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Privacy Guides

We all know services that require authentication can correlate your activity on that service with your account. This becomes particularly dangerous when that account is linked with payment information that could potentially link back to your real identity.

It doesn't have to be this way though: The Privacy Pass protocol presents a path forward for "blind" authentication, if more services adopt it. Our team member @fria walks us through how it works:

privacyguides.org/articles/202

www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Pass: The New Protocol for Private Authentication
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#Privacy#PrivacyPass#Anonymity
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Kristie

I’ve been listening to the increasingly loud “AI is evil” chat, and getting suspicious.

Is AI energy-greedy? Yes.
Is it thirsty AF? Absolutely.
We've all heard that.

But what about video streaming? Tik Tok? What about your shower?

To make change it's important to first see the big picture

This isn’t a defence of AI.
It’s a defence of critical thinking.

kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/is-a

By Hand · Is AI the Problem - Or Just the Headline?When one topic starts dominating headlines, especially with urgency, I pause. When the focus narrows, I get suspicious. That’s when I start asking questions. Public attention is often managed: not always by lying (although increasingly by lying!) but by directing focus. Right now, that focus is on AI. If
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NeeAnah

metroscenemag.com/2021/04/Jesu.

"The Gospels portray Jesus not just as a teacher or miracle worker, but also as someone unafraid to challenge unjust systems. From flipping tables in the temple (Matthew 21:12-13) to calling out religious hypocrisy (Matthew 23:13-36), Jesus confronted both spiritual and societal corruption head-on."

Metroscene Mag - For the young, empowered & creativeJesus Was a Social Activist Who Fought Against the System and You Should TooJesus was a radical social activist, and he fought for justice for the common good.
#christianity#easter#jesuschrist
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Dr. Rosanne Welch

Lois Weber: More than a Writer-Director She’s the Auteur Activist of Early Cinema – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, April 2025

Film studies courses often still fawn all over Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith.  Rather than wallowing in the racist messages of Birth of a Nation, professors should focus on the work of Lois Weber, whose use of screenwriting in her activism lends continued relevance to her work. In an era where we bask in the social justice messages of Get Out, by writer-director Jordan Peele, it seems only right to connect the dots from Weber to Peele. So, to celebrate this 50th column, we’re celebrating Weber. 

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Tats

Cultural appropriation is here to stay.

If we live in multicultural societies and engage in a globalised digital village that plays host to cultural forms from around the world, why do accusations of ‘cultural appropriation’ still abound?

Outside of North America the concept of ‘cultural appropriation’ barely makes sense. Most countries are overwhelmingly monolithic ethnically and culturally. Most never had segregation laws.
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thecritic.co.uk/cultural-appro

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Noel J. Penaflor

WHO'S WATCHING OLIVER #Review

A sick twist of a movie. Definitely not for everyone. Worst onscreen mother this side of Hereditary.

Full Review #Link Below- This Who's Watching Oliver (2017) Review Contains Gentle Loving Hornets.

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#horror #horrorFam #writing #writer #writingCommunity #writers #Movies #movie #cinema #cinemastodon #Film #films #filmmastodon #horrorCommunity #horrorMovie #horrorMovies #horrorFilm #horrorFilms #horrormastodon #reviews #filmreviews #moviereviews
#article #read #reading #funny #humor #whoswatchingoliver

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Noel J. Penaflor

THE RANGER #Review

Perfectly passable Forest horror that makes its low budget work for it. If Larry Fessenden isn't in an indie horror movie, did it ever get made?

Full Review #Link Below- This The Ranger review gives you a Giant Hat

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#horror #horrorFam #writing #writer #writingCommunity #writers #Movies #movie #cinema #cinemastodon #Film #films #filmmastodon #horrorCommunity #horrorMovie #horrorMovies #horrorFilm #horrorFilms #horrormastodon #reviews #filmreviews #moviereviews
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Tats

AI Is Dead

"AI does not see what we see. It has no personality, no creativity. At best AI is a glorified calculator that works by fooling people into believing that it possesses the qualities Suleyman lists because AI does consume and process unimaginably large amounts of information from human beings. Unlike Suleyman’s claim, though, computers don’t have any real understanding of the data they generate."

#Article #opinion #ai
Via @TexasObserver

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The Texas Observer · AI Is DeadA Texas author earned a certificate in AI—but there’s no way he’d ever use it to write a book.
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CornOnTheGob

#question #didyouknow #todayilearned #til

Windows is reinstating Recall,
Snapshots of screen saved every 3 seconds and fed to AI.
Previously introduced in May, 2024 to some backlash.

(...)"a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device."
(...)"nothing stopping Recall from preserving sensitive disappearing content sent through privacy-protecting messengers such as Signal."
(...)"Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 preview version. Over time, the feature will be rolled out more broadly."
(...)"That would indiscriminately hoover up all kinds of User A's sensitive material, including photos, passwords, medical conditions, and encrypted videos and messages."
(...)"That level of detailed archival material will undoubtedly be subject to subpoena by lawyers and governments."

etc. etc.
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Image says- That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong? Dan Goodin – Apr 11, 2025 2:45 pm | 157 The Recall feature as it currently exists in Windows 11 24H2 preview builds. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that Recall was ripe for abuse in intimate partner violence settings. They also noted that there was nothing stopping Recall from preserving sensitive disappearing content sent through privacy-protecting messengers such as Signal. (...) later stated "First, even if User A never opts in to Recall, they have no control over the setting on the machines of Users B through Z. That means anything User A sends them will be screenshotted, processed with optical character recognition and Copilot AI, and then stored in an indexed database on the other users’ devices." -from arstechnica, bad scripts. You get no link.
#microsoft#windows#os
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