My next newsletter issue will feature photos and impressions from my trip to Hong Kong, a.k.a. Cyberpunk Ground Zero. I went to the grounds of Kowloon Walled City, the Monster Building, and the skyline and water from the diving scene in Ghost in the Shell. Don't miss out! Subscribe here: https://hackerfiction.net/subscribe/

I'm hiring to the WebKit Privacy & Adtech team at Apple! We're looking for an engineer who can help us investigate online tracking and fingerprinting, scale up crawling to detect tracking and fingerprinting in an automated fashion, and design and implement privacy-preserving alternatives to tracking for use in online advertising. It's systems programming in C++ and Swift and the team is local to Cupertino. Please retoot so that people looking for a new job can see this. 🙏🏼 https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200651137-3401/webkit-privacy-adtech-engineer

"A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation (…) She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law." https://apnews.com/article/iran-adoptee-deportation-4a68978053c29bfd6df152392ab73211

@buttondown has unfortunately started setting cookies on my custom domain. Not just that, but a cookie called fingerprint and a cookie set for my whole registrable domain without my permission. See screenshot. I carefully chose Buttondown for privacy reasons and will reach out to their support immediately to get these cookies removed.

'The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, “so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment,” according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook’s ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a “Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index.”' https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads

The relief of quitting Dropbox and seeing its Electron processes go away. 😌 I need to get off this software.