is your workplace trying to force ai on you? is a family member giving ai too much power in their life? are you sick of billionaires destroying the environment and making life worse for everyone? here's a list of resources 10+ pages long to help you fight back: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
“If our island has any hope of remaining Hawaii this kind of activity has got to stop,” professor of Native Hawaiian studies at the Kauai Community College Puali‘i Rossi tells WIRED.
“Eventually Hawaii isn’t going to look like Hawaii anymore—it’s going to be a resort community.”
New from 404 Media: a startup is selling data hacked from peoples' computers to debt collectors, divorce lawyers, more. People already hacked, now being re-vicitmized by startup. I used the tool, found peoples' personal addresses.
“This is so gross and predatory.”
www.404media.co/a-startup-is...
We published a reading list of our favorite cyber and cyber-adjacent books.
We're keeping it relatively broad. Books about privacy and surveillance are and will be a part of this.
This is meant to be a post to be updated regularly. If you have suggestions on what we should read next, please share!
unity, self acceptance, and the power of friendship. i’m obsessed.
youtu.be/Ug_pv5-r1js
Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
My cousins were featured in NBC Chicago’s segment on AAPI restaurants! Can vouch for Nate’s cooking, so good!
If you’re in the Chicago area, please support!
www.nbcchicago.com/top-videos-h...
Just an absolutely, fundamentally wrong way to report this research. AI models do not experience "anxiety" or any other emotion. This is misinforming the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/s...
“Only two-thirds of Maui’s single-family homes house our residents; a third are mostly vacation homes that sit empty much of the year. The portion of condos with full-time residents is even smaller – fewer than 25%.”
Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.
In case you are wondering, these are the 22nd and 23rd stalkerware companies since 2017 to either get hacked or inadvertently expose data online due to flaws, bugs, and mistakes.
We are keeping track in this post:
techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/h...
New book on #AIEthics from #EasternPhilosophy and #WesternPhilosophy perspectives! With contributions from @drybis.bsky.social , @kiwigreenflame.bsky.social , @karenhao.bsky.social , and many more!!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Do you know of a public data source that should be preserved? Use this form to help Georgetown's Massive Data Institute in their goal of preserving public data to maintain its accessibility and integrity for research advancement, science replication, and historic documentation.
Text on a blue background with the details of the Red-Teaming Generative AI Harm event on February 20.
On Thursday, Feb 20 @ 1 pm ET, Lama Ahmad, @camillefrancois.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, @briana-v.bsky.social, and @borhane.bsky.social will examine red-teaming’s place in the evolving landscape of genAI evaluation and governance. RSVP and join us online! datasociety.net/events/red-t...
AI content safety and AI security are two very different things with only minor overlap and we do everyone a gross disservice when we conflate them.
You can have a perfectly well-behaved model that opens the door to massive security risks. Utterly toxic GPT-4chan apps can be secured.
UAM-UMD collective bargaining bill screenshot from MD legislature website
Ready everyone?!?
Our bill—done w/ @aaup.bsky.social, @aftunion.bsky.social, @afthighered.bsky.social, @aftmaryland.bsky.social—for collective bargaining for ALL faculty & librarians in the USM system just dropped:
Its here: mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills...
What is it & why is it important? 🧵
NEW: China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records, including user data and API keys, in an open database.
"Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction. It’s flexible, strong + cheaper than steel + aluminium... Scaffolders can erect enough bamboo to engulf a building in a day — even hours — using techniques that are 1000s of yrs old"
Old enough to remember that TikTok isn't even close to the first technology ban
Myself and @the-quantum-ace.bsky.social will be doing a talk next month about asexual, aromantic & agender experiences in STEM.
We are looking for folks to share their experiences with us via a form. Please repost for visibility!
Read thread for more info ⬇️ (1/4)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
President Biden's Executive Order on "Advancing U.S. Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure," which leases public land to private companies to build AI infrastructure, demonstrates the importance of taking an ecological approach to AI with students and developing technoskepticism. 🧵
This is a hell of a story about police abuse of face recognition.
Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"
During my time at Alexa, focus on accuracy and reliability was high. So its no surprise that LLMs, with their hallucinations, are difficult to integrate arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/a...
New: A cyberattack by a Russian gang that paralyzed hospitals and clinics in London last year resulted in harm to dozens of patients, leading to long-term or permanent damage to their health in at least two cases, according to data obtained by Bloomberg News: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).
Tagnawa has released comprehensive report on needs and recovery of Filipino survivors of 2023 Maui wildfires
www.tagnawa.org
Sadly, our iPhones have become sources of trauma. Perves can harass with their dick pic via AirDrop, and 'Memories' resurface painful moments we'd prefer to forget; @nicolettelittle.bsky.social & I delve into the unsolicited nature of algos with this OA piece (🧵) www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
