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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 https://ubisurv.net
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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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Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 46m
Francesca Albanese's 3 reports for the UN can be read here (free e-book) :
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
www.plutobooks.com
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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 2h
Peter Atwater
“With each passing day, the AI space looks more and more like the USA’s home mortgage securitization at the peak of the 2007-8 housing bubble with its overlapping series of capital conveyor belts.”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h
“We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide”

In an emotional essay for Zeteo, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
Your #mustread:
We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide
In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2h
Proof - if it was needed - that big energy firms are not investing in renewables and are unduly promoting their work on the energy transition - by @stokel.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2499...
Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power
Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy
www.newscientist.com
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 7h
NEW Prominent Italian businessman among the targets of Paragon spyware

🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu

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Prominent Italian businessman also among the targets of Paragon spyware
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31, along with 90 other users around the world. Since the end of 2024, he has been at the center of a major banking operation invol...
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 7h
Wrong country.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 7h
You aren’t even talking about the right continent, let alone the right country. Not everything is about the USA.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 7h
Wrong country, not even the right continent…
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 7h
I think you are in the wrong country. This is the UK.
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 21h
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 22h
Billionaires truly are the stupidest people on the planet.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
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John Wunderlich @privacycdn.bsky.social · 23h
Government to table new border bill amid C-2 privacy concerns: sources | CBC News
Government to table new border bill amid C-2 privacy concerns: sources | CBC News
The federal Liberals are set to introduce a new bill expected to mirror much of what's in their already tabled border legislation — but with some clauses that sparked concerns from opposition parties...
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
Great thread on #Carney 's headlong rush into poor #AI policy...
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 1d
Carney’s reckless approach to AI policy should raise serious questions about his infrastructure & US policies as well. In all three, he seems to be relying on his own (non-expert) judgment, ignoring complexity & others’ expertise in favour of speed. But decisiveness isn’t the same as good judgment.
Carney’s haste may make bad AI policy - The Logic
The Liberals’ AI task force has just 30 days to do their job. Some members say it isn’t enough time.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d
New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.
Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
Sure, dm me.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 1d
A question: how are non-American folks who are organizing conferences or conference sessions in the USA in the current circumstances, justifying this? I cannot in good conscience encourage anyone to risk arrest, deportation or worse, for the sake of a conference paper... #AcademicSky
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d
Sad and tired ...

businessinsider.com/how-luxury-d...
How luxury doomsday bunkers turned into a billionaire status symbol
Atlas Survival Shelters is the world's largest bunker manufacturer, and it's extra busy with orders from billionaires.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 2d
Every time one of these dipshits shows up ranting about “decentralization” it’s just hype talk for crypto nerds because invariably they all keep a kill-switch in their back pocket lmao
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ıllıllı FREE ŁINK ıllıllı @rvbdrm.com · 2d
So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · Aug 22
The only way data and AI can be used for good is with "restrictive, well-designed controls to prevent damage to democracy, much like humans did with nuclear energy," writes @geomblog.bsky.social.

"How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy." ⬇️
How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy
The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.
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