automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
We're sharing an early version of the project and looking for feedback from civil society and digital security communities. Have thoughts or experiences to share, or want to learn more? Get in touch here 👇 responsiveprivacy.org/contact/
Visibility shouldn’t harm your team. And safety shouldn’t mean disappearing. Responsive Privacy explores how organizations can adjust public visibility during moments of risk without permanently deleting people and their work online. Explore the research here 👇 responsiveprivacy.org/research/syn...
"Free, prior, and informed consent when we're using AI becomes a more layered approach. We would need to be able to explain to beneficiaries what kinds of models will be used, what kinds of biases those models tend to have, what we know we can expect and what we can't." @tin.fyi @draftlab.org
Join us, @huridocs.org and TEGET for a round table on AI and transitional justice organized by ICSC - 9:00 AM EDT | 3:00 PM CEST | 6:30 PM IST #ai #transitionaljustice #humanrights docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Hive Mind Series - AI and Machine Learning: Advantages and Limitations in the Context of Transitional Justice
A virtual round table hosted by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Transitional Justice Consortium. This registration is available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Please, se...
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[Hello] Often, people ask us "what do you do" and we answer at length, excitedly, a bit out of breath, with a lot of "and also!" or "oh! and" so we made a website that answers that question through projects, skills, ways of working. Take it for a spin, bring it back when you're done. draftlab.org
Draftlab
Creative project design for social good champions through appropriate technology that strengthens human systems.
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo agoPalantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
"End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026." help.instagram.com/491565145294... I don't know how many at-risk people this will affect. I do know that a service removing encryption (even if it was only ever opt-in) does make me unhappy.
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End-to-end encryption adds extra security and protection to your messages and calls in a chat so that only you and whoever you're talking to can see, hear or read them.
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Finally written my philosophy on app development, business, and how I, well, we will do things. 💜 Read more: coolify.io/philosophy/
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Charles Babbage 1792-1871
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 10mo agoPSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
I buy $1B of GPUs from you: - boring - just a transaction - markets are unimpressed I invest $1B in your company, and you provide me with GPUs worth $1B: - genius - both stocks go up - healthy market growth
The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests. www.occrp.org/en/news/audi...
Audio Recording Reveals United Group and Telekom Srbija CEOs Discussing Undermining Serbian Broadcaster
The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests.
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What is the charge? Sharing a meal? A succulent Subway meal?
Check out my #DEFCON33 talk about the Signalgate, full of unbelievable incompetence from the highest levels of the Trump administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...
"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
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New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy. How Musk and Trump killed USAID. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of US AID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
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now that stack overflow successfully shot itself in the foot (and face and multiple organs), I have a fantastic business idea, hear me out: Stack Overflow, but only the bits that made it successful in the first place.
Meta is perfectly capable of making this fully secure and private. Meta also has a track record of breaking their rules and the law and use your data to better sell ad space because that’s their core business, and fines are already priced into operating costs. www.theverge.com/news/693310/...
WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages
More AI in WhatsApp.
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I encourage everyone to spend tons of time with AI chat bots and reading the content they create because, like vaccines, it inoculates you to AI slop via exposure to their average and predictable writing patterns, so your brain can learn to tune them out
I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...
Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...
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i’m OBSESSED with pitbull and this new wave of fame have you seen the O2 arena videos? just a sea of bald caps and everyone is having a blast
meta AI prompts in whatsapp are absolutely unhinged. looking for relationship advice??
EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social joins BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4 to discuss YouTube’s power to spread unchecked information.
Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World - What happens when YouTube gets political? - BBC Sounds
As YouTube spreads, so does information - the good and bad. We explore the consequences.
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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
did tiktok mess with privacy settings again? welp let’s go spelunking again *dons safety hat, high viz jacket, grabs hammer*