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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute@dairinstitute.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW PROJECT LAUNCH! 🚀 DAIR's @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social and @superrrnetwork.bsky.social are building a network to strengthen data-worker-led movements around the world. The website launches in mid-November. Sign up at dataworkersunited.org for updates!

pre-@mozilla.org festival meetup speaker: Marguerite Meyer - an investigative journalist exposes systems behind surveillance, power & human rights. Her investigations have examined AI-powered border surveillance, the military ties of Switzerland’s drone industry, Palantir lobby. luma.com/mmfpumzi

Speaker alert: 🇮🇳 Abhineet Nayyar x www.itforchange.net joins Cypherpunk Congress lineup with the take on AI regulation. He is a Senior Associate, Research and Policy Engagement. Wi the focuse on surveillance, antitrust law, AI supply chains, and labour exploitation. congress.web3privacy.info

Crazy numbers for such challenging year congress.web3privacy.info luma.com/spsnos9t

🤝 Cypherpunk CongressCommunal Partner: Software Freedom Law Center, India @sflcin.bsky.social SFLC has been defending digital freedom since 2010 - bringing together lawyers, technologists, researchers and citizens to protect privacy, free expression, and FOSS. congress.web3privacy.info

Pre-@mozilla.org festival meetup speaker: Isabela Fernandes - Executive Director, @torproject.org She leads the Tor since 2018, championing free software, anonymity, censorship circumvention and access to a free and open Internet. event: luma.com/mmfpumzi

Cypherpunk Congress Workshop alert: @radicle.dev - Code without gatekeepers. What if building software didn’t depend on a platform that could lock you out? Radicle is an open-source, peer-to-peer alternative to centralised code hosting. radicle.network x congress.web3privacy.info

Cypherpunk Congress speaker: 🇮🇳 Osama Manzar from DEF - nonprofit working to close the digital divide and make technology, information and digital rights accessible to underserved communities. Two decades of digital inclusion across India, 10,000+ served villages. congress.web3privacy.info

Passing Berlin? Buy our The Politics Of Privacy in Pro QM bookstore.

Thank you, wonderful people 🪷 Cypherpunk Congress becoming a festival of digital rights, because of you. explore: congress.web3privacy.info register: luma.com/spsnos9t

Explore what software/hardware privacy experts are using: Staff Cryptographic Security Engineer @pryvitkyle.bsky.social from @brave.com Build a healthy internet habit: 1. Install 1 app. 2. Try to use it. 3. Repeat. stacks.web3privacy.info/stacks/kyle-dh

Spreading the knowledge at Dark Prague. Book recommendations from activists, cryptographers, community organizers & weirdos. Reading from @alexhanna.bsky.social to Mark Fisher (RIP).

Matthew Green is on a bright side of AI history. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/i...

Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else. I try hard not to work on AI (except when the topic occasional…

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"Godfather of European anarchist hacker movement" aka @jaromil.bsky.social from @dyneorg.bsky.social shared his thoughts on role of the hacking culture in human evolution & it's potential for institutions to be shaped by the movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF9y...

How to Hack Institutions from the Inside - A Block with Jaromil

YouTube video by A block with Mir

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Our pre-@mozilla.org festival meetup is here! First speakers @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team, Valentina Aguana Villegas, @julianmair.com, @painan.net, @siusko.bsky.social location: occupied anti-capitalist cinema blogs.sindominio.net/lacinetika/ register: luma.com/mmfpumzi

🫂 4000 people 🔊 80 speakers from Isabela Fernandes/Executive Director at Tor to Anita Gurumurthy/IT For Change 🩷 20 community partners from @torproject.org to @ooni.org ⛑️ 50 volunteers 🫆 1 Cypherpunk Congress Joy of activism 🪷 Mumbai, 2 Nov: congress.web3privacy.info

Nice project helping to dodge Big Tech & commercial software. switching.software

For the culture. echoes of Global Gathering by @teamcommunity.bsky.social

Civic Tech Field Guide@civictechguide.bsky.social · 3w ago

Day eleven of posting all the stickers we got at Global Gathering. Neocypherpunk Summit is Web3Privacy Now's gathering of hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers and policy-makers at Berlin's Funkhaus. s26ber.web3privacy.info

Applied cryptographers could serve civic society: @mossy.bsky.social from community-privacy.github.io has proven for years that the gap between technologists and activists can be minimised. Watch her talk from our c-base meetup: "Cryptography and Privacy in Context": youtube.com/watch?v=Xrpj...

for the people, by the people. Autistici/Inventati public protest in Roma. "If there ’s something our adversaries fear and loathe – now, in the past and forever – is our ability to spread the virus of self-management and self-determination, to fractally replicate infrastructures of dissent."

We join @fightforthefuture.org Defend VPNs Day ✊ VPNs are providing critical access to information, adding extra layer of security and data privacy. Digital rights activists around the world works on new VPNs to ensure that both privacy & access to internet is a human right. www.defendvpns.com

Unpacking AI Surveillance: @jayapapaya.bsky.social from www.nym.com interviewing Edward Snowden. Watch www.youtube.com/live/wytH7dP...

Throwback to Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress #2: @joanarus.bsky.socialcial from @sentinelalliance.bsky.social.bsky.social examined how mercenary spyware threatens developers—and why protecting freedom-tech builders must become a priority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hOP...

Our meetup in Tokyo today. Happy to see interest in privacy, open-source and freedom.

Explore open-source software used by digital rights leaders. Taiwan cyber ambassador-at-large & 1st digital minister (2016-2024) @audreyt.org stacks.web3privacy.info/stacks/audre...

You cannot challenge internet censorship without evidence. At the Neocypherpunk Summit, @hellais.bsky.socialial showed how @ooni.orgrg turns open network measurements into tools for journalists, researchers and human-rights defenders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q39U...

See you tomorrow in Tokyo 🇯🇵 We encourage everyone to come and share your opinion on better internet futures, online privacy reality, cryptography for people, free software and digital activism. See you here: luma.com/ispxo30p

"Incidents this year, in which AI agents ‘escaped’ their test environments, have sparked widespread concerns about AI safety. Yet the real issue is not rogue AI. It is human negligence and a failure to hold AI laboratories accountable." read @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate

From aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception.

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Finest Andy Greenberg x @wired.com on his quest to use AI privately www.wired.com/story/how-to...

How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

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VP for Strategy Udbhav Tiwari x @signal.org feat @grapheneos.org as an example of the big tech alternative. Yes, used by frontline activists, but not adopted at scale. What kind of alternatives we want in the AI age & with which features accessible to broader public? @rightscon.org