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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 17/10/2026

the Muse M looks like the Mobilize M, you could think you’re giving your personal data to a fuzzy creature and accidentally sign up for a get out the vote campaign

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/10/2026

It’s October and I filed and it was easy www.nyc.gov/main/click-t...

Screenshot of complaint:

Review and submit your complaint
Business information
ADVANCE PUBLICATIONS INC
Conde Naste Publications
Main office:
9100 Wilshire Blvd Ste 710
Beverly Hills, California 90212-3461

What happened
Select all that apply for your complaint
It was hard to cancel the service
Describe your complaint

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 09/10/2026

a quote that is so Anne Carson AND so the opposite of “AI discourse” drink it up, I know you are thirsty

“The things you think of to link are not in your own control. It's just who you are, bumping into the world. But how you link them is what shows the nature of your mind.
Individuality resides in the way links are made.” — Anne Carson

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026

I was brainwashed today and I liked it

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026

two additional different stations, maybe they’re like this everywhere

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 01/10/2026

I gotta keep this tab open constantly and just add a long list to the bottom: imgflip.com/memegenerato...

meme that pits "surveillance usps trucks" (man w knife) against someone still processing ring body worn cameras frt at wegman;s

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 30/09/2026

mutual aid but internet feed your cravings for internet etc.

photo of flyer for NYC Mesh:
Community Dinner Meets Community Internet
NYC Mesh powers inter at Ridgewood Commons
Learn how you too can connect to the fast affordable and reliable internet
10/4/26 5pm Ridgewood Commons
nycmesh.net

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 30/09/2026

^ Photo taken by me, use it for whatever you want. More:

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 29/09/2026

reject America dot gov, embrace Flood Hinge (it's like Hinge but for propaganda about how data centers are bad) via sfpc.study/blog/disturb...

screenshot of a project that shows data centers in the Hinge dating app prompt format, they are all 29 years old

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 19/09/2026

I should read the infrastructure book huh? I love infrastructure

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 16/09/2026

sent this synopsis to my students, if you haven’t been following & it’s helpful for you while speaking to your hair dresser

Screenshot of email that says — The latest LLM doom news cycle:
• 7/16: Hugging Face reports discovering that OpenAl agents had escaped their sandbox and hacked outside systems.
• 7/30: Anthropic discloses similar incidents.
• 8/26: OpenAl publishes an incident report.
• 9/8: An Anthropic employee's resignation post goes viral, stating that
"the people building Al earnestly believe it could kill everyone" and launching a public campaign around extinction risk. Critics thereafter flag the episode as another form of doom marketing.
• 9/9: Meanwhile, Anthropic is reported to be monitoring_anti-Al activists.
• 9/12: Anthropic's CEO publishes Pace the Frontier, calling for a self-regulated, coordinated slowdown;
OpenAl's Sam Altman and xAl's Elon Musk endorse the proposal. Critics thereafter argue that the timing of a global slowdown is financially. convenient for the companies advocating it as they struggle to meet their own promises, and that focusing on speculative extinction risk can distract from regulating_harms already happening.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 14/09/2026

What is in the organizer’s tech stack right now? I am writing something about it but first tell me what doesn’t belong here and what I am missing. are.na/rebecca-will...

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 08/09/2026

I’m always, forever, constantly saying some version of this

Screengrab of Succession’s Logan Roy saying “Everything everywhere is always moving forever.”

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 08/09/2026

say what you will about me, I’ve never made this face in my life

Sam Altman and Elizabeth Holmes making the same disconcerting wide eyed smile expression from @jeczjan.eurosky.social quoting @gonebabygone
“Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this”

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/09/2026

I added a little README to my GitHub to make a little profile landing page bio and added my most salient anecdote

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/09/2026

Still great / wonderful perma.cc/H7GM-8BT6

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 08/08/2026

the thing Mayor Mamdani is doing now where he responds to social media videos of problems with social media videos of fixes is connected to people and the real world it’s not $ or a data point or a take, it’s not a number you can juice from behind a curtain

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 29/07/2026

two tech article images from today no disrespect to either artist but guess which image I like more based on my personality and interests

Garden of earthly delights remix holding a phone

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 25/07/2026

I understood. :( Don’t let this slush fund persist for future abuses; hook IT spending back up to democratically decided programmatic goals and proper congressional oversight.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/07/2026

I’m excited to report Conde Naste and many others on Oct 1 via 311 portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kan... I’m also excited to track how enforcement goes locally and watch the nationwide effects.

Screenshot of 311 portal page that says:
The "Click to Cancel" rule allows you to file a complaint against a business that makes it difficult to cancel subscriptions. The rule goes into effect on October 1, 2026.
Under the "Click to Cancel" rule, businesses that offer subscriptions:
• Must

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/07/2026

Why ask for money under the “DOGE” moniker (www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...) if it’s done, they haven’t tagged spending under DOGE since March but I’d watch that space and what it is called now / next: openomb.org/search?term=... My point: the systemic funding authority remains alive & well!

Screenshot of budget - politico reporting said: “The White House budget proposal released in April sought $35 million for the U.S. DOGE Service. However, at that same hearing, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) noticed in the request ‘that DOGE was pretty much eliminated.’

Screen shot of open omb tracking appropriations

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 29/06/2026

doesn’t this make you want to investigate this offline thing

resist technological dystopia screen for screen printing t-shirts

Flyer that says “the event is the medium”

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 27/06/2026

I intentionally let my old domain expire (it was .us, I decided I was a global citizen), and now someone has picked it up, and it redirects to cockfighting videos, very funny, lesson learned, I suppose

screenshot of website with stills of cockfighting videos

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 27/06/2026

I really really enjoyed having to call the hotline, then call a bookstore (to make sure they still had copies), then pick up the paper schedule make me do that for more things

bike w summer of ludd schedule tied to the back with a caption that says “gps? where we’re going we don’t need gps”

poster for summer of ludd that says “not everything is online”

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 23/06/2026

Okay, I made a website: Reflecting on the Reflection Pool Restoration Try to beat the algae with the 3 Ps: - Paint - Peroxide - Police and it does nothing. Nature triumphs. Enjoy - PRs to make this better welcome! rebeccawilliams.github.io/reflecting-p...

Screenshot of an interactive satirical website. Users can fight spreading algae in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with Paint, Peroxide, and Police, but nature keeps winning.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 22/06/2026

this was a minor point in my newsletter but I really need people to appreciate how slow and watered down privacy legislation has been going in comparison to age verification legislation and it’s entirely explained by the lobbying involved in each; tech corporations want the tracking

$New unregulated technologies cast this shadow long and deep. Facial recognition has made your face your ID, ad trackers have normalized persistent tracking online as the default, and now Al-fueled bots and deepfakes insist all humans need even more and more confirmation that they are real. Privacy laws have struggled to gain traction in the United States without being watered down by Big Tech. Meanwhile, age verification legislation—which encourages more tracking online and has been backed by a remarkably successful lobbying effort—has outpaced consumer privacy laws in a fraction of the time, despite mounting evidence that they do not work as intended and create harmful side effects. It's a$

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 21/05/2026

my reaction to this was the horror of talking to the social media apps

Mayor Mamdani tweet comparing him speaking to social media mics to FDR speaking to news mic during his fire side chats

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 16/05/2026

I appreciate this analogous example where abolitionists radicalized NIMBY folks against prisons to learn about other bad things about prisons. inquest.org/organizing-t...

Screen grab of text that says: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs: This brings to mind another story related to the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition. At one point in the campaign, organizers identified the need to organize the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization where the jail is located. They were like, "We know their orientation is going to be against a jail expansion through NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) politics-as if the main harms of the jail were the risks posed to homeowners and their property values by incarcerated people and their loved ones coming to the neighborhood-but can we shift that so people are also against the violence of criminalization and jailing?" Not by coming in and demanding that everyone "be abolitionists." But to go and do teach-ins about the various ways the jail wasn't in their or their neighbors' interest, to steer the neighborhood association away from only thinking about property values, to highlighting the layered violence of jailing. I was not in these teach-ins, but I'm sure there were people there who talked about "criminals" and "danger" and so on. But the organizers didn't leave the room. They didn't shut down the conversation. They shifted the conversation by engaging in political education that not only met people where they were at but deepened collective analysis by raising questions about city priorities marked by uneven investments in carceral versus social institutions. And the Mid-City Neighborhood Organization came out against building a bigger jail, which had a real impact on their council member's vote. These homeowners were not people who would typically be seen as likely allies, but organizing them made them part of the struggle.

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/05/2026

I’m seeing ads from this company more and more on the NYC subway, but New Yorkers haven’t given it the Friend dot com treatment yet, I’m curious when they will

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 05/05/2026

If you immediately thought I need to read the Palantir book to better know my enemy, you should join our next Civic Tech Book Club session. Details: civictechbook.club/The-Technolo... Subscribe for updates: framagroupes.org/sympa/subscr...

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 03/05/2026

this is not the first anti-Real ID skit at SNL, please tell me which writer hates Real ID so I can besties with them

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 26/04/2026

I’d prefer that Wired, and journalists generally, not normalize facial recognition search. This added little to the story and just teaches people to go out and use these tools, which Wired is well aware can have harmful consequences. From: www.wired.com/story/califo...

Screenshot of article that says “A search in a public facial recognition database returns only two images, both apparently of him as an undergraduate.”

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 25/04/2026

gotta paint the water bright American flag blue

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 09/04/2026

this would be a beautiful LinkedIn avatar but I feel I must hold back

Firewalk with me, but it’s me and my dog

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 06/04/2026

The council info shifted to www.councils.gov/fpc/ but I am not seeing the law library, that is really a shame; I hope they migrate all that info, it is still here: web.archive.org/web/20260215...

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 30/03/2026

redaction software that feels like that Black Mirror episode

CaseGuardAI demo redacting faces and license plates LIVE

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 21/03/2026

need to print this out and mail it to every legislator (related: do they still do those posterboards of tweets in Congress or no? feels like I haven't seen those in a sec)

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