evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 4hIt has been five months since my last keynote about AI and so much has happened that I need to write a whole new talk. 0841
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 4hI think that what Blacksky is doing is very cool and I enjoy seeing a platform thoughtfully walking through the trade-offs involved in hosting adult content. 16010
Reposted by evacideMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/09/2026Soooooooo. As expected, the guy in that story about Muse doing FB Marketplace deals *had* in fact clicked the permission to "always allow" Muse to do things for him. Still very, very poor design by Meta such that the user didn't understand what permission he was giving... 2427266
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001895967
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I identify primarily as a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of. 81789
Reposted by evacideElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/09/2026What DraftKings is doing with their targeted promotions is just one example of how online behavioral advertising causes real harm to real people.eff.orgDraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral AdvertisingOnline sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio... 116268
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic. 13767104
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I grew up expecting that 2026 would be grimdark cyberpunk, but I never had the audacity to imagine that the future would be this stupid: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...nytimes.comIt’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas SuburbIn Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’ 1329852
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons. 431415333
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In every community, there are predators. And how that community deals with high-status predators says a lot about them. nypost.com/2026/09/24/t...nypost.comSilicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100’ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene” 714846
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A world of always-on cameras and microphones on peoples' bodies is a very serious privacy and security problem for the people wearing them and for everyone around them. 1227099
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm pretty sure this is the central thesis of @astra.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social's "End Times Fascism." 2749
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will actually just be people working in a call center." www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 58835
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Today in Pervert Glasses News: www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...lemonde.frParis prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glassesProsecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.' 826488
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026German agencies use the linked-device features in WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram to receive messages without breaking encryption. cybernews.com/privacy/poli...cybernews.comGerman police read WhatsApp messages without cracking encryption45 days of Signal history may be exposed by German police messaging surveillance using linked devices, Netzpolitik says. Read what the documents reveal 712474
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026AI doomers getting all of their ideas about the apocalypse from science fiction seem to have missed the whole point of the Jackpot, which is that the apocalypse is long and boring. 914925
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have seen this mix go terribly wrong in so many different social and professional circles over (sigh) so many years. 515913
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Inside you are two wolves: one wishes to write a quick snarky headline and the other chimes in with "actually, it's much more nuanced than that" and begins to write a 2000-word blog post. 812715
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Buyers of pervert glasses join the war on pervert glasses: www.latimes.com/business/sto...latimes.comMeta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users' consent, lawsuit claimsPeople who use Meta's smart glasses or were recorded with the gadget are worried about how the social media giant is using their photos and videos. 851472645
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Adult ballet class is great place to learn that you have no idea how to stand, move your arms, or lift your leg correctly. 122026
Reposted by evacidejon greig @jgreig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Law enforcement agencies in Norway are investigating whether Norwegian telecom Telenor aided crimes against humanity through its work providing customer data to the brutal military regime currently governing Myanmar therecord.media/norway-inves...therecord.mediaNorway announces investigations into telecom Telenor’s work with Myanmar juntaOslo-based Telenor potentially enabled crimes against humanity and violated sanctions in its dealings with the military regime that took over Myanmar in 2021, Norwegian authorities said. 0289
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just remember that when you opt into allowing Apple to use your customer data to train AI, that means humans seeing and hearing details about your life that maybe you're not so comfortable sharing when you think of it that way. appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 114355
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy. 1342665
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Good news! You don't even need to be a cop in order to use Flock to stalk a domestic abuse survivor, you just need to be related to one. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comSan Jose officer used Flock cameras to help relative track domestic violence victim, chief saysA San Jose police officer allegedly accessed the department’s license-plate tracking system to monitor a victim of alleged domestic abuse and give Flock Safety camera information to his relative. 17679378
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This article makes two important points: 1. People using ChatGPT expose sensitive data because they think it is private 2. OpenAI relies on hundreds of human contractors reviewing replies to improve their models www.404media.co/inside-proje...404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 618775
Reposted by evacideTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much. 192029659
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."recordsofenemysurveillance.comcara esten hurtle 2639274
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Halp. I'm going to this Haute and Freddy show and I don't have a big enough neck ruff. 1380
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026On Sept 11th, I think about Cindy Cohn's description of what it was like to come into work at EFF on September 12th, knowing that everything positive she had hoped to achieve was now on hold and we were in for several desperate years of playing defense. 529632
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Some of my favorite activists are historians and/or anthropologists and I really wish the digital rights space hired more people like this. 712313
Reposted by evacideMatthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Really happy to say that today's episode of @npr.org's Code Switch is wide reaching interview with me about the current state of police surveillance, the harms being caused by this system, and the deep history of how we got here.npr.orgWhy we’re all being watched : Code SwitchThere’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge... 319693
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm sure lots of other people have said this, but if I worked for a company on a product that I thought had a >10% chance of killing all humans within the next decade and we had no plan for how to stop it, I would quit and devote myself full time to destroying this product. 28475105
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...mail.cyberneticforests.comModels Don't Go RogueStochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o... 8288110
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People use the term "digital sovereignty" to mean a lot of different things. At EFF, we think digital sovereignty should be an opportunity for users around the world to build more resilient, open systems and the skills and infrastructure to maintain them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgDigital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could BeThe term “digital sovereignty” has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, and platform regulation. Governments throughout the global... 18417
Reposted by evacideZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal. 27992353
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse as well as GOP congressman Pat Harrigan of North Carolina sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, urging him to add three Indian companies to the department’s economic sanctions “entity list.” techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/g...techcrunch.comGroup of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms | TechCrunchThe three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation. 0296
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Every few years I am struck by the urge to write fiction: I make up a bunch of weird little guys, give them problems, and then wander off. 111233
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I am clearly not one of the most influential posters on BlueSky because people are still here giving incorrect digital privacy and security advice. 1839437
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Apple's latest round of state-sponsored hacking notifications is starting to bear fruit. Students and opposition activists were targeted with spyware in Serbia. Pegasus was installed remotely. NoviSpy was installed while a target was being held in police custody. www.ft.com/content/c9c3...ft.comStudents and opposition activists targeted with spyware in SerbiaTwelve of those targeted received notifications from Apple that their iPhones were compromised 79753
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I post a lot of stories about cops using Flock to stalk former or current partners, but don't forget that cops also use Flock to intimidate and harass people who try to hold them accountable. 9455225
Reposted by evacideCenter for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 02/09/2026What happens to the right to anonymous speech when accessing the internet increasingly requires proving who you are? Join CDT and STT for The Death of Online Anonymity? on Sept. 23–24. 12–2:30 PM ET | Online via Zoom Free to Register: foso26.cdt.org 22818
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Too lazy to read the whole Meta settlement? Perhaps you need @davidgreene.bsky.social to read it for you and explain why it's good for Meta and bad for just about everyone else: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgMeta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media UsersMeta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail. 314474
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Achievement unlocked: I'm going to be the guest of honor at a con that I attended for the first time when I was in high school. 1331821
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Is Flock the only mass surveillance tool/network that people should be worried about? No. But it is an entry point for people from all walks of life to the fight against mass surveillance and I'm glad people are paying attention and taking action. 12777171
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Organizers and activists who oppose the Trump administration's policies should absolutely be paying close attention to this story: theintercept.com/2026/08/28/t...theintercept.comTrump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.Trump designated a collective that provides anonymous email services as a foreign “terrorist” group. It could curtail free speech in the U.S. 617792
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Straps coach put on the soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show during training today and everyone in the gym knew the words. Circus aerialists are just theater kids with biceps. 71536
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Everyone deserves to be free. But some people deserve to be freed last. 117416