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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 15h

When people ask, I'm just going to tell them that I am a motivational speaker/comedian who works for a wildly successful t-shirt and sticker company.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 17h

All my life, I thought that I was extremely good at identifying toxic narcissists and avoiding them. Unfortunately, the person to whom I was bragging about this and who told me I was so good at it turned out to be a toxic narcissist.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 17h

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

I feel this in my bones.

Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 1d

“We would like your feedback”

I seriously doubt it.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

I framed the breach as a direct effect of age verification, whereas it's more a second-order effect, since the support system is where a user would upload their ID if they were appealing an age verification that thought they were under 18.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

I deleted my post about the Discord hack because the compromise was a third-party support service and not a third-party dedicated age verification system. Collecting user IDs is still bad and they are hard to protect, but being accurate in my posts is also important.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while, an org in my space puts out a paper in my area of expertise that is so bad that all I can do is hope that no one bothers to read it.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 3d

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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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 6d

All shall love me and PUT ON HEADPHONES WHEN LISTENING TO YOUR PHONE ON THE BUS.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot be trusted with power.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 6d

When I am Queen, I shall be a kind and benevolent ruler, unless you are wearing perfume on an airplane, which will be punishable by death.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 6d

EFF's @joshrichman.bsky.social has written about the proliferation of fake EFF quotes in AI slop. Fake quotes from me turn up quite regularly and just to rub salt in the wound, the quotes are boring and bad.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

Whether due to generative AI hallucinations or human sloppiness, the internet is increasingly rife with bogus news content –— and you can count EFF among the victims. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Wave of Phony News Quotes Affects Everyone—Including EFF

Whether due to generative AI hallucinations or human sloppiness, the internet is increasingly rife with bogus news content—and you can count EFF among the victims. WinBuzzer published a story June 26

www.eff.org

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, I know that October is both Cybersecurity Awareness month and Domestic Violence Awareness month. It is my month of maximum awareness, when I am at my most powerful.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 7d

Leggings are pants, right? Mandatory Lululemon leggings for men. Breathable. Comfortable. Ubiquitous at airports. Nothing will go wrong with this plan.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 9d

Don't mind me, just throwing this whole thing into a slide in my talk about the rise of cyberfascism.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10d

These are the moments that help me to build my blocklists.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10d

It is Folsom weekend and I have divided my wardrobe up into three piles:

Clothes that are old enough to vote.

Clothes that are old enough to drink.

Clothes that are too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11d

"Sorry I'm late, I seriously underestimated how long it was going to take to get out of that corset," is the most middle-aged goth sentence I have uttered in quite some time.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12d

That's not what I'm getting at here, but a lot of people seem to think that I'm praising Microsoft, so I assume it is my fault for wording it in a way that was unclear.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12d

Journalists at the Guardian and whoever leaked the docs to them from inside of MS are the good guys.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12d

To be clear, I wouldn't want anyone reading my post to come away with the impression that I'm saying the good guy who is winning in this situation is Microsoft.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12d

Tech companies' complicity in authoritarianism, fascism, and genocide is not inevitable. Sometimes the good guys win.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 13d

Flock around, find out: Flock apparently decided to reinstall all of the ALPRs they recently took down in Evanston. One problem though: they didn't consult Evanston about it. The city sent a cease & desist letter, and Flock has "committed to promptly removing the cameras." Full story here ⬇️

Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras - Evanston RoundTable

Private surveillance vendor Flock Safety reinstalled all of its stationary license plate cameras in Evanston that had previously been removed, apparently

evanstonroundtable.com

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13d

If you make a donation to EFF, it will not go towards this purpose. It will go into the general fund. If you want it to go to this specific purpose, you talk to the development team and arrange a donation. This is not a thing I can crowdfund $20 at a time.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13d

Donations to EFF go into our general fund. Donations for a specific purpose go through folks on the development team.

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