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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 2d

I did not take a long enough vacation.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5d

Tron (1982): Solar sailer, art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats to him!

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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 7d

People going off about "The Files" like it's going to be a smoking gun just like they did about the Meuller Report. And...sigh.

Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 7d

Seeing these people this pressed over Bad Bunny. Nothing makes them happy, except for bringing misery to people. How boring and tragic that we have to be along for the ride.

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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 7d

If you have the government involved with your technology. Your technology is political. It has taken a stance. And so have you as an implementor. The end.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8d

We're seeking passionate law students to join EFF’s legal team as interns! Get involved in fighting for free speech, privacy, and innovation. www.eff.org/about/oppor...

Legal Internship Opportunities

Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of November 1. See below for instructions and a link to the application.EFF’s legal internships provide law students with a

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

California consumer privacy complaints can spark investigations. It’s important for all of us to speak up, because it really does make a difference. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

How to File a Privacy Complaint in California

Seeing something sketchy when it comes to your online privacy? Here’s how to file a complaint under California’s consumer data privacy law.

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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 7d

I'll never forget coming home to my ASUS laptop dead for no reason. (I LOVED THAT MACHINE TOO 😭). To this day I'm all about my backups. I even managed (probably very insecure) syncing between my new laptop and my phone

Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 8d

I miss Imeem 😭

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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 8d

They yelled about how we'd need the police for daily function and that community policing was unrealistic. How defunding was irrational drivel. But, BUT apparently they are functionally useless and need the military to do their job now.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11d

We need a broad definition of “harm,” so we can sue over our lost privacy rights, without having to prove collateral injury. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Privacy Harm Is Harm

Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11d

Many of these issues would be mitigated by doing what the competition is already doing: encrypting the broadcasts from its Bluetooth trackers. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tile’s Lack of Encryption Is a Danger for Users Everywhere

In research shared with Wired this week, security researchers detailed a series of vulnerabilities and design flaws with Life360’s Tile Bluetooth trackers that make it easy for stalkers and the

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11d

I will definitely be doing more versions of my cyberfascism keynote, mostly because I want more opportunities to get on stage and yell, "Less complying in advance and more 'Fuck you, make me!'"

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11d

The new Platform Work Directive gives workers the right to challenge automated decision-making, to peer inside the algorithms used, to speak to a responsible human about disputes, and to have their privacy and other fundamental rights protected on the job. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

What Europe’s New Gig Work Law Means for Unions and Technology

At EFF, we believe that tech rights are worker’s rights. Since the pandemic, workers of all kinds have been subjected to increasingly invasive forms of bossware. These are the “algorithmic

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404 Media @404media.co · 12d

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

🔗 www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

Nothing has really changed: this remains an unsettling overreach that makes U.K. users less safe and less free. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users

The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

Turn off location permissions for as many apps as you can. (3/4)

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12d

When a corporation surveils us in violation of a data privacy law, we suffer a real privacy harm. That should be enough to have our day in court. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Privacy Harm Is Harm

Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data

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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 13d

NYC politics is always a clown show. And I'm sorry y'all got dragged along for the ride 😅

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 16d

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

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