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@knifedog.bsky.social
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dog with a knife. press guy at @eff.org. opinions are my own.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
VICTORY: A lawsuit seeking to end the Trump administration's social media surveillance program will move forward. eff.org/press/relea...
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Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media
NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move
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eve peyser @evepeyser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Lynchian" doesn't always refer to David. Sometimes it's John Carroll. Other times it's Marshawn.
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eve peyser @evepeyser.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
calling someone a “weasel” is a beautiful compliment. have you seen those beautiful creatures? i wish i was one of them.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
dam 10 years today since gawker died thats wild
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Fuck It
Goodnight, friends.
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eve peyser @evepeyser.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
me and my husband are about to make a new best friend
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
it's true, fighting for digital rights is like playing a cyberpunk video game it's cool www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues
When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I'd fight tech-authoritarianism from EFF's San Fra...
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
do you think will smith is in a tragedy or a comedy
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
how cops use surveillance tech: 1. police use face recognition to make a faulty ID 2. police use license plate readers and find the guy's car wasn't even spotted in the right COUNTY 3. police arrest the guy anyway
arstechnica.com
Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition
Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."
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DS (he/him) @beenafix.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I know Brutalist Architecture is not a favorite genre in the US, but the idea of tearing down Dallas City Hall is ridiculous. It is a part of the urban core, it is very unique, and I love how it differentiates the city. www.savedallascityhall.com
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Save Dallas City Hall | Dallas, TX
The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!
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eve peyser @evepeyser.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
why is the default sushi roll inside out now? when did this happen and why and can we go back to how things were before?
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Targeted advertising gives your location to the government—just ask CBP. eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"[Clovis police] monitored the walkout in real time with a network of approximately 500 cameras" "[Police] have identified two adults at the protest and are working to identify the others [...] with plans to file misdemeanor charges for 'Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor.'"
fresnobee.com
Clovis police pursue charges against parents who attended ICE student walkout
Police will pursue misdemeanor charges for two adults identified via surveillance cameras at this week’s anti-ICE student protest in Clovis.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
fdsklafjdsakl www.theverge.com/news/867967/...
theverge.com
Even the big dick subreddit is mad about ICE
“How hard I get when I think about abolishing ICE,” one post reads
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
if they were working from scratch, they very well might have gone for 'dr freeze' instead
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
originally introduced as 'mr zero' (an assumed name) in the comics. updated to 'dr fries/mr freeze' for the 60s tv adaptation. 'zero' has strong page appeal but i think 'freeze' is the core concept we're trying to convey here (and better for a spoken performance).
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"selling the personal info of Alzheimer’s patients" might sound like a cybercrime gang racket but nah it's just some everyday shit in the mass surveillance economy
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Knowing how often face recognition and other AI-based recognition and decision making tech gets things wrong--to take its decision as unimpeachable even if a person can *prove* they're a US citizen is unspeakably bad.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
big ups to EFF’s lawyers and happy huluween, marco theintercept.com/2025/10/16/u...
theintercept.com
Unions Sue to Stop AI Surveillance Powering Trump’s “Catch and Revoke” Deportation Scheme
From pro-Palestine students to Charlie Kirk commenters, the immigration system is being weaponized against people whose views Trump doesn’t like.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
tech guys got tired of inventing the bus so now they keep inventing ED-209
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/09/2025
EFF’s Hudson Hongo opens the EFF Awards: “If you’re here, you believe in a better future and recognize the central role of technology as we work to build one. I'm thrilled to help celebrate some remarkable individuals and organizations that have led the way towards that future.”
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
hard to overstate how openly racist this entire scheme is www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance
Sacramento’s power company and law enforcement agencies have been running an illegal mass surveillance scheme for years, using our power meters as home-mounted spies. The Electronic Frontier Foundatio...
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
in this week’s issue: cops are disgusting
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨some personal news🚨 i’m the new editor of the electronic frontier foundation newsletter, first published in 1990(!) www.eff.org/effector/37/6
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👁️ Big Brother's Little Problem
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
my theory is that calling chatgpt a 'game changer' is a police honeypot to get criminals to use the only reference less reliable than the anarchist cookbook
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/01/2025
Mark Zuckerberg says people in California are more inherently biased than people in Texas
5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/12/2024
Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night. “As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”
futurism.com
Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students' Homes
Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — and sending the police to their homes.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
really jealous of the guy who lives in hawaii working at an aquarium and has a side hustle selling stickers about how elon musk is the worst
nytimes.com
Tesla Owners Use Bumper Stickers to Express Feelings About Elon Musk
As Elon Musk has become a key player in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s world, Tesla owners are marking their cars to signify where they stand — for or against.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Minority Report promised us wet little freaks that dream about murder and instead we got the WolfCryer3000, a million-dollar computer that goes AWOOGA whenever it detects brown people
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"At the end of the day, we support the Constitution" is really an all-timer of a non-comment
theintercept.com
These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
The Intercept asked data companies that store personal data if they will help Trump conduct mass deportations. Few had anything to say.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/10/2024
just won the lottery!! I don’t even remember buying a ticket lmao. I can see all the townspeople coming over right now, probably wanna congratulate me. probably jealous lol
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
put it on the tombstone of this world
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
chelsea manning did 7 years but the guy who titles the simpsons episodes walks free
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
'first stop is always instanbul' — just iconic
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 26/09/2024
It Keeps Happening
Unsealed indictment against Eric Adams:

The Adams Staffer also agreed to speak with FBI agents and falsely denied
the criminal conduct of herself and ADAMS, among others. At one point during her voluntary interview, the Adams Staffer excused herself to a bathroom and, while there, deleted the encrypted messaging applications she had used to communicate with ADAMS, the Promoter, the Turkish
Official, the Airline Manager, and others.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
tic tacs were pretty good whatever happened to tic tacs
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old www.404media.co/paralyzed-jo...
404media.co
Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton. After an accessory to the device broke, the company refused to fix it.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
not a coincidence, i think, that this is the most interesting twitter clone to read and also the one where i most often see a post and think ‘oh, twitter drove you insane’
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
like if his letter to jim jordan wasn't 'politics,' what is? x.com/judiciarygop...
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
i think there's an interesting story in here about how zuck and other platform ceos are altering how they engage with governments, but really we need to do a find-and-replace to change 'politics' to 'pro-social causes.'
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
i love james cameron's movies but no one should be surprised he's team machine. like you know dude would boot up skynet in a second if it promised to turn him into a submarine.
hollywoodreporter.com
James Cameron Joins Board of Stability AI in Coup for Tech Firm
The director says that “the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave” of film technology, as he joins the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion AI model.
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
‘delete my data’ probably doesn’t mean what you think it does dogjail.substack.com/p/nowhere-to...
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🕵️‍♂️ Nowhere to Hide
Big Tech is getting your data whether you like it or not
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
the system ‘working’ looks like police responding to someone’s mental health episode by shooting a random bystander in the head nymag.com/intelligence...
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ceej @ceej.online · 19/09/2024
you can determine how bad a political scandal is by looking at its permalink slug
the permalink slug for the mark robinson article: /kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
idk if this dude is a nazi but his pr guy is no goebbels
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
just a remarkable quote for a flack to freely give a reporter
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
just like a staggering advance in corporate bullying dogjail.substack.com/p/when-your-...
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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 When Your AI Clone Sells Out
Your pretty face is going to sell
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
“you keep using that word…”
Israeli authorities, who rarely discuss operations in other countries, declined to comment on whether Israel was responsible. But the sophisticated and complex operation bore the hallmarks of Israel's intelligence arency, Mossad, which has a history of carrying out targeted assassinations abroad.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
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You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public
When we spend time fighting the growing ubiquity of both public and private surveillance cameras we often hear a familiar refrain: “you don’t have an expectation of privacy in public.” This is not
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hudson @knifedog.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
new day, new form of dubious surveillance tech showing racial disparities www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
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