Australian man interrogated at LA airport and deported back to Melbourne for his writings about pro-Palestine protests. His social media posts, too, which he said he deleted before flying, were used as material. "Clearly, they had technology in their system which linked those posts to my Esta … a long time before I took them down,” he said. “Because they knew all about the posts, and then interrogated me about the posts once I was there.”

the Guardian

Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne

Eager to talk to studied #Permacomputing folk about the possibility of a (streamed) lecture on the topic in the next few months. It would be an intro to the topic to an audience of mixed technical literacy, with little or no knowledge of the field.

A fascinating example of inadvertently breaking a broad signal domain, and at a huge scale: "According to local internet service providers (ISPs), HMAS Canberra's navigation radar began interfering with 5GHz wireless access points - devices that bridge wired and wireless networks - in regions on both New Zealand's North and South Islands at around 2am." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563357/hmas-canberra-accidentally-blocks-wireless-internet-and-radio-services-in-new-zealand

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves). But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime. Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

Overjoyed to see our 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto tooled up for our times, in this powerful reading by Charlotte Kent for the Brooklyn Rail

The State of AI Agents | The Brooklyn Rail

Artists’ recent approaches to machinic agents showcase the designed attributes of different systems. Artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain...

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I expect we'll start to see Spain and Portugal increase their #Meshtastic node density, post the blackouts. For two reasonably populous European nations, they have quite a low density at present. Their neighbours to the north are already better prepared for comms in a blackout, assuming many or most of the publicly visible nodes are on battery and/or on solar. Indeed there may be socio-economic elements at play here too that contribute to the density differences.

Meshtastic Map

An interactive map of all Meshtastic nodes.

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” - Carl Sagan

Interesting to see how 'AI' is sneaking ever more deeply into the lives of people in my circles, even those whom have voiced ethical opposition or wariness in the past. The most common vector seems to be through knowledge summaries, with one person citing her high mental load working through large bodies of information as the reason she started using it more readily. Understandably, too. Convenience is the worm of Ethos, and the planet-eating, culture-eating technopolists know this.