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Dabbler in law, data, democracy, and digital comms/surveillance discussions with a side of Alexandria, VA local musings. 🫠
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"Silicon Valley venture capital isn’t just funding technology. It’s also building an escape plan from democracy." @gilduran.com
"They need to get their bag somewhere," says @ojutel.bsky.social, they're planning "to exit through the state." unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/head...
"They need to get their bag somewhere," says @ojutel.bsky.social, they're planning "to exit through the state." unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/head...
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
The VCs and broligarchs have their exit strategy planned. And it doesn't include us.
unprecedented.ghost.io
January 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"Silicon Valley venture capital isn’t just funding technology. It’s also building an escape plan from democracy." @gilduran.com
"They need to get their bag somewhere," says @ojutel.bsky.social, they're planning "to exit through the state." unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/head...
"They need to get their bag somewhere," says @ojutel.bsky.social, they're planning "to exit through the state." unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/head...
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Kevin’s chart really says it all. this is what it looks like when a vulnerable user gets sucked in by an engagement optimized chatbot
December 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Kevin’s chart really says it all. this is what it looks like when a vulnerable user gets sucked in by an engagement optimized chatbot
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This climate of secrecy and fear extends into academia, business, nonprofits, and into the media itself. With other accountability mechanisms paralyzed by fear, all these places have become rich sources of leaks.
Even Congress resorts to document dumps because of its weakened oversight powers
Even Congress resorts to document dumps because of its weakened oversight powers
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This climate of secrecy and fear extends into academia, business, nonprofits, and into the media itself. With other accountability mechanisms paralyzed by fear, all these places have become rich sources of leaks.
Even Congress resorts to document dumps because of its weakened oversight powers
Even Congress resorts to document dumps because of its weakened oversight powers
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I wrote this with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social while sitting in an airport and marveling at the fallout. I think we were some of the only folks with the correct take. The surveillance state will come for us all
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I wrote this with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social while sitting in an airport and marveling at the fallout. I think we were some of the only folks with the correct take. The surveillance state will come for us all
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“You can look down a tremendous distance with our cameras. The camera will identify people, what they’re wearing, and cars up to a half a mile away. It’s that good.”
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“You can look down a tremendous distance with our cameras. The camera will identify people, what they’re wearing, and cars up to a half a mile away. It’s that good.”
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
— Kevin Cox, a Flock consultant who used to work for the Grand Prairie, Texas Police Department said in a 2023 Flock Condor webinar.
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Social media companies attempt to detect and remove this type of astroturfing for violating their inauthentic behavior policies, which is why Doublespeed uses a bank of phones to emulate the behavior of real users.
@evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
@evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
December 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Social media companies attempt to detect and remove this type of astroturfing for violating their inauthentic behavior policies, which is why Doublespeed uses a bank of phones to emulate the behavior of real users.
@evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
@evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
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It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.
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This is great but would be even more helpful if turned into a format grassroots ppl can use. For instance, would be great for eff to post a one page letter template simply listing out risks of ring and possible, more privacy protective, alternatives. Help make this accessible for neighbors to share.
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is great but would be even more helpful if turned into a format grassroots ppl can use. For instance, would be great for eff to post a one page letter template simply listing out risks of ring and possible, more privacy protective, alternatives. Help make this accessible for neighbors to share.
This is great but would be even more helpful if turned into a format grassroots ppl can use. For instance, would be great for eff to post a one page letter template simply listing out risks of ring and possible, more privacy protective, alternatives. Help make this accessible for neighbors to share.
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is great but would be even more helpful if turned into a format grassroots ppl can use. For instance, would be great for eff to post a one page letter template simply listing out risks of ring and possible, more privacy protective, alternatives. Help make this accessible for neighbors to share.