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Kim Correa
@kimcorrea.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ UBC iSchool | MLIS | Professionally: surveillance, algorithms, dissent | Unprofessionally: horror, MtG, pro wrestling | she/her
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404media.co
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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pwhlgoldeneyes.bsky.social
Swift in flight, boundless in view.
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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serife.bsky.social
Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮
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Séance and Technology Studies - ASAP/Review
My friends who visit San Francisco always comment on how different our advertising is. Step off the plane at SFO and you’re immediately surrounded by billboards promising AI solutions. They say it fee...
asapjournal.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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cabalittle.bsky.social
Bluesky rn
The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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ubisurv.net
Call for Abstracts / Panels

PLANETARY SURVEILLANCE

#SSN2026 – the 11th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference

9-12 June 2026

Université Catholique de Lille, France

Details: surveillance-studies.net/conference/

Submissions (open soon): ssn2026.sciencesconf.org
Conference – Surveillance Studies Network
surveillance-studies.net
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
I do truly love baseball ⚾️💙
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
I don’t believe I have yet told Bluesky that I am from LA and am thus a lifelong Dodgers fan. Being in Vancouver during this series is neat! 😎
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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safiyanoble.bsky.social
This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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eff.org
After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech
www.eff.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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sassisouth.bsky.social
Join SASSI for a digital workshop on Wednesday, October 1st from 7-8:30pm ET to learn how to identify and map Flock Safety cameras in your community and city as a tactic in challenging the use of automated license plate readers in your city.
September 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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igd.bsky.social
"With Helene, there was something about the manifestation of Heaven on Earth the second time around that seemed to make it more expansive. Heaven wasn’t just a fleeting moment, but it was an entire mycelium network, growing and healing together..." rednecksrising.substack.com/p/i-saw-god-...
I Saw God in the Anarchists
On Surviving Helene, Building Heaven on Earth, and Seeing God in Each Other
rednecksrising.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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tamigraph.bsky.social
New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points

Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic
Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific
As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of thes...
datasociety.net
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!
Climate Hacks | Broadcast
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
pioneerworks.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
Do I know anyone that has a copy of Empires of AI by Karen Hao I can borrow? I'm listening to the audiobook through the library and want to check something in the physical copy. Thank you!
September 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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wired.com
A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...
A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users
A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people.
www.wired.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
Rewatching Love Lies Bleeding was a nice thing to do tonight.
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
Does anyone have a good semiotics meme?
September 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
Taught my first undergrad class this morning. It went well! :)
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
kimcorrea.bsky.social
This is completely fine. Just. Completely fine. 🙃🙃🙃
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Aug 25
YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos

• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened

• Features like ears are being altered

• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity

• There's currently no way to opt out

(via BBC)
August 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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igd.bsky.social
Armed troops are on DC streets, setting up checkpoints, harassing residents + tearing down anti-ICE banners to leave a dildo in a kid's park. In response, residents are forming networks of resistance + mutual aid.

Read our discussion w/ @remorahousedc.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...
“The Whole City is Fighting Back”: Remora House on Grassroots Resistance to Military Occupation in DC
For the last several weeks, federal agents and National Guard troops have flooded the streets of Washington DC, setting up an authoritarian occupation of the city; harassing residents, dismantling hom...
itsgoingdown.org
August 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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stopsurveillance.bsky.social
Remember how Flock kept claiming immigration officials don't have direct access to Flock's nationwide surveillance network?

That was a lie. Flock gave Border Patrol access. www.9news.com/article/news...
Flock admits federal immigration agents have direct access to tracking data, despite previous claims
Flock said it has a pilot program, giving Border Patrol a Flock account, which can request 1:1 access from local law enforcement agencies
www.9news.com
August 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM