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Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
@BiellaColeman
Prof works on sci+tech+med// Faculty Associate // Curator of (hackcur.io)// Board member of & dog lover.
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If someone needs an easy WP site to publish videos of the protest and police brutality categorized say by state, here is some Git Hub Code to do so:
Humans: Wear your mask to protects yourself and others
Dogs: Wear your mask to look cool
An Anonymous Op to shame cities/mayors/regions like Quebec and Montreal (and so many more) into mandating masks would be meta and awesome given they already wear masks. Remember, remember...
Share, sign, & learn the history of eugenics and phrenology. You cannot detect criminality in facial features/emotions & the resurgence of these claims via tech is so troubling. If you are a tech worker in this area, you are working against science and in service of oppression
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As per a press release, Springer will publish “A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing.” Sign our letter to urge all publishers to refrain from feeding the #TechToPrisonPipeline with physiognomy 2.0.
Bit.ly/TechToPrisonPi
The original hackers were ... women.
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Now well into their 90s, staff who helped uncover secret Nazi communications gather at British WW2 code-breaking HQ Bletchley Park
Imagine if universities formed a consortium to pay open source projects like Jitsi to develop and maintain software instead of pouring gobs of money down the drain for licenses for products ruled by overlords that can censor as they please.
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Zoom shuts down an NYU academic event on zoom censorship. Facebook asks NYU researchers to stop doing research on political ads. NYU’s response will be interesting to see how even powerful universities can struggle to maintain institutional autonomy vis a vis tech companies. twitter.com/BazziNYU/statu…
a very special bird shared this with me and it's lifted my spirits so I am now sharing with you, in case it does that to you too.
I can't believe I am tweeting this but I am because it made me lol and it might make you lol too.
Ok, 3-d printer hackers, time to get to work. Please please spread the word. Please send to folks who have 3-D printers. and
please add the link for the instructions github.com/GliaX cbc.ca/radio/asithapp
You work on computers for 2 decades and because women inventors are so marginalized in the public sphere, you've never heard of Evelyn Berezin, the inventor of the Data Secretary--the first true word processor--until she passes away. nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obi
This is the right thing to do and the pragmatic thing to do. A pandemic can't end until the virus is tamped down everywhere.
Over the top amazing visualization and reporting covering the shooting of African Americans. fw.to/y1U26eD
And so what's the problem? twitter.com/TheOfficialACM
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The insane number of RTs for a number of Anonymous announcements and threats today are unlike anything I've seen and struck me as weird.
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That's why I hate the genre of articles "don't just blame politicians," the virus is just too complex for us humans to grapple with and I'm like well, except Korea, NZ, Taiwann, Finland, Austria... what makes those humans different? Their leaders and response
can we just move to a 4 day work week until the pandemic ends and then discover that it was better for all and keep it?
BBC releases 16,000 sound effects which you can use for educational and research purposes. bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk
Talks all week. They are open and free to the public at large. [The workshops and a few other areas are closed for ticket/token holders but take advantage and check out the talks ---> scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/sched
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HOPE 2020 Stream: hope.net/stream.html
Someone should set up a death-dropbox: As you are dying, you leak secrets. Yes, morbid but also potentially a great source of info
heartbreaking dystopia
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‘The hand of God’ — nurses trying to comfort isolated patients in a Brazilian Covid isolation ward. Two disposable gloves tied, full of hot water, simulating impossible human contact. Salute to the front liners and a stark reminder of the grim situation our world is in!@sadiquiz
Data may not be neutral and it's often abused but it's necessary and powerful political tool. A great piece that features who will be keynoting next Tuesday ft.com/content/156f77
A student once wrote about Carol Marx and I was like "I WISH"
That's a very cool hack: "Inmates built computers hidden in ceiling, connected them to prison network"
People who think we are in a unique post-truth era need to pick up a book about the history of propaganda. Holy smokes.
We tend to think of candy as eye candy but these tomatoes beg to differ.
Something to warm the heart: The meme revival has been strong this week
Cat 🐱 lovers if you go to Rome you must visit a cat sanctuary that's at this archeological site
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This one is so good, it is bound to overtake keyboard cat's holy greatness in our hearts and minds.
Writing a book that is treated as subversive by the government is a dream; having it used against a whistleblower is a nightmare & travesty twitter.com/csoghoian/stat
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If you are remotely thinking of getting one of these spy devices, read this first:
The other type of internet tubes, the ones that cool the (google) servers. We don't think of the digital "revolution" as industrial but it's as extractive and requires the same massive resource inputs, mining, energy and water.
A couple of ironic bits about the Harper's letter: 1. they are condemning ... the very thing they are supporting .... speech. They want controlled speech without consequence. That's just not how speech works. Enough people pipe up, there are consequences harpers.org/a-letter-on-ju
Republicans move to sell off 3.3m acres of national land, sparking rallies
From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek (aka: how to understand contemporary explosion of hacker politics) journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10
History meets the Present: This guy used over 80,000 old photos to create a Google Street map of NYC in the 1800s til.ink/29xVZl9
Hard to believe that security forces/protections could be breached unless some of those very security forces allowed this to happen.
Well maybe after today I won't need to define DDoS anymore when giving a talk to a non-techie audience
Two small changes: anonymizing gender and gender balanced assessments, yields rather substantial results: "After the applications were anonymised, the number of women receiving awards rose to 44% in 2014 and to 57% in 2017." research.ie/assets/uploads
FBI's 'Gamergate' file says prosecutors didn't charge men who sent death threats to female video game fans — even when suspects confessed (huge mistake G-men) businessinsider.com/gamergate-fbi-
Is anyone else afraid that after this pandemic gig is finally over, you'll barely have any friend left and you will be so out of practice socializing and so tired when you do, that you will lose the remaining 3 friends you still have?
Well people if there was ever a time to download and fire up and support the Tor Browser and the that would be now... vice.com/en_us/article/
David Graeber was a friend & he inspired me to write in more public, engaging ways. I had no idea that was an option until I read him. As a grad student, I emailed him after coming across his work (he replied, which given what I know now about profs & how busy is a surprise)
If you want to read a new 4000 word essay I wrote on hackers/hack, you can find the pdf here culturedigitally.org/2016/07/keywor
Why is this not trending? Climate scientists are calling these sort of temperatures at both poles unthinkable and yet here we are washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/0
Why Protest Tactics Spread like Memes: I really enjoyed speaking with the journalist who wrote this piece and wow, he did his homework: speaking with video makers, protesters, academics and more
ACLU staff, Debian developer and all around awesome guy/geek/person/biker dkg gettinng clubbed by NYPD. Horrible.
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Watch till the end. #NYPD arrest peaceful cyclists for no reason. When we ask why they're arresting them, my friend get clubbed IN THE NECK by a cop. I turn around and find him choking and gasping for breath on the ground.
You say no police violence @NYCMayor?
#BlackLivesMatter
If only we could use AI to teach those hustling and overselling AI as some magic silver bullet/panacea that is not how technology ever pans out then we'd be getting somewhere with AI.
Whoever leaked the Trump video and audio: thank you, a million times over.
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that you spent last year on this, Stacy Abrams, thank you. And to all organizers, groups, and individuals, doing the sort of work that rarely gets a profile but is so damn central to all the progressive gains. Nothing but gratitude newyorker.com/magazine/2019/
Imagine if academics were barred from saying their work lies at the intersection of ...
As a homebody to the max, I have found working under these conditions uber challenging. I finally decided to try the following, which has helped. Per day, I try to do:
1. One substantial work task
2. One life task
3. One home task
4. Feel 0 guilt no matter what panned out.
One of the best documentaries on the history and contemporary face of hacktivism that I've seen, hand's down. Featuring and and many others. sub.media/video/trouble-
From Theranos to the MIT Media Lab: Whistleblowing may not end the game of (abuse/corruption) but can still be a game changer (so let's protect and support them) nytimes.com/2019/09/07/bus
Want your kids to learn about hackers? Lo and behold, there is a now virtual hacker museum, all video-based published by // You can have your kids learn and watch videos at the same time:
Watching someone trick a bunch of journalists into rewriting history and push their narrative (successfully) is a reminder of how easy it is to manipulate what we might otherwise consider legit journo outlets. Easy to lose sight of this disconcerting fact, especially now 1/
Good news bear?
Best ... Media ... Hack ... Ever. "Shadowy" Hacker behind Hacking Team hack appears as an adorable dino-frog puppet motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-ph
Well, that's exciting, "Wearing Many Hats: the Rise of the Professional Security Hacker" is no longer vaporware or alpha but now out as a dedicated report, covering the history of hackers going pro
I was interviewed by hundreds of journalists about Anonymous so I decided to turn the tables and write about journalism gabriellacoleman.org/wp-content/upl (#longread)
Exhibit A: for why a cashless society with no other allowance for anonymous monetary transactions can very quickly become tyrannical:
Progress: FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For Post-Traumatic Stress
If your university is asking you to return to work, the least they can do is offer you the following dual use office furniture.
For the record: what I said was that was not involved in the activist/hacktivist turn, something he admits to himself. Now journalists from Mother Jones are descirbing him as the founder of the activists because of the confusion, which I am trying to clarify.
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Anonymous historian @BiellaColeman pointed out that I should amend here that @kirtaner's claim to the distinction of "founder of Anonymous" is his own. My work documented his early role in crafting much of the group's identity (the mask & slogans) and in early trolling campaigns
Today I am finishing James Bridle's New Dark Age. I've devoured the book. One of the best books on computing history, contemporary AI, the politics of truth and even climate change and so teachable. More later.
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When " a class on ethics" is boiled down to a bunch of dead white dudes--and does not seriously entertain technology from an ethnographic perspectives (re: how it affects/effects/impacts/shapes people), it ceases to be a class on ethics.
I think we should invent a new verb after Elon Musk: musked: when someone promises something big and fails to deliver. I've been musked... You'e been musked. We've all been musked.
The Code Life Ventilator Challenge is a 2-week sprint to collect the best ideas from anywhere in the world to create or design life-saving ventilators. It’s a joint initiative between the Montreal General Hospital Foundation and the RI-MUHC.
Someone should take a picture of the first tulips in .nl to bloom in each region/city of the Netherlands, make an NFT of it, and start the great NFT TulipMania of 2021 to remind humans that their dumb drive for distinction, status, and money never ends, just takes new forms
Saved the best pic for last. The essence of Montreal: Strident and beautiful. #MarchePourClimat #montrealclimatemarch
Hackers have bad posture but they are also ... taking down governments. RuPaul and John Waters on hacktivism
Someone forgot to tell the British government that Guy Fawkes is no longer the pure villain they so desperately wish he still was. (and if someone would get me this poster of Guy Fawkes as a hacker, I'd be forever grateful)
To archive helps us to never forget. Acts of hacktivism like this one are important not for how they trigger massive change but how they feed into smaller currents of change that over time and in aggregate can add up to something more forceful gizmodo.com/every-deleted-
OMFG, what amazing news about #chelseamanning // Obama did the right thing and will be remembered for this act alone.
The Social Dilemma: a list 1. boys and their toys 2. boys and their guilt 3. boys who made so much money making their toys 4. They can quit, critique and bask in their own heroic glory.
Probably one of my favorite I am a teenage hacker who is high all the time and I hacked the CIA director probably when I was high. Bound one day for
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Along with being the epitome of a douchebag, if you have to compare Greta to a Nazi, you are on the losing side of history and you are clearly so desperate trying to tar and feather someone who is actually hard to sully.