Notices by skry (skry@mastodon.social)

@bruces The design fiction that made the AI stocks go down is newsy too.
https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

“Russia has opened a criminal investigation into #Telegram founder Pavel Durov on charges of facilitating terrorist activity, according to articles published February 24 in the nation’s newspaper of record, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, and the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda.“
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/24/russia-charges-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-with-facilitating-terrorism-as-the-kremlin-escalates-its-crackdown-on-the-app #infosec

@bruces That illustration style is right up there with 1990s email clip art on my cringe meter.

Lol
https://www.404media.co/this-tool-searches-the-epstein-files-for-your-linkedin-contacts/

@bruces First thought: What a great astroturf PR campaign!

2nd: Apple hardware, hmm? Bittersweet for Tim with his AI deal ink still wet. Or…?

3rd: Wait, Windows Copilot sucks because of surveillance and security risks, though, right?

The Clawd potentially gets access to accounts, which seems worse, even if you control storage.

4th: “First employee”

???

What could possibly go wrong?

Hootsuite in #Vancouver #Canada licking the fascist boot. #Surveillance #ux #uspol

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-canada-vancouver-ice-social-media-contract/

"One e-mail sent internally by a Hootsuite sales employee in September, 2025, described the project with ICE as a “Trojan Horse Deal” that could turn into a seven-figure contract. The author mentioned travelling to Washington with “Irina” – Hootsuite’s chief executive officer is Irina Novoselsky – to “brief ICE on how Hootsuite and Talkwalker can support their mission.” (1/2)

@bruces It doesn’t say that she’s paid to have that child.

I pity any child with those two for parents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_St._Clair

Anti-trans book author. (1/2)

@inthehands I hope the SCOTUS ruling about Chicago will affect that situation in a positive way soon? Or is MN different somehow?

@bruces It’s great to see @JulianOliver’s work acknowledged in this context. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/chapter-pdf/2111033/c011500_9780262361576.pdf

Searching on the first sentence of the snippet leads to all sorts of delicious subversive PDFs as well.

“Design for disobedience is not a new concept, however. At least a dozen related labels that describe protest-oriented applications of media art and experimental design exist. Terms include critical engineering”

@killyourfm “Got it” is bad #ux both because it’s an American colloquial expression and because it’s a response to notifying about something that people already don’t want and have no choices in.

“OK” is not good in this case bc people do not want to OK things they don’t want. Similarly, “Submit” to computers and companies is a poor label.

“Close” is a much better choice for this. <What the action does from a user’s point of view> is the best solution for the default and terrible “submit”.

"The Border Patrol has defined its own criteria for which drivers’ behavior should be deemed suspicious or tied to drug or human trafficking, stopping people for anything from driving on backcountry roads, being in a rental car or making short trips to the border region. The agency’s network of cameras now extends along the southern border in Texas, Arizona and California, and also monitors drivers traveling near the U.S.-Canada border.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd (2/2)

#uspol
“The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports, former officials say, even going so far as to propose dropping charges rather than risk revealing any details about the placement and use of their covert license plate readers. Readers are often disguised along highways in traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels. (1/2)

"Vienna researchers retrieved all #WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"

"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial recognition routine found a human face in two-thirds of cases."

https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html

Paper: https://github.com/sbaresearch/whatsapp-census

#privacy

@Gargron I hope you can have a relaxing holiday to celebrate your new role. Yay, now you have a whole crew to share the load.

Thank you for all your hard work so far keeping it all together.

#mosstodon

@killyourfm Why did the first one fail?

Senator Ron Wyden says there's a nationwide #abortion ban in the Senate government funding bill currently.

https://www.tiktok.com/@ronwyden/video/7570460937652604190

Women in #uspol, heads up. Make your views clear to your congress members now. https://www.congress.gov/

@annika I really appreciate your response being constructive, especially because of the rudeness of the other ones I have received.

I have an MS and have worked on computers since 1982, so men assuming I know nothing is one of my favorite fucking things in the world. ✊🏻

@annika Situation looks a bit grim in the Firefox extensions.

@annika There was a Firefox extension that tried to do this redirect trick (graze?) but new users have to choose an instance, have the problem, get someone to tell them about a browser extension, download install config the extension.