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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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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 14h

Press Release: Civil Society Groups Demand Federal Government Rethink Bill C-9
www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/press-releas...

Press Release: Civil Society Groups Demand Federal Government Rethink Bill C-9 - Just Peace Advocates

Ottawa – October 6, 2025 Civil Society Groups Demand Federal Government Rethink Bill C-9 The federal government recently introduced Bill C-9 – An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate ...

www.justpeaceadvocates.ca

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 19h

Final reminder for anyone in #Ottawa, Wednesday October 15th...

We have this fabulous event on rethinking our futures with Quinn Slobodian, @ohalpern.bsky.social, @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Nick Couldry.

Registration is still open and we have a few places left!

www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Rethinking Our Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis | Research and innovation

www.uottawa.ca

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 22h

On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

ow.ly

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d

#Musk 's #Starlink implicated in growing #Myanmar #scam centre business...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres

Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar’s biggest internet service provider

www.theguardian.com

keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d

Right to #protest under attack across western countries... #HumanRights

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

www.theguardian.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.theverge.com/news/798174/...

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

“If Israel wants to actually prevent the next October 7, in whatever form it will take, it must free Palestine. The rest is commentary. Or avoidance.”

A cautionary analysis worth reading by @attackerman.bsky.social:

www.forever-wars.com/the-barbaris...

‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

www.forever-wars.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Cities across the country are increasingly utilizing AI for similar services, despite residents’ concerns about surveillance and data storage…”

Dallas May Deploy AI-Powered Cameras on Garbage Trucks

The Dallas City Council has approved more than $850,000 to install cameras on the trucks in partnership with the Code Compliance Department, aiming to spot code violations.

www.govtech.com

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Julius Garbe @juliusgarbe.github.io · 2d

📢 OUT NOW: Global Tipping Points Report 2025

In this new report, we provide a check on the status of critical Earth system #TippingPoints and opportunities in #PositiveTippingPoints across sectors.

➡️ Full report: global-tipping-points.org

#GTPR2025 #COP30 @exeter.ac.uk @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact

Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

global-tipping-points.org

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

🚨 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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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

"tech leaders enjoyed a decade’s worth of free money, used it to build up unprecedented wealth, and, when suddenly presented with a bill in the form of a cryptocurrency crash and a potential tech slowdown, allied with Republicans to keep the good times rolling." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 5d

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...

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 5d

What Larry says...

Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 5d

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...