Cyberlyra

How to opt out: Lessons from 14 years of evading surveillance capitalism Please join us for this talk with sociologist of science and technology Janet Vertesi. Additional details to come.

Also at Berkeley, on Wednesday, catch me talking about my 14 years of experience in Opting Out of Big Tech, and why the world needs more of this right now!

besi.berkeley.edu/event/how-to...

Berkeley-ites, I'm coming to town! Catch this talk on Monday afternoon about what happens to science when you slash budgets ...

sociology.berkeley.edu/janet-vertes...

Whoa, we have a faculty lounge? omg WHERE???

ZOMG Tressie I laughed out load soooo hard at this one

Some of my best students too.

Digital Resistance Tip #2: Fragment your Online Identity

video.infiniteloop.tv/w/d1RmHSum5i...

Take down the platform economy by refusing to put all your digital eggs in one basket.

www.optoutproject.net and www.reclaimcontrol.tech

#optout #bigtech #reclaimtech #digitalresistance

Digital Resistance Tip #1: One system at a time!

video.infiniteloop.tv/w/jgr2nhMiFv...

#optout #digitalresistance #reclaimcontrol
www.optoutproject.net and www.reclaimcontrol.tech

Not if it means supporting AI's underlying political economy based on mass data and resource capture, and the infrastructual market-making by an emergent ungovernable cabalistic network of power.
Avert your eyes from the interface and you can't miss the mass power grab going on behind the screen.

Looking for #datasovereign smartphone based tools for #video shorts #editing and #caption generation/burning.

Smartphone tools in .apk (android), SFOS or iOS
PC-based tools in .deb or macOS .dmg

Prefer #onthebox, not feeding a company's AI-generating-facial-recognition-training-cloud.

It was an amazing game and overtime was breathtaking. That said, it was lucky for the Americans that the great Sidney Crosby was benched due to injury else they'd be waiting another 4 years for a shot at gold.

when they go bankrupt you know who can buy up all the hotels!

"Mirror on even pages" est selectionné ou non? Cela va insérer la page une sur deux ... Je viens d'essayer chez moi et je vois que cela soit sélectionné par defaut et qu'il reproduit la problème...
Désolée si non.. j'espère que vous trouverais la solution vite!

vraiement??? j'adore LibreOffice ... c'est quoi exactement le probleme avec pagination?

Hi! I'd review for a venue if you want to refer me. Or blurb.

I feel like it's important to remind everyone that as a conscientious objector to Big Tech I have been living a life of #digitalsovereignty for 12 years. Including on-the-box AI.

Yet again today I heard someone say, "I didn't know Janet was working on that..." So here is your periodic reminder!

Hey you submitted!! Congrats!!

ROFL! Yes, my interviewer intervened, "It's okay, professor, you passed."

Oh right, yes. They do teach you what the constitution and amendments say and you have to answer questions about them.

I went all in and read the constitution, the amendments, the federalist papers, and commentaries. I was disappointed when she stopped asking after 6 questions right. Cos nerd.

Getting naturalized means you have to learn your civics, read the constitution and its amendments, and explain what it means. Not the voters they are looking for.

I was about to say this is unbelieveable ... except actually it's entirely believable in this timeline.

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OMG You finished the #Cybercleanse! Amazing! I am delighted to hear this. I'd love to know more about what you worked on, what worked for you and what didn't.
Join us on Tech Reclaimers? www.reclaimcontrol.tech -- scroll down to the bottom and you can join the Signal group or Discord chat.

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

Open panel submissions portal is open! ls!

Deadline: 2nd February 2026

www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

​Act: I am being shown a specific political meme.
​Scene: In an app designed to keep me scrolling.
​Agent: An algorithm optimized for engagement, not truth.
​Agency: By using my past data to trigger a specific emotion.
​Purpose:To keep me on the platform.

​ #AcademicSky #CriticalAI #MediaEcology 🧵

Weathering budget cuts: Lessons from NASA The current uncertainty and cuts to science funding affect universities, research facilities, and laboratories across the United States, but this situation is not unprecedented. Under pressure to fund...

My first editorial in @science.org was published today: what to do (and, importantly, what NOT to do) when your grants are suddenly cut or research funding is uncertain. Please read and share!

#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tintin comic panel. Captain: What a week, huh? Tintin: Captain, it's Wednesday.

Step up to #savescience! This week's minibus bill includes Congressional requests that undo the President's Office massive cuts to #science -- 1-4% reduction, not 50-55%, stops to reorgs, shuttered institutes and agencies. Call your representative and voice your support! #academicsky #NASA #NSF #EPA

can confirm

you can quote posts now on mastodon.

yes, entirely unlike a business plan, science actually has to have a plan. and a strong team. and years of work behind it. it can't just be a pitch with some guy in a hoodie and dudes throwing money at him cos they like the cut of his jib, then keep tossing money at him cos he's their "investment".