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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/)

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

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.

🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨 NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

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;

Hello everyone! We compiled a list of Trans Inclusive / LGBTQIA+ health resources. Normally we wouldn't ask for engagement, but sharing this around would be deeply appreciated. Remember: You're not alone. We'll endure. www.broadlyepi.com/lgbtqia-heal... #MedSky #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights #HumanRights

Here's a poster version of the DIY Web Archiving zine's front cover, with some added text if you want to print copies for some space where people can take them—you can hang this poster above or nearby:

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.

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If y'all haven't seen this really poignant talk by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, you should. media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...

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"

"For Project Maven, Google hired hundreds of gig-economy workers to solve numerous CAPTCHAs at an incredibly low cost (roughly $1/hour). The results of these completed CAPTCHAs were then used to develop a classification program for the use of US Military drone applications" Workers had no idea

im rewatching my talk from strange loop 2017 and i love that i open with a Donna Haraway quire and “i am not interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence for commercial applications, don’t tell Microsoft that”. No wonder why i got fired lmao. youtu.be/L4fjPojo1yE?...

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!

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.

more friends added! go.bsky.app/JAR9jhy

It's true. EFF is an op. Just follow the money. Approximately 1/3rd of my salary is funded by the Newmark Foundation. I am in the pocket of Big Craig.

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

hi new follows! ~ now that many of my media colleagues have set up camp here i would *really* appreciate some help in finding a new role, especially if we’ve worked together in the past 💙

cabal cabal cabal cabal cabal go.bsky.app/JAR9jhy

Venezuelan opposition leader Jesus Armas abducted by Maduro regime pen.org/press-releas...

There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

“‘We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future,’ Birhane says. ‘These audits are uncovering actual real issues, real problems, whether it’s racism, sexism, or encoding of stereotypes and historical injustices and so on.’”

The idea that dumping all data into "AI" will somehow provide us with unparalleled analysis has been continuously disproven, especially with similar systems like Lavender and Gospel perpetuating mass civilian death. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/10/1...

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

Here’s the link for the event today! Starts at 3pm ET webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q...

the friends of cabal starter pack! go.bsky.app/JAR9jhy

Mindy Seu on Internet Green: "From Terminal green to Brat green, the author of Cyberfeminism Index investigates the origins and cultural significance of the viral hue." artlab.hyundai.com/editorial/mi... (Pairs nicely with my 2022 piece on green screens!: wordsinspace.net/2022/04/08/g...)

To celebrate #BlackFriday, all of OpenElections official precinct results data is absolutely free: github.com/openelections/ (It's also free every other day of the year, but can't miss a promotional opportunity.)