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David Murakami Wood (DMW)
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies
Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa
Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society
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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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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 1d
The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), which İmamoğlu represents, has condemned the case as politically driven — arguing the timing and scope are aimed at sidelining a major political opponent.
The sentence demanded in the case of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is 2,430 years
The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), which İmamoğlu represents, has condemned the case as politically driven — arguing the timing and scope are aimed at sidelining a major political opponent.
globalvoices.org

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 1d
"There is a growing realisation that any amendment to the Rome Statute intended to appease those calling for sanctions would do more to destroy the court than the sanctions themselves." middleeasteye.net/news/icc-sta... #ICC #ASP24
Exclusive: ICC shuns US demands to drop Israel war crimes probe and amend treaty
Washington also called for end to Afghanistan investigation and change to Rome Statute in return for lifting sanctions
middleeasteye.net

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
The New School once seemed like the best place (given the alternatives), now the management want to destroy everything that made it different. #AcademicSky
kmunro-econ.bsky.social Kirstin Munro @kmunro-econ.bsky.social · 1d
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

Reposted by David Murakami Wood, David Darmofal

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d
Trump administration officials banded together to denounce the European Union after the bloc fined Elon Musk’s X, with some suggesting a US response is warranted, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports
Trump Administration Locks Arms with Musk’s X Against EU Tech Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
Senior Trump administration officials banded together against the EU for fining Elon Musk's X on transparency grounds.
buff.ly

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
#AI slop and straight up fraud and grift is destroying AI research...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
“The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people”

Reposted by David Murakami Wood, Mark Rice, Sarah Brouillette

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Kirstin Munro @kmunro-econ.bsky.social · 1d
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
That is true, although Simone Browne's 'Digital Epidermalization' came out in 2010 (!), and surveillance studies scholars have been doing this since the early 2000s...

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
It's really true: because they scrape everything. It's also a constant worry for academics because they always seem on the verge of closing it...

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
The #UK #Labour Party has become an unapologetic right populist party. The only good thing is that their cowardly populism is making them unpopular...

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Gavin A. Schmidt, Elizabeth Stokoe , and 6 more

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender Trans women will be barred from the main part of Labour’s women’s conference next year, the party has said, with entrance to the main conference hall and voting rights denied. All delegates will be allowed to attend a fringe programme, under the party’s plans, as Labour seeks to find a compromise position it believes will comply with the supreme court’s ruling on gender – while also being inclusive to trans delegates. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
Sadly, it has been closed for quite a while. It's supposed to be reopening but who knows when?

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 1d
#Trump government demands access to European police databases and #biometrics - fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202... "even EU member states do not grant each other such extensive direct database access" damn cheek - get lost
[39c3] Trump government demands access to European police databases and biometrics
The US demand is unprecedented: even EU member states do not grant each other such extensive direct database access – normally the exchange takes place via the "hit/no-hit principle" with a subsequent...
fahrplan.events.ccc.de

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d
microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.
www.forbes.com

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Laurent Pech, David Murakami Wood , and 1 more

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 1d
Hey fans of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social check it out

apple.news/Aqir3ZhS2Sny...
Scientists Just Discovered How to Wipe Out the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease — Popular Mechanics
Turning off the genetic switch to its respiratory system might finally eliminate the bacteria behind tuberculosis.
apple.news

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
Intensified exploitation is what Trump means by "peace."

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
That's the definition of art. And that's what people making (i.e. manufacturing) photography as art have always done.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
Tell me again about how Mark Carney is not a straight up conservative...

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1d
www.bbc.com/news/article... leave the deep sea and all its freaky little guys alone!
Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
www.bbc.com

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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social · 1d
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI

www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI
Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...
www.404media.co

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
Of course the other main target in here is the #EuropeanUnion. The new NSS is explicit about the idea that the EU is under civilizational threat, and that the USA will intensify their interference to promote internal "resistance" to the EU's policies and priorities. #Trump

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org

Reposted by David Murakami Wood, Meredith Farkas

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
US follows up on Congo-Rwanda peace deal with plan to secure minerals reut.rs/4iGoOtH
US follows up on Congo-Rwanda peace deal with plan to secure minerals
The United States' development lender announced plans on Friday to take a stake in a new partnership to market Congo's minerals which could give U.S. end users the right of first refusal on copper and cobalt supplies.
reut.rs

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 2d
NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
www.nationalobserver.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
For a former manager, who suggested that I might want to partner with #Palantir... (as if the extraordinarily unethical record of the company apparently wasn't already any barrier to this).
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
The CEO of Palantir.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
The ludicrous FIFA Peace Prize as expected going to the ludicrous Donald Trump...
Still from The Simpsons TV show, of a giant signboard outside the Springfield Civic Center, which reads "FIRST ANNUAL MONTGOMERY BURNS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF EXCELLENCE"

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 2d
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com