Dr. Jacob Logas
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F&M Assistant Professor Usable Privacy and Security Researcher 32yo
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
8 days ago
Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0
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Update: They succeeded:
www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...
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rowan kaiser
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee
4 months ago
Excited and grateful to share that I’ve been named a Presidential Fellow by
@cylab.bsky.social
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@sauvik.me
and Jodi Forlizzi, and all my collaborators for their constant inspiration as we work toward shaping the future of privacy-preserving AI.
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I am pleased to say that I submitted the last of my dissertation work for publication! This work was a long-term goal starting with a Mozilla grant I applied for in my first year of PhD. Since then, I’ve learned a lot and hope that what I contributed will be useful to the community.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
3 months ago
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation.
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Choosing a Password Manager
Password breaches are a common occurrence, and if you use the same password on every site, that may grant access to bad actors who try out that password elsewhere to get into your accounts. The best way to protect yourself is to use a unique password everywhere (and two-factor authentication,...
https://ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-the-password-manager-that-s-right-for-you
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Data centers in space is such a bad idea, electronics don’t work the same way up there and just because it’s empty doesn’t mean it’s an infinite heat sink
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 months ago
Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples:
atlasofsurveillance.org/
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Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/
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The Academic Resistance
4 months ago
Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus.
wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...
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Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum
Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/universities-must-reject-trump-ultimatum/
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Lots of reading to do!
4 months ago
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"Silicon samples" should be grounds for a desk reject.
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Iris Meredith
5 months ago
From the archives: 2025-09-22 at 20:32 PM
My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop
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My Immortal is a better story than Altman's AI slop | deadSimpleTech
In this light, AI-generated "fiction" is already broken from the get-go. What makes fiction interesting and compelling is, in large part, the spark of recognition: of seeing your experience reflected by someone else, of seeing how someone else sees and experiences the world, of recognising something in a story that you can take from it and put into your own life. This - all of this - is deeply dependent on the aforementioned relationality of fiction: fiction without an author feels wrong, and almost fraudulent, as though the person who generated the story is lying to you by pretending to have had experiences, thoughts and feelings that he actually hasn't. The reaction this generates is a subconscious level of disgust and violation, as we're expected to pretend that (in this case) Sam Altman has feelings that he's never shown any evidence of being capable of.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/altman_my_immortal
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In other news, I will finally have my own place to live here in Lancaster this coming Friday! At times I think my life could be a Seinfeld-esque sitcom.
5 months ago
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While I was unable to meet the CHI 2026 deadline this year, I am very excited and motivated by the work I will he publishing soon!
5 months ago
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Officially published my first canvas page as faculty at F&M! Now I wait for a student email to notify me that “computer” is misspelled or something.
6 months ago
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
6 months ago
This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
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MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
https://gizmodo.com/mit-backs-away-from-paper-claiming-scientists-make-more-discoveries-with-ai-2000603790
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
7 months ago
The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.
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No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissi...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/no-uks-online-safety-act-doesnt-make-children-safer-online
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
7 months ago
Home sweet home
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I am very excited to be getting settled and started at my new academic home. However the universe seems to be taking joy in throwing all obstacles it can in my way!
7 months ago
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫
7 months ago
This thread is incredible.
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802
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Mike Masnick
7 months ago
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️
9 months ago
Two yawning snakes 🐍🐍
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Mike Masnick
9 months ago
Writes intro to article. [Thinking: eh, this needs a bit more explanation before I jump in here] Writes a new intro. Realizes, I'm 1000 words in before I even get to the old intro. This is now going to be two articles.
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
9 months ago
So many well-meaning Western people are oblivious to Palestine. Your systems don't work. Human rights don't apply. Countless evidence of war crimes so the ICC got sanctioned. Medics, journalists, executed. You can buy aid but it can't go in. Everything you built failed here.
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Prem Thakker ツ
9 months ago
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
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It may not surprise folks that the modern process of sharing and validating scientific discoveries is fairly recent and formed to maximize profit for those who have no hand in the actual labor of research; making Robert Maxwell a billionaire on the back of scholars.
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Part One: Robert Maxwell: How Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad Ruined Science
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 05/06/2025 · 59m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000706496292
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maple cocaine
9 months ago
Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me
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Stanford AAUP
10 months ago
This field guide offers a collection of resources designed to help faculty, and their supporters, respond to attacks on their academic freedom.
www.aaup.org/programs/aca...
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Academic Freedom Field Guide
Increasingly, academic freedom is being threatened from a whole host of directions. Politicians in many states have passed laws banning the teaching of certain “concepts” and shuttering DEI offices. T...
https://www.aaup.org/programs/academic-freedom/center-defense-academic-freedom/academic-freedom-field-guide?link_id=32&can_id=2a20ce8e295a6ea7b4309ea5b2aeb067&source=email-march-aaup-leader-news-digest-2&email_referrer=email_2716161&email_subject=april-aaup-digest-rsvp-to-the-aaup-all-member-meeting-tomorrow&&
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Computer science and any other science does not exist outside society. Especially as AI enters into all aspects of our life we need graduates who are capable technically and societally aware.
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10 months ago
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Casey Newton
10 months ago
It was up to Mozilla to diversify its revenue at any point in the past 20 years. Firefox's continued existence is way less important than the overall health of the web, which has declined continuously under Mozilla's watch
www.theverge.com/news/660548/...
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Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
“We would be really struggling to stay alive.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies
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The Onion
10 months ago
New ICE Agent Establishes Dominance By Beating Up Biggest Child Prisoner On First Day
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Micah
10 months ago
rarely has there been a purer example of human progress created by someone repeatedly pressing a button labeled “DO NOT TOUCH”
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Timothy McBride
10 months ago
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/26/us-citizen-children-deported-ice/
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Sauvik Das
10 months ago
My third Ph.D. student, Jacob Logas, successfully defended his dissertation yesterday! Jacob developed a framework for creating computationally aesthetic anti-facial recognition perturbations on images. Details to come! He will be joining Franklin & Marshall as an assistant professor. Congrats!
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Sauvik Das
10 months ago
Thank you, Dr.
@logas.me
for the work you do to ensure that privacy is useful and effective for everyone! It was an honor to be part of your journey :)
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Now i can drag my cat out on hikes
10 months ago
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What a wild series of weeks, filled with long days and nights but I have officially crossed the finish line! Thank you
@sauvik.me
for guiding me through these several years.
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed
11 months ago
Thanks to Jennifer Ruth for these powerful words + for highlighting our April 17 Day of Action: “Between the Trump team’s attacks and higher education’s appeasement, we must reclaim our universities for ourselves. Academic freedom is not Trump’s to take or boards’ to give away.” 🔥👏👊
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Boards and Administrators Won’t Defend Higher Ed From Trump. It’s Up to Us.
To fight fascism, university faculty, staff and students must show our power.
https://truthout.org/articles/boards-and-administrators-wont-defend-higher-ed-from-trump-its-up-to-us/
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Majority Report
11 months ago
Tim Walz admits Democrats have failed to deliver for Americans
youtu.be/g4ShD45iiDo
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Tim Walz Admits Democrats Have Failed To Deliver For Americans
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
https://youtu.be/g4ShD45iiDo
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Stephen Nuñez
11 months ago
This is sad. He is in denial. The GOPers he goes to the gym with and has friendly interactions with are monsters and that is hard for him to accept. He thought he was in a club filled with gentlemanly disagreements. The cognitive dissonance is too much for him.
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Defend the Weelaunee Forest
about 1 year ago
the entire left is about to meet the police we have come to know so well.
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Defend the Weelaunee Forest
about 1 year ago
trumps dystopia armed with the democrats' surveillance regime.
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Looking forward to my new position at Franklin & Marshall this coming Fall!
about 1 year ago
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This would be a good time to remember that Tech, and other schools, have website builders available to students, faculty, and staff. It'd be a shame if a large portion of them started making sites that had these words on them.
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Chad Loder
about 1 year ago
A genre that needs to die off is the "Fascists are doing X. Watch. Pay attention" Fuck paying attention. Fuck bearing witness to fascism. Monkeywrench that shit.
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Paul F. Tompkins
about 1 year ago
We honestly don’t know what Pokémon looked like, we’re just guessing that we put their bones together correctly
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Rob Lorenz
over 1 year ago
Fun example of the Streisand Effect: Nilay Patel interviewed the Intuit CEO, and asked about Intuit’s lobbying. Pretty unremarkable, until Intuit demanded that section be removed from the interview, and Patel highlighted it instead. 🤣 cc:
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
Podcast Episode · Decoder with Nilay Patel · 10/21/2024 · 57m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648?i=1000673822457
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Now that I’ve read the first few books of foundation I can make so many cringy nerd jokes to my class about psychohistory. My reviews may suffer
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Siri's voice-to-text gave me the best new gender neutral term for a group of people. Instead of "folks" I will now be using "vogues."
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