Ici, je parle de Signal, de la protection de la vie privée, de Foucault et du modèle économique de la surveillance – pour mes amis français, avec toute mon affection ❤️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Ici : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

"These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century."

À demain mes chers amis <3

There's the Epstein list. But I also want the crisis comms agencies and boutique law firms helping these invertebrates weasel out of culpability list.

From our paper (w/ @smw.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) in 2024:

"AI Agent, AI Spy" ... "...review the immediate and serious danger that the rush to shove agents into our devices and digital lives poses to our fundamental right to privacy and our capacity for genuine personal agency." @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @ccc.de Udbhav Tiwari youtu.be/0ANECpNdt-4?...

Welcome to Signal, we love to have you <3 Bienvenido a Signal, nos alegra que estés aquí. <3 www.elespanol.com/omicrono/sof...

I just renewed my subscription with @wired.com! Their work is amazing!!!

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm. We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates. support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

Minder privacy betekent voor bigtechbedrijven vooral: meer data roven waarmee winst gemaakt kan worden. Wat Meredith Whittaker betreft, worden marketingpraat, mythes over superintelligentie en vage privacy-beloften veel te weinig bevraagd. 'Privacy washing in deze branche komt veel voor.'

All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

Could the secret police PLEASE use silencers when they shoot civilians for backtalk all this noise is disturbing my vibe coding

Freedom is when I don’t have to pay taxes and people who exercise their constitutional rights are beaten, shoved into camps, and shot in the back or the face by masked agents of the state

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

New video about Signal📽️ Signal's President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social with @emilychang.bsky.social on @bloomberg.com about privacy in the age of data and AI Watch it here 🍿👉 aboutsignal.com/videos-podca... #signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #AI #privacy

We love to see it! Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️ github.com/zoicware/Rem...

Interview met @meredithmeredith.bsky.social door Karin Swiers. mtsprout.nl/leiderschap/...

Eve Sedgewick said "what I'm proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart" and I'm going to wear this like a locket

Interesting 1987 NYT book review of Klaus Theweleit's *Male Fantasies* "a study of the imaginative world of the German Freikorps movement." www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/b...

Trump’s rush to fast-track new nuclear reactors raises serious safety concerns. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social to @npr.org: "These manufactured timelines are incredibly concerning. There's no timeline for assessing a new design and making sure it's safe." Read more in @npr.org: shorturl.at/y78eg

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...

The hill I will invite the market to join me in dying on is that it's called a face card, not a big plastic thing on your face card, for a reason

⚡ ''In my view, the velvet glove coup we are witnessing today represents a critical inflection point in the history of computing..'' @meredithmeredith.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE... #surveillance #tech #complexity #AI #security #futurescapes

📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANE...

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Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.

“They will fear her,” Tenar whispered.

Merry Christmas! May you enjoy the cinnamon nutmeg season as much as I do, with all the peace, major chord progressions, warm drinks, butterfat and sparkling this and that, whatever you believe, however work it ❤️🎄 🎁 here's a great album to get your day going www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mv4...

“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”

Feeling extremely honoured and grateful to be selected by @elpais.com as one of the 10 most influential thinkers in the world on tech, along with giants like @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @dacemoglumit.bsky.social. Thanks so much for the shout-out. 🙏🙏🙏 #AIEthics elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...

Interested in this topic? Come join us for a @financialtimes.com Global Boardroom this coming Thursday Dec 11th to discuss this very topic, with Anne Neuberger, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, moderated by Kieran Smith globalboardroom.ft.com/agenda/sessi...

computer culture

THANK YOU, READERS'!

Ingrid and I made this years ago, when it was easier to have fun around computation, and I still love it

UNIX, the first usability abstraction layer

I spoke to @mjgault.bsky.social as to why it was concerning to the US DOE take the position of using generative AI for safety cases and licensing at the IAEA symposium, while also advocating for eliminating human intervention during normal nuclear operations.

PSA: If anyone is looking for a smart, solid, experienced tech policy analyst w a global perspective and UK/EU-specialization, @heatherburnstech.bsky.social is great! Over the past years she's been an invaluable help at Signal, and across the ecosystem more broadly.

You know what to do baby ❤️

Missed Signal’s President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social on #Buitenhof? About #Signal, the power of Big Tech, and why privacy matters. Watch it back here🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD5... Not using Signal yet? Try it out for free: signal.org/install #signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy #whatsapp

For our Dutch followers and people with access to Dutch TV 🇳🇱 Tomorrow Signal's president @meredithmeredith.bsky.social in #Buitenhof (pronounce as: "BOW-tun-hoff" but we'll count "TV" as correct) It's about #signal #privacy & #bigtech 📺Nov 30, 12:10 CET Channel: NPO1 www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/ar...

Looking for a convivial convo w me & Michael Moynihan covering everything from Snowden to Babbage to why Michael actually cares about privacy to our impoverished def of "AI" and the need to expand it? 👉 7pm EDT tonight, Nov 13th, streaming + archived thereafter: www.youtube.com/live/ZYNJ0zp...

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

Great expose on the status of attack capabilities at Cellebrite, the defense company used by homeland security agents to crack your phones both at the U.S. border, airports, and interior.👇

Now on Desktop: Customizable chat folders Keep healthy boundaries between friends & family or work & leisure. Filter 1-on-1 and group chats, put all of your unread messages one place, or make project-specific folders for related chats. Settings > Chats Or right-click any chat

When @wired.com made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up. When @404media.co published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward. We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.

This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.

Informative thread.