It was never safe to put pics of your kids on social media.

People thought I was crazy for taking such a hard line on this.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/03/ai-sexual-abuse-fears-uk-parents-warned-posting-images-children-national-crime-agency

Looking for alternative video conferencing software ?

some options:

Jitsi
Proton meet
Nextcloud
Signal calls
Visio

The June PureOS update report by @purism was published:

https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-development-report-may-2026/

It elaborates a bit more on the release of Crimson and way forward to the next release, named Dawn.

Also to the release of the #Librem16 laptop is mentioned.

Thanks to all who worked on this or contributed in any other way, like being a totally optional PureOS subscriber: https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/

#Purism #PureOS #development #MobileLinux #Linux #FOSS #privacy #security #Librem5

On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA.

Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other grass is greener lies. Very #Brexit-esque, Cambridge Analytica playbook.

As the US under this administration seeks to capture and manipulate oil internationally, Hormuz and Venezsudentenland are not enough. They are coming for the Canadian oil fields not with arms, but with algorithmically amplified #disinformation and millions of corrupt dollars to influence an election in their favor. For Russia, cracking Canada means destabilizing yet another Western democracy in the international illiberal project, plus Canada recently signed an agreement to provide drones to the #Ukraine.

How can you help?

I wish I could say call your Congressional Rep, and that might still work in some districts. However, this is digital guerilla warfare, and we still don't have good innoculation against it.

Any information you can get out there on social media --about what it is really like to live in the US (maybe more about how actually likely it is to own a mansion or paying for your health care!), about how disinformation campaigns work, about what happened to democracies that voted to shoot themselves in the face based on peddled lies and are now dealing with the consequences (hello #UK), would help. Please tag Alberta separatism to ensure the message gets out.

And tell your friends. People need to know this is going on.

#elbowsup

Receipts:

https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/co-ordinated-network-of-fake-youtube-channels-pushing-alberta-secession-and-us-annexation-narrative-report-finds/

https://www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-the-inauthentic-youtube-network-selling-secession-to-albertans

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

https://disifnowatch.org broke this story with international journalists' help: see: https://disinfowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alberta-and-Foreign-Interference-Report-Final-052026-web.pdf

I lack words to explain just how fucking stupid this is. I just ... there are no words. Your existing multi-billion-dollar Mars mission needs this thing, you clown. On this planet, not on the moon.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/nasa-may-send-a-backup-nuclear-powered-mars-rover-to-the-moon/

If bots are running the #stockmarket with no grip on reality, well, it's no wonder the #AI bubble is so huge.

Looking forward to speaking at #FAccT this morning about my new paper on the #politicaleconomy of #AI with the incomparable @zephoria and fab friends. Hope to see you there -- or check out the OPEN ACCESS paper online:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3805689.3806739

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Mastodon, can you help me out with my Communications and Media strategy? If you run a mailing list, have a blog, post videos, or if you subscribe to anyone out there on the internet, I'd love to hear what you think is effective.

I currently have:

- The Opt Out Project Blog. Currently reserved for longer-form descriptions of alternative tech, and alt approaches to tech, where I may post more of the Op Eds that never get published because they are critical of Tech and most editors don't want to publish them

- A ButtonDown email list. Which now it turns out can do so much more than just emailing people! it's like a mini-blog

- A peertube account that I don't use very much but could do.

- Mastodon, BlueSky accounts (and booo LinkedIn, very recent, just for work, not for this stuff)

Here are my questions:

- What are some good ways of connecting these infrastructures to communicate more/better about how to think differently about technology?

- Where should I be posting regularly and what content goes where?

- What else should I get or put into the mix? I won't touch FB or Insta, but should I use TikTok or YT to reach people who need to hear what I have to say? Should I set up a Ghost instance and if so, to fill which role/niche?

Your input is really appreciated. This is not a request for "these infrastructures are evil never use them" feedback, but realtalk about what you've seen that works. Given that I typically resist most media stuff, feel really passionately about my message, yet don't know much about what my options are, I'm looking for ideas of ways to expand my reach in a way that feels right to me.

Thanks for any input you can muster!

New Year, New Digital You! I'm leading a 21-day CYBER-CLEANSE to teach you and your friends how to clean up your digital footprint.

Looking to change your habits online in 2025? Follow along and by January 21, you'll be in a far better place!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cleanse-take-back-your-digital-footprint/

Please forward, boost, and re-post!
#cybercleanse #optout #toxictech

When #Google tells you to eat glue and rocks, and the Internet sinks under hallucinatory generative "content" madly seeking clicks and likes, we went back to an actual, honest to goodness, encyclopedia.

My latest piece, why we should care about knowledge in the age of generative AI, at @publicbooks

"The challenge is to listen to each other and to integrate among conflicting perspectives with grace and care, not to shout louder."

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclopedia-project-or-how-to-know-in-the-age-of-ai/

My new op Ed in @techpolicypress

AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades, writes Princeton University sociologist Janet Vertesi:

https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled-much-ai-is-just-outsourcing-redux/

Reposting after migration: Here’s how I evaded data capture at Disneyland—and more importantly, how Big Tech has hijacked “convenience” to keep us in thrall.

http://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/

More tech details at https://www.optoutproject.net/data-free-disney

#dataprivacyweek