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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5d

This is a privacy and security nightmare. Everything about Empire’s OpenAI from beginning to end is death. Death of privacy, consent, and community.
No one needs OpenAI. Ever.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 5d

I currently recommend against uploading your biometrics to OpenAI’s new social feed app, Sora.

Sora’s Cameo option has the user upload their own biometrics to create voice/video Deepfakes of themselves. The user can also set their preferences to allow others to create Deepfakes of each other, too.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 6d

Beyond the flotilla of ships, we must be flotillas of pressure and protest in the streets and our communities, continuously. We must also be flotillas wherever we are all the time until Palestine is free.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 6d

As we send protection over each of the flotilla’s warriors, remember that while the flotilla is a sheer physical force in numbers, it is an even larger symbol for everyone to be in solidarity in every other way, too.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 6d

Several ships in the historic Global Sumud Flotilla of 50+ vessels have been and are being attacked and intercepted by “Israel.”

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 10d

Assata Shakur

"It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains."

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 12d

Long before this deal, I recommended that users audit their TikTok use. Oracle had already started hosting U.S. TT user data on its servers a while back.

I do not doubt that the platform will be further farmed for user data without consideration or consent.
Always learn more at liberationtoolbox.io

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Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice for our expansive world

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 12d

Again, I recommend moving away from and being mindful of using of TikTok.

Oracle, one of the most privacy-violating, pro-surveillance, genocide-supporting, pro-policing corporations to exist, is taking over co-ownership of TikTok.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 15d

While some boycotts can be about accountability, these boycotts now can end Empire if we are dedicated.

Don’t stop boycotting.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 15d

A reminder, when enough of us boycott, it works, and can work quickly even. It is a spectacular example of the power of organizing.

Yes, we can bring corporations to their ruin when we act together.

Also, there is no need stop boycotting when the corporations are rotten at the core.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 16d

I DO NOT CONSENT to anyone capturing my image, audio, or video with Meta glasses. If you do so it is without my permission, a violation, and nonconsensual.

While being in “public” may not be private, we should have a right to privacy.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 18d

Genocide does not simply happen.
The genociders commit genocide on purpose. They will not justify themselves out of this. We will not allow it.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 18d

Genocide is committed by genociders.

"Israel" has been committing the genocide of Palestinians with the full willful material and political support of the "United States" and others.

We already knew this.
But more importantly, they already knew this.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 25d

May we all find our process to get to our purpose.

May we fight with our lives for collective liberation, for without it, we are not yet truly living.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 25d

If collective liberation for all is truly in your heart, you will find that your destiny, by definition, aligns with this life purpose.

This is regardless of your "work," as you will find that your body, mind, and spirit usher you toward your destiny.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 26d

Examples of political violence include continued:

※ Transphobia’s impacts
※ ICE abduction of immigrants
※ Police
※ Prisons
※ 800 U.S. military bases globally
※ Real estate development
※ Big Tech
※ The United States

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 26d

※ The genocide of Indigenous people to establish the “United States” and “Israel”
※ HBCUs needing to be on lockdown because of racist threats
※ Attacking a flotilla bringing life-saving supplies and food to Gaza
※ Islamophobia’s impacts

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 29d

We will all live just fine without new iPhones and new models.

We will not, however, survive without the Congo, part of what is considered the lungs of the world.

Add to, do not take away from, each other.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 29d

Apple just announced their new product line today.

We do not need the new iPhone Air.
We need air.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · Sep 6

If it was not crystal clear to you before now, the United States Empire cannot continue to exist if we want to be free. Ending Empire is the only way to liberation.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · Sep 6

The United States manufactures wars to justify its militarism, to run its capitalist colonialism, upon which its entire foundation of oppression is based.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · Sep 6

war.gov

This is now the official government site and name for what was known as the Department of Defense. The United States is a war corporation. Always.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · Sep 5

Google signed a 6-month, $45 million contract in June to promote propaganda for the settler colonizer Israel. This is in addition to the billions already spent on tech toward the genocide.

Reminder that no one needs to use Google products at all.

De-Google Your LIfe series at liberationtoolbox.io

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · Sep 5

Capitalist colonialism does not acknowledge land, because it views land only as property.

Land acknowledgments were never enough anyway. Ultimately, it is not that we must do land acknowledgments, it is that we must acknowledge the land. LandBack.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · Sep 5

Land acknowledgments have been disappearing in the DEIA purge.

While not a solution to Indigenous erasure and not actual LandBack, it certainly made many aware that the land itself is life and history, inextricable from Indigeneity.

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