Sign in

Shreyas Minocha

@shreyasminocha.me
44 followers 127 following 1 posts

Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech shreyasminocha.me

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Changing the brand of your mass surveillance tool doesn’t make it any less of a mass surveillance tool.
govtech.com
Boston Swaps Flock Safety for New License Plate Readers
A report outlines how Boston police launched pilots with Motorola and Axon as replacement platforms, which raised new questions about compliance with a city council ordinance.
417054
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
9465734511
Shreyas Minocha @shreyasminocha.me · 10/08/2026
I miss what Southwest used to be before Elliott
020
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Internet Archive @archive.org · 20/05/2026
Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
savethearchive.com
Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!
The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.
212340
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Riana @riana.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
sometimes @jasonkoebler.bsky.social goes OFF about something and it is always hugely rewarding to read, and today's installment is deeply thought-provoking and brought me to the edge of tears once or twice www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
404media.co
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
022
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
David Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026
have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.
262843848
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Michael A. Specter 👻 @mikespecter.com · 18/03/2026
Excited that my grad student @shreyasminocha.me's work on Age Verification has been accepted to IEEE S&P! You can read about it in Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... Preprint: mikespecter.com/assets/pdf/A...
2128
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/03/2026
Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.
eff.org
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...
13801336
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
When it comes to Internet privacy, there’s surprisingly little daylight between the UK and China.
3268
Reposted by Shreyas Minocha
evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
When we talk about the problems with Bluetooth-enabled physical trackers, we usually talk about AirTags, but let us save some rage for Tile, powered by this paper discussing Tile's privacy, security, and accountability problems: arxiv.org/abs/2510.003...
arxiv.org
Security and Privacy Analysis of Tile's Location Tracking Protocol
We conduct the first comprehensive security analysis of Tile, the second most popular crowd-sourced location-tracking service behind Apple's AirTags. We identify several exploitable vulnerabilities an...
59132