Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administrati...

Clearview’s facial recognition business model is based on “weaponizing our own images against us without a license, without consent & without permission” Mother Jones. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

roses are red
violets are blue
if you ignore the first line
this is a haiku

Lots more in the comments!

PANEL 1: MATTIE looks over at a guy in the near foreground. MATTIE: Screw you man! Get away from me. PANEL 2: Reverse shot. The GUY is wearing a sandwich board that says I'LL KILL YOU MATTIE GUY: Wow. No need to talk to me like that! I'm just minding my own business. PANEL 3: The GUY, getting angry. GUY: i'm becoming radicalized against you in fact! PANEL 4: The guy, chasing MATTIE offscreen. GUY: You should have been nicer to me!!!

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This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

Also a reminder that if you are reading good coverage, share/post those links, a lot has shifted and people need to know where to find information

📺 Announcing: StickTock.com! Share TikToks Safely. No Ads, No Spying, No Phone App. StickTock is a 100% Free & Open Source Web App for TikTok Videos

This is cool. Some folks built a privacy-preserving free and open source front-end for TikTok that still works bitsontape.com/p/sticktock-...

Hey, I’m generally a lurker, but I just want you to know how much I appreciate your posts. Seriously, I just realized that every time I see your name in my feed, I stop and actually read instead of skim over. I don’t comment on anything much, but I just want you to know they make a difference to me.

This def doesn’t help the larger “it’s a right-wing hellscape” issue but fwiw for anyone who doesn’t know, there is a browser extension that gets rid of all the junk and lets you see all the posts you want to again. It’s called FB Purity, and it provides a ton of customization options.

The internet is very different than it was even a decade ago. This stuff has been going on for a while, but folks really need to take it more seriously in the current environment. Most folks broadcast so much info in ways they don’t realize, and that will become more dangerous. Important to learn.

As a “tech person,” I’m insulated from a lot of the worst of it (thanks to great tools built by cool people), but the amount of extra work I have to do to maintain even basic usability has gotten ridiculous, and it is obviously me fighting the companies’ designs and wishes EVERY step of the way.

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

What’s been happening with tech in the last few years is a different beast from the “enshittification” convo back in the day, and this is the best post I’ve seen on it. Long, but interesting & informative. Details many things I think and feel better than I could. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

For sure! I'll check it out on your profile when I have some time, and I'll send you a message with thoughts and questions.

This is awesome, thanks for these. I'd love to be added also. I really want to have more of these kinds of conversations online again!

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I am currently in grad school and loving it! Even the stress! I’m a first-gen student who started a career out of undergrad and only went back in my 30s. I’m so happy to be here doing research that deeply interests me, teaching, learning, having great discussions.

Yessss, I listen to this so much

When I was like 5 I liked to harmlessly run at seagulls at the beach to scatter them because I liked how they flapped around all at once. One time I tried with geese, not knowing any better. They very much decided they could take 5yo me and chased me down attacking while my dad laughed his ass off.

I don’t really have a good handle on how to get involved in the Bluesky style ecosystem. I never used Twitter or X. But I am really appreciating the variety of interesting and genuine posts I see (including the shitposts), and I feel more inspired overall, so heartfelt thanks to you all for that.

Well done! A unique take on this video—thank you for sharing it with us. It gave us a good laugh! 🤣

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

When I will respond to your email

Please do, I wasn’t on the other place and I love seeing them!

Yep, they are all wonderful and perfect rescued strays.

My cats for starter cats. I also want more cats. Cats cats cats cats cats.

That's how I found you 🤣

GitHub - Inf0squit0/privacy: A curated list of privacy resources for the realistically paranoid A curated list of privacy resources for the realistically paranoid - Inf0squit0/privacy

A curated list of online privacy tools/services my friend put together. Easy to share with anyone who is finding themselves suddenly more interested in digital privacy.
github.com/Inf0squit0/p...

Gray cat lounging on a cat-sized cardboard fainting couch

1.5yrs ago we were on the back porch and a half-starved teenage cat charged out of the darkness at us yelling, demanded we pet her, then tried to walk into our house. We took her in, made sure no one lost her, and she’s happy now. We got her a cat fainting couch because that’s the kind of cat she is

Thanks for all your work on OpenSesame! Please enjoy my cat making a happy derp face.