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A critical read to understand recent news on AI. The TLDR, it’s not necessary to mortgage the future of the planet to accomplish the promise of AI.

"This is unconstitutional," I scream as the facial recognition equipped robot dogs drag me to my cell. "This goes against everything America stands for!" I shout, as the algorithmic sentencing machine condemns me to death. "This is not who we are!" I remind the firing squad of child soldiers

Where is the money being used to buy Israeli spyware company Paragon coming from? American teachers/police/firefighters retirement funds.

#Apple's notifications to spyware victims have been a game changer. There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Apple, but this is not one of them techcrunch.com/2024/12/20/w...

JOBS IN FUNDING OPEN SOURCE: @sovereign.tech is hiring for a bunch of positions including cybersecurity program lead, program managers, technologists, and administration. This is an amazing team funding open source projects with millions of dollars each year. Office (Berlin) and remote options.

we are not paying enough attention to commercially available phone-cracking and spyware being sold to any government who will buy it

JOB ALERT: Great position for someone looking to start a career at the intersection of technology, rights & justice! DC-based. Plus you get to work with @harlanyu.bsky.social - www.upturn.org/join/researc...

This report by @sarahjeong.bsky.social totally transported me to Seoul last night. It's one of those pieces that makes you feel like you now have a foothold of understanding to someplace new and unfamiliar. It's so good, and so funny.

Being able-bodied is temporary for all of us. Let's build a web that is accessible to all - it serves us all. Proud to support the Web Accessibility Initiative with this grant. www.w3.org/press-releas...

West Ham family .... digital rights matter! We're a broad church afterall, so give this geezer a follow 😀 Oh and @michaelbrennan1.bsky.social too if you've got the time 😉

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Found out via clearsky.app that I'm on a bunch of West Ham starter packs which explains a bunch of my followers. I hope you all like digital rights as much as you like football because I don't know shit about soccer!

brb sending this tweet to every reviewer who said my papers on how security tech failed at-risk communities were not "computer science enough"

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Kim Kitsuragi is a nice guy. Wish he was here right now.

"Discover" is my default tab and I'm not ashamed of it!

"There’s a high probability that we see big rollbacks on spyware policy," says @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social - A somber read. Still, I have hope for global progress on spyware in absence of US leadership.

"Proprietary software, installed in my body, led me to no choice but to accept medical treatment that I didn't even need." - a powerful story of just how personal open source can be sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/de...

Climate Justice & Digital Rights Fellowship Opportunity! Apply to be a Green Web Foundation fellow (paid, 6 months) and help build bridges across these critical global movements www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/fellowships/...