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Aaron Mauro

@aaronmauro.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Digital Humanities at Brock University. Niagara, Canada. www.aaronmauro.cfdh.ca

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Campaign interference can come in many forms: The Reagan Campaign Delayed the Release of the Iranian Hostages newrepublic.com/article/1723...
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It’s All but Settled: The Reagan Campaign Delayed the Release of the Iranian Hostages
Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/
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Arcade
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...
alilleybrinker.com
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/r...
arstechnica.com
Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain | CBC News
Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving i...
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
panopti.ca
panopti.ca
panopti.ca — Map ALPR & Licence Plate Reader Cameras in Canada
See where automatic licence plate readers (ALPRs) and Flock-style surveillance cameras are deployed across Canada. An open-source, crowdsourced map built on OpenStreetMap.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Jason Arday's death sparks UK debate over academic rigor, racism after media 'frenzy' www.thestar.com/news/world/e...
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Jason Arday’s death sparks UK debate over academic rigor, racism after media ‘frenzy’
Cambridge University hailed him as the youngest Black professor in the institution’s history. He was found dead at his apartment in south London last week.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 17/08/2026
⚡️ Poland is preparing for war as Warsaw warns Russia could launch a major provocation within months.
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“We Are Preparing for War”: Poland Says Major Russian Provocation Could Be Months Away
Poland is preparing for potential war with Russia, developing advanced defense systems like the SAN counter-drone system under the East Shield program.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
cbc.ca
Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.
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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty today to participating in one of 2024's biggest cybercrimes therecord.media/guilty-plea-...
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Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Institutional neutrality: the case against - University Affairs universityaffairs.ca/opinion/inst... by Jennifer Simpson
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Institutional neutrality: the case against - University Affairs
Jennifer S. Simpson argues that universities must eschew neutrality to advance democracy, ethics and the public good.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Egale Canada Responds to Tim Hortons’ Harry Potter Campaign egale.ca/egale-in-act...
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration xtramagazine.com/culture/tim-...
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Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration | Xtra Magazine
Tim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
NoSignups - Open Source Tools : nosignups.net
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NoSignups
A directory of no-signup, in-browser, open-source tools you can use instantly in your browser
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/07/2026
The Atlas of Surveillance, our database mapping police surveillance tech across the U.S., turns six this week! Want to know how police are keeping tabs on you and your neighbors? Search for your town on the Atlas of Surveillance: www.atlasofsurveillance.org
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/07/2026
Following EFF and 404 Media’s report on Texas’s use of Flock cameras, eye-catching billboards popped up in Houston, warning drivers that if they’re pregnant, the state of Texas could be tracking them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights": Q&A with Mayday Health on the
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriff’s office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
www.rawrlab.com/godot_ninten...
rawrlab.com
RAWRLAB Games - Free Godot™ engine port for Nintendo Switch™ and Nintendo Switch™ 2
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
TrophyLab: trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/
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TrophyLab
Access to aggressor equipment and its analysis — a platform for those working on defense solutions.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Check out my strawpage! aaronmauro.straw.page
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aaronmauro's strawpage
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...
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Gaza genocide - Wikipedia
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Sad Wives of AI www.wired.com/story/meet-t...
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives absolutely hate it—and them.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Markets are rational 50 out of every 0 times.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
jmail.world
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Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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After hundreds protest Hamilton data centre proposal, committee denies Steelport planning application | CBC News
Hamilton’s Committee of Adjustment denied an application from Slate Asset Management to split up an industrial lot. The company has said it is considering building a data centre on part of it. Hundred...
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Data Feminism for Data Visualization Course openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...
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Introduction - Open Visualization Academy
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
40% of OSAP grants went to private career college students in 2024-25: data www.thetrillium.ca/news/educati...
thetrillium.ca
40% of OSAP grants went to private career college students in 2024-25: data
Data obtained by FOI request shows private career college OSAP recipients received on average over $15K in grants in 2024-25.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 28/05/2026
REALLY GOOD read: how to use LLMs to make you smarter, not dumber. Discusses oft-neglected context of viral claims, esp. that one MIT study regularly cited as evidence that #LLM use makes people dumber. AND has concrete, practical examples! cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/how-to-use...
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How to Use AI to Make Us Smarter
The headlines say AI is making us dumber. The research tells a more complicated story.
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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 27/05/2026
For those coming to town for TCAF, I'm making a thread of some other artsy fun things you might want to do while here. Obviously stopping by the festival founder's Beguiling/Little Island comic shops, 319 College Street. #TCAF
2 of of the 3 front glass sections of the Beguiling storeInside it's clean, white with lots of comics, zines, books, original art and Alex the guy who was Chip's model for Sex Criminals.Front of little island comics shop the third front of the shop, all attached inside.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
trek.epicrandomness.com
trek.epicrandomness.com
Star Trek Title Card Generator
Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
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The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14/05/2026
Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
insidehighered.com
“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane: www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
thatprivacyguy.com
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.ndtv.com/world-news/u...
ndtv.com
US Student Arrested For Jokingly Asking Benjamin Netanyahu to "Drop Bombs" On Her College
FIU police said they worked with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office to identify the student.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/a...
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Anthropic accidentally exposes Claude Code source code
: Oopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so well done. 👌
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Trump's next budget once again calls for massive cuts to science
Congress rejected huge cuts to science in 2026, but Trump is trying again.
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Sarah Stang @sarahstang.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I was quoted in the New York Times talking about Rosalina, my favourite Mario character (a galactic mother star goddess, what's not to love?)! Check it out here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/03/arts/nintendo-mario-galaxy-movie-rosalina-princesses.html
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Will Nintendo Solve Its Princess Problem in ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie?’
As the company releases the sequel “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the need for narrative has meant a new focus on its sparse cast of female characters.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty - tech.eu/2026/03/27/e...
tech.eu
Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
The open-source initiative promises seamless document compatibility, transparent governance, and reduced dependency on non-European platforms.
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Digital Humanities at Brock University @brock-ddh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We are hiring an Interactive Digital Media Specialist. This role maintains our development studios and supports research and teaching in the department. Join our award winning team as we grow our programs! #brocku brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...
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Interactive Digital Media Specialist, Research and Learning Support
Brock University is located on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, many of whom continue to live and work here today. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada ...
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Billion Dollar War on Trans People (With Alejandra Caraballo) m.youtube.com/watch?v=SJa4...
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The Billion Dollar War on Trans People (With Alejandra Caraballo)
YouTube video by Here We Come
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk. A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."
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Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunch
Leaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.
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Aaron Mauro @aaronmauro.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
March, 19-21: God is a comedian - by No1 no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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