow

There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.

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My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model. This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

"People skills sustain a career more than technical skills" Alex Chan, Flickr Foundation #monkigras

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

there are good positive examples - Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, or the group in SD that's been fighting against "smart street lights"; like Civil Rights Corps; like grassroots mask bloc groups that have been fighting mask bans. but they all start from and stay close to the violence people experience.

i've said this a few times now so i'm sorry if i'm a broken record, but if you go back in time 30 years, you find AI in a very different form than it exists today. go back another 30 years, and again something very different. the academic tradition that falls under that one umbrella is disjointed;

screening Adam Curtis' HYPERNORMALISATION monday 1/20 at 7:30pm eastern. IRL in bushwick, or watch at home at stream.fightdystopia.net

our network has raised hundreds of dollars to give firefighters the zyn they need to keep protecting LA from the fires. Thank you!!

I'm nonbinary. I applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate. My application was granted, but I've had to sue the UK to try to get it issued. I've spent about £100k out of pocket already. I'm expecting another £100k in costs for my appeal, which is being heard next week. rya.nc/k7

THIS is what Tech is supposed to fucking be. Do not except anything less.

Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?

Foursquare released their Places data as an open source data set, as well as through an API now that their city guide is shutting down. It is sort of a cool idea in theory but as I've been trying to work with my exported archives I found out something...

"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"

This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.

last of the cabal stickers are at our table, around milliways! #38c3

Build up a RSS feed of news sites you like and read that regularly. Look for the source of any thing posted as “news” without a link attached. Check to see if a screenshot is real. Learn to detect AI-generated content. Read past the headlines. This is all critical media literacy

Happy winter solstice ☃️ The days get longer from here on out!

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This is disingenuous marketing. Signal chats can't be 'monitored' by anyone not in those chats. Dressing up "joining groups via publicly posted links, then exfiltrating group data" as an offensive 'cybercapability' borders on misinfo, and confuses/scares ppl who rely on Signal for robust privacy.

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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

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I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

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