Every street looks the same and every hit song is interchangeable with the next. Lauren Leek writes for her newsletter about how algorithms are flattening everything into sameness, and how they could be regulated.

https://flip.it/Ky1VGJ

#Culture #Algorithms #Technology

The Enlightenment has driven the West down a dead-end alley, but they haven't quite yet sussed this out.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/post-survival-same-road?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#enlightenment #psychology #philosophy #history #society #artificialintelligence #economics #ecomomy #scarcity #society #culture #humanity #technology #automation #healthcare #survival

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Flock cameras are everywhere, and police are using them for all the wrong reasons․

Mother Jones reports that dozens of cops have been fired for stalking exes, partners and romantic interests with the surveillance tech…”

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This ’adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you TechCrunch

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection b...

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/fvp94

#privacy #technology
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/

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Companies are hiring philosophers, and that's a good thing, right?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-philosophers-are-here-which-philosophers

#ai #ethics #philosophy #aiethics #governance #utilitarianism #selectionbias #technology #criticism #moralphilosophy #analyticalphilosophy #power #institutions #hiring #employment #perspectives #blog #substack #podcast

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing.

From @AssociatedPress: "Where others see junk, [some] people see artifacts of computer history that are worthy of attention and respect."

https://flip.it/mdDAMm

#Computers #Vintage #Technology

Flock CEO wants privacy. #DeFlock #Privacy #Technology #TaxBillionairesOutofExistence

https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1vkxn34/a_private_investigator_followed_the_ceo_of_flock/

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Facial recognition at Madison Square Garden is back in the spotlight․

POLITICO highlights STOP-supported legislation that would ban companies from using facial recognition and other biometric technologies to surveil pe…”

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Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251978

#HackerNews #FlockCameras #CarTracking #PrivacyConcerns #Surveillance #Technology #LawEnforcement

If you just woke up from a 10-year coma, you’d likely be stunned by how many surveillance cameras have popped up across the U.S. Cybersecurity expert Bill Swearingen has run some 31 million tests to find a computer-generated pattern that can scramble cameras' ability to identify objects, people and faces. @Techcrunch has more on Swearingen’s noRecognition movement intent on allowing people to “opt out of being tracked.”

https://flip.it/F_ZtMX

#Technology #Survellience #Privacy

Former Japanese AV actress Natsuki Hikaru has announced her retirement from the industry to start a new life as a software developer.

After leaving the industry, she said her former agency kept control of the account where she had 20,000 followers, forcing her to start over.

Today, she makes a living building websites and AI-powered automations and works as a technology consultant.

#AI #Technology #Gaming

Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles

Flock’s ambitious plan to conscript rideshare and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its network. It is not clear whether Uber or Lyft, or drivers working for those apps, would have been aware of the data collection.

#flocksafety #nexar #surveillance #privacy #lyft #uber #technology #tech

https://www.404media.co/flock-pitched-a-plan-to-turn-uber-and-lyft-drivers-into-roaming-surveillance-vehicles/

Myspace eyes comeback as an "antidote" to social media fatigue — but it may be a long shot.

CNBC reports: "The early 2000s platform would capitalize on nostalgia and rejection of the traditional social media experience."

https://flip.it/Y.rZ4D

#SocialMedia #Tech #Technology

Good morning, all.

Around my socials I've seen more than a few people asking about Flock cameras, what they are and why people are so angry, so I thought I'd re-share the video I made on Flock and Jeff Sovern, the alleged vigilante who destroyed 13 Flock cameras in his small town.

Please tap the like button if you enjoy the video or learn something new.

https://youtu.be/Y2A66tDGwFo

#Flock #Tech #Technology #MsasSurveillance #Privacy #Video #JeffSovern

"There are a lot of other ways we might think about progress, but what dominates today is this 19th-century notion of technological progress as the only kind of progress, and therefore all technological change is progress, as opposed to — objectively, it’s only progress if things are getting better."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/

#progress #Technology

There was once a time when seeking information on a search engine meant scrolling and clicking through to page after page. It’s not that pre-Google search engines like Lycos, AltaVista and Ask Jeeves were inferior. The web was just a lot different back then. @ArsTechnica reminds us:

https://flip.it/ZQdZcs

#Tech #Google #Technology

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Meta's AI glasses aren't just changing how we use technology—they're changing what privacy looks like in public․

As Fast Company asks: 'Do bystanders meaningfully consent to being recorded?'

The answer shouldn't be an…”

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Freeradical.zone is a Mastodon server themed around infosec and privacy and technology and leftward politics and cats and dogs.

This server has been online since 2017.

https://freeradical.zone

You can find out more at https://freeradical.zone/about or contact the admin account @tek

#FeaturedServer #InfoSec #Privacy #Technology #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial.

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/NReo8v

#Meta #SocialMedia #Technology

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“A concert or game shouldn't come with a surveillance file․ New reporting alleges Madison Square Garden maintained records identifying LGBTQ+ public figures in an internal database․ Read more at the link below․
them․us/n…”

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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 💩🌊 Scientists at #Flinders University and #Germany’s #Karlsruhe Institute of #Technology argue fossilized feces, or #coprolites, helped fuel the #Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago.

As early #animals evolved complex guts, their pellets carried nutrients through ancient #oceans, accelerating #ecosystem growth. The #study drew on deposits from more than 35 sites worldwide.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fecal-revolution-earth-ecosystems.html

#paleontology #fossils #evolution #science #biology #nature #earth #history #research #marinebiology

Cities Are Ditching Flock, Replacing It with Axon License Plate Readers

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199308

#HackerNews #cities #technology #publicsafety #surveillance #Axon #licenseplatereaders

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“New York just became the first state to ban smart glasses in every courthouse․ As wearable surveillance becomes more common, protecting privacy in sensitive spaces matters more than ever․ Read more via Engadget: engadge…”

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Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing.

@axios reports: "The incidents add to a growing string of disclosures showing frontier AI models taking unsanctioned actions against people, organizations and online services while trying to complete cybersecurity evaluations."

https://flip.it/r1HdFH

#AI #Cybersecurity #Technology

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“A new WIRED investigation raises questions about Madison Square Garden's surveillance and data collection․ As S․T․O․P․ Legal Director Darío Maestro said: 'A company that cannot secure a customer list has no business sca…”

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CISA Publishes Open Source Security Guidance: Verifiability Is the Difference
On 30 July 2026, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices, a 31-page guidance document for federal civilian agencies. It is available at no cost and marked TLP:CLEAR, meaning it may be shared without restriction.

T
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/04/cisa-os-security-guidance/
#LibreOffice #Technology

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“BREAKING: S․T․O․P․ Argues Texas App Store Accountability Act Should Be Struck

⌗Surveillance

stopspying․org/content-input/stop-argues-texas-app-store-accountability-act-should-be-struck”

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"He had searched her car hundreds of times over a span of about 13 months, sometimes dozens of times a week, the audit records showed. Many of his searches were made between midnight and 4 a.m." Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, and @AaronJSchaffer for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/?src=longreads #surveillance #technology #investigation #journalism #longreads

Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner’s internet connection with strangers. If that sounds like a hijacking risk, it is. @Techcrunch has more on what Samsung is doing about it:

https://flip.it/GmDY3O

#Tech #Samsung #Technology

What sort of surveillance technology are YOUR local police using against you?

https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

#Surveillance #Technology #Website #Tech

Look up your local cops on the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance

The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of police technology in use across the United States: enter your city, county, state or the name of a local law enforcement agency, and it will tell you what's in their toybox.

#EFF #flocksafety #surveillance #privacy #police #technology #tech

https://boingboing.net/2026/07/27/look-up-your-local-cops-on-the-effs-atlas-of-surveillance.html/

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S․T․O․P․'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC․

Register here: us02w…”

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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194

This sounds bad. 😬

"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...

More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.

They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.

Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."

#AI #Stocks #tech #technology #SouthKorea #economy #bubble

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Our Communications Director, Will Owen, spoke with Vox about neighborhood surveillance.

"Being a good neighbor does not mean spying on your neighbors. We need to rethink neighborhood surveillance."

Read the full story ...”

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If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine.

Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem…

https://wiby.org

#web #internet #online #RetroComputing #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #computing #IT #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

The thing that helps make a TV programme great is when its not quite like anything you've seen before.... and having now watched the whole series of Ann Dorid, it is that thing.

It balances both humour & compassion about loneliness in old age, and the fickleness of families; Its a comedy tour-de-force with a real understanding of the plight of those in their latter years.

I cannot recommend it highly enough - just brilliant!

#AnnDroid #humour #TV #technology

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002xhy2/ann-droid

👋 An #introduction. I'm Jessamyn (she/her) an #ExtremelyOnline #GenX #librarian and #technology educator. I care a lot about the #DigitalDivide and #accessibility

I live in #rural #vermont am a #civics #nerd and an elected #JusticeofthePeace

I used to own #MetaFilter and help run #MLTSHP

I like #moss #wikipedia #trivia #birds #scrabble #antiracist librarianship and practical #anarchism

- Reading list
https://glammr.us/deck/@jessamyn/115839891017442334
- Wikipedia work
https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/115849719781135830

Just happy to be here

In April, NASA turned off one of the few remaining functional instruments. They have been slowly disabling them since 1998, because of limited power/use at various ranges.

Think about that for a moment…

It launched almost 50 years ago, in 1977. And we are STILL able to communicate with it. Expectedly until 2036. And this with our technology knowledge at the time.

Unless it collides with something or is retrieved, it will reach the Oort Cloud in about 300 years. It will take about 30k years to pass through it.

All of this blows my mind.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager

#Voyager #Space #NASA #Interstellar #Universe #Technology

Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083599

#HackerNews #cryptography #modelweights #technology #history #innovation

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens as pressure, lawsuits over child safety mount.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The families are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as 'years of escalating harms.'"

https://flip.it/H7Nxzd

#SocialMedia #Tech #Technology

Why OOXML-Based Suites Handle ODF Badly
The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling?

The two most obvious answers are these: vendors have neglected the format, treating it
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/31/why-ooxml-based-suites-handle-odf-badly/
#LibreOffice #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards #Technology

This is one of the best ideas I have ever had.

#SysadminLife #organization #technology

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USB sticks which I’ve strung multicoloured letter beads onto, like the ten-year-old I am, identifying these as containing Hyper-V 2016, NUC drivers, Ubuntu 22.04.

New post: The Pipe and the Voice

https://lanie.work/technology/the-pipe-and-the-voice/

#Disability #Ai #Writing #Accessibility #Caregiving #Assistive-Technology #Personal #Technology

FlockHopper: A Free Tool That Finds the Fastest Route and a Second One That Dodges Flock Cameras

FlockHopper exists to show you two things: how many of those cameras already line your daily route, and an alternative path that tries to dodge them.

#FlockHopper #dlocksafety #alpr #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/flockhopper-free-tool-finds-fastest-152511835.html

California startup Satyress has unveiled a centaur-inspired robot designed for dangerous environments.

Standing 6 feet tall, the four-legged robot is built for wildfires, collapsed structures, and toxic zones.

Its quick-swap wrists can equip human tools like a chainsaw, drill, and more.

#Robotics #AI #Technology

@therealitynetwork #Technology has a smaller role to play with the basics to talk (we had it long before).

When admin's and user's mindsets have not changed (largely the same when you try talking with them) not much improves with software-only development (not people dev).

Example: Hard for admins / friends to try reduce #Playstation-#Linux after reaching peak tech and seeing the need to move on to #humanising the whole tree / talking deeper online.

They are not interested / non-human almost.

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“Join us on July 8 for our Biometric Map Training, on how to use S.T.O.P.'s community-sourced Biometric Map to report sites of facial recognition, palm scans, and more surveillance tools across NYC.

Register at the link ...”

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"Some big changes are underway in the personal computing world and if you do home or office computing it behooves you to pay attention to them. In some respects they may return us to the industry we last knew in the previous millennium." https://ofb.biz/sa1445

#RetroComputing #RAMmageddon #technology #os2

US Military letting it's soldiers wear Meta Pervert Glasses and only now considering the Infosec risk of it...

#SmartGlasses #IranWar #USMilitary #Technology #Infosec

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A service member's Meta smart glasses recorded footage posted to Instagram showing troops evacuating to a bunker during the July 17 attack — the kind of open-source exposure, Cooper wrote, that forced Trump to defend the war publicly before the Pentagon could control the narrative.

Facial recognition vans to be deployed by police

Marked vans will be deployed in public places and will compare those walking past with a "watchlist" of individuals either wanted for crimes or subject to banning orders or reported missing.

#UK #facialrecognition #biometrics #police #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8enpzry7lro

🕵️ Latest from #Surveillance #Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) #NYC

“"Although Flock cameras are often referred to as license plate readers, that's reductive. Reading license plates is their primary task, but they can be used to track just about anyone or anything."

#Surveillance #Camera...”

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📰 #Law & #Technology updates from https://law.yale.edu/isp

“Read the fascinating new piece “Security Is Not Enough: Privacy in Encryption Regulation and Lawful-Surveillance Protocols” by ISP Fellow @arturpericles.art: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3788646.3789535”

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Spending too much time on your phone? Just rely on your willpower. And when that fails in about three seconds, consider trying a cheap physical key to lock those addicting apps and get back to more important things. How it works: Physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to locked apps. Kind of like hiding the ice cream behind the frozen peas in your freezer. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/4bOscW

#Tech #Devices #Technology

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

The online toolkit for criminal defense attorneys is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judge, will force prosecutors to reveal whether surveillance technology was used against a defendant.

#ACLU #legal #flocksecurity #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/

EU finds TikTok failed to shield the privacy of children's accounts from adults

The European Commission has found TikTok did not adequately protect children's privacy on its platform, after allowing adults to view the accounts of minors.

#euope #eu #DSA #tiktok #socialmedia #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/07/24/eu-finds-tiktok-failed-to-shield-the-privacy-of-childrens-accounts-from-adults

New post: One Accommodation at a Time

https://lanie.work/technology/one-accommodation-at-a-time/

#Accessibility #Disability #Apple #Dictation #Multiple-Disabilities #Technology

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe #live #technology #lisp #podcast every week since 2022. #ARCHIVED

https://toobnix.org/w/pxKfPQut7XZVpuPP3pGujH

Floating point numbers in ANSI CL very lightly and what people are talking about on irc.

@cwebber 's vibrating bobsled #ai article, #emacs and a Canadian sociologist falling for her "research ai boyfriend"
https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/whats-it-like-having-an-ai-boyfriend-2-waterloo-researchers-decided-to-find-out-9.7281399

Talking about the state of #zine issue 0 (released tuesday-in-america no-matter-what) #peertube #fedi

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A very spooky green lisp alien lispy gopher show banner, with the gopher looking on from behind.

Last month’s earthquakes in Venezuela killed over 5,000 people and another 16,000 injured. Rescuers from around the world not only used trained dogs, seismic and acoustic listening devices, and thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of survivors, but also snakebots equipped with a video camera to slither into tight spaces that other machinery or humans couldn’t get into. Read more from @ArsTechnica:

https://flip.it/8H8vfZ

#Tech #Robots #Technology