Articles

• Ayjay - Towards Old Man Willow
  • A well put and succint piece that gives an interesting perspective to explain the pattern we have seen in the last decade of tech megacorps basically strong-arming the cultural zeitgeist into discussing only what benefits them. "People say, You can’t force this on us against our will, and the techlords reply, Of course we can, we always have."

Videos

• Benn Jordan - We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
  • The long-awaited follow up to Benn's orginal riveting video about creating adversarial noise patterns to confuse AI cameras. This video talks about some worrying security vulnerabilities in Flock Safety and other ALPR surveillance technology. Really showcases the dangers of surveillance capitalism. As someone who has seen multiple Flock cameras put up in my neighborhood, I've started writing to my city reps to try and get them to cancel contracts with the company. FFS THE CAMERAS ARE RUNNING ANDROID OREO.
• Schnee - Protect Yourself From Media Like This - aka 'How to spot fascist propaganda'
  • For as much as I love to discuss media, I'm not much into consuming media critique content. But the algorithm got me with this one and I think it is a cool informative video. I ended up watching the movie it uses as it's subject - Jet Li's oscar-nominated "Hero" - soon after. The final takeaway of the video was my favorite, but I won't spoil it here.
• The Morbid Zoo - The Ritual of Debate
  • Seems the theme today is propaganda. This video is really cool and provides a fun perspective I haven't heard on the Jubilee 'debate' videos. I don't love debate anymore but I have to admit part of what helped usher me towards the left were screaming matches between white men on youtube hahaha.

Other

• Lucy Parsons Labs
  • A wonderful organization that aims to 'expose the surveillance overreach by governments and corporations.' If you, my one reader, feel inspired by their mission, I recommend getting involved in what way you can. Surveillance companies are not gonna stop out of the goodness of their hearts.

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