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Cypurr Collective

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Established #420/2016 in NYC. We 💙 #cats #cryptoparties #cybersecurity and community education

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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 26/09/2026
UPDATE: due to rain, our workshop has been moved to Starr Barr in Bushwick from 2:45-3:45! Hope to see you there!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 23/09/2026
As 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
Text Reads: Cypurr Session, Threat Modeling, Anarchist Bookfair, Loisada Center, September 26th, 3:45-4:45

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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/09/2026
2 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/09/2026
Great workshop this past Saturday! Catch our next one at the Brooklyn Public Library on 11/14 on AI and Surveillance at Work!
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Cops 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.
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 14/09/2026
See ya this Saturday for the next bout of Cypurr fun!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 04/09/2026
See 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...
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CyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public Library
Cut 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 18/07/2026
Hey 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...
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CyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public Library
Cut 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 16/07/2026
Just two days away! Hope to see you there!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 03/07/2026
Cut 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...
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CyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public Library
Cut 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 02/06/2026
see you saturday at @transpecos.bsky.social!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 19/05/2026
This 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
Text Reads: Zines for Cybersecurity Trans Pecos June 6th 1-4 PM

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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 16/05/2026
See y’all today!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 13/05/2026
Bio 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.
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 13/05/2026
Next 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.
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 10/05/2026
See y’all tomorrow at @wonderville.nyc
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 08/05/2026
Re-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!
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5/7- Cypurr Super Secret Matinee: Exposing Pegasus @Property is Theft 6-9 PM

5/9- Table @ The Trees Show, Young Ethel’s 9-Midnight

5/10- Cypurr Super Secret Matinee: Surveillance Shorts @ Wonderville (21+) 3-5 PM

5/16- Cypurr Session: Communities Need Backup @Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza 3-5 PM
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 06/05/2026
See y’all tomorrow!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 29/04/2026
Next 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...
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CyPurr Session: Communities Need Backup | Brooklyn Public Library
Don'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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/04/2026
NEXT 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...
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Film Screening - GLOBAL SPYWARE SCANDAL: EXPOSING PEGASUS — The P.I.T.
Presented by Cypurr Cinema
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 21/04/2026
event 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.info
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We are already gathered
'We are already gathered' brings together people who are already gathered in datasets.
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 17/04/2026
Check 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...
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Cypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presents: Surveillance Shorts — WONDERVILLE
Join 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 06/03/2026
UPDATE: 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
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 03/03/2026
Upcoming 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...
Text Description: Cypurr Session Landlord Surveillance. Brooklyn Public Library Grand Armou PLaza March 21st, 3-5 PM

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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 31/01/2026
Hi 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
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/01/2026
Join 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...
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Break Up With Google — WONDERVILLE
Google… 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 20/01/2026
Next 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...
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Cypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presents: Seeking Mavis Beacon — WONDERVILLE
For 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...
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I am talking online age gates "at" the Brooklyn Library tomorrow (I'll be there by video -- but join the crowd there in person.
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 16/01/2026
Happy 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
* Cypurr Session A Real Kick in the KOSA
    * 1/17/26, 3-5 PM, Brooklyn Library Infocomons, Grand Army Plaza
    * For 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 affect folks of all different backgrounds. 
    * Guest speaker TBA

Reminder that our next Cypurr session is this Saturday! 

Plus, announcing our very special guest speaker: @eff Civil Liberties Director @davidgreene@mstdn.social who will be speaking on implications of internet-verification laws to individual liberties

Check out his bio here: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/david-greene

* Cypurr Super Secret Matinee: Seeking Mavis Beacon
    * 2/1/26, 3-5 PM, Wonderville (21+)
    * Come hang with us for this screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (Trailer: 
    * RSVP Page will be sent out in the coming week

* Cache_me_Outside and Cypurr Present: I think we should see other Engines
    * 2/2/26, 7-Late, Wonderville (21+)
    * New Year, New You, less Google! Join Cache_me_Outside and the Cypurr Collective at Wonderville for an evening of Google detox, cybersecurity tips, DJs, live coders and more! Bring your computer or phone for hands-on-help, or just come by to talk and hang. Let's De-Google together!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 08/01/2026
For 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...
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CyPurr Session: A Real Kick in the KOSA | Brooklyn Public Library
For 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 02/01/2026
Check 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...
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The Human Cost of Online Age Verification | Brooklyn Public Library
Learn 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 24/11/2025
1. What a great Cypurr weekend! Thank you for everyone who joined! But if a recap below:
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/11/2025
See y’all today!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 18/11/2025
Weekend of events starts Saturday! Hope to see y’all there
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 12/11/2025
Catch 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...
Text Reads: Cypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presnts Hackers. Time to boot up or shup up with a free afternoon of film and cybersecurity discussion. Wonderville 1185 Broadway Brooklyn Ages 21+ November 23rd, 2:30 to 5:30 PM

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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 10/11/2025
Catch 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...
Text Reads: Cypurr Session Protest and Privacy, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, November 22nd 3-5 PM.

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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 28/10/2025
1/ 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:
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 25/09/2025
See ya Saturday! @freedom.press
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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-20250927-0100pm
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CyPurr Session: Border Surveillance | Brooklyn Public Library
This 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 09/09/2025
1. 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.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/09/2025
ICE 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)
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EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware
This 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 07/09/2025
See y’all today at @wonderville.nyc
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 05/09/2025
Two days away! 💙
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 30/08/2025
One week away!
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 22/08/2025
NEXT 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...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/08/2025
Everything 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-...
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How to: Manage Your Digital Footprint
Search 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 01/08/2025
1/ Hi all! We had a great Cypurr Summer of events a couple weekends ago! See below for a bit of recap and resources:
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2025-07 Safe Browsing
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 03/07/2025
The 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.
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 07/07/2025
Join 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...
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Cypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 19/06/2025
1/2 Mark your calendars because Cypurr Summer is Upon us! 
Catch us next month for a weekend full of Cypurr events, including:
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