The blog "This Needs Fixin'" looks at systemic problems in our society and suggests ways to address them.

Here's a randomly-selected link to a vintage post from the archive, dated 2025/03/24:

Big Sister: Forecast Is Cloudy For Alexa

https://this.needsfixin.net/2025/03/24/big-sister-forecast-is-cloudy-for-alexa

#Culture #big #sister #surveilance #iot #internet #of #things #Technology
Big Sister: Forecast Is Cloudy For Alexa – This Needs Fixin'

Culture, Technology, big sister, internet of things, iot, surveilance

@eff

"Don't be upset by all this device and internet survielance, it's not a military dictatorship" they used to say before Trump built a personal racist military, and subverted the FBI and Department of Justice, and got military commanders calling his orders the voice of god.

Get off american software, get off Microsoft, ditch Alexa, dump siri, erase windows, leave google, dont use Amazon.

#uspoli #ai #surveilance #handcuffs #pretti #good #ice #democracy

I just signed a petition to stop the massive rollout of facial recognition surveillance in the UK. The Government and shops are starting to scan us without clear laws in place, effectively turning our faces into barcodes. It feels really invasive. Can you take 30 seconds to sign it too?
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-scanning-us-all-with-facial-recognition?source=web_share_api&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=web_share_api&share=ea85f6d0-b4f9-4f55-a49e-c7f7ccb2de0f
#surveilance #UK #police
Stop scanning us all with facial recognition!

I just signed a petition to stop the massive rollout of facial recognition surveillance in the UK. The government and shops are starting to scan us without clear laws in place, effectively turning our faces into barcodes. It feels really invasive. Can you take 30 seconds to sign it too?

38 Degrees

I'm pushing fifty but, if someone demands I prove it, they can stuff it.

Sideways.

Sans lube.

I already closed a Google account that was legally an adult (created in 1999) because they demanded my driver's license to watch a music video on YouTube.

#AgeVerification is #Surveilance and #Censorship.

Period.

The #EpsteinClass does *not* "protect kids."

Ever.

📕 «Transformations of #Labour through the Lens of #SexWork: Navigating #Digitalization, #Precarity and #Resistance» 🗓️ 10th #December2025 👤 Editors: Iztok Šori, Majda Hrženjak 🛒 Routledge [🧵(14/15) ESWA Monthly, Feb2026, recommendation.] 💡📚💙 #Books #Sexuality #Economy #Surveilance #Feminisms #Law
Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chain

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@briankrebs

On the other hand, our tormentors are in fact using electromagnetic waves to track and harass us all.

#surveilance #ice #spectrum

The hidden surveillance network sending Californians' license plates to Border Patrol

California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.

CalMatters

This superbowl ad pissed us off enough to spend $10,000 to liberate Ring doorbells - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGbrPpL2Ov8

See also
https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells

#Amazon #RingDoorbell #Jailbreaking #Surveilance #Fulu

This superbowl ad pissed us off enough to spend $10,000 saying f u

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