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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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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 11h
1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism.
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News
OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...
www.cbc.ca
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College @psjpbc.bsky.social · 1d
Great shot from last night’s launch event for “A People’s Surveillance Handbook for New York.”

Photo by Anna Lee

@stopspyingny.bsky.social
@alexvitale.bsky.social

Find the handbook here: www.stopspying.org/peoples-hand...
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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 2d
Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 2d
🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft illegally tracked students, data watchdog finds.

The Austrian DPA has ruled that Microsoft 365 Education used tracking cookies without consent — illegally collecting student data - following a complaint supported by @noyb.eu

noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.
Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch
NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.
techcrunch.com
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 2d
We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
an important update re: convo on the convergence of interest between fossil capital as such and state managers (especially but not exclusively of petrostates) that @bostonreview.bsky.social hosted. if we can't break that then that might be the ballgame

www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d
Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime
www.theguardian.com
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
A new entry in a growing #surveillance film sub-genre: #body-cam movies:

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
The Perfect Neighbor review – a notorious shooting through the eye of a Florida cop’s body-cam
Geeta Gandbhir’s study of the Ajike Owens killing turns police footage into a devastating lens on fear, race and a nation fatally addicted to firearms
www.theguardian.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
It is sadly true that there are lots of men who would sooner grant rights and recognition to machines than to other human beings or other living creatures...
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
What Larry says...
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 3d
This is is not the way border security should be going. The Canadian govt should vigorously oppose this
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News
The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...
www.cbc.ca
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Exactly why is a Canadian parliamentary committee on grant awards hearing from dismal American psychologist and Epstein associate, Steven Pinker?
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 3d
What is Steven Pinker’s expertise on systemic discrimination in the awarding of Canadian federal grants?

universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...
Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs
Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.
universityaffairs.ca
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 3d
This is is not the way border security should be going. The Canadian govt should vigorously oppose this
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News
The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...
www.cbc.ca
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d
A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb
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blair @blairaf.com · 3d
Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies
Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries. OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure. Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.
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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 3d
Francesca Albanese's 3 reports for the UN can be read here (free e-book) :
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
www.plutobooks.com
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d
“We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide”

In an emotional essay for Zeteo, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
Your #mustread:
We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide
In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
zeteo.com
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 3d
Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 3d
Proof - if it was needed - that big energy firms are not investing in renewables and are unduly promoting their work on the energy transition - by @stokel.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2499...
Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power
Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy
www.newscientist.com
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d
We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Wrong country.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
You aren’t even talking about the right continent, let alone the right country. Not everything is about the USA.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Wrong country, not even the right continent…
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
I think you are in the wrong country. This is the UK.
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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 3d
NEW Prominent Italian businessman among the targets of Paragon spyware

🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu

irpimedia.irpi.eu/prominent-it...
Prominent Italian businessman also among the targets of Paragon spyware
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31, along with 90 other users around the world. Since the end of 2024, he has been at the center of a major banking operation invol...
irpimedia.irpi.eu
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 3d
What is Steven Pinker’s expertise on systemic discrimination in the awarding of Canadian federal grants?

universityaffairs.ca/news/parliam...
Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs
Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.
universityaffairs.ca
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