YK Hong
@ykhong.bsky.social
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Head @ Keep Beyond Liberation strategy + Tech justice ykhong.com/here
Big Tech owns many technologies, but they do not own Technology. Technology existed before Big Tech, before Al, before computers, and even before humans.
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Tor Project
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Tor Browser’s developers intentionally removed or turned off the AI features recently added to Firefox, explaining that machine-learning tools are “inherently impossible to fully audit” and could threaten user privacy.
#torbrowser
#torproject
#tor
#anonymous
#opsec
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Two people were arguing on the train I was on in Seoul, so the conductor announced for them to stop fighting and exit at the next station. And so they stopped and left. Because Korean trains are quiettttt.
5 days ago
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I recommend turning OFF AI search in your browser entirely. And do not use the browser if you are given no choice. AI bot answers are also worse because they were not built give you the best answers to your question. They are trained to give you the most average answer.
7 days ago
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The redacted pages of the Epstein Files, many entirely so, are visual representations of who this regime is protecting, and how much information has always been kept from the People. Those redacted pages are Empire itself.
8 days ago
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“First World” Country pretty much ended up just meaning Surveillance Country.
11 days ago
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We have young people in the United States who have now survived multiple school shootings in their very brief lifetime. This goes beyond even violence as merely a pattern. It is now the norm.
14 days ago
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The panopticon is in our pockets. From KOSA, online age verification laws, behavioral tracking, social media background screening, deportation tactics, forced AI, to biometric theft, we are being surveilled at every turn.
16 days ago
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This regime’s signing of an Executive Order to punish states that attempt to regulate AI, particularly around protections for privacy and transparency, is lethal and fatal. It will drastically escalate oppressive structures, and is a guaranteed mass incarceration, surveillance, and control sentence.
16 days ago
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Survived another day of being YK and not AI.
20 days ago
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Spotify Wrapped, YouTube Recap, Amazon Delivered, Apple Replay, and other year-end summaries of what we listened to and watched on streaming platforms, is a reminder that our data is being harvested by corporations we pay to steal our data.
25 days ago
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“War on drugs” falls into the same category as “Weapons of mass destruction.”
28 days ago
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LAND BACK.
about 1 month ago
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For many of these companies, we can boycott them forever until they no longer even exist.
about 1 month ago
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The stranglehold that Starbucks has on airports around the globe is wild colonial malarkey.
about 1 month ago
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Parts of Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia are experiencing devastating and historic flooding. While heavy rain does happen during this time of the year, as with the entire globe, these catastrophic climate impacts are fatally compounding as a direct result of western influence and Empire.
about 1 month ago
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Oppressors are like plastic, toxic, circulating microscopically through our very cores, killing us in every way shape and form, seemingly indestructible. But eventually, even they will be disintegrated, broken down, and forgotten forever, in the trash pile of the universe.
about 1 month ago
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It is 100% reasonable to normalize wearing a brimmed hat, sunglasses, mask, and play around with your gait, all on a regular basis. Because that is an appropriate response to the state normalizing surveillance.
about 1 month ago
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North Carolina. I love you.
about 1 month ago
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Apple has now launched their Digital ID for Wallet, enabling mobile passports. While I recommended holding off when possible, if you do store a digital passport on your iPhone at this time, remember what I have talked about thus far:
about 1 month ago
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Indigenous-led communities demanding land justice were barred and barraged by security from COP30 in Brazil, the world's largest climate conference. In addition to disregarding Indigenous voices around land protection in general,
about 1 month ago
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Oppressors have set up a world where they live in constant fear.
about 2 months ago
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We will still be queer, trans, gender nonbinary, and genderqueer no matter what our passports say. In fact, as history shows, the more they try to silence and shut us down, we only get louder, stronger, FIERCER & QUEERER.
about 2 months ago
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I recommend AGAINST using an AI (agentic) browser like OpenAI’s Atlas or Perplexity’s Comet at this time. These platforms have not worked out the bare minimum privacy and security issues of agent AI access and sharing.
about 2 months ago
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I DO NOT CONSENT. Without consent, there is only violence. I do not consent to fascism, surveillance, people recording without explicit permission, policing, prisons, facial recognition, biometric theft, I CE, borders,
about 2 months ago
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Recording and running people through databases without their consent using Meta Glasses makes you still a glasshole.
about 2 months ago
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An emergency Jamaica relief website has been set up with focused supply lists, financial support link, and updates:
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal
Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.
https://supportjamaica.gov.jm
about 2 months ago
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You can sign up to be a court observer in immigration proceedings through Witness 4 Justice, a program of
@acaciajustice.bsky.social
. Anyone can bear witness. Be present for those who are being snatched from their lives, families, and our communities. Reach out to
[email protected]
2 months ago
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An extremely timely site to help you find free or reduced-cost food, housing, supplies, transportation, financial assistance, health care, education, employment resources, legal support, and more:
findhelp.org
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findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care
Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.
https://findhelp.org
2 months ago
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Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action. Protest must prompt action.
2 months ago
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Settler colonizer Israel is still actively attacking, occupying, invading, and targeting Palestinians. Korea has been under a U.S.-imposed ceasefire for 70 years, and we have been occupied every day since, still.
3 months ago
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Our fight is to make Indigenous People’s Day every single day. For this to happen, we must end settler colonialism entirely. This means toppling Empire, LandBack, and also, defeating the internal colonizer in our minds.
3 months ago
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The NYC MTA is transitioning to OMNY tap-and-pay cards, rendering swipe cards obsolete by June 2026. OMNY is notorious for tracking riders through our devices, digital wallets, and credit card top-ups, and the MTA is besties with the NYPD. MTA Surveillance is a given.
3 months ago
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May Indigenous people everywhere, Palestine, Hawai’i, Turtle Island, “Japan,” Puerto Rico, Aotearoa, the Amazon, “Australia,” Korea, across every continent, land, air, and water be free.
3 months ago
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If you make a deepfake of someone without their consent, you are committing a nonconsensual violation.
3 months ago
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May Palestinians have a moment to breathe, gather, mourn, rest, and live. A reminder for the rest of us. Korea has been under ceasefire for 70 years, technically still at war, and still occupied by the U.S. Empire. We are not yet free. I wish more for Korea. I wish more for Palestine, too.
3 months ago
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I currently recommend against uploading your biometrics to OpenAI’s new social feed app, Sora. Sora’s Cameo option has the user upload their own biometrics to create voice/video Deepfakes of themselves. The user can also set their preferences to allow others to create Deepfakes of each other, too.
3 months ago
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Several ships in the historic Global Sumud Flotilla of 50+ vessels have been and are being attacked and intercepted by “Israel.”
3 months ago
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Assata Shakur "It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
3 months ago
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Again, I recommend moving away from and being mindful of using of TikTok. Oracle, one of the most privacy-violating, pro-surveillance, genocide-supporting, pro-policing corporations to exist, is taking over co-ownership of TikTok.
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A reminder, when enough of us boycott, it works, and can work quickly even. It is a spectacular example of the power of organizing. Yes, we can bring corporations to their ruin when we act together. Also, there is no need stop boycotting when the corporations are rotten at the core.
3 months ago
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I DO NOT CONSENT to anyone capturing my image, audio, or video with Meta glasses. If you do so it is without my permission, a violation, and nonconsensual. While being in “public” may not be private, we should have a right to privacy. Learn more at
liberationtoolbox.io
3 months ago
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Genocide is committed by genociders. "Israel" has been committing the genocide of Palestinians with the full willful material and political support of the "United States" and others. We already knew this. But more importantly, they already knew this.
3 months ago
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If collective liberation for all is truly in your heart, you will find that your destiny, by definition, aligns with this life purpose. This is regardless of your "work," as you will find that your body, mind, and spirit usher you toward your destiny.
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※ The genocide of Indigenous people to establish the “United States” and “Israel” ※ HBCUs needing to be on lockdown because of racist threats ※ Attacking a flotilla bringing life-saving supplies and food to Gaza ※ Islamophobia’s impacts
4 months ago
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Apple just announced their new product line today. We do not need the new iPhone Air. We need air.
4 months ago
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war.gov
This is now the official government site and name for what was known as the Department of Defense. The United States is a war corporation. Always.
4 months ago
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Google signed a 6-month, $45 million contract in June to promote propaganda for the settler colonizer Israel. This is in addition to the billions already spent on tech toward the genocide. Reminder that no one needs to use Google products at all. De-Google Your LIfe series at
liberationtoolbox.io
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Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong
Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice for our expansive world
https://liberationtoolbox.io
4 months ago
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Land acknowledgments have been disappearing in the DEIA purge. While not a solution to Indigenous erasure and not actual LandBack, it certainly made many aware that the land itself is life and history, inextricable from Indigeneity.
4 months ago
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Last year, I talked about the paused ICE contract with U.S.-acquired Israeli cyberespionage company, Paragon. The U.S. regime has just reactivated this contract.
4 months ago
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