Reposted by uRiventybones is an inherently spooky name imo @ventybones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omg this is so wholesome. Toronto's holding a "youth vote" during early voting days this month. The kids vote for next year's tree of the year! 124
Reposted by uRiKnight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2026“Spyware manufacturers that participate in the persecution of journalists shouldn’t be able to operate with impunity, and U.S. courts must ensure that they are held accountable for their actions where those actions violate U.S. law," @carriedecell.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/content/cour...knightcolumbia.orgCourt Dismisses Journalists’ Case Against Spyware Manufacturer NSO Group 051
Reposted by uRiJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...404media.co‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI EmployeesA sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses. 1351368582
Reposted by uRi#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries 201907417
uRi @usaba.ch · 15/09/2026Head to Head סרט איראני על סרט שבו השחקנים הגברים צריכים ללבוש בגדי נשים (הבמאית בסרט שבסרט מנסה "להראות" להם איך זה להסתובב עם חג'אב כל היום). אהבתי מאוד, אבל מעניין שהוא מוצג כקומדיה, גם בראיון עם הבמאית "האמיתית". יש שם מחוות ברורות למחאות החג'אב ולנשים האמיצות ששילמו בחייהן ובחירותן. #TIFF26 000
Reposted by uRi🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The real heroes of #tiff26 are the volunteers who take photos with your phone so everyone can be in the picture. 0163
Reposted by uRiCottonEyeMiso @ilikemiso42.bsky.social · 11/09/2026תגידו מאיפה הגיע הבחור הזה אני כבר פעם חמישית היום מקשיב לאלבום הזה כאילו שלוש שנים חיכיתי שמישהו יגיד את הדברים האלו 381
Reposted by uRiJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026DHS is running a secretive 'predictive policing' unit, and we just revealed its name for the first time: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team. It is pulling people over not suspected of any specific crime Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0AG... 34526
Reposted by uRiOmri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026You should all read the USPS whistleblower complaint, because it makes clear Trump intends to use the USPS to prevent us all from voting. It is as simple as that. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...hsgac.senate.gov 12011
Reposted by uRiJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital... 24934293
Reposted by uRiDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Incredible scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social who were able to recreate Flock's new AI-powered tool that lets police officers ID drivers and track vehicles—capabilities the company has repeatedly said it doesn't allow. www.wired.com/story/flock-...wired.comFlock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its CodeFlock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate... 014376
Reposted by uRiJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 12537932368
Reposted by uRiRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026An extraordinary, courageous and chilling article. Julia Curlee is a true patriot. THE WRONG KIND OF AMERICAN The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public. By Julia Curlee www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Wrong Kind of AmericanThe Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public. 083
Reposted by uRiSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14/08/2026"US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal. DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records revealDHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown 02514
uRi @usaba.ch · 03/08/2026לידיעת @barzik.bsky.social הבוט של באבקום (רשות האוכלוסין) לא מאובטח בכלל. במקום לבקש מינימום של תאריך הנפקת ת"ז, או לשלוח 2FA לטלפון המעודכן במשרד הפנים, או להעלות משהו דרך gov.il - אפשר לקבל בסמס מיקום קלפי לכל צמד של מספר ת"ז + תאריך לידה. 5220
Reposted by uRiSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/07/2026Join Our Research Team! @SMLabTO is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow socialmedialab.ca/2026/07/14/p... #phdsky #academicsky #comsky #polsky #computationalsocialscience 0712
Reposted by uRiJono Barel @jonobarel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026החלק שאני הכי אוהב בבחירות הקרובות זה שהחליפו את האתר המאובטח שבו היה ניתן לבדוק את פנקס הבוחרים, וישב תחת gov.il, במספר וואטסאפ שמופיע תחת השם "באבקום". אם הייתי רוצה לאסוף פרטים אישיים של ישראלים, אני מתקשה לחשוב על משהו שיהפוך אותם לפגיעים יותר מאשר לדעת *שיש* ערוץ רשמי כזה. 2131
Reposted by uRiהעין השביעית @the7eye.org.il · 22/07/2026כשסלאח שחאדה נהרג יחד עם משפחתו וחפים מפשע אחרים, היום לפני 24 שנים, "הארץ" לא היה לבד. www.the7eye.org.il/13146 1152
Reposted by uRiTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur... 361552607
Reposted by uRiLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026NEW: The Iranian government abused well-known flaws in the global telecoms infrastructure — specifically SS7 — to locate U.S. military personnel in the Middle East at the beginning of the war. techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/i...techcrunch.comIran abused mobile networks' vulnerabilities to locate U.S. military in the Middle East, report says | TechCrunchThe Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war. 32518
Reposted by uRiDan Kotliar @danmk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026אז עכשיו כשיש תאריך לבחירות אפשר להגיד שב25-26.10 יערכו במקביל עשרות כנסים אקדמיים בכל תחום אקדמי שרק תעלו על הדעת. הרעיון הוא לנצל את העובדה שאקדמאים/ות ישראלים/ות רבים בחו"ל מגיעים להצביע, ולערוך חגיגה של מדע/מחקר ישראלי. אנחנו מארגנים את הכנס הסוציולוגי, אבל, כאמור, יש בכל תחום כמעט. >> 2418
Reposted by uRiNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Consistent with international law, FIFA determines that rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to the US. 27582161
uRi @usaba.ch · 03/07/2026שערוריית NSO פגאסוס נוספת. הפעם: חבר פרלמנט אירופי שהיה חבר בוועדה שחקרה דיווחים על פגאסוס באירופה - היה קרבן בעצמו. 021
Reposted by uRiMuddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On this date in 1976, the CN Tower officially opened. Happy 50th Birthday! 063
Reposted by uRiAuferre 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @auferre.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This has happened with literally every database made available to law enforcement ever. No exceptions. (And yet every time it comes up they pretend it's a brand new thing no one could possibly have anticipated.) 213263
Reposted by uRiFlorence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It’s interesting how readily the label of “secular, assimilated, and actively hostile to Jewish communal life” is even applied to, like, rabbis on the basis that they’re not Zionist enough. 2579
Reposted by uRiKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 22/06/2026NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.wired.comMeta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking ProgramEmployees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models. 661930685
Reposted by uRiDubi is here :Dambo8: @dubikan.tooot.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026אקדמאים ישראלים בחו"ל: קבוצה של אקדמאים בישראל ארגנה סדרה של כנסים במגוון תחומים כדי לאפשר לחוקרים ישראלים בחו"ל לשהות בישראל בתקופת הבחירות ולהשתתף בהן. Mind-IL www.mind-il.orgmind-il.orgMind-IL 22815
Reposted by uRiMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars. 8153412302
Reposted by uRiAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/06/2026TORONTO: tomorrow at 7 PM! I'll be in conversation with Dr. M. Murphy and discussing The AI Con at the Jackman Humanities Institute. RSVP at aiconto.eventbrite.ca. 23314
Reposted by uRiElizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social · 14/06/2026elect socialist mayors and your team will win a championship! see the following data points: Seattle; NYC. 09913
Reposted by uRiRonnie Caspi 🔥🐕☕🔥 רוני כספי @ronniecaspi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026שמעו זה לא איזה סקופ והוא עדיין יהיה מת ועדיין יהיה אייקון אמנות עוד עשר דקות. יש מספיק זמן לערוך את התרגום מכונה המזוויע 1232
Reposted by uRiCenter for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 11/06/2026AI systems don’t work consistently across languages, and the gaps can have real consequences for users. In a new two-year project, CDT Research is studying multilingual AI safety to better understand how chatbots serve users in low- and medium-resource languages.cdt.orgAssessing the Polyglot Chatbot: Multilingual Safety in AI SystemsAI systems do not work consistently and reliably across languages, as CDT has previously documented. Although companies, researchers, and civil society are working toward filling necessary technical and procedural gaps for improving systems, advancements in AI capabilities remain “jagged”, particularly in languages other than English according to the International AI Safety Report. As users from […] 123
Reposted by uRiTerrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 09/06/2026AI data centres in Europe, 1437 14586105
Reposted by uRiBrian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating. 10323451279
Reposted by uRiInternet Archive @archive.org · 06/06/2026📰 As some publishers & news organizations block the Wayback Machine from archiving journalism. ✏️ Help keep journalism accessible—sign the open letter asking them to stop blocking archiving ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders #SaveTheArchive #WaybackMachine #PreserveTheWeb @fightforthefuture.org 2325133
Reposted by uRiJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything. We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...404media.coWe Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially EverythingParagon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE. 7727219
Reposted by uRiKashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/05/2026On AI legal slop: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...nytimes.comArtificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits 33513
Reposted by uRiKaren Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org 4525241122
Reposted by uRiDr. Exmaahal @exmaahal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026בבקשה. ואנצל את ההזדמנות לפרסומת חינם לתוכניות הרדיו בהתאמה אישית של רייווי, אולי יהיה רלבנטי למישהו'י פה. youtube.com/playlist?lis... 2124
Reposted by uRiThe Register @theregister.com · 15/05/2026Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic factstheregister.comSick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say 02010
uRi @usaba.ch · 12/05/2026יש אישור ממקורות ישראליים? הבנתי שמנהל מיקרוסופט בישראל עזב בהפתעה. האם אכן בגלל שיקולי תדמית / AI / HR human rights / בגלל שיתוף הפעולה עם צה"ל בעזה ובעקבות הכתבות של יובל אברהם ב @mekomit.bsky.social 110