Lecturer @oiioxford. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Privacy, algorithm auditing. Photographer, keen 🚴🏻. they/them. Mastodon: @cynddl@mamot.fr Bsky: @rocher.lc
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After 13 years on Twitter, I'm out. You can find me on The Other Websites, the mammoth and the butterfly (and the horrifying LinkedIn). Plus new website and newsletter coming soon for our research team at Oxford, stay tuned!
May we build better worlds than this rotten place. 🌱
gpsjam.org is a very precious resource (built by @lemonodor) to visualise daily GPS interference by (likely) military jamming around the world. All these red cells are 1000s of people harmed by misleading technology.
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Décès de Lunar, un hacktiviste pédagogue, des suites d'un cancer, connu pour ses activités @torproject, @NosOignons, @debian et @ReproBuilds, @laquadrature, cf aussi son site lunar.anargeek.net
Une figure du Libre dont la contribution reste à raconter
linuxfr.org/news/deces-de-lu…
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Dites RTL, quand vous reformulez ou écrivez vos articles avec ChatGPT, faut enlever l'introduction sinon ça se voit.
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Excited to share a first look at our upcoming documentary, “In the Belly of AI”. Directed by @PoulainOriginal and co-written with @juliengoetz. Join us as we explore the people, stories, and belief systems behind the algorithms influencing our daily lives.
🎬 In the Belly of AI
While #bigtech promises a new humanity, the workers behind AI remain hidden. Annotating data, moderating content, and training algorithms; low-wage human labour is keeping AI going.
An eye-opening documentary on the human and environmental costs of AI...
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Quick PSA: Someone is attacking Tor right now and has been for a few weeks.
The attacker is spoofing the IPs of Tor Exit and Directory nodes, and blasting TCP SYN packets indiscriminately on 22/TCP- spurring a large amount of abuse complaints to hosting providers, which are then temp blocking/banning Tor infrastructure which isn't actually doing anything wrong.
For the time being, I recommend all hosting providers *ignore* abuse complaints that indicate "SSH scanning" or "port scanning on 22/TCP" and originate from any of the following IPs: pastebin.com/idKU0agt
This is a clever attack. I'm working with partners to triangulate the true origin of this traffic then try to get it disconnected.
Weird attacker website here: r00t.monster
Related links:
gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ne…
lists.torproject.org/piperma…
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Amsterdam - London direct will be back from 10/02/2025 #eurostar
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We've released the CFP for #FAccT2025, which will be held in Athens, Greece! 🇬🇷 Abstracts are due on January 15th, papers on January 22nd. Read all about it on our new blog: facct-blog.github.io/2024-10…
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I'm on the job market for tt faculty positions! I conduct research to resist harmful tech, data and AI and empower communities to imagine and build better data and AI futures. Please let me know if there are any positions I might be a good fit for!
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It would be fine if economists discovered other social sciences and then changed their minds about the world. But instead, economists often pervert the analyses of other disciplines, extracting and twisting their work to fit an ideological agenda. ft.com/content/1e2584d6-65ef…
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Dear @UniofOxford - a milestone to celebrate indeed, but don't forget the hundreds of 'streamboat ladies' that studied @UniofOxford for decades before and were awarded degrees by @tcddublin as Oxford would not en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamb…
#OnThisDay in 1920, the first women received their Oxford degrees 🎓
📷 | @StAnnesCollege
ALT Black and white image of the first degree day for women, 14th October 1920.
Great opportunity to work with @ViliLe at the intersection of political and computer sciences in his multidisciplinary Aalto-Oxford joint research lab:
🚨I'm hiring!🚨 Join me in my new ERC-funded research project on the geopolitics of cloud computing, and get to live in the happiest country on Earth :)
Now hiring a postdoc with computational data collection skills: diesl.eu/open-position-postd… #GEOCLOUD #DIESL
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🚨🚨🚨 We are launching our Graduate School Application Financial Aid Program (queerinai.com/grad-app-aid) for 2024-2025. We’ll give up to $750 per person to queer STEM scholars applying to graduate programs. Apply at openreview.net/group?id=Quee…. 1/5
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AmIUnique is starting a new adventure on mobile! 🎉📱
We have just launched our first Android application to study if users can be identified through an application without using a single permission.
Link: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Retweets are greatly appreciated 😊
