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David Murakami Wood (DMW)
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies
Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa
Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · Nov 24
For those just arriving here, I have 3 starter packs (bsky only allows 150 people/pack):
1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX
2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe
3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 1d
Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!

ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Image of book cover: Watching Women by Stephanie Brown

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d
From Heaven to Palantir HQ, from Yorkshire to our Bold Politics studio - great to have legendary journalist Simon Hattenstone follow me around.

Here's what he saw in his report:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub
With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...
www.theguardian.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
I am lucky enough to have seen Neil play with Crazy Horse here in Kingston, Ontario more than a decade ago. I do fear this break will become permanent.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
Tomorrow's headline today for @thewaroncars.bsky.social

'Mamdani wages woke war on cars with "super-duper" golden snake plan'
lizrummy.bsky.social Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 2d
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

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freedom.press
Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 2d
A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state.

Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers.

A Supreme Court case could make it worse.

Here’s how.
Supreme Court could greenlight geofence warrants
A new case may legalize suspicionless mass surveillance of journalists and whistleblowers
freedom.press

Reposted by David Murakami Wood, Henrik Skaug Sætra

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404 Media @404media.co · 2d
"Explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his AI bullshit machines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic."
This SpaceX Situation: Not Good!
Elon Musk's political projects are combining into a highly concerning megacompany.
www.404media.co

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Anna O. Law, Brendan Nyhan , and 2 more

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 2d
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
#Norway is almost down to zero sales for petrol-powered cars. Meanwhile in #Canada, #Carney has put us in reverse in #climate goals...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Only seven new petrol-powered cars sold in Norway in January
Data shows 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars also sold, while the figure for battery electric vehicles was more than 2,000
www.theguardian.com

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 2d
The Guardian redesigned our ICE trackers this week, see the new graphs here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The number of people in detention continues to rise. With each data release, there is a new record high number of people in immigration detention
Total arrests 382,540 Up 29,950 since 7 Jan People currently in detention 70,770 Up 1,780 Total deportations 378,590 Up 26,210 Note: Values from 28 January 2025 to 25 January 2026 rounded to nearest 10. Arrest data includes arrests from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Reposted by Jari Lyytimäki, David Murakami Wood

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d
Elon Musk et al are totally fucking up the night sky ALREADY and they plan to make it worse 🔭

www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/satelli...
Are we destroying our window to the cosmos? Satellite trails could make space science nearly impossible, say astronomers | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Projected 560,000 satellites could overwhelm future observatories. Astronomers worry satellite trails will mar every view of the Universe.
www.skyatnightmagazine.com

Reposted by Jérôme Denis, David Murakami Wood

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 2d
Not satire cybernews.com/news/waymo-o...

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 2d
As America weaponizes its post-9/11 security state to terrorize migrants and target dissidents, her (former) allies need to unplug from it ASAP. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: For years, Canada has used a secret U.S.-run terror watchlist. Now Trump could use it against us
It's called TUSCAN, and it's a nightmare for civil liberties. We need to put a stop to it.
www.thestar.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
If you put pictures of the Green canvas and the Labour canvas side-by-side without labels or captions, you might think that the Greens were Labour and vice-versa. As much as the lack of diversity, this picture really illustrates the lack of Labour support, enthusiasm and commitment right now.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop , and 46 more

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jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
When I was a kid, my sister's hamster chewed up half of my copy of Pawn of Prophecy and used it as bedding. At the time I was really annoyed, but now I realize that the hamster was a just a good judge of character...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Does this only work if you have a paid LinkedIn account, or have LinkedIn already changed things? I have the basic free account, and there is no downloadable "Connections" or "Contacts" data option available that I can see.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
I am not he has the capacity for imagining other people’s feelings. He is certainly feeling sorry for himself…

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d
Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links, Grok’s Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger
Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links, Grok’s Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger
French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris. The French probe comes on the heels of a U.K. investiga...
www.democracynow.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d
A study at U Mass Amherst finds that Elon Musk manipulated Twitter to bolster the voice of the Neo Nazi Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) before the German 2025 parliamentary elections. No surprises here. groups.cs.umass.edu/equate-ml/20...

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 3d
In contrast to Europe, Canada’s response has been to leave X/Musk’s many, many inexcusable actions to the largely toothless Privacy Commissioner, with AI Promotion Minister Evan Solomon reassuring everyone via a Midnight Tweet (on X — classy) that Canada wouldn’t be banning X.
In the space of a few hours, French authorities raided X's office in Paris, the British privacy regulator opened a formal investigation of X and xAI, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced legal proposals that would criminalize algorithmic manipulation and the amplification of illegal content, making executive like Musk personally liable. Both the French and British actions were explicitly about X's distribution of child sexual abuse images that had been generated by its in-house AI chatbot, Grok. Sánchez's proposals were less narrowly targeted, but he namechecked Grok as a source of potential legal violations. The Paris prosecutor's office announced its raid in an X post, in which it also took the opportunity to say it was abandoning the platform - it will now stick to LinkedIn and Instagram. In a more detailed statement, it said Europol had been present at the raid, which was related to the investigation into Grok's sexually explicit deepfakes and dissemination of Holocaust-denial content that is illegal in France, as well as its alleged manipulation of its recommendation algorithm to push hate speech. The French authorities also said they had summoned Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews on April 20. The date choice may indicate that someone in the Paris prosecutor's office has a keen sense of irony, given the mercurial centibillionaire's well-documented enthusiasm for 420 jokes, a slangy reference to smoking marijuana.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
I will be excited to see how you develop this! 😀

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
#Elon (if I may...), there is an obvious answer to your existential crisis. You could live quietly & happily for the rest of your days on a tiny fraction of what you have now. Give the rest away. Pay off debts of global south countries, give it to programs for refugees, climate, so many things...

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 3d
www.ft.com/content/90aa... the amount of debt and financialization behind the scenes of the data center boom seems not great
Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans
Rare investment-grade rating helps attract insurers and private credit funds to construction debt
www.ft.com

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d
😔

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 4d
👍 At the moment, I am not sure it matters that much (except aesthetically) whether one uses cyber-, digital, techno-, big tech (etc.) in these portmanteau terms, but it matters a little more whether and why we use fascism, authoritarianism, illiberalism etc.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 4d
Also very similar to what several others have already defined and discussed in this amazing special issue of Dialogues on Digital Society, particularly Möllers, and Akbari...

journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com

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Donald Campbell @dncampbell.bsky.social · 4d
We @foxglovelegal.bsky.social have called on the govt to release info about Lord Mandelson’s links with US tech giant Palantir and its growing number of uk govt contracts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
www.theguardian.com

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 4d
"We have no way of reconciling what these cases will do to water supplies."

New from Miranda Williamson: The world’s largest artificial intelligence data center complex is being built in Amarillo, and it’s almost seven times the size of Central Park.
The Texas AI Boom is Outpacing Water Regulations
Each data center can “drink” as much as an entire community. Yet, Texas does not require these tech firms to disclose projected or actual water consumption.
www.texasobserver.org