Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 26/09/2026UPDATE: due to rain, our workshop has been moved to Starr Barr in Bushwick from 2:45-3:45! Hope to see you there! 000
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 23/09/2026As mentioned, TWO chances to catch Cypurr fever this weekend: MORUS Film Fest RSVP www. eventbrite.com/e/14th-annual-morus-film-festival-spyborg-tickets-1998438711984?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio: Cypurr @ Anarchist Book Fair 020
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/09/20262 opportunities this weekend to catch Cypurr cats in the wild! 1. Threat Modeling Workshop at the MORUS Film Festival- 9/25, 7:30 PM (30 Min), garden at 6 St and Ave B 2. Threat Modeling Workshop at the Anarchist Book Fair- 9/26, 3:45-4:45 PM, Loisada Center anarchistbookfair.net/2026-nyc-ana...anarchistbookfair.netWorkshopsOnline or join in-person at P.I.T. 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/09/2026Great workshop this past Saturday! Catch our next one at the Brooklyn Public Library on 11/14 on AI and Surveillance at Work! 000
Reposted by Cypurr Collective404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.404media.coCops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. 6319120
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 04/09/2026See the info below for our next Cypurr Session on 9/19 at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social , Grand Army Plaza. This is a redo of our July event, which was cancelled due to weather. Event Link Here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...bklynlibrary.orgCyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public LibraryCut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy... 000
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 18/07/2026Hey cats, given the dangerous weather this afternoon today's event is *canceled*. Stay safe, and we'll share here when we reschedule 🐾 www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...bklynlibrary.orgCyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public LibraryCut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy... 000
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 03/07/2026Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how some AI tools work and what it means for privacy and mass surveillance. Bring your device for the second half! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...bklynlibrary.orgCyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public LibraryCut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy... 000
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 19/05/2026This workshop is an introduction to personal digital privacy and information security practices! We will cover threat modeling, encryption & getting around the city. Material will be provided for us to make personalized digital privacy zines to craft our own guides. @transpecos.bsky.social 120
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 13/05/2026Bio for our second speaker for Saturday: Ven Qiu is an archivist and creative technologist based in New York. As a memory worker committed to data sovereignty, they are interested in the sociopolitical and infrastructural conditions of digital preservation. 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 13/05/2026Next event this Saturday! Check the bio for our speaker below: Olivia M. Ross is a Caribbean American information worker, documentarian, and secretkeeper from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisual & software preservation informs embodied research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, & place. 000
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 08/05/2026Re-uploading with correction on Cypurr Session date,we got a BUNCH of great events coming up in May! Hope to see you at one or all! 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 29/04/2026Next Cypurr Session, Communities Need Backup 6/16, 3-5 PM We'll discuss the importance of digital archival practices (with some guest speakers) before walking through how to download your social media history & view it offline (and optionally, delete it!). www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...bklynlibrary.orgCyPurr Session: Communities Need Backup | Brooklyn Public LibraryDon't let your community 404! Building a personal archive of your life online doesn't just help you regain control, it preserves an important snapshot for the history of everyday working people. We'll... 011
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/04/2026NEXT EVENT! Check out our next Cypurr Cinema event at the PIT, featuring a talk from Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard We'll be screening the @pbsnews.org Frontline Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, investigating the powerful Pegasus spyware www.propertyistheft.org/events/cifbk...propertyistheft.orgFilm Screening - GLOBAL SPYWARE SCANDAL: EXPOSING PEGASUS — The P.I.T.Presented by Cypurr Cinema 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 21/04/2026event now featuring a q+a with Beck Haberstroh and Imani Thompson discussing their project "We Are Already Gathered" "We are already gathered is an event series that brings together communities with shared surveillance risks." More on the project here: https:// wearealreadygathered.infowearealreadygathered.infoWe are already gathered'We are already gathered' brings together people who are already gathered in datasets. 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 17/04/2026Check out our next event at @wonderville.nyc on 5/10! We'll be showing and talking about a bunch of shorts having to do with autonomy and surveillance www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...wonderville.nycCypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presents: Surveillance Shorts — WONDERVILLEJoin Cypurr as we take on the surveillance-scape through film! This month, we’ll be taking in small bites of cinema with discussions on the ever-growing threat of government use of surveillance tech a... 000
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 06/03/2026UPDATE: This event will also feature a Q + A from the Ridgewood Tenants Union discussing tenants rights and organizing in your building. The Ridgewood Tenants Union is a volunteer anti-gentrification group working together to grow the power of tenants and unhoused peoples in Southern Queens 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 03/03/2026Upcoming Cypurr Session on Landlord Tech at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social with special speaker from the @legalaidnyc.bsky.social Paula Garcia-Salazar! Check the link below for more info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp... 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 31/01/2026Hi all! Just plugging tomorrow's Cypurr Screening event, now with a speakback featuring film director Jazmin Jones! Food and drink proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Defense Fund. Plus (!!) we’ll be giving away three DVDs to folks who donate Hope to see you there! -Cypurr Folk 011
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/01/2026Join Cache Me Outside & Cypurr Collective at @wonderville.nyc to break up with Google! Bring your laptop or phone & we'll lock in on alternate search tools, email services, browsers, migrating account data, removing ourselves from search results, and more! RSVP: www.wonderville.nyc/events/break...wonderville.nycBreak Up With Google — WONDERVILLEGoogle… it's not me, it's you. And the AI overviews. Do you want to leave Google in 2025 but don't know where to start? Do you wish the process of moving your digital life over was a little less over... 064
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 20/01/2026Next Cypurr Event! Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for a screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones) which “investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.” Discussion to follow! www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...wonderville.nycCypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presents: Seeking Mavis Beacon — WONDERVILLEFor this month’s journey into tech-cinema, we’re taking a break from our usual 1995-cyberpunk-ethos to screen Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones), a film which “investigates the disappea... 010
Reposted by Cypurr CollectiveDavid Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I am talking online age gates "at" the Brooklyn Library tomorrow (I'll be there by video -- but join the crowd there in person. 011
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 16/01/2026Happy New year! Slate of Cypurr workshops coming up, check them out! Tomorrow! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social talking KOSA with special guest @davidgreene.bsky.social from @eff.org Plus a movie event and social at @wonderville.nyc in February 032
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 08/01/2026For this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like) @bklynlibrary.bsky.social Speaker TBA More Info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...bklynlibrary.orgCyPurr Session: A Real Kick in the KOSA | Brooklyn Public LibraryFor this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like), and discuss how they affe... 0106
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 02/01/2026Check out this upcoming talk on issues around age verification policies from @eff.org @genzforchange.org and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience coming up at @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on 1/15! www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/hum...bklynlibrary.orgThe Human Cost of Online Age Verification | Brooklyn Public LibraryLearn about the risks of age verification laws from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We'll tune in together to the livestream of this latest in the EFFecting Change series, and participate in... 020
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 24/11/20251. What a great Cypurr weekend! Thank you for everyone who joined! But if a recap below: 110
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 18/11/2025Weekend of events starts Saturday! Hope to see y’all there 020
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 12/11/2025Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for our next Cypurr Matinee! We’re finishing up our trilogy of 1995 cyberpunk cinema w/ a screening of the Hackers (1995, Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Dir: Iain Softley)! Movie followed by discussion on tech and cybersecurity withfriends.events/event/73QoIb... 062
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 10/11/2025Catch our next Cypurr Session at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social (Grand Army Plaza) on 11/22! This session’s focus is on Protest Digital Security, featuring a very special talk from members of Cache Me Outside! See details here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp... 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 28/10/20251/ Mark your calendars for our next slate of Cypurr events, coming up on 11/22 and 11/23. Check out descriptions below, and RSVP through the links below: 100
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 15/09/2025🐱 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! 🐱 Catch us at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on 9/27 for a Cypurr Session on Border Surveillance featuring a talk from @freedom.press www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp... central-library-info-20250927-0100pmbklynlibrary.orgCyPurr Session: Border Surveillance | Brooklyn Public LibraryThis month, we'll be taking a look at ways you can protect your privacy at the border! Featuring a special guest from Freedom of the Press Foundation, we'll be discussing topics such as how CBP decide... 010
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 09/09/20251. Thanks to everyone who came out to the #JohnnyMneumonic screening on Sunday at @wonderville.nyc ! We had a great time watching this 90s gem, with a great talk afterwards. 110
Reposted by Cypurr CollectiveElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/09/2025ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)eff.orgEFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions MalwareThis statement can be attributed to EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper QuintinIt was recently reported by Jack Poulson on Substack that ICE has reactivated its 2 million dollar contract with Paragon... 4272188
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/08/2025NEXT EVENT Catch Cypurr at @wonderville.nyc on 9/7 for a watch/talk on 90s classic Johnny Mnemonic! Synopsis: A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. RSVP Here: withfriends.events/event/CHWXnJ... 000
Reposted by Cypurr CollectiveElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/08/2025Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...ssd.eff.orgHow to: Manage Your Digital FootprintSearch for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like addresses, email accounts, usernames, or family members. Each piece of information is often public and not typically seen as harmful. But together these parts of your identity... 420586
Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 01/08/20251/ Hi all! We had a great Cypurr Summer of events a couple weekends ago! See below for a bit of recap and resources:slides.com2025-07 Safe BrowsingA presentation created with Slides. 100
Reposted by Cypurr CollectiveCypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 03/07/2025The internet doesn't have to be scary. Whether you're worried about scam sites or creepy surveillance, there are steps you can take to keep your browsing safer and private. This month we're joined by the @eff.org technologists behind Privacy Badger. first half will be hybrid. 1314
Reposted by Cypurr CollectiveCypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 07/07/2025Join the Cypurr folks for an afternoon matinee of The Net (1995, Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Dir: Irwin Winkler) at Wonderville on 7/20 from 2-5 (Ages 21+)! Movie will be followed by a discussion on tech and cybersecurity RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/236646... 022
Reposted by Cypurr CollectiveCypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 19/06/20251/2 Mark your calendars because Cypurr Summer is Upon us! Catch us next month for a weekend full of Cypurr events, including: 152