In the future everyone will be mistaken for a criminal for fifteen minutes

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

The crisis in international law didn’t come out of nowhere. In Episode 6 of “Lawyering Without Law,” @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social traces how that crisis took shape, from Iraq and Libya to the torture memos and forever wars. The full episode featuring Tom Dannenbaum and Aslı Bâli drops this Friday.

🗣️ Palantir has passed a faith-based investor’s “moral audit”. It’s not exactly unqualified praise: “Similar to a firearms manufacturer, we don't hold the manufacturer guilty for customers who may misuse that firearm.” 🔗 Read the latest Inklings installment here: https://bit.ly/4y8JAJS

My record collector friend made a playlist of 47 tracks, on for each country in the World Cup. He's a doc filmmaker who has been all over the world. These track are not "Greatest Hits" songs from the countries, but interesting choices. it's full of bangers. Enjoy music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Alright after a week or so of experimentation I think I can confidently say that moka pot coffee tastes better when you use room temperature water as opposed to pre-boiling. Old Italians: 1 James Hoffman: 0

“The building has not moved since 12 p.m., according to two sources briefed on the situation,” is not, in general, the kind of thing you want to read about a building that is not, in fact, supposed to move www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/fd...

Did you know that about every three months, surveillance companies and their clients huddle in different corners of the world to discuss new ways - and share new technologies - to tap communications and track locations?

This is the fourth episode of REAL Resistance: a series of conversations produced in collaboration with REALML, a global network of experts and advocates building movements to resist the material harms of technology. www.themaybe.org/podcast/real...

@cr0ft0n.bsky.social reveals the global network of surveillance conspirators who are constantly seeking legal and technical loopholes to exploit for their own gain.

@marielgm.bsky.social walks us through Mexico’s rich history of spying on its citizens, and how it became the world’s biggest importer of surveillance tech.

God DAMN lmao. Feminism most vindicated social movement in history?

Aaand it's time to brick it

People really underestimate the danger the "Effective Altruism" movement is to our global political landscape. With all the money they have access to they get to buy seats and every table where bigger narratives are formed pushing their inhumane politics.

Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonialist drivel. And politics is eating it up.

hive-mind, please spread the word. there have to be some genai free research resources, right also, the lack of recommendations is a glaring market gap

I adore you Leon, Egyptologist here, they were built by a largely volunteer force (corvée labor) of 25,000. The builders were very well fed, paid in bread and beer, and received excellent medical care. There was no slavery whatsoever, it is a common misconception.

Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network The probe corroborates @icij.org & @citizenlab.ca findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing. www.icij.org/investigatio...

On day one of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, together with Global Partners Digital, we hosted a conversation about the cybersecurity risks posed by LLMs and agentic AI, and what kind of rights-based alternatives we need. A huge thank you to our outstanding speakers!

Safeguard civic space tomorrow. Fight for digital rights today. Donate now ▶️ accessnow.org/donate

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Apple taught us to walk so that the cybertruck could teach us how to fly

Why would a city of half a million people be missing from the map? That sounded impossible to me in 2023, so I went and looked it up, and the answer turns out to be money, twice sheets.works/data-viz/str...

The lesson from the Belgium-USA match and from the Hungarian election is that you need to defeat populists by such a convincing margin that claiming the contest was rigged becomes implausible.

Another day, another missed opportunity by Apple to build a system that recognizes captive portals

This is a really moving and thoughtful interview

as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?

Join us today at #WSIS2026! Humanitarian digital transformation suffers from digital governance gaps, but solutions exist. They involve bringing data and ICT at the center of the humanitarian protection framework, and creating referral mechanisms between aid groups & digital security networks

Pegasus strikes again! Access Now alongside more than 30 human rights orgs + individuals demand a full investigation into the hacking of Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek journalist and former Member of the European Parliament. Read more: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

L’accoltellatore è nato a Conegliano Veneto, a un’ora da qui. Queste sono prime pagine razziste, e sarebbe il caso che qualcuno cominciasse a pagare per l’odio diffuso ogni singola mattina. Basta.

⚠️Following @citizenlab.ca's revelations that Stelios Kouloglou was surveilled with NSO Group's #Pegasus, a coalition of leading civil society organisations has published a joint statement calling on the 🇪🇺EU institutions to regulate #spyware technologies & strengthen protections against their abuse.

AI detectors have always been an absolute scam as far as I can tell, and I’m alarmed at how many people believe they work

Truth is the first victim in war they say. This isn't true anymore. Information is now the first victim in conflict, as 125/313 internet shutdown in 2025 happened in war. Less access to information weakens early warning, protection, and accountability. At @accessnow.org we want this to change

Btw, are you in Geneva on July 7 at 10:30am and tired of aidwashing corporate capture? Join us @accessnow.org & CDAC to what aid groups can do to procure, assess, and govern AI in line with humanitarian principles, community accountability, and the right to know www.cdacnetwork.org/news/cdac-x-...

Newly released emails show a lobbyist for autonomous weapons manufacturer Anduril drafted legislative language exempting the company's Ohio factory from local referendum challenges after residents repeatedly tried to force votes on real estate developments. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social

Truth is the first victim in war they say. This isn't true anymore. Information is now the first victim in conflict, as 125/313 internet shutdown in 2025 happened in war. Less access to information weakens early warning, protection, and accountability. At @accessnow.org we want this to change

L’Observatoire des multinationales est en train de boucler sa campagne de dons, soutenez-les pour faire vivre un média en pointe sur les sujets de lobbying et de pouvoir, qui a su se saisir des enjeux politiques de la tech et qui est à la hauteur de ces enjeux : multinationales.org/fr/pages/sou...

Le débat d’hier sur la venue de Peter Thiel à Paris se centrait beaucoup sur Thiel l’idéologue, le théologien mais rappelons-nous que le leg de ces milliardaires technofascistes ce sont aussi des infrastructures écocides qui aliènent des travailleurs dans les pays du Sud global @ccesoir.bsky.social

Un bon article de geopolitique de la tech qui considère les droits numériques (pas bcp, mais c'est dèjà ça)... mais quand même @synthmedia.fr vous auriez pu nous nommer @accessnow.org comme les co-auteurs du joint statement avec nos amis de @amnesty.org 😜 synthmedia.fr/geopolitique...

Join @giuliowolfe.bsky.social and experts from UNESCO, the University of Melbourne, and the Digital Security Lab Ukraine at #WSIS2026 to discuss how to strengthen information ecosystems through digital governance during crises. – July 7 | 14:00 CEST Learn more ▶️ www.itu.int/net4/wsis/fo...

Yet SafeToNet claims to have ‘partners’ in over 130 countries. Partners include the Deutscher Bundestag & @ec.europa.eu 🤔

"Too often, gender fluidity is thought of as a “new” or even “Western” phenomenon. However, the reality is that countless cultures around the world have traditions and histories beyond the gender binary." The collaborative article for our #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spotlight~ globalvoices.org/2026/07/01/b...

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Do you remember when theorizing a society under constant mass surveillance was the stuff of dystopias? Now it’s the abstract of an enthusiastic TED talk boingboing.net/2026/06/30/t...

I almost never condone violence. This said...

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!