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Native Americans are being targeted by ICE agents.
Native. Americans. Y’know, the people who were here before all the white people.
The above post is from January 2025. It’s now January 2026 and it’s still happening:
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe said Thursday that he's been "made aware" that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained fou
I made a similar post about KOSA 2 years ago and it blew up, so I'm hoping to get the same hype for this.
The EU wants to implement an even worse legislation called Chat Control, in which a trained AI will scan every single one of your messages and photos before they're even sent. They want to destroy end-to-end encryption and scan every single one of your messages in the name of "child protection" from predators.
They want to end privacy with the excuse of protecting children, giving them the possibility to utilize this legislation for far worse. From political expression to free speech, this legislation could put an end to all of it. Everybody in the EU will be affected. You, your family, your friends, your personal feelings and ideas. They will see everything.
If you want to fight it, please, i ask you to visit this website and contact your representatives with a written email, show them the population is against this.
Remember one thing: THEY'RE voting. NOT us. This is not what our democracy says. We've got 2 weeks to do the biggest push against this law. You have to act NOW.
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
I know it's not the silly stuff I usually post, but please hear me out, as it's important to me.
It all started with the Russian government making it illigal to talk about queerness amongst children, which was greatly celebrated by the homophobic majority back in the day. Later, they made it punishable for queer adults to publicly share their stories amongst other adults too, which was also celebrated.
On 30th November of 2023, the "lgbtq+ organization" was titled as "extremist", along with all the pro-Ukranian and anti-war organizations, which led to radical, aggressive censorship of all media in Russia. Then, big western social media were banned, along with monetization on them, which made activism for queer/pro-Ukrainian Russians even more difficult than it used to be, as it's required to dox yourself to the government by putting your "content creator" number (obtained from the official public services app "Госуслуги" by giving your sensitive information) in your BIO to get monetized legally. That has affected the right to privacy of not only Russian activists, but also of every Russian content creator.
12 days ago, on September 1st, 2025, they published a new law that punishes those who GOOGLE SEARCH unfavorable information about the government, "extremist" media, or anything that might suggest opposition to the Russian government and its actions. It's not just illegal to "seem" anti-war, or pro-gay, or pro-trans anymore — It's the MINDSET that's being criminalized right now. It's illegal to QUESTION, it's illegal to RESEARCH, it's illegal to INFO CHECK, it's illegal to EDUCATE YOURSELF, it's illegal to even TRY to FIND OUT THE TRUTH, even if you're doing it ON YOUR OWN.
So when I tell you,
It's NEVER about your safety and it's NEVER about "the kids",
you better fucking believe me.
3 BAD BILLS TO KEEP IN MIND FOR 2025
KOSA : Kosa is a terrible internet bill that would make it mandatory for platforms online to enforce age verification via ID, and deeming any content “inappropriate” for kids to be banned. This could range from not safe for work content, to health ressources,LGBT ressources, to climate change. It’ll be up to politicians to dictate what is and isn’t proper for kids,and, of course, killing encryption. Here are some ressources to get ready to fight KOSA : https://taikeero-lecoredier.tumblr.com/post/738573191699660800/we-have-a-server-to-help-fight-against-this-we Scripts to use : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyBUe6frFGF44rJQU3TahZ5zyG3tC7jai_hPneAKlnM/edit?tab=t.0 JOIN OUR SERVER AGAINST IT ! We organize call in days and other ressources. https://discord.gg/FPDJYkUujM
HR9495 would allow to stripe an organization of it's "non profits" status, and force them to pay taxes if the govt can "prove" that they are affiliated with terrorists with barely any concrete proof. This will impact non profit organizations such as ACLU, AO3, Fight For The Future, Electronic Frontier Foundation, AO3, The Internet Archive and many more that fight for human rights. Here is more infos and scripts you can use here : (THE POST IS OUTDATED DATE WISE BUT THE SCRIPTS IN THIS POST CAN STILL BE USED) : https://taikeero-lecoredier.tumblr.com/post/767859383226056704/hr9495-on-its-way-to-senate#notes Keep an eye for when ACLU makes a new call tool you can use,or contact your reps directly when the time needs it,they should look like this (The "Stop The Internet Censorship" discord server link above also help fight against it !) CHAT CONTROL If you are in Europe, I urge you to keep your eyes on this horrid EU proposal, as it will make it mandatory for private messages to be scanned by artificial intelligence, and users have to agree to be scanned or else they cant send images, videos or links anymore. More infos here : https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ Email English script: https://taikeero-lecoredier.tumblr.com/post/769688923967537152/chat-control-email-script-english#notes Contact your meps : https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organization/COREPER/ Join our server against it, we gather ressources and scripts against it ! Non EU people are more than welcome to join us ! https://discord.com/invite/e7FYdYnMkS
The European Union is preparing legislation that would make ID verification mandatory for using websites, games, social media, and online se
All who live in EU please read this article!
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privac
The European Union is going against online privacy by trying to pass a bill in october where AI will monitor all your texts before sending them! Even encrypted ones! If you don’t have the time to read it fully at least read the basic explanation and the what to do part. Our privacy depends on it!
Also please reblog this or post the link to your own blog to make it reach as many as possible!
Reminder to everyone in the EU
They want to go through your very very private messages and they are gonna decide if they can legally do that in a couple of months
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
If you don’t want them to violate your privacy, contact your MEPs (the website should be able to help you) and make sure you customize your message so it doesn’t go into spam
If you can, also send letters and call them, this will make your messages harder to ignore
This should help you find your MEPs better
Search for a Member per geographical map of the European Union
(I’m sorry if this isn’t the best)
Commodified Attention and the Ontological Erosion of the Self: Against the Economies of Captured Presence
In a civilisation that has rendered time a unit of economic calculation and attention a monetisable extract, we must ask: what becomes of being when it is no longer allowed to dwell in duration, but instead is continuously summoned to perform, react, and produce data for unseen ends? Photo by KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA on Pexels.com The human subject, once grounded in temporal interiority, reflexive…
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Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence
As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism. "One of the things that you really have to understand about AI development today is that there are what I call quasi-religious movements that have developed within Silicon Valley," says Hao. "The concept of artificial general intelligence is not one that's scientifically grounded."
Re-blog so we all get the same knock on the door
The Political Erosion of Intelligence: Populism, Policy, and the Rewriting of Rationality – part 2
The persistence of political regimes founded upon the calculated disempowerment of critical intelligence is neither incidental nor anomalous; it constitutes, in fact, a necessity within the architecture of post-democratic populism. If the first part of this post has sought to expose how populist logic systematically restructures public discourse, institutional credibility, and the very grammar…
Microsoft Copilot Vision: Privacy in Name Only
The following analysis is an independent critique intended for informational and internal review purposes only. It does not reflect the views of Microsoft Corporation and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft in any way. This content is based on publicly available information and does not assert the presence of any specific legal violation. Readers are encouraged to consult legal counsel or official policy documentation for compliance decisions or interpretations. Microsoft has introduced Copilot Vision as an enhancement to the Windows user experience, encouraging users to share their desktop and application windows with an AI assistant that can analyze content in real time. The messaging frames this as an opt-in tool for productivity and support, but behind the polished interface and helpful tone lies a far more invasive mechanism. Copilot Vision extends deep visibility into a user's screen, with few meaningful boundaries, little transparency, and even less accountability.
Despite lengthy privacy statements published by Microsoft, the actual safeguards for screen data shared with Copilot remain vague at best. The policies speak at length about privacy values and responsible AI. What they do not clarify is whether your screen content, once shared, is processed locally or remotely. They also fail to define what data is retained, how long it is kept, who within Microsoft may access it, or whether any of it is used to train future models.
The privacy language makes frequent use of ambiguous phrasing like "we may use your data to improve our services" or "data is used to provide a better experience." That wording is broad enough to justify nearly any use case, including behavioral analysis and long-term retention for AI model improvement. The result is a kind of opt-in surveillance that the average user does not fully understand and cannot easily control.
For example, when Microsoft says Copilot can "see what you see," it means exactly that. Anything visible on your screen, from customer records to financial dashboards to personal photos or encrypted communications, is made available to their system. There are no clear visual indicators when this is happening beyond a small icon. There is no automatic redaction of sensitive fields. There is no evidence that the content is ever processed in a zero-trust model or confined to temporary, non-persistent memory.
Even more concerning is the language used in the Enterprise and Developer Products section of the privacy statement. It outlines broad allowances for data use in support of Microsoft's business operations, ranging from troubleshooting to workforce development. There is no guarantee that data shared through Copilot Vision is exempt from this. Enterprise customers may believe their data is protected by contract, but those protections only apply if negotiated explicitly. Most users are unaware of these distinctions and assume privacy controls are enforced by default. They are not.
The consumer version of Copilot, including its Vision feature, does not provide enterprise-grade controls unless specifically enabled through Microsoft’s commercial data protection offerings. However, even with those in place, the boundaries remain blurry. Microsoft confirms that both automated and manual methods may be used to process your data, including direct human review of AI outputs. That effectively gives employees or contractors the ability to view data collected through this tool. While Microsoft claims to follow responsible AI principles, the implementation of those principles is difficult to verify and rarely exposed to third-party audit.
The most telling detail comes from the privacy section on children and education. Microsoft goes out of its way to assure parents that student data will not be used for advertising or behavioral profiling. Adults, however, receive no such promise. For everyone else, the data is subject to Microsoft’s full range of operational, analytical, and marketing use cases.
The key problem is not that Microsoft has built a system capable of watching your screen. It is that they have built it with minimal restriction, cloaked it in helpful language, and buried its implications under hundreds of paragraphs of policy text. Most users will never read that far. Even fewer will understand how much of their working environment they have just handed over.
Any claim that Copilot Vision operates within user consent ignores the reality that most consent is neither informed nor reversible. Once content is seen by the system, there is no button that makes it unseen. Microsoft may offer options to view or delete portions of your data through its dashboard, but that applies only to specific categories. There is no assurance that full-screen content shared with Copilot can be reviewed or purged, nor is there any audit trail made available to the end user.
In practical terms, Microsoft is inviting users to broadcast their digital environment to a remote system that operates according to complex, shifting policies. These policies are not easy to find, are not written in plain language, and often allow Microsoft to use the data in ways that serve its commercial interests more than the user’s.
Copilot Vision represents a new level of access. It is not a benign helper waiting to respond to questions. It is an AI system that watches and learns. The real concern is not just what it can do now, but what it will do next, and whether users will have any say in the matter. Privacy cannot be preserved through long documents alone. It requires structural limitations, transparent enforcement, and the willingness to place user protection above platform growth. Microsoft’s current approach does not meet that standard.
If an organization values confidentiality, compliance, or basic user trust, this feature should be considered high risk. The benefits of convenience do not outweigh the exposure it creates. This document is provided for critical analysis and educational discussion. It should not be construed as legal advice or an accusation of wrongdoing. All trademarks and product names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Use of this material is subject to fair use principles for commentary and review. For specific guidance regarding data privacy and security practices, consult a qualified professional. Link:
Copilot Vision on Windows with Highlights is now available in the U.S. | Microsoft Copilot Blog
Reflexive Capture — The Rise of the Algorithmic Double – Part 2
In the expanding architectures of datalogical power, the self is no longer merely a passive object of surveillance or an externalised phenomenon of institutional capture. Rather, it becomes a self-generating artefact, a reflexive construction that emerges through the constant folding of information back into experience, affect, habit, and choice. The individual, once imagined as a discrete…
Billionaire Betrayal: The Alleged Cost of Tech Tycoons' Greed
The five richest tech moguls—Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Larry Page—are not just symbols of wealth; they have also become emblematic of a systemic betrayal of the American public. Though celebrated for innovation, these billionaires have allegedly inflicted wide-ranging harm on democracy, labor, privacy, and social cohesion. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has…
From airlines to broadband, companies exploit cognitive biases to get us to part with money. Here’s how to fight back
The underlying principle should be one of personal autonomy, which means that hidden fees and costs should be banned too. We know that rules designed to bring those fees and costs into the open can do a great deal of good. A couple of recent examples from the US: in 2024, the Department of Transportation created a rule that requires airlines and ticket agents to disclose charges for checked baggage, carry-on baggage, changing or cancelling a reservation and so on up front. Also in 2024, the Federal Communications Commission required internet service providers to display standardized “broadband nutrition labels”. These include details of pricing, data allowances and broadband speeds, and enable customers to compare providers’ offerings like-for-like, without tricks and obfuscation.
But consumer protection is only the start. In 1890, two lawyers, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, proposed a new right: the right to privacy. They were not entirely clear about its contents, but the bedrock was the “right to be let alone”. Warren and Brandeis’s thinking helped to launch a thousand ships, including rules against the disclosure of private facts, against surveillance, and around personal choices (including the right to same-sex marriage).
The right not to be manipulated now is a lot like the right to privacy back in 1890. At this stage, we cannot identify the full scope, and the appropriate limits, of that new right. The protection of consumers and investors is urgent. How it might apply to politics is a more delicate matter, and lawmakers will need to tread cautiously there.
One thing is clear, though: manipulation is a threat to our autonomy, our freedom and our wellbeing. We ought to be taking steps to fight back.
The European Commission is currently running three public consultations on the EU strategies regarding the fundamental rights of marginalised groups for 2026 to 2030. They are the public consultations on the gender equality strategy, on the anti-racism strategy, and the LGBTIQ equality strategy. Simultaneous to those public consultations, they are also running calls for evidence for each of these strategies. Public consultations call for your views and opinions on certain topics, calls for evidence call for concrete evidence (like statistics and scientific research) and evaluation of national and European regulation on the relevant topics. Any European citizen or organisation can contribute.
I'm sharing this bc yesterday I was at a conference of European equality bodies and several participants who are or know European commissioners mentioned that those public consultations are being targeted by waves of organised hatred. It is essential that we organise against those if we want to give the Commission legitimacy to act on these fronts.
The links are:
2026-2030 gender equality strategy:
European Commission - Have your say
Anti-racism strategy
European Commission - Have your say
EU LGBTIQ equality strategy for 2026-2030
European Commission - Have your say
“gender and sexual violence has taken place in centuries of overwhelming state violence targeting in different ways all genders and sexualities of Indigenous people, and heteropatriarchy is a foundational violence and dispossessing force used by the state, replicated by its citizens, and internalized often unwittingly and unknowingly by Indigenous peoples. Heteropatriarchy is not a discrimination that has come with white supremacy and colonialism; it is a foundational dispossession force because it is a direct attack on Indigenous bodies as political orders, thought, agency, self-determination, and freedom. It is within our reach to stop degrading and devaluing the lives of children, Indigenous women, and 2SQ people right now... I’m interested in working with all genders and ages to build nationhoods that refuse to replicate heteropatriarchy in all forms. This has great potential for building unified movements, and it necessarily involves listening to 2SQ people, children, youth, and women to unlearn the practice of heteropatriarchy. And while stopping intimate violence without our communities might be within our reach as an everyday act of resurgence, the systemic dismantling of heteropatriarchy is a much larger project. Gender violence is part of a long history of white men working strategically and persistently to make allies out of straight cisgendered Indigenous men, with clear rewards for those who come into white masculinity imbued with heteropatriarchy and violence, in order to infiltrate our communities and nations with heteropatriarchy and then to replicate it through the generations, with the purpose of destroying our nations and gaining easy access to our land. When we engage in gender violence or are silent in the face of homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, discrimination, and ongoing gender violence, we are working in collusion with white men and on behalf of the settler colonial state to further destroy Indigenous nationhood."
- "As We Have Always Done" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
LBS beautifully and succinctly putting so much of this, especially making the direct link between settler colonial land dispossession and heteropatriarchy, something i have thought about for years but never this well. Many white and/or settler trans people have written about how states and their violence/borders/existence create western 'gender' and intertwine them, but had always been lacking in regards to this foundational link that LBS illuminates above, imo!
