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The mass warrantless surveillance law FISA Section 702 has expired. They'll try to tell you the sky is falling. Don't believe them! Instead, tell your reps: NO spying on Americans without a warrant. Period. freedom.press/action/reform-…

This week, @sarahbmyers testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Her testimony highlighted the economic risks of the ‘AI bubble’ – a race to the bottom, where Americans absorb all of the downsides; higher prices, job loss and devaluation.

Masked agents of the US state are executing people in the streets and powerful leaders are openly lying to cover for them. To everyone in my industry who’s ever claimed to value freedom—draw on the courage of your convictions and stand up.

Today, the trilogue negotiations start. Stop Chat Control.

Join us for the AI Openness & Equity Forum 🤝 A space for policy practitioners, researchers & advocates to explore how AI policy can center justice, accountability & the public interest. Online, 14 Oct, 15–17h CET.Info & how to join: aspirationtech.org/blog/join_our_…

Ah, yes, encryption--the math that enables authentication, commerce, cybersecurity, the human right to privacy on which our networked world depends--is bad bc <spins wheel of bad guys> "pedophiles" <spins wheel of verbs> "love it most" Just profoundly unserious!

What's the closest you can get to digital time travel? The #WaybackMachine. 🌐⏳ A trillion pages of history, preserved so the web’s past is never lost. 📝 Tell us why the Wayback Machine is important to you ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/way… #Wayback1T #digitalpreservation @InternetArchive #webhistory

New Sunday Times profile in which I succeed, like a fencer in a 2hr marathon match, in fending off Qs abt my personal life & consistently turning focus back to my work & ideas. Contra the interviewer's claim, many ppl do know me! They're called friends, & you know who you are ❤️ archive.is/BtZD0

The White House released its AI Action plan this morning. We know where it came from: straight from Big Tech. But there’s another path available to us: we and over 100 other orgs called for a People’s AI Action Plan. Read it here: peoplesaiaction.com apnews.com/article/trump-…

A big humble thank you to @time and #BillyPerigo for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️ time.com/collections/ti…

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, no surveillance ads—whatever the rest of the industry does. We lead we don’t follow❤️

Today, Zeina, Assem, Loai and Mariam are keeping Laila company. Their symbolic hunger screams, #FreeAlaa and save Laila Soueif. Support Laila by joining hundreds of people in this relay strike: tally.so/r/mYoe2J اليوم يصحب ليلى في إضرابها زينة وعاصم ولؤي ومريم، بجوعهم الرمزي يقولون: #الحرية_لعلاء_عبد_الفتاح والحياة لليلى سويف. ساندوا ليلى وشاركوا مئات المتضامنين في هذا الإضراب التتابعي: tally.so/r/3x0gWv

Big Tech’s agenda for 2025? More tracking, profiling, and profiteering. Ours? Distribute the tools to push back. Yours? Take a stand for privacy and freedom. Let’s do this together! Start the year with your support to Tails today: tails.net/donate/

The great Brian Cox has a Christmas message to @Keir_Starmer about "the brilliant, courageous and inspiring writer," Alaa Abd el-Fattah. 'It’s time to make the call, Prime Minister. Pick up the phone and bring Alaa home for Christmas." #FreeAlaa

The reason it’s not getting more coverage is that remedying the conditions that led to this, which we’ve been warning about for years, would require unwinding dangerous x surveillant norms the current tech industry relies on. Coverage or no, the find out era has arrived and a fix is urgently needed, however painful.

Grateful to DuckDuckGo for the way they do business and for the way they support critical projects

Welcome @flipcause to our list of #CluelessVendors who illegally spam nonprofits like us with garbage. We heartily recommend everyone boycott nonprofit vendors who scrape nonprofit sites to bulk email every address on those sites. #BadBusiness #BoycottFlipcause #SalesforceSucks

We're hiring a Digital Security Trainer to help facilitate security trainings with journalists, write educational materials, and more. New York-based applicants are encouraged to apply but strong U.S.-based remote candidates will also be considered. freedom.press/careers/job/?g…

SustainOSS is in a strategic planning phase. We want to understand the current needs and challenges across our community and make sure our events and programming truly meet the open source community's needs. Help us by answering a few questions! airtable.com/appMC6RHRAE8JI…

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