see you saturday at @transpecos.bsky.social!

This workshop is an introduction to personal digital privacy and information security practices! We will cover threat modeling, encryption & getting around the city. Material will be provided for us to make personalized digital privacy zines to craft our own guides. @transpecos.bsky.social

See y’all today!

Bio for our second speaker for Saturday: Ven Qiu is an archivist and creative technologist based in New York. As a memory worker committed to data sovereignty, they are interested in the sociopolitical and infrastructural conditions of digital preservation.

Next event this Saturday! Check the bio for our speaker below: Olivia M. Ross is a Caribbean American information worker, documentarian, and secretkeeper from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisual & software preservation informs embodied research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, & place.

See y’all tomorrow at @wonderville.nyc

Re-uploading with correction on Cypurr Session date,we got a BUNCH of great events coming up in May! Hope to see you at one or all!

See y’all tomorrow!

Next Cypurr Session, Communities Need Backup 6/16, 3-5 PM We'll discuss the importance of digital archival practices (with some guest speakers) before walking through how to download your social media history & view it offline (and optionally, delete it!). www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...

NEXT EVENT! Check out our next Cypurr Cinema event at the PIT, featuring a talk from Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard We'll be screening the @pbsnews.org Frontline Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, investigating the powerful Pegasus spyware www.propertyistheft.org/events/cifbk...

event now featuring a q+a with Beck Haberstroh and Imani Thompson discussing their project "We Are Already Gathered" "We are already gathered is an event series that brings together communities with shared surveillance risks." More on the project here: https:// wearealreadygathered.info

Check out our next event at @wonderville.nyc on 5/10! We'll be showing and talking about a bunch of shorts having to do with autonomy and surveillance www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...

UPDATE: This event will also feature a Q + A from the Ridgewood Tenants Union discussing tenants rights and organizing in your building. The Ridgewood Tenants Union is a volunteer anti-gentrification group working together to grow the power of tenants and unhoused peoples in Southern Queens

Upcoming Cypurr Session on Landlord Tech at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social with special speaker from the @legalaidnyc.bsky.social Paula Garcia-Salazar! Check the link below for more info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...

Hi all! Just plugging tomorrow's Cypurr Screening event, now with a speakback featuring film director Jazmin Jones! Food and drink proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Defense Fund. Plus (!!) we’ll be giving away three DVDs to folks who donate Hope to see you there! -Cypurr Folk

Join Cache Me Outside & Cypurr Collective at @wonderville.nyc to break up with Google! Bring your laptop or phone & we'll lock in on alternate search tools, email services, browsers, migrating account data, removing ourselves from search results, and more! RSVP: www.wonderville.nyc/events/break...

Next Cypurr Event! Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for a screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones) which “investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.” Discussion to follow! www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...

I am talking online age gates "at" the Brooklyn Library tomorrow (I'll be there by video -- but join the crowd there in person.

Happy New year! Slate of Cypurr workshops coming up, check them out! Tomorrow! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social talking KOSA with special guest @davidgreene.bsky.social from @eff.org Plus a movie event and social at @wonderville.nyc in February

For this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like) @bklynlibrary.bsky.social Speaker TBA More Info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...

Check out this upcoming talk on issues around age verification policies from @eff.org @genzforchange.org and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience coming up at @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on 1/15! www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/hum...

1. What a great Cypurr weekend! Thank you for everyone who joined! But if a recap below:

See y’all today!

Weekend of events starts Saturday! Hope to see y’all there

Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for our next Cypurr Matinee! We’re finishing up our trilogy of 1995 cyberpunk cinema w/ a screening of the Hackers (1995, Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Dir: Iain Softley)! Movie followed by discussion on tech and cybersecurity withfriends.events/event/73QoIb...

Catch our next Cypurr Session at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social (Grand Army Plaza) on 11/22! This session’s focus is on Protest Digital Security, featuring a very special talk from members of Cache Me Outside! See details here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...

1/ Mark your calendars for our next slate of Cypurr events, coming up on 11/22 and 11/23. Check out descriptions below, and RSVP through the links below:

See ya Saturday! @freedom.press

🐱 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! 🐱 Catch us at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on 9/27 for a Cypurr Session on Border Surveillance featuring a talk from @freedom.press www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp... central-library-info-20250927-0100pm

1. Thanks to everyone who came out to the #JohnnyMneumonic screening on Sunday at @wonderville.nyc ! We had a great time watching this 90s gem, with a great talk afterwards.

ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)

See y’all today at @wonderville.nyc

Two days away! 💙

One week away!

NEXT EVENT Catch Cypurr at @wonderville.nyc on 9/7 for a watch/talk on 90s classic Johnny Mnemonic! Synopsis: A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. RSVP Here: withfriends.events/event/CHWXnJ...

Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

1/ Hi all! We had a great Cypurr Summer of events a couple weekends ago! See below for a bit of recap and resources:

The internet doesn't have to be scary. Whether you're worried about scam sites or creepy surveillance, there are steps you can take to keep your browsing safer and private. This month we're joined by the @eff.org technologists behind Privacy Badger. first half will be hybrid.

Join the Cypurr folks for an afternoon matinee of The Net (1995, Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Dir: Irwin Winkler) at Wonderville on 7/20 from 2-5 (Ages 21+)! Movie will be followed by a discussion on tech and cybersecurity RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/236646...

1/2 Mark your calendars because Cypurr Summer is Upon us! 
Catch us next month for a weekend full of Cypurr events, including:

Join the Cypurr folks for an afternoon matinee of The Net (1995, Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Dir: Irwin Winkler) at Wonderville on 7/20 from 2-5 (Ages 21+)! Movie will be followed by a discussion on tech and cybersecurity RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/236646...

The internet doesn't have to be scary. Whether you're worried about scam sites or creepy surveillance, there are steps you can take to keep your browsing safer and private. This month we're joined by the @eff.org technologists behind Privacy Badger. first half will be hybrid.

A couple cool looking events coming up at the Brooklyn Public Library, check them out!

1/2 Mark your calendars because Cypurr Summer is Upon us! 
Catch us next month for a weekend full of Cypurr events, including:

See y’all tomorrow! Workshop now at 3 PM!!

Catch us for a threat modeling workshop this Saturday at 2 during Bash Bash Zine Fest at La Plaza Comunidad!

Next Cypurr session coming at you on 5/10! Come by for some intro tips on mobile devices in a variety of scenarios to keep yourself cyber safe! Brooklyn Public Library @bklynlibrary.bsky.social Grand Army Plaza 5/10 1-3 PM

Next Cypurr session coming at you on 5/10! Come by for some intro tips on mobile devices in a variety of scenarios to keep yourself cyber safe! Brooklyn Public Library @bklynlibrary.bsky.social Grand Army Plaza 5/10 1-3 PM

EFF’s @legind.bsky.social spoke with @lifehackerofficial.bsky.social about the best browsers for protecting privacy, and while opinions may vary, there’s agreement on one thing: It ain’t Chrome.