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PhD researcher media theory in surveillance art | film | photography | animation | architecture

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htfcuddles @htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com · 01/02/2026
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We made more than 100 cold calls. Each one began the same way: “You’ve been targeted by government-grade surveillance tech.” In our @lighthousereports.com collab with @revealnews.org, you can hear the voices on the other end. revealnews.org/podcast/cell...
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A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire.
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025
The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press 444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
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Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on free press does not only affect Hungary. It affects all of Europe
The so-called “Transparency Law”, currently pending approval, significantly undermines freedom of expression in Hungary — and its impacts are unlikely stop at the country’s borders.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
1/10 You’re just living your life. But everything—your heart rate, voice, pupil dilation—is being captured and analyzed. Not just to sell you things. But to steer what you believe. This is #Neurotargeting. This is control. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy
A photorealistic image of a young man with short dark hair walking down a city street, focused on his smartphone. He wears a dark navy T-shirt, a smartwatch, and carries a backpack. Overlaid graphics indicate biometric surveillance: a facial recognition frame outlines his face; icons label the tracking of eye movements, heart rate, voice tone, and news consumption. A surveillance camera and a news screen appear in the background, symbolizing constant monitoring. The word “BIOMETRICS” is prominently displayed at the top of the image.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"The scale at which DOGE is seeking to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, has never been done before, raising alarms with experts who fear it may lead to disastrous privacy violations for citizens, certified foreign workers, and undocumented immigrants."
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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth #Voices4Victory For years, U.S. climate activists were victims of a carefully targeted hacking campaign to gather information to thwart lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry. Investigators may have uncovered a link to a lobbying group. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Exclusive: Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between victims and an alleged attacker
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This is worth a listen by @newlinesmag.bsky.social with @arwadamon.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...
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The War We Don’t See
Journalist and humanitarian Arwa Damon returns to the podcast to discuss why she was recently denied entry into Gaza, the reasons why wars vanish from the public eye, and the personal cost of her year...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I think I'm hearing the sound of a thousand digital rights and privacy advocates collectively letting out a pained groan.
The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden administration DHS official said. But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Augustin Ferrari Braun writes that independent media's growing dependency on tech platforms raises questions over the capacity to stay autonomous in a digital space increasingly characterized by state intervention, monopolization, and commercial demands that don’t always align with public values.
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Independent Media has an Infrastructural Problem | TechPolicy.Press
We need to roll out infrastructures that foster public values and the common good over the market imperatives, writes Augustin Ferrari Braun.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#ResistanceRoots “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” ― John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes. Photo credit: Bettmann Archive / Getty Images.
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Very @inclinedvision.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The irony! It’s exactly those de-growth opponents who are now causing just that! Haha.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/04/2025
Call for expansion of Royal Navy surveillance after Kremlin spy devices found
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Call for expansion of Royal Navy surveillance after Kremlin spy devices found
Defence officials believe Trident nuclear fleet is latest target in Putin’s ‘greyzone’ war with the UK Britain is “behind the curve” in tracking Russia’s deep sea operations, an ex-minister has said, after spy sensors targeting Royal Navy submarines were found in waters around the UK. Tobias Ellwood, a former defence and Foreign Office minister, called for a huge expansion of the navy’s surveillance capability after it was revealed that a number of Kremlin spy devices had been seized by the military. Continue reading...
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory Today in history, 1968: Just after 6pm, a woman lost her husband, children lost their father, and the world lost a hero. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, leaving us with a mandate to carry on his work for equality, economic justice and civil rights. /1
Civil rights leader Andrew Young (L) and others on balcony of Lorraine motel pointing in direction of assailant after assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who is lying mortally wounded at their feet. Photo credit: Joseph Louw / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Images.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.
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van cartier @christopherxci.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025
ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/04/2025
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It's been a nice week on the "people are still reading my four year-old book" front. Here's Ray Nayler, author of my fave 🐙-based sci-fi novel The Mountain in the Sea, mentioning Living in Data as a recommended read: cosmiclog.com/2025/04/01/d...
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Dictators weaponize new technologies in fact and fiction
When Ray Nayler began writing his science-fiction novel about a repressive regime powered by artificial intelligence, he didn’t expect the story to be as timely as it turned out to be. He rea…
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 27/03/2025
Together with our publishing partners, Bellingcat continues the work of drone journalists who had been killed while documenting the war in Gaza, visualising the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...
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Shot From Above: The Dangerous Work of Drone Journalists in Gaza - bellingcat
Examining the high price those documenting devastation in Gaza pay.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s important to understand the context of AI as a part of a toolkit of fascism, and how it fits into the history of political and social repression in the United States, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Dia Kayyali:
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AI Surveillance on the Rise in US, but Tactics of Repression Not New | TechPolicy.Press
Resistance sends a message that intimidation tactics won’t work and to those targeted that they are not alone, writes Dia Kayyali.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 13/03/2025
Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/03/2025
During the Arab Spring, social media became a powerful tool for sharing real-time evidence through photos, videos, and testimonies. This podcast episode explores lessons from the Arab Spring and how evolving tech will shape future open source investigations. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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Episode 2: ‘The Arab Spring: A catalyst for citizen journalism’ - Comment Down Below | Bellingcat
Get more from Bellingcat on Patreon
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Very @inclinedvision.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“The last word on power is that resistance comes first.” … and Foucault wasn’t talking about electricity here
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Very @inclinedvision.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
First snow in the garden makes me happy.
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