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Not entirely covered in spikes. Queer cis feminist. Mediator. In the PNW of the US, on unceded Duwamish territory. tabletop.social moderator (though I mostly don't post wearing my mod-hat). Also on weirder.earth
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We need to get rid of surveillance tech if only to keep men from having another avenue to harass their exes https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-county/milwaukee-officer-charged-with-misconduct-over-alleged-misuse-of-flock-technology
Milwaukee officer charged with misconduct for allegedly using police plate reader to track love interest

A Milwaukee police officer faces criminal charges after allegedly using the department's automated license plate reader technology to track a person he was dating and that person's ex.

TMJ4 News
4) Crescent Loom - build creatures like in Spore, and then wire their neurons. This is deeply fascinating to me! I want to make creatures whose brains do weird things for no good reason.
What hidden gems have you found in an itch.io bundle?

3) finally, right now I'm playing Overland. Post-apocalyptic road trip, where the mood is tense and the real danger is *noise*. It was several bumpy games until I realized that the apparently high difficulty I was experiencing was because my roadtrippers were making too much noise.

So now we're going to sneak across the country in a series of stolen cars? Sure, sounds like fun.

2) On a similar theme - procedurally generated space - but much less silly is Beyond the Chiron Gate. It's mostly text-based, and the exploration feels a little Stellaris-like in its thoroughness. I got sucked into this one for a very long evening and found it was just deep enough to have me want to keep going.
1) Orion Trail. It's ... Star Trek meets the Oregon Trail game? Deeply silly, chock full of cultural references. The chiptune-esque music is pretty varied -- I even turned the sfx down so I could hear the music better, which is very much not the way I usually interact with games.

Even with my new personal rule of "only buy one itch.io bundle a year" I have plenty of indie games, both tabletop and computer.

I am deeply over-peopled lately, so I've been poking around in the video games that I've picked up in various bundles over the years. Starting with the oldest.

In this first batch, three games with procedurally generated challenges. (continued in thread.)

I keep seeing a lot of writers and youtubers still using #AI images to illustrate #solarpunk - even Aeon in their latest article did so.

Could I ask you to help spread https://storyseedlibrary.org/ around?

If you know a #sustainability / #climate creator who might want to talk about the movement, could you share the Library with them?

All SSL #art is human-made, Creative Commons (some even for commercial use) and translated to multiple languages!

#illustration #climateChange #futurism #hopepunk

Welcome to Story Seed Library!

A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!

Story Seed Library

#Persona leak continued (2/2)

Integration with Government Systems: The platform is capable of filing Suspicious Activity Reports (#SARs) directly to #FinCEN (U.S. Treasury) and #FINTRAC (Canada), and integrates with blockchain analytics tools like #Chainalysis to monitor cryptocurrency addresses.

Suspicious Checks: Some checks, like "SelfieSuspiciousEntityDetection" and "SelfiePoseRepeatedDetection", lack clear definitions of what constitutes a "suspicious" face or repeated pose, raising concerns about bias and opacity.

This is a big deal. I’ve been telling y’all that age verification was just a way to gather intelligence.

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

The Rage

#Persona, a Peter #Thiel of #Palantir fame funded provider of identity and age verification services for companies like #Discord and the entire #UK, left their code base open to the web. Of course they did.

Let’s look at what it does, shall we?

The platform performs 269 individual verification checks on user data, far beyond basic age verification.

#Surveillance: Persona’s system screens users against global watchlists, including those for #terrorism, #espionage, and politically exposed persons (#PEPs), using facial recognition and risk scoring. Researchers confirmed that the government-facing and consumer-facing versions of Persona use the same underlying code, suggesting a unified surveillance infrastructure.

Data Retention: Personal data including government ID, phone numbers, names, faces, selfies, IP addresses, browser fingerprints, and device fingerprints—is collected and retained for up to three years.
(1/2) edit hashtags, new info, typo