What your Meta smart glasses record doesn’t stay on your smart glasses, ‘data labeling’ contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.

The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.

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Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

The first time I tried it out I discovered it had all the software I needed for the project I was working on just ready to go - so thoughtful!

Tails OS is pretty darn cool and more folks should know about it

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

[deep sigh] Section 230 doesn’t immunize platforms for violations of federal criminal laws.

I am no friend of platforms. But Section 230 is key to enabling *users’* ability to freely impart and receive information. Look up any number of articles explaining the “moderator’s dilemma.”

Beauty is not in and of itself resistance and there are fascistic and police modes of beauty, but any beauty that falls outside the profitable, the ordained, the dominant is an affront to them, a fearful sign of a world without them

do this to your wolf friends

Anthropic is not your friend, but OpenAI is your enemy

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!

Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

So they are definitely doing domestic mass surveillance then

The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails [Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is …

If you're looking for a summary of the Anthropic/DoD public debate & the safety, legal & ethical issues @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social & I summarised the debate in our @opiniojuris.bsky.social article 👇🏼

opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/t...

What a wonderful time. I walked a mile in like 20" of snow to my friend's apt in Davis where 30 people holed up all cozy, baking cookies and working from laptops. We went sledding the middle of the night. I did not see the Somerville Yeti, but he was out there.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

The EU's data privacy laws exist precisely because so many Europeans experienced the nightmare of authoritarian regimes compiling huge amounts of data on every single person to use against them.

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Not necessarily true.

Performer IDs are collected in the US. Small producers don't protect them well, and platforms have breaches.

I've seen Gemini turn up PID when Google search and the top ~100 databrokers come up with nothing. No sign of what fed Gemini.

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

That was fun!

The 2026 Legislative Outlook — Free Speech Coalition We’re about six weeks into the New Year, and the legislative outlook for the adult industry is coming into clearer focus. While age-verification still dominates the discussion, and our fight,…

Here's a look at what we're seeing so far in 2026.

Beyond age verification, lawmakers are advancing punitive taxes, extreme documentation rules, VPN restrictions, and warning label mandates targeting adult businesses across multiple states.

Read more: www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/the-202...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Social media sites subpoenaed for identities behind anti-ICE accounts. "[DHS] is... sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Bearing Witness New England

Live in greater Boston?
Ready to join the fight but anxious about going your first protest? Looking for something extremely chill?
Come to Burlington and stand with bearingwitnessne.org.
950+ people came out today - I saw high schoolers, clergy, people in their nineties.

color photograph of the actor joseph gordon-levitt

color photograph of the cover of Project 2025. the title reads "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise"

we're organizing an open letter to joseph gordon-levitt, urging him to reverse his stance on Section 230 and publicly cut ties with NCOSE (morality in media) and similar groups. like or reskeet if you'd wanna sign

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means