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@katerosebee.bsky.social
(she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, horror weirdo.
As we enter a huge nightclub garden bar complex in the revitalized ruins of the Jewish quarter, a view into a man’s neighboring apartment where he sits watching Netflix under a huge fur blanket, with a can of whipped cream on the coffee table. Welcome to Budapest.
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
As we enter a huge nightclub garden bar complex in the revitalized ruins of the Jewish quarter, a view into a man’s neighboring apartment where he sits watching Netflix under a huge fur blanket, with a can of whipped cream on the coffee table. Welcome to Budapest.
What is it? What do I have to do to get people who do “underground” abortion work to stop ex: giving filmed tv interviews.
Blurring your face/voice isn’t enough. Anyone who knows you instantly can tell who you are, which means it will be low-effort for the cops. Do I have to beg? What will it take?
Blurring your face/voice isn’t enough. Anyone who knows you instantly can tell who you are, which means it will be low-effort for the cops. Do I have to beg? What will it take?
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
What is it? What do I have to do to get people who do “underground” abortion work to stop ex: giving filmed tv interviews.
Blurring your face/voice isn’t enough. Anyone who knows you instantly can tell who you are, which means it will be low-effort for the cops. Do I have to beg? What will it take?
Blurring your face/voice isn’t enough. Anyone who knows you instantly can tell who you are, which means it will be low-effort for the cops. Do I have to beg? What will it take?
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Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
I’ve had enough. I’ve had my audible library just spontaneously clear and error out halfway through a flight enough times to drive me over the edge. I’m getting a refurbished (offline!!!) iPod.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I’ve had enough. I’ve had my audible library just spontaneously clear and error out halfway through a flight enough times to drive me over the edge. I’m getting a refurbished (offline!!!) iPod.
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This story doesn’t in any way indicate that Signal is broken. This was a big signal group with open membership. Reading between the lines of the story this was 99% chance a snitch or undercover agent or cellebrite (1% chance someone’s phone got compromised)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This story doesn’t in any way indicate that Signal is broken. This was a big signal group with open membership. Reading between the lines of the story this was 99% chance a snitch or undercover agent or cellebrite (1% chance someone’s phone got compromised)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features
This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the top...
cdt.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
It finally happened. I officially turned into my father today by yelling at the local paper as I was reading it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It finally happened. I officially turned into my father today by yelling at the local paper as I was reading it.
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“During the drive to the station, prosecutors say she made statements to officers about immigration enforcement, including, ‘Why are you doing this to your people?’ and ‘What are you going to tell your children about what you do?’”
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“During the drive to the station, prosecutors say she made statements to officers about immigration enforcement, including, ‘Why are you doing this to your people?’ and ‘What are you going to tell your children about what you do?’”
I want to send out postcards to advertise to my neighbors that I write a free newsletter covering most of our county's public meetings, starting with the maybe ~350 households in my town.
Is it ridiculous to expect I could hand write all of them? I want it to feel as neighborly as possible.
Is it ridiculous to expect I could hand write all of them? I want it to feel as neighborly as possible.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I want to send out postcards to advertise to my neighbors that I write a free newsletter covering most of our county's public meetings, starting with the maybe ~350 households in my town.
Is it ridiculous to expect I could hand write all of them? I want it to feel as neighborly as possible.
Is it ridiculous to expect I could hand write all of them? I want it to feel as neighborly as possible.
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It can be hard to know where to start when filing a FOIA request.
I like to target specific email addresses when I can - and the email address for the Coast Guard's Civil Rights Directorate is public.
You can ask for all emails sent to or from that address that contain the word "swastika". I did.
I like to target specific email addresses when I can - and the email address for the Coast Guard's Civil Rights Directorate is public.
You can ask for all emails sent to or from that address that contain the word "swastika". I did.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It can be hard to know where to start when filing a FOIA request.
I like to target specific email addresses when I can - and the email address for the Coast Guard's Civil Rights Directorate is public.
You can ask for all emails sent to or from that address that contain the word "swastika". I did.
I like to target specific email addresses when I can - and the email address for the Coast Guard's Civil Rights Directorate is public.
You can ask for all emails sent to or from that address that contain the word "swastika". I did.
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"“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
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Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
Giving hands-on community digital security trainings always puts so much gas back in my tank. Getting to see people wig out about basic (but underutilized) functions of their phone's security features or Signal and help each other dig around in their settings is an utter delight.
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Giving hands-on community digital security trainings always puts so much gas back in my tank. Getting to see people wig out about basic (but underutilized) functions of their phone's security features or Signal and help each other dig around in their settings is an utter delight.
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The former police and military will be paid $300 per address verified for ICE, up to a maximum of $30,000, a person briefed on the plan said www.404media.co/contractor-p...
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The former police and military will be paid $300 per address verified for ICE, up to a maximum of $30,000, a person briefed on the plan said www.404media.co/contractor-p...
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NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
Probably the most jaw-dropping video I've yet seen on all the security vulnerabilities in Flock Cameras. I cannot wait to share in so much of this at our next community town hall.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Probably the most jaw-dropping video I've yet seen on all the security vulnerabilities in Flock Cameras. I cannot wait to share in so much of this at our next community town hall.
Saw this illustration and now I have an irresistible urge to crochet a poncho/capelet shaped like a fish head.
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Saw this illustration and now I have an irresistible urge to crochet a poncho/capelet shaped like a fish head.
Obviously dystopian, but I feel like our world still stigmatizes grief and dying way too much for me to be that much of a scold about it. People will want it in no small part because as a society we generally do a bad job of helping each other when someone passes.
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Obviously dystopian, but I feel like our world still stigmatizes grief and dying way too much for me to be that much of a scold about it. People will want it in no small part because as a society we generally do a bad job of helping each other when someone passes.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
My regular reminder that, especially if you feel like nationally things are all going to hell in a handbasket, get up to no good in your own neighborhood! Go to local govt meetings. Hold meetings with your neighbors about the stuff you care about. It just might work: www.kgw.com/article/news...
Skamania County turns off Flock cameras after court rules images are public records
The sheriff’s office said the system was effective, while privacy advocates who opposed it from the start called the shutdown a win for transparency.
www.kgw.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My regular reminder that, especially if you feel like nationally things are all going to hell in a handbasket, get up to no good in your own neighborhood! Go to local govt meetings. Hold meetings with your neighbors about the stuff you care about. It just might work: www.kgw.com/article/news...
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My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s <em>Little Eyes</em>
In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equi...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
I love how this chart shows the cipher-like logic of braille. The placement of dots in each cell is systematic. You can tell instantly by touch if something’s a letter, a number, or punctuation, just from where the dots sit within the six-dot grid. Very clever!
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I love how this chart shows the cipher-like logic of braille. The placement of dots in each cell is systematic. You can tell instantly by touch if something’s a letter, a number, or punctuation, just from where the dots sit within the six-dot grid. Very clever!
I learned braille by sight as a kid because of a VI friend, passed notes in class, read her books with her. Reading a bit more about early braille learning and I guess our teacher was happy to let us have at it bc pairing with a braille-enthusiastic sighted kid is a recommended classroom strategy?
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I learned braille by sight as a kid because of a VI friend, passed notes in class, read her books with her. Reading a bit more about early braille learning and I guess our teacher was happy to let us have at it bc pairing with a braille-enthusiastic sighted kid is a recommended classroom strategy?