Dr Amy Gaeta
@amygaeta.bsky.social
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Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today She/They amygaeta.com
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A ceasefire means nothing without accountability and consequences
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CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
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US passports w/an X are still valid international travel documents, but the government now requires airlines to misgender such citizens (input M/F marker instead of passport's X) which might increase likelihood of body scans flagged as irregular, delays due to mismatch between ticket+passport data.
US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’
Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic
www.theguardian.com
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
Big thanks to the folks at @aoir.bsky.social and hosts UFF in Niterói, Brazil for allowing me to share my ongoing work with Aisha Sobey on how we can mobilize disability justice and fat liberation frameworks in creating forms of data solidarity in the age of genAI (mis)representation
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. @mikevdsanden.bsky.social: "What melodies can be found in typography?" Uses Processing+VCV Rack to treat digital font characters as piano rolls, generate viz+sound files from "playing" over them:
mikevdsanden on Instagram: "What melodies can be found in typography? (🔊 SOUND ON)The question popped into my head while I was experimenting with audio in VCV…"
What melodies can be found in typography? (🔊 SOUND ON)The question popped into my head while I was experimenting with audio in VCV Rack. I imagined characters becoming a piano roll. Could I connect Processing? Once I had a proof of concept, I was hooked. Over the past few weeks, I built it out, adding features as I went.Processing sends MIDI note data — pitch, velocity, and gate — to VCV Rack. The tool is built on layered tracks: each track can be routed to its own channel and has tweakable options. You can change the character sequence, typeface, and clock speed. I’ve added multiple scales. Currently all in C, but I can imagine the system could grow into a full instrument. To prevent floods of notes, each track has a range control on the right: drag the top or bottom rows to set the active band.I had a lot of fun building this tool. It gave me a chance to combine my love for music with coding. For context, I’m a beginner in VCV Rack: most of my patches came from tutorials. If you’re experienced with VCV Rack, I’d love to see what you can make with it. There’s a download link on my website.➡️ I added a small tutorial in the last slide to get you started.Typefaces from the The font starter pack by @pangram.pangram. #vcvrack #processing #graphicdesign #creativecoding #genartclub #procedual #coding #motiongraphics #newmedia #new_media_art #digitalart #modernart #computerart #processing #contemporarytype #type01 #modularsynth #webgl #typespire #posterdesign #typedesign #typedaily #showusyourtype #kinetictypography #interactiondesign
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Unbelievable - Thames Water wants to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years

If they get away with this, other water companies will copy

If you don't want sewage until 2040 (!) please sign our
petition to @ofwat.bsky.social

We'll be handing it in on 21st October

weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...
Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
weownit.org.uk
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."
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BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
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“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link
We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.
thinkingautismguide.com
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We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
I truly do not care what causes autism unless learning that information can be used to support already existing autistic people live easier and more fulfilling lives
Thanks so much! What a great resource, soooo helpful
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New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
www.404media.co
Every time I see a rainbow I am certain that we have been gifted the most magnificent possible planet to live on
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My daughter was one of dozens of students arrested at Columbia and then suspended from her PhD program for two years in response--a clear project of the Palestine exception. Jessie runs it all down here.

Paywall but you can see a preview at least.

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Columbia University Suspended Me for My Pro-Palestinian Activism
I’ve been punished for two different divestment movements – I know first-hand the 'Palestine exception' is real.
zeteo.com
Doing a quick post from holiday to show everyone this perfectly curled kitty on a shop front in Hydra
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To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!
Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde