'Seasoned' campaigner & computer whisperer. Ecology, democracy & infosec advocate. Doing research & data viz + 🌐 knowledge graphs @ClimateRace 🍉
Tkaronto via Coast Salish
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RT @cathmckenna: Actually, you’re just wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to rip out bike lanes which won't fix congestion but make roads…
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Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers.
Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.
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#NEW: A tense standoff unfolded in Etobicoke Tuesday night, as roughly 100 protesters gathered around construction equipment being used to remove the protected bike lanes along Bloor Street West. bit.ly/4z5Y3GE
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New: the DHS officials who tried to search the man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone lied. They pushed him about having child abuse images. Documents reveal that was a pretext; he wasn't suspected of this at all. He's a Stop Cop City activist 404media.co/dhs-said-they-se…
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I cycle to work every day. Toronto to Etobicoke. I was hit by a car that went through a red light. Protections for cyclists is poor. The laws protecting cyclists are ignored by the Toronto police and rarely enforced.
If I drove a car I would be adding to congestion. This is insane. I am off on bicycle to get to work.
Bike lane removal is continuing along Bloor Street West.
Cyclists now pedalling in mixed traffic say they've had close calls and they're worried about what's to come
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I don’t normally post about local politics but have to say something here:
The fact that these bike lanes are actually being removed is so embarrassingly backwards and regressive.
That Brad Bradford, a competitive cyclist and former city planner, supports removal of the lanes is another layer of insanity. Total spineless move. This guy really will say anything to get elected - not the kind of person who should be mayor of our glorious city nation of Toronto.
in toronto you pay taxes so that the provincial government can spend it to remove a bike lane that you use in your neighborhood
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If this were Iran, or another "enemy" country, it would be the top story in every news outlet on the planet.
#Breaking: European diplomats, including French and Polish representatives, who went to the West Bank to observe the olive harvest, have been violently assaulted by Israeli settlers.
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I still genuinely don't remember making you all this stupid.
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I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party.
I'm a victim of Antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party.
You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide and locks pensioners up for opposing it.
Andy Burnham rules out any partnership between Labour and the Green Party due to their controversial motion declaring "Zionism is racism".
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1/ NEW REPORT: Billions of advertising auctions determine in real time which ads we see on websites and in apps every day. Our latest research shows how the same data fueling this advertising ecosystem is being used to profile millions of users and silently infect targets with zero-click mercenary spyware, a novel attack technique we call "Adfection.”
Read the report: citizenlab.ca/research/how-d…
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Citizen Lab director @RonDeibert tells @globeandmail how Canada’s lawful access bill “will make it impossible for a large number of invaluable privacy-preserving tools” to operate in the country.
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Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.
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Suncor is preparing to sell its stakes in N.L. offshore oil projects to a company tied to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.
The purchaser, Ithaca Energy, is majority-owned by the Delek Group, an Israeli oil and gas company that is on a UN blacklist of companies involved in illegal settlements.
Although Canada has promised to take action against trade with settlements, this deal would have N.L. oil bankroll complicit businesses. This deal must not be allowed to go through.
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This scandal was uncovered thanks to the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
Tusk says Israeli firm NSO allowed Polish Pegasus users to spy on French, Germans and Poles, but not Russians, Belarusians, or North Koreans, and NSO delivered Poles’ private data to the Israeli govt.
NEW: 🇵🇱 Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office has found that the Pegasus spyware system used by the country’s previous government was not fully under the control of Polish security agencies, potentially allowing its Israeli manufacturer, NSO Group, to access sensitive data collected from Polish citizens.
According to prosecutors, an analysis by Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) found that NSO Group could access infrastructure used to process and store operational data. Information transmitted through the system was also leaving Polish territory.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the findings a crime against the state and described the affair as one of the biggest scandals in Poland’s history since the fall of communism.
Tusk warned that sensitive information belonging to thousands, potentially tens of thousands, of Polish citizens could have been exposed to a foreign country without adequate control. He also claimed there was no doubt that Pegasus manufacturer NSO Group cooperated with Israeli security services.
Pegasus is a powerful surveillance tool capable of accessing mobile phones and extracting messages, browsing history and location data. Depending on the capabilities deployed, it can also access microphones and cameras.
The spyware was purchased under the previous Law and Justice (PiS) government, which has faced allegations that it was used to monitor political opponents, journalists and other public figures. The former administration denies wrongdoing, arguing that Pegasus was necessary for national security and used with court approval.
Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said the system’s use endangered Poland’s national security. A parliamentary inquiry has also heard that judges who authorised surveillance were not fully informed about Pegasus’s capabilities.
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