Cypurr Collective
@cypurr.org
Established #420/2016 in NYC. We 💙 #cats #cryptoparties #cybersecurity and community education
Hey cats, given the dangerous weather this afternoon today's event is *canceled*. Stay safe, and we'll share here when we reschedule 🐾 www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
CyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public Library
Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy...
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Just two days away! Hope to see you there!
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · last mo.Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how some AI tools work and what it means for privacy and mass surveillance. Bring your device for the second half! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how some AI tools work and what it means for privacy and mass surveillance. Bring your device for the second half! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
CyPurr Session: AI and You | Brooklyn Public Library
Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy...
bklynlibrary.org
see you saturday at @transpecos.bsky.social!
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 3mo agoThis workshop is an introduction to personal digital privacy and information security practices! We will cover threat modeling, encryption & getting around the city. Material will be provided for us to make personalized digital privacy zines to craft our own guides. @transpecos.bsky.social
This workshop is an introduction to personal digital privacy and information security practices! We will cover threat modeling, encryption & getting around the city. Material will be provided for us to make personalized digital privacy zines to craft our own guides. @transpecos.bsky.social
Bio for our second speaker for Saturday: Ven Qiu is an archivist and creative technologist based in New York. As a memory worker committed to data sovereignty, they are interested in the sociopolitical and infrastructural conditions of digital preservation.
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 3mo agoNext event this Saturday! Check the bio for our speaker below: Olivia M. Ross is a Caribbean American information worker, documentarian, and secretkeeper from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisual & software preservation informs embodied research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, & place.
Next event this Saturday! Check the bio for our speaker below: Olivia M. Ross is a Caribbean American information worker, documentarian, and secretkeeper from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisual & software preservation informs embodied research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, & place.
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 3mo agoNext Cypurr Session, Communities Need Backup 6/16, 3-5 PM We'll discuss the importance of digital archival practices (with some guest speakers) before walking through how to download your social media history & view it offline (and optionally, delete it!). www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
See y’all tomorrow at @wonderville.nyc
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 4mo agoevent now featuring a q+a with Beck Haberstroh and Imani Thompson discussing their project "We Are Already Gathered" "We are already gathered is an event series that brings together communities with shared surveillance risks." More on the project here: https:// wearealreadygathered.info
Re-uploading with correction on Cypurr Session date,we got a BUNCH of great events coming up in May! Hope to see you at one or all!
See y’all tomorrow!
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 4mo agoNEXT EVENT! Check out our next Cypurr Cinema event at the PIT, featuring a talk from Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard We'll be screening the @pbsnews.org Frontline Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, investigating the powerful Pegasus spyware www.propertyistheft.org/events/cifbk...
Next Cypurr Session, Communities Need Backup 6/16, 3-5 PM We'll discuss the importance of digital archival practices (with some guest speakers) before walking through how to download your social media history & view it offline (and optionally, delete it!). www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
CyPurr Session: Communities Need Backup | Brooklyn Public Library
Don't let your community 404! Building a personal archive of your life online doesn't just help you regain control, it preserves an important snapshot for the history of everyday working people. We'll...
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NEXT EVENT! Check out our next Cypurr Cinema event at the PIT, featuring a talk from Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard We'll be screening the @pbsnews.org Frontline Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, investigating the powerful Pegasus spyware www.propertyistheft.org/events/cifbk...
Film Screening - GLOBAL SPYWARE SCANDAL: EXPOSING PEGASUS — The P.I.T.
Presented by Cypurr Cinema
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event now featuring a q+a with Beck Haberstroh and Imani Thompson discussing their project "We Are Already Gathered" "We are already gathered is an event series that brings together communities with shared surveillance risks." More on the project here: https:// wearealreadygathered.info
We are already gathered
'We are already gathered' brings together people who are already gathered in datasets.
wearealreadygathered.info
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 4mo agoCheck out our next event at @wonderville.nyc on 5/10! We'll be showing and talking about a bunch of shorts having to do with autonomy and surveillance www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...
Check out our next event at @wonderville.nyc on 5/10! We'll be showing and talking about a bunch of shorts having to do with autonomy and surveillance www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...
Cypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presents: Surveillance Shorts — WONDERVILLE
Join Cypurr as we take on the surveillance-scape through film! This month, we’ll be taking in small bites of cinema with discussions on the ever-growing threat of government use of surveillance tech a...
wonderville.nyc
UPDATE: This event will also feature a Q + A from the Ridgewood Tenants Union discussing tenants rights and organizing in your building. The Ridgewood Tenants Union is a volunteer anti-gentrification group working together to grow the power of tenants and unhoused peoples in Southern Queens
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 5mo agoUpcoming Cypurr Session on Landlord Tech at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social with special speaker from the @legalaidnyc.bsky.social Paula Garcia-Salazar! Check the link below for more info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
Upcoming Cypurr Session on Landlord Tech at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social with special speaker from the @legalaidnyc.bsky.social Paula Garcia-Salazar! Check the link below for more info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
Hi all! Just plugging tomorrow's Cypurr Screening event, now with a speakback featuring film director Jazmin Jones! Food and drink proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Defense Fund. Plus (!!) we’ll be giving away three DVDs to folks who donate Hope to see you there! -Cypurr Folk
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 7mo agoNext Cypurr Event! Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for a screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones) which “investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.” Discussion to follow! www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...
Join Cache Me Outside & Cypurr Collective at @wonderville.nyc to break up with Google! Bring your laptop or phone & we'll lock in on alternate search tools, email services, browsers, migrating account data, removing ourselves from search results, and more! RSVP: www.wonderville.nyc/events/break...
Break Up With Google — WONDERVILLE
Google… it's not me, it's you. And the AI overviews. Do you want to leave Google in 2025 but don't know where to start? Do you wish the process of moving your digital life over was a little less over...
wonderville.nyc
Next Cypurr Event! Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for a screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones) which “investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.” Discussion to follow! www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypur...
Cypurr Cinema Super Secret Matinee Presents: Seeking Mavis Beacon — WONDERVILLE
For this month’s journey into tech-cinema, we’re taking a break from our usual 1995-cyberpunk-ethos to screen Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones), a film which “investigates the disappea...
wonderville.nyc
I am talking online age gates "at" the Brooklyn Library tomorrow (I'll be there by video -- but join the crowd there in person.
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 7mo agoHappy New year! Slate of Cypurr workshops coming up, check them out! Tomorrow! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social talking KOSA with special guest @davidgreene.bsky.social from @eff.org Plus a movie event and social at @wonderville.nyc in February
![* Cypurr Session A Real Kick in the KOSA
* 1/17/26, 3-5 PM, Brooklyn Library Infocomons, Grand Army Plaza
* For this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like), and discuss how they affect folks of all different backgrounds.
* Guest speaker TBA
Reminder that our next Cypurr session is this Saturday!
Plus, announcing our very special guest speaker: @eff Civil Liberties Director @davidgreene@mstdn.social who will be speaking on implications of internet-verification laws to individual liberties
Check out his bio here: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/david-greene
* Cypurr Super Secret Matinee: Seeking Mavis Beacon
* 2/1/26, 3-5 PM, Wonderville (21+)
* Come hang with us for this screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (Trailer:
* RSVP Page will be sent out in the coming week
* Cache_me_Outside and Cypurr Present: I think we should see other Engines
* 2/2/26, 7-Late, Wonderville (21+)
* New Year, New You, less Google! Join Cache_me_Outside and the Cypurr Collective at Wonderville for an evening of Google detox, cybersecurity tips, DJs, live coders and more! Bring your computer or phone for hands-on-help, or just come by to talk and hang. Let's De-Google together!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:evr7zufu4idq4yoazzjcdzbo/bafkreicyqsqmmswh54jj2qycvnfov6f2r3peh7luxoqwg4esqstotcwbqm)
Happy New year! Slate of Cypurr workshops coming up, check them out! Tomorrow! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social talking KOSA with special guest @davidgreene.bsky.social from @eff.org Plus a movie event and social at @wonderville.nyc in February
For this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like) @bklynlibrary.bsky.social Speaker TBA More Info: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
CyPurr Session: A Real Kick in the KOSA | Brooklyn Public Library
For this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like), and discuss how they affe...
bklynlibrary.org
Check out this upcoming talk on issues around age verification policies from @eff.org @genzforchange.org and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience coming up at @bklynlibrary.bsky.social on 1/15! www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/hum...
The Human Cost of Online Age Verification | Brooklyn Public Library
Learn about the risks of age verification laws from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). We'll tune in together to the livestream of this latest in the EFFecting Change series, and participate in...
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1. What a great Cypurr weekend! Thank you for everyone who joined! But if a recap below:
See y’all today!
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 9mo agoCatch our next Cypurr Session at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social (Grand Army Plaza) on 11/22! This session’s focus is on Protest Digital Security, featuring a very special talk from members of Cache Me Outside! See details here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
Weekend of events starts Saturday! Hope to see y’all there
Cypurr Collective@cypurr.org · 9mo ago1/ Mark your calendars for our next slate of Cypurr events, coming up on 11/22 and 11/23. Check out descriptions below, and RSVP through the links below:
Catch us at @wonderville.nyc for our next Cypurr Matinee! We’re finishing up our trilogy of 1995 cyberpunk cinema w/ a screening of the Hackers (1995, Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Dir: Iain Softley)! Movie followed by discussion on tech and cybersecurity withfriends.events/event/73QoIb...
Catch our next Cypurr Session at the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social (Grand Army Plaza) on 11/22! This session’s focus is on Protest Digital Security, featuring a very special talk from members of Cache Me Outside! See details here: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cyp...
1/ Mark your calendars for our next slate of Cypurr events, coming up on 11/22 and 11/23. Check out descriptions below, and RSVP through the links below: