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Calling all NoCo Residents!!! Local organizations are hosting a mutual aid rally to support the community through shared resources and educational opportunities! Join us on May 4th from 12-4pm at Fossil Creek Park in Fort Collins for a day of fun and connection! #mutualaid #rally #protest #NoCo

“Throwing data into a box and shaking it has yielded incredible results in processing human language, but that won’t be enough to treat disease,” @matteowong.bsky.social writes. “The way to build AI for science…is to do some science.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Steganography tools like OpenStego can also be used to inspect images for this type of hidden data.

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Some starter code to interact with the #bluesky api: n8.dev/bluesky-api-...

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Using Kiwix Hotspot to build an offline free information machine: n8.dev/offline-info...

for those who believe nothing can get better: you don't have to get in the way of those who do

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

n8.dev/web-app-pent...

One of the biggest threats to the privacy of millions of Americans is the unregulated data broker industry sharing your personal info indiscriminately. What we really need is legislative change, but in the meantime you can still defend yourself: www.privacyguides.org/en/data-brok...

Kathleen Hanna, Tegan and Sara, and more back Internet Archive in $621 million copyright fight. Over 300 artists signed Fight for the Future's open letter opposing the major label-led litigation over the Archive's preservation of 78rpm records www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Your Bluesky Posts Are Probably In A Bunch of Datasets Now After a machine learning librarian released and then deleted a dataset of one million Bluesky posts, several other bigger datasets have appeared in its place—including one of almost 300 million posts. 🔗 www.404media.co/bluesky-post...

Many #OSINT people know about the whatsmyname.app site that @osintcombine.bsky.social created and hosts. But did you know that there are people taking whatsmyna.me and making Python scripts, Docker containers, and browser addons? Check out all WMN's clients at github.com/WebBreacher/...

Are you ready? Today marks the start of ‘The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge’! Five days a week, for the entire month, find a new a new open source exercise on challenge.bellingcat.com

Classic, UDP versus TCP

We might be a little biased, but our blog is one of the best places to find privacy-related news stories, product reviews and opinion pieces. Check it out if you haven't already: www.privacyguides.org/articles/

☝️ With Bluesky's increasing popularity, bug-bounty hunters can demonstrate the impact of a subdomain takeover in yet another way: if foo[.]example[.]com is vulnerable, you may be able to claim @foo[.]example[.]com as your handle. Handy for impersonation and phishing. 😈 bsky.social/about/blog/4...

As a reminder, I've been using BlueSky almost daily since July 2023 and in my profile you can find 800+ old posts on the topic of #osint and #cybersecurity that have almost no likes or reposts (since I had few followers back then).

Tell Congress to oppose H.R. 9495, which would give the executive branch power to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status without due process, chill nonprofit activity, and endanger any organization that may be targeted by an administration.

made some new stickers based on the linocut print i did earlier this year. the fight to protect libraries and access to information will be more important than ever.

Now is a great time to get familiar with privacy protecting measures and make changes, form new habits, etc. to protect yourself online. Privacy Guides is a great resource - full of recommendations with explanation: www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/wh...

Our cultural record is ever fragile. With the incoming Trump 2.0 admin, you can bet that barriers to accessing truthful information (especially on racial justice, abortion +queer identity) will be plentiful. The Internet Archive is taking notes: blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/v...