Petra Molnar
@petramolnar.com
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
And if you’re worried about what can happen to your cell phone or laptop at the border? We included a little guide at the end of the @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece:
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-socia...
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-socia...
April 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And if you’re worried about what can happen to your cell phone or laptop at the border? We included a little guide at the end of the @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece:
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-socia...
www.techpolicy.press/trumps-socia...
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April 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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As techno-fascism grows, I join over 100 leading researchers in issuing a statement to reinforce the scientific consensus that bias in AI is real problem, violating people's human rights and to encourage policymakers to take meaningful steps to address it
Our statement here: www.aibiasconsensus.org
Our statement here: www.aibiasconsensus.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As techno-fascism grows, I join over 100 leading researchers in issuing a statement to reinforce the scientific consensus that bias in AI is real problem, violating people's human rights and to encourage policymakers to take meaningful steps to address it
Our statement here: www.aibiasconsensus.org
Our statement here: www.aibiasconsensus.org
I guess genocide makes people happy
March 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I guess genocide makes people happy
If you work in the migrant justice sector and are worried about spyware, check out our @refugeelab.ca @migrationtechmonitor.com webpage of resources or contact me directly!
Learn more here: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/migrant-just...
Learn more here: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/migrant-just...
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If you work in the migrant justice sector and are worried about spyware, check out our @refugeelab.ca @migrationtechmonitor.com webpage of resources or contact me directly!
Learn more here: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/migrant-just...
Learn more here: www.migrationtechmonitor.com/migrant-just...
🚨Event Alert! Launch of a new report: “Scanning the Horizon: The Future of Digital Rights & Resilience in the Global Majority”
Join on March 20, 2:00-3:30 PM UTC for an open conversation with report author @juanof9.bsky.social and colleagues!
Register: digitalresilience.network/20-mar-repor...
Join on March 20, 2:00-3:30 PM UTC for an open conversation with report author @juanof9.bsky.social and colleagues!
Register: digitalresilience.network/20-mar-repor...
March 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨Event Alert! Launch of a new report: “Scanning the Horizon: The Future of Digital Rights & Resilience in the Global Majority”
Join on March 20, 2:00-3:30 PM UTC for an open conversation with report author @juanof9.bsky.social and colleagues!
Register: digitalresilience.network/20-mar-repor...
Join on March 20, 2:00-3:30 PM UTC for an open conversation with report author @juanof9.bsky.social and colleagues!
Register: digitalresilience.network/20-mar-repor...
7. Indigenous Peoples and Borders edited by @sheryl-lightfoot.bsky.social and Elsa Stamatopoulou www.dukeupress.edu/indigenous-p... 🧵
March 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
7. Indigenous Peoples and Borders edited by @sheryl-lightfoot.bsky.social and Elsa Stamatopoulou www.dukeupress.edu/indigenous-p... 🧵
Learn more about our @migrationtechmonitor.com 2024/2025 Fellows! @monashtaya.bsky.social does incredible work on digital repression in Palestine 🍉
December 12, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Learn more about our @migrationtechmonitor.com 2024/2025 Fellows! @monashtaya.bsky.social does incredible work on digital repression in Palestine 🍉
🚨On Dec 19th at 12pm EST, join @refugeelawlab.bsky.social @migrationtechmonitor.com and @citizenlab.ca for a strategy town hall on migrant justice surveillance in the Age of Trump 2.0.
Spanish interpretation provided, let us know if you need other languages!
Register: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Spanish interpretation provided, let us know if you need other languages!
Register: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 11, 2024 at 5:22 PM
🚨On Dec 19th at 12pm EST, join @refugeelawlab.bsky.social @migrationtechmonitor.com and @citizenlab.ca for a strategy town hall on migrant justice surveillance in the Age of Trump 2.0.
Spanish interpretation provided, let us know if you need other languages!
Register: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Spanish interpretation provided, let us know if you need other languages!
Register: yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I first went to the Turkey-Syria border in 2015. Then later to Jordan and the Greek islands, where many Syrians took refuge.
Emotions are intense for so many of us today because Syria cracked open our hearts. May it heal and grow, a beacon of hope. A home.
🎥 Somewhere near the Syrian border, 2015
Emotions are intense for so many of us today because Syria cracked open our hearts. May it heal and grow, a beacon of hope. A home.
🎥 Somewhere near the Syrian border, 2015
December 8, 2024 at 10:43 PM
I first went to the Turkey-Syria border in 2015. Then later to Jordan and the Greek islands, where many Syrians took refuge.
Emotions are intense for so many of us today because Syria cracked open our hearts. May it heal and grow, a beacon of hope. A home.
🎥 Somewhere near the Syrian border, 2015
Emotions are intense for so many of us today because Syria cracked open our hearts. May it heal and grow, a beacon of hope. A home.
🎥 Somewhere near the Syrian border, 2015
The @migrationtechmonitor.com started as an archive and a platform in 2020 but grew into a community of collaboration, care, and co-creation of knowledge on #bordertech. Since 2022, we have incubated ten colleagues-on-the-move from Mexico to Sudan to Palestine for a year long fellowship 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
The @migrationtechmonitor.com started as an archive and a platform in 2020 but grew into a community of collaboration, care, and co-creation of knowledge on #bordertech. Since 2022, we have incubated ten colleagues-on-the-move from Mexico to Sudan to Palestine for a year long fellowship 🧵
🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social!
Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social!
Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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The wall at the Mexico/US border is a paradox. It is physically imposing, bleeding rust as it cuts across the Sonora. But it is also made up of various small pieces, some no longer than a living room.
The wall is also increasingly augmented by various border surveillance
📸- Arizona 2022 and 2024
The wall is also increasingly augmented by various border surveillance
📸- Arizona 2022 and 2024
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 AM
The wall at the Mexico/US border is a paradox. It is physically imposing, bleeding rust as it cuts across the Sonora. But it is also made up of various small pieces, some no longer than a living room.
The wall is also increasingly augmented by various border surveillance
📸- Arizona 2022 and 2024
The wall is also increasingly augmented by various border surveillance
📸- Arizona 2022 and 2024
46 layers of paint were unearthed in a tenement house kitchen in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
46 families, like the Moores from Ireland, made their first home in America on 97 Orchard Street.
The final paint colour was a pale blue. What will be the next layer in America’s complex migration story?
46 families, like the Moores from Ireland, made their first home in America on 97 Orchard Street.
The final paint colour was a pale blue. What will be the next layer in America’s complex migration story?
December 3, 2024 at 10:04 PM
46 layers of paint were unearthed in a tenement house kitchen in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
46 families, like the Moores from Ireland, made their first home in America on 97 Orchard Street.
The final paint colour was a pale blue. What will be the next layer in America’s complex migration story?
46 families, like the Moores from Ireland, made their first home in America on 97 Orchard Street.
The final paint colour was a pale blue. What will be the next layer in America’s complex migration story?
My new favourite shirt 😂
Just in time for the holidays - @tungohan.bsky.social has turned insults into sweet sweet profit. Check out her brilliant podcast @academicaunties.com and its online shop: www.academicaunties.com/shop/
They have a great motto too: “Take Care. Be kind. Don’t be an a**hole”
Just in time for the holidays - @tungohan.bsky.social has turned insults into sweet sweet profit. Check out her brilliant podcast @academicaunties.com and its online shop: www.academicaunties.com/shop/
They have a great motto too: “Take Care. Be kind. Don’t be an a**hole”
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 PM
My new favourite shirt 😂
Just in time for the holidays - @tungohan.bsky.social has turned insults into sweet sweet profit. Check out her brilliant podcast @academicaunties.com and its online shop: www.academicaunties.com/shop/
They have a great motto too: “Take Care. Be kind. Don’t be an a**hole”
Just in time for the holidays - @tungohan.bsky.social has turned insults into sweet sweet profit. Check out her brilliant podcast @academicaunties.com and its online shop: www.academicaunties.com/shop/
They have a great motto too: “Take Care. Be kind. Don’t be an a**hole”
🚨New report by @mila-quebec.bsky.social and #CEIMIA on gender equality and diversity in AI
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
🚨New report by @mila-quebec.bsky.social and #CEIMIA on gender equality and diversity in AI
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
🚨New report by Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute on gender equality and diversity in AI
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
November 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
🚨New report by Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute on gender equality and diversity in AI
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
Featuring @migrationtechmonitor.com in the discussion on power and representation.
Report and policy brief: gpai.ai/projects/res...
Watch live here: www.youtube.com/@mila-quebec...
🚨Interesting new report by @citizenlab.ca on Amazon's censorship, with the most common banned product being...books! 💙📚
By Jeffrey Knockel, Jakub Dalek, @noura.bsky.social, Mohamed Ahmed, @levimeletti.bsky.social, and Justin Lau
Report and recommendations: citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
By Jeffrey Knockel, Jakub Dalek, @noura.bsky.social, Mohamed Ahmed, @levimeletti.bsky.social, and Justin Lau
Report and recommendations: citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM
🚨Interesting new report by @citizenlab.ca on Amazon's censorship, with the most common banned product being...books! 💙📚
By Jeffrey Knockel, Jakub Dalek, @noura.bsky.social, Mohamed Ahmed, @levimeletti.bsky.social, and Justin Lau
Report and recommendations: citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
By Jeffrey Knockel, Jakub Dalek, @noura.bsky.social, Mohamed Ahmed, @levimeletti.bsky.social, and Justin Lau
Report and recommendations: citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
Sanctuary cities in the age of surveillance
By Don Ray Ramos donrayramosworks.wordpress.com
Via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
By Don Ray Ramos donrayramosworks.wordpress.com
Via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Sanctuary cities in the age of surveillance
By Don Ray Ramos donrayramosworks.wordpress.com
Via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
By Don Ray Ramos donrayramosworks.wordpress.com
Via @techpolicypress.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Israel’s Elbit systems is a key player in the growing and lucrative border industrial complex worth billions.
Elbit tests out its tech on Palestinians and exports it to the EU and US.
📸 Elbit tower in the Sonora, Arizona, May 2024
Learn more: www.tni.org/en/article/a... @tninstitute.bsky.social
Elbit tests out its tech on Palestinians and exports it to the EU and US.
📸 Elbit tower in the Sonora, Arizona, May 2024
Learn more: www.tni.org/en/article/a... @tninstitute.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Israel’s Elbit systems is a key player in the growing and lucrative border industrial complex worth billions.
Elbit tests out its tech on Palestinians and exports it to the EU and US.
📸 Elbit tower in the Sonora, Arizona, May 2024
Learn more: www.tni.org/en/article/a... @tninstitute.bsky.social
Elbit tests out its tech on Palestinians and exports it to the EU and US.
📸 Elbit tower in the Sonora, Arizona, May 2024
Learn more: www.tni.org/en/article/a... @tninstitute.bsky.social
My first book is called "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of AI."
Based on 6 years of work from Mexico to Greece to Palestine, it shares stories of people hurt by #bordertech
More info: thenewpress.com/books/walls-...
Some photos: www.petramolnar.com/the-walls-ha... 💙📚 #booksky
Based on 6 years of work from Mexico to Greece to Palestine, it shares stories of people hurt by #bordertech
More info: thenewpress.com/books/walls-...
Some photos: www.petramolnar.com/the-walls-ha... 💙📚 #booksky
November 18, 2024 at 5:01 PM
My first book is called "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of AI."
Based on 6 years of work from Mexico to Greece to Palestine, it shares stories of people hurt by #bordertech
More info: thenewpress.com/books/walls-...
Some photos: www.petramolnar.com/the-walls-ha... 💙📚 #booksky
Based on 6 years of work from Mexico to Greece to Palestine, it shares stories of people hurt by #bordertech
More info: thenewpress.com/books/walls-...
Some photos: www.petramolnar.com/the-walls-ha... 💙📚 #booksky
Introduce yourself by sharing your weird nicknames for your pet.” - @sarahquinn.bsky.social
This is Joy, from the Greek island of Lesvos, also known as Joy Boy, formally Joyous Boyous. We saved each other 💞
This is Joy, from the Greek island of Lesvos, also known as Joy Boy, formally Joyous Boyous. We saved each other 💞
November 18, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Introduce yourself by sharing your weird nicknames for your pet.” - @sarahquinn.bsky.social
This is Joy, from the Greek island of Lesvos, also known as Joy Boy, formally Joyous Boyous. We saved each other 💞
This is Joy, from the Greek island of Lesvos, also known as Joy Boy, formally Joyous Boyous. We saved each other 💞
Free copies available of the incredible anthology “Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire” made available by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social! This books travels with me and has a permanent place on my bookshelf
November 17, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Free copies available of the incredible anthology “Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire” made available by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social! This books travels with me and has a permanent place on my bookshelf
I know what all my colleagues and students will be getting! Gorgeous pins from Demmi Falestini Shop, a Palestinian-owned shop 🇵🇸
www.etsy.com/listing/1796...
www.etsy.com/listing/1796...
November 15, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I know what all my colleagues and students will be getting! Gorgeous pins from Demmi Falestini Shop, a Palestinian-owned shop 🇵🇸
www.etsy.com/listing/1796...
www.etsy.com/listing/1796...