Notices by Violet Blue (violetblue@mastodon.social)

New: Google pulling (or breaking) #Covid vaccine location data globally is a big deal, the first women + queer, trans-led makerspace in southern hemisphere after 40 years of men-only sheds, new grassroots anti-surveillance tech, Putin and Covid in the Boris Johnson files, more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-9-138474865

FYI, per SCAN wastewater San Francisco is in a large and rising Covid surge (highest in California), and now LA County and Riverside are entering the chat. IMO it takes a lot to move the indicators like this for LA, so be *extra* careful now friends and fam.

Wellington Pride, one of the best #Pride celebrations on Earth, is being sued by a TERF hate group. Please show your support. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Link: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/wellington-pride-festival-legal-givealittle

"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system."

It will use AI and "monitor wellness": https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1

New by me -- oh, wait. Sorry.

Ten years ago, by me:

https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-02-paypal-square-and-big-bankings-war-on-the-sex-industry.html

Digital Revolutionary #zine is now free for 24 hours only: https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-digital-24-131431284

7-page .pdf and .epub zine: Lock down your phone or find out how to prepare a burner, learn to move in crowds and what to do if things get violent, make DIY digital protest tools, understand how you'll be surveilled, and find resources for storing media and remotely locking and erasing your phone, if need be.

There's also a crossword puzzle and powerful laser Kiwis.

#NoKings #Cybersecurity #privacy

Freshly printed copies of the 'Digital Revolutionary zine are on the bar at DNA Lounge in San Francisco right now! It looks great! 🥳

Get a copy and printable files here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-digital-24-131431284

#NoKings #Cybersecurity

New: Digital Revolutionary Mini Zine Vol 1! Secure your phone (or lock it remotely), move in crowds, take pics under stress, and more.

Here now https://www.digitapub.com/collections/frontpage/products/how-to-be-a-digital-revolutionary-mini-zine-vol-1 and here https://www.patreon.com/violetblue/shop/how-to-be-digital-revolutionary-mini-vol-1794413

Free now for $3 patrons (and up); free for all for 24 hours at midnight PST for #NoKings

FWIW -- Dianna (Physics Girl) is getting on a plane for treatments and asked about #Covid safe travel tips.

I sent her our resource guide which has a travel section, plus resources for what to do if you test positive, mental wellness, #LongCovid support, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/86871700

GREAT NEWS! The Covid Safety Handbook audiobook is now accessible online for public library patrons across North America!

Our book shows you how to stay safe while RFK Jr destroys US #Covid prevention

Library link: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/17724785

Find more versions here: https://linktr.ee/covidbook

New:
- US on track for worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948
- Conspiracy creep w/no medical license tapped as US Surgeon General
- HICPAC, NIOSH ended
- Cool Haunted Woods #LongCovid game
- #Covid surges land in AU, Thailand, Taiwan
- I got ranty

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-may-8-2025-128426416 #PublicHealth

New: Anonymous Op DreadNought got Trump “deportation” flight info, scary video of a factory robot going ham, NIOSH (mask safety) gutted & work stopped, Tulsi Gabbard's Hare Krishna cult password and more. Subscribe to support my journalism. #Cybersecurity #Hacktivism

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-6-128251407

I interviewed the father of IBM PC; then I wrote about ICE, Microsoft, IBM, and people who do tech support for genocide. "When your hands are covered in blood, the time to stand around stuttering in disbelief hoping someone else will do something has long passed."

https://www.engadget.com/2018-06-22-microsofts-ice-involvement-tech-denial-problem.html?guccounter=1

New, please share this underreported info: US measles cases up 360% (over 500, 22 states), TX measles vax clinics shut, CDC gutted, FDA delayed Novavax, FDA bird flu response team fired, new #Covid variant + cases rising, and more.

Hope IS a warrior emotion.

And about the daily evil and violence we're trying to survive right now, our work is "to build a life and a world that is not just strong enough to resist it but dedicated to its opposite."

Please join and support: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-april-3-125822133

Want to know what the US looks like from outside right now?

Fury from Canada and Australia, travel advisories in 10 countries, US boycotts expand, "kidnapped" detention center starvation and deaths, "Imminent Regime Crisis in the United States," more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/view-from-here-125797319

Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs.

Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean Big tech can decide whether US authorities have access to your personal info, like location data.

Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe”

Here's a resource collection of non-US services, and more:

https://www.wired.com/story/trump-era-digital-expat/

New: RFK Jr. on Texas measles outbreak: "We're delivering vitamin A." Iowa lawmakers advance mRNA vaccine ban. Too many terrible “5 years later” #Covid takes. Lots of #LongCovid news. All that and more -- plus a Kiwi doctor’s “one weird trick” to prevent Covid.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-march-6-123755414

New: DHS denies confirmed reports US is standing down from Russia #cybersecurity threats, Google to phase out SMS verification, DHS quietly eliminates ban on #surveillance based on orientation and gender, vaccine updates from Europe, #measles now in New York, and more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-4-123583559

New: #Measles spreads and kills in Texas, New Mexico, New Jersey, Kentucky. RFK cancels C19 oral vaccine development. US #Covid levels expected to peak around May 16, UK still rising. Vaccinated kids have 57-73% lower risk of #LongCovid. SNL50 cases: Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Chloe Fineman; more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-february-123210711

If you like stories about homeless punk kids punching nazi skinheads, have I got a book for you: https://linktr.ee/nowordforwater