On Surveillance numbing open.substack.com/pub/surviell...

Sleepwalking through surveillance open.substack.com/pub/surviell...

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Is there a fancy German word for that panicked feeling of looking for the phone that is in your hand or pocket & playing the music you are listening to?

Remember that guy who argued with me for half a day that poor people in food deserts would be fine just using Walmart delivery?

Anyway.

If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process How do you prove you’re a citizen?

just going to reiterate this.

if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

‘Go ahead and sue me, I’m not afraid any more’: South Park’s festive special isn’t afraid of a fight Trump and Vance head to South Park in Christmas gear for a big showdown – only for Jesus to show up. At one point, you can almost feel Trey Parker and Matt Stone taking a stand against the US government

‘Go ahead and sue me, I’m not afraid any more’: South Park’s festive special isn’t afraid of a fight

Re-writing and Renunciation in Art Maybe don't listen to your hero's?

On rereading and rewriting open.substack.com/pub/surviell...

When Your Baby Monitor Watches Better Than You Do The Hidden Cost of High-Tech Parenting

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Smart Glasses and the New Age of Facecrime Old enough to remember the Glasshole?

Smart glasses and facecrimes open.substack.com/pub/surviell...

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

Faculty Letter Calls for Interuniversity Defense of Higher Education BY FACULTY LETTER ORGANIZERS The open letter discussed below originated after a group of faculty began to share notes about how their universities were handling the challenges presented by the Trum…

Faculty Letter Calls for Interuniversity Defense of Higher Education academeblog.org/2025/04/01/f...

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

New Trump demand to colleges: Name protesters — and their nationalities The demand for student information came after the administration promised to deport non-citizens who participated in what it called “pro-jihadist protests”

“My first thought was, ‘This is a witch hunt’” Federal civil rights attorneys ordered by the Education Department to document the nationalities of protesters

Stamp fanatic professor stole 3,000 items from Scotland’s national archive Academic who died in 1987 is thought to be responsible for documents that vanished over a 30-year period

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I discovered my alternate timeline today! Apparently after stepping down from leading Creative Commons in Sweden, I retired to live in Borås… se.creativecommons.net/om-cc/

Goodbye Surveillance Capitalism, Hello Surveillance Fascism First they stole your data. Now, they’re stealing your future

Light friday reading… maxmurphy.xyz/p/goodbye-su...

Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You Warehouse-style employee tracking tech has expanded into job after job. Now, as millions are called back to the workplace, it’s finally coming for the American office worker.

Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a renegade poised to take their employer down at the next opportunity www.wired.com/story/your-b...

Greenland plans to ban foreign political funding over Trump-led election fears Bill to rule out interference from abroad expected to pass this week as country prepares for polls before 6 April

Greenland considers new law stating "parties, including local and youth sections, are not allowed to receive contributions from foreign or anonymous donors".

This law is considered out of necessity now, but the principle is good and should apply widely (also 🇺🇸)

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Incredible to see a president tanking the world’s economy simply because he doesn’t understand it and is too dedicated to belligerent posturing to learn

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
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Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up, stay united, and safeguard your institutions

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem.

Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea - www.wired.com/story/these-... "In the face of seabeds becoming valuable real estate and corroding bombs polluting the oceans, teams are turning to technology to clean up this dangerous and expensive problem." good to clean up, bad to mine

Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit But it’s important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like

“Something that should be said more often is that the reason authoritarians are authoritarians is that they’re unpopular.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

S.T.O.P. Concerned By $400M NY Prison Surveillance Expansion — S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Concerned By $400M NY Prison Surveillance Expansion
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www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

It will never not be insane to me that a *GOP* president can happily *repeat* that he "likes" the world's worst, most totalitarian, most crazy & anti-American dictator, without any domestic political consequences for him from his own party, the opposition, or the media.
Never.