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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
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
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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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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 5h
This is a very readable account of what things are like inside the #SiliconValley #AI bubble... which is what we learned from DOGE writ large: a bunch of privileged kids with no experience of the world, thinking that they both can and should run the world.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 6h
"the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is currently testing a tool from Israeli software screening company SeeTrue... the registry website itself mentions that it was created using machine translation, but the outputs were reviewed by human experts." 🙃
betakit.com/here-are-the...

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 10h
My first ever published paper was about the campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which was pushing Investor State Dispute Settlement ( #ISDS ) back in the late 90s. Now this dangerous, undemocratic mechanism is everywhere...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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michael veale @michae.lv · 13h
Useful if terrifying read on the Chinese brand of smart watches for kids, Little Genius, which is forming an entire, insular — and seemingly pretty socially unhealthy — platformised and corporatised world. substack.com/@ivyyang/p-1...
China's Apple Watches for Kids - by Ivy Yang
Brilliant dopamine-fueled marketing, and the darker long term implications of Little Genius Watches
substack.com

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h
Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org

Reposted by Marc Lynch, David Murakami Wood

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h
It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik
Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h
Floods across Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka have killed nearly 1,000 people in less than a week.
Rescue efforts under way after severe floods across Asia kill nearly 1,000
Floods across Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka have killed nearly 1,000 people in less than a week.
bit.ly

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
#Trump releases the neoliberal former president of #Honduras from jail, at the same time as putting unjust pressure on the current election... Hondurans must be left alone to make their own choices. #democracy

progressive.international/observatory/...
We are mobilizing to Honduras. Here is why.
The Progressive International Observatory is mobilizing to Honduras to stand with its people against foreign intervention.
progressive.international

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 1d
This is the point:

“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property,” said Art Carter [CRLS CEO]

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com

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Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 1d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d
Just as Donald Trump demonizes leftist organizers today as domestic terrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as rioters and insurrectionists. interc.pt/4oAs2k8
A photo of a Dec. 17, 1964, NYPD surveillance photo, Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, the activist Coretta Scott King, arrive in New York City, overlaid with the headline, "Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance" and the DEK, "After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call."

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d
Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
Not content with buying up (or closing down) existing #newspapers and #TV, platform corporations are creating their own hagiographic, pro- #bigtech #media.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a star
www.theguardian.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
If you are looking for a seasonal gift for curious friends or relatives who want to know what this AI thing is all about, you can't do much better than Artificially Intelligent, the accessible new book from my great PhD student, @davideliot.bsky.social.

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
I noted on my blog way back in 2010 when Celebration started to look any other town... with murders etc. You can't #Disney your way out of normal American society.

ubisurv.net/2010/12/03/t...
Trouble in paradise
The town of Celebration in Florida, which is both famous and notorious (depending on your ethical and political persuasions) as the Disney Corporation’s ideology made material, has seen both …
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
@theguardian.com article claims that it's "the first-of-its-kind branded residential community" but that's simply not true. #Disney developed Celebration in Florida, established in 1994 - however they sold it 10 years later. www.experiencekissimmee.com/article/cele...
Celebration - A Town Like No Other
With tree-lined streets, captivating architecture, and a welcoming mix of shops and restaurants, Celebration invites visitors of all ages to explore and indulge.
www.experiencekissimmee.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 2d
#Disney is building a planned community near Palm Springs... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Spirit of Walt but no Mickey Mouse in Disney’s planned desert community
The entertainment giant is building almost 2,000 homes in California’s Palm Springs area so beloved by its founder
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by David Murakami Wood, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d
EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national
www.eff.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
Today in luxury surveillance.
Oura's CEO wants to put payments and IDs on your fingers
The smart ring maker said it's on track to generate $1 billion in revenue this year. Now it's setting its sights beyond health tracking.
www.businessinsider.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Probably. But where were the editors here? This paper should never have got through the most basic screening. As an editor myself, I would never have allowed any paper with such obviously generated nonsense to be sent out for review.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
They can blame the reviewers (and they should have noticed). But this doesn't let the editors off the hook. A decent editorial process would have triaged it out and desk-rejected anything with such an obviously nonsensical figure. It should never even have been sent out for review.

Reposted by Yezid Sayigh, Nandita Sharma, Joe R. Feagin , and 9 more

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Some other apparently equally ill-informed people who think the same thing about Carney and Harper...

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charlieangus104.bsky.social Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d
10 years ago Mark Carney warned about the "existential threat" posed by climate catastrophe and the need to move from fossil fuel burning.
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
markhamhislop.substack.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 3d
Exactly. We should judge people by what they do not what they claim to be or the labels given to them by the unimaginative. Plus, as a contributor to the Harper Decade project, I have a pretty good sense of what he was all about... www.theharperdecade.com
The Harper Decade
Canada has changed. Find out how. A critical exploration of Stephen Harper's Canada. #Harper10.
www.theharperdecade.com

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 4d
Carney is Stephen Harper v2. He's more traditionally conservative than the current Conservative Party.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 4d
I tried to search for how to report academic misconduct on the support section of the Nature website...

'Search results for "academic misconduct"

No results found'

Why am I not surprised?

Reposted by W. Andy Knight, David Murakami Wood

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d
10 years ago Mark Carney warned about the "existential threat" posed by climate catastrophe and the need to move from fossil fuel burning.
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
markhamhislop.substack.com

Reposted by David Murakami Wood

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Zamafir @zamafir.bsky.social · 4d
Every year Tesla ranks as the worst for road worthiness amongst ALL brands, not just EV.

Every. Single. Year.

💩 🤡 🚗
Tesla Model Y Is The Most Defective Car This Year, Germany Says - Jalopnik
The report comes from TÜV SÜD, a German auditing, inspection, and certification firm, and is based on data collected from about 9.5 million vehicle inspections.
www.jalopnik.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d
"John Quigley, senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, pointed to the “data center frenzy” as the primary driver of higher electricity prices for households"

Definitely a strong consensus among researchers that data centres *do* make bills higher
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
www.cnbc.com