My job is ending in some timr and people are asking me what I want to do next and I have to somehow find an answer that is not make art and collect unemployment from the state of new jersey 😅

2026 resolution was to resume set recording after a two year break and I have been lucky to see a lot of nice sets lately - take a look if you would like to: archive.org/search?query...

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Big up to @ratemypraxis.com for this video of my set in NYC earlier this month.

Bandcamp banning AI music is a great start. They should take on ambient noise next

actual rock music

Thoroughly enjoyed assisting Yeli with this course and attempting to put it all into words together ❤ hope you take a moment to transfer your scroll to the link below ~

Is "SCOOP" just journalists' way of saying OC??

The national incarceration rate of Native Americans is more than 2x that of white Americans. For Native youth, the confinement rate is approximately 3x that of white youth. This is the legacy of centuries of oppression & theft from Native people.

This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.

"10a labs", a 'security research' firm employed by the big AI companies has begun collecting information and attacking organised opposition to data centres, framing them as "NIMBYS" and wildly exaggerating claims. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/grou...

"If I can say no I should say no because it gives other people the option" ‼️ A solid tool we have to fight against the normalization of inappropriate and secretive uses of our data is to accept friction and opt-out when we can, when we know we can.

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Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

In answer to your question, yes he is.

Last day to apply to our Fall classes eligible for extended application!

The prospect of Google Zero — when referral traffic falls to zero — would have massive implications for news media, but also for so many people who run websites. It was great to chat with @mattdpearce.com again to get his insights on what it all means.

📢 NEW: Our introductory tip sheet on digital security for journalists & civil servants working under pressure. 📢 Co-authors @bostonjoan.bsky.social & @threatc.at offer 📌 five basic steps 📌 for truth-telling practitioners to protect their work & their communities www.criticalinternet.org/research

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

SCOOP: A CBP agent wore Meta's AI smart glasses to an immigration raid in Los Angeles. CBP has no deal with Meta so it's possibly his own personal device www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls has been severely beaten and faces ongoing mistreatment in Israeli detention. He is the only Black person who was on the Gaza freedom flotilla. Graphics: Gazafreedomflotilla ig

I'm v excited to support this online course that explores affordances, risks, and other ideas in the computational art realm :+) apply by Sunday 08/03 if you'd like to join! Full and partial scholarships available ❤

⚡ Use the Internet Archive like a Hacker-Librarian! 🔮 A hands-on workshop to demystify the CLI and use it as a superpower for archiving, accessing, and uploading content to @archive.org. Hosted by @zkavclub.bsky.social and @tommi.space 🗓️ Jul 3, 16:00 UTC (9 PDT, 18 CEST) ℹ️ Info + registration

🌎🍃 ITP Resident Mary Mark (aka Dr Markhvida) took us to the NYU Climate Initiative Conference, where she presented her research with ITP Prof. Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, visualizing climate disasters before they happen so that communities can feel prepared and empowered.

Palantir used to have affinity groups and DEI as late as 2022, and I had the logos saved on my phone because they pissed me off so much and of course they buried those pages. But I never forgot.

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

wth

Signal has introduced a new screenshot security setting on Windows 11, protecting your chats from Windows Recall, a privacy-invasive feature that takes periodic screenshots of your open apps. This setting is enabled by default on Signal desktop on Windows 11. buff.ly/xAwBlvv

NEW: Senate Democrats are pushing to reform major aspects of the Privacy Act, including the long-panned "routine use" exemption. The law was passed 50 years ago amid rampant government abuses and rising public fears that mirror many of those rattling Americans today. www.wired.com/story/democr...

new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database. 🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...

NEW: Dataminr, an official X partner, is helping the LAPD surveil protests against the Israeli war on Gaza across both in LA and across the United States. This includes tipping the department off about protests that are still in the planning stages. theintercept.com/2025/03/17/l...

For educators interested in teaching about gang databases and other forms of surveillance, I want to (re)share three youth-produced, short documentaries from the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Project. The first film, "Targeted," examines the Chicago Police Department's gang database.

rip death grips, you would loved

End stage of technology and carceral logics.

contributing towards software worlds that are practical and enjoyable to run on cheap refurbished hardware is a really practical utility

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Seattle Times and the AP partnered to investigate school surveillance, & reporters “inadvertently received access to almost 3,500 sensitive, unredacted student documents through a records request. The documents were stored without a password or firewall, and anyone with the link could read them.”

Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

The fact that they specifically highlight the ability to identify people through public mugshots as a useful benefit is so additionally twisted to me.

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Giga book store in Detroit, MI. Four stories packed to the absolute brim yet pretty easy to navigate. I'm an dumb e-reader accelerationist but enjoy it for the historical appeal I guess.

wow–the Museum of All Things by @may.as is an incredibly cool project, works exactly how you'd hope a 3D museum built out of Wikipedia articles would not that it stopped me from doing, uh, this

Sharing a course on creative research practice and communications focused on addressing state surveillance! This April in NYC. Please consider sharing or registering :+) More info or registration: www.abronsartscenter.org/education/gr...

i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

THE @mta.info IS VIOLATING THE PRIVACY OF ITS CITIZENS, our students! #surveillancestate #mta #nyc #privacy

The student metro card has been replaced by OMNY cards this academic year and the system has been flagging children for fraud if the cards aren't used near their home address or school. These kids risk loss of their free rides over this, a metric which did not exist before the introduction of OMNY.