Isadora, PhD

Isadora, PhD

@1sadora.bsky.social

Political scientist—hire me! Surveillance and privacy, deputized policing, public opinion and cybersec, self-censorship. Quant (R) who also does theory building.

91 Followers 65 Following 113 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 week ago

I just want to say that typed “granular” three times and my phone changed it every to “gradual” three times. All of the tech wants us dumber, more boring and easier to control.

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2 months ago

Your commentary from your book was the first thing I thought about when the details of Bari's public justifications came out.

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2 months ago
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Wired subscriber data exposed as hackers claim to have stolen 40 million Condé Nast records The group, which goes by the name Lovely, said it reached out to Condé Nast months ago to warn them about six vulnerabilities it had discovered.

Hey @davekarpf.bsky.social! as a @wired.com subscriber, I expect to be told of a (September) hack by them, not Techspot. As a reader and contributor, did you get an email acknowledging it even happened? www.techspot.com/news/

Unsurprisingly, this wasn't covered in their 2025 hacks roundup story.

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3 months ago

Our article is out, open access!

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5 months ago

UK and it's former 1st tier commonwealth dominions, Canada and Australia, at the same time. What's up with New Zealand missing from this coordinated joint announcement? How will this affect the Five Eyes intel handover to US and will Canada's C2 Cloud Act give activists' data?

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9 months ago

I already said the journalist(s) own the company. there's no investor. Actually the opposite, readers are subscribers. Wired is also paywalled after a few articles. What kind out outlets do you read? AI slop and hallucinated content theft? Or is it all just knee-jerk reactions to headlines with you?

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9 months ago

FinDoxx as chilling effect, must add to the "dissent is not allowed" tactical repertoire for future study. Weird that the Democracy Dies in Darkness newspaper doesn't include how much did Bezos donated, not just the headline amount, but the dark money SPACs, shell corps, etc., in every single story.

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9 months ago

Seeing how the only device they make that has sold are surveillance glasses, and given how it Facebook was basically a surveillance-run advertising vehicle, my answer has been and remains: surveillance.

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9 months ago
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Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

Consider subscribing to Joseph Cox's co-owned 404 media, which broke the news, instead of linking to a different outlet recapping their scoop and depriving revenue from them
www.404media.co/airlines-don...

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9 months ago

Can't wait to read what kind of breakfast bagel he likes and whether it is even a bagel, as any hard hitting journalist would ask!

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9 months ago
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The surveillance complex: deputized law and order in advanced democracies Can a nation remain democratic while engaging in undemocratic behaviors? I describe the concept of deputized surveillance as a central mechanism of data gathering in US policing. After outlining it...

My @icsjournal.bsky.social article on deputized surveillance
focuses on US state's role over capitalism-centric narratives. I argue deputation insulates surveillance from democratic dissent, removing partisan competion on privacy. DM me for open access link! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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9 months ago

What about a canary in the coal mine badge you can only get if you can authenticate periodically to signal that you haven't opted into Recall so anyone chatting with you knows what you're settings are like and take precautions or avoid you like the plague.

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9 months ago

We were worried about AI "hallucination" (euphemism for bullshit), we forgot to worry about humans hallucinating non-existing situations into being. Besides the whole legality of using a personality tests in the workplace to begin with...

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9 months ago

Too little too late, why did Hassan vote for her?
Full list of Yea Dems:
Fetterman (D-PA)

Hassan (D-NH)

Kaine (D-VA)

Kim (D-NJ)

Peters (D-MI)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:

Merkley (D-OR)

Schatz (D-HI)

Smith (D-MN)

Warnock (D-GA)

Wyden (D-OR)

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9 months ago

Too little too late, why did Kim vote for her?
Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)

Hassan (D-NH)

Kaine (D-VA)

Kim (D-NJ)

Peters (D-MI)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:

Merkley (D-OR)

Schatz (D-HI)

Smith (D-MN)

Warnock (D-GA)

Wyden (D-OR)

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9 months ago

Hassan and Kim (also in your clips) voted for Noem. Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)

Hassan (D-NH)

Kaine (D-VA)

Kim (D-NJ)

Peters (D-MI)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:

Merkley (D-OR)

Schatz (D-HI)

Smith (D-MN)

Warnock (D-GA)

Wyden (D-OR)

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10 months ago

Thank you for inviting me to collaborate on the ideas and writing of the brief wit your great students!

For anyone curious about the arguments but short on time, their Harvard Cyber clinic blog post condensed our contributions to the Massachusetts court.

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10 months ago

Also, smaller point but I'm 37 and I was taught how to look up index cards so you weren't the last generation! They were definitely around for a bit longer in schools than public libraries and universities before it all went digital.

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10 months ago

Starting my day with this piece, I am also not nightmarish about card catalogs going feral. It's the totalizing edits made by people claiming bibliomancy and their ability to remove any democratic dissent that I'm nightmarish of. It's the people and the politics for me, always.

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11 months ago

"having recently listened to a webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association that discussed the use of AI in the legal world" bad AP for proving no context of what webinar and what it said. What's ABA's role in AI proliferation, or were they warning lawyers and it went over plaintif's head?

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11 months ago

Is this offer still valid?

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11 months ago

The Info claims "Meta erected guardrails around how it develops new products to better protect users' privacy. Now it is lowering the rails to release products faster"
Guardrails like what? Sarah Wynn-William's book belies this claim. Were those guardrails documented or just yadayada? A real loss?

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11 months ago

Does anyone have an alternative, non paywalled, version of the news documenting The Information's claim that "Meta Curbs Privacy Teams’ Sway Over Product Releases"? It seems this was repoeted Feb 11, 2025
@404media.co you got anything on this?

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11 months ago

Also: "if we aren't nice to moderate Republicans they won't vote for us" how's that working out? They didn't even save their own party, they're gonna bail out Dems?

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11 months ago

The one he sold to an LLC holding company in 2020 for totally not tax reasons?

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11 months ago

One of the refreshing things about Careless People's author is that because SWW isn't American, she's clear eyed about Facebook leadership's tech imperialism. It comes through over and over in the book. It's not breaking news to anyone who isn't American.

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11 months ago

Paging Chuckles Schumer.

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11 months ago
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Podcast Set - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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1 year ago

Easy to do when DC has no Senators. Who needs Republicans with Democrats like these?

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1 year ago

Hilarious that the top image is from his lame "we won't rest" chant a few weeks ago.

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