I'd been wondering why I'd heard so little from Naomi Wu lately, and the reason is unhappily worse than Twitter breaking API based post mirroring to Mastodon.

(TL;DR, she's been silenced by the authorities.)

Worth reading in full, as the end includes a brief interview and suggests that her earlier highlighting of the security risks of compromised keyboards to E2E encrypted messaging turned out to be potentially relevant.

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes

When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens

Hacking, but Legal

@HauntedOwlbear It looks like PasteBin took down her FAQ as "potentially harmful" but, it appears one can still support Naomi Wu/RealSexyCyborg financially on Ko-fi:

https://ko-fi.com/naomiwu

Buy t-shirts:

https://www.teepublic.com/stores/naomi-wu-s-shenzhen-store

Tip on Thingiverse:

https://www.thingiverse.com/sexycyborg/designs

Her Mastodon account was just a repeater for Twitter/X posts, which they broke awhile back with the API lockdown.

Buy Naomi "SexyCyborg" Wu a Coffee. ko-fi.com/naomiwu

Become a supporter of Naomi "SexyCyborg" Wu today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.

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@evermore @HauntedOwlbear are these confirmed to be legitimate? She has long complained about the difficulties with receiving international payments in her position, and has been kicked off of multiple patronage platforms for spurious reasons.

She has a storefront for her merchandise that I know is legitimate because she has linked to it directly: https://cybernightmarket.com

(Her Twitter post to verify that this is legit: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1642556595732385793 )

The Cyber Night-Market

The Cyber Night-Market

The Cyber Night-Market

@elana @HauntedOwlbear Good looking out.

The teepublic and Thingiverse links were in her FAQ before it was taken down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230529090821/https://pastebin.com/V3474kYs

The ko-fi link is one she has shared several places, including:

https://x.com/realsexycyborg/status/1242973268467945477?s=12

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@evermore awesome, thanks ☺️ really appreciate being connected to more ways to support her! Cheers! 😊