Lisa Kalayji / is on Nostr

Feminist sociologist of emotion turned nonprofit fundraiser. Living with Obi Dog Kenobi the rescue pup on unceded Ohlone land. She/her. Header image by Kelly Reemtsen.

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2024-11-14 04:52:56

Pumpkin spiced maple vanilla granola with white chocolate chips and candied walnuts. If the doom brigade wants to take away all my joy, they'll have to pry it from my cold, dead oven mitts.
#GlutenFree #Baking
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2024-11-07 20:48:28

"Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock...
After the reboot, the devices entered a Before First Unlock (BFU) state... This made unlocking them significantly harder, and... cracking them is now not possible with current tooling.
“That is utterly bizarre and amazing,” Matthew Green, a cryptographer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, told 404 Media...
“The idea that phones should reboot periodically after an extended period with no network is absolutely brilliant and I’m amazed if indeed Apple did it on purpose,” he said."
https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
#Privacy #Surveillance #Police #Data #Tech #Apple #iPhone #InfoSec #Security

2024-10-19 00:59:59

Question for the privacy-focused tech people: what is actually involved in attaining enough fluency in tech stuff to be able to, for example, get/keep a computer functioning on Linux, install GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel, sandbox software creeps on devices, establish effective firewalls, do all the inevitable troubleshooting, etc.? How did you learn to do those things? Would someone basically have to train for a tech career to learn it?
As the tech giants go increasingly off the rails with stealing our data (and passing it to much more sinister institutions than advertisers), more ordinary, non-techy people are going to need to know how to do this stuff and share/teach that skill to our communities. So where/how did you learn it?
#Tech #Data #Privacy #Surveillance #AI

2024-10-09 15:12:42

Always remember: any piece of info a corporation has about you can potentially be seized by the government and used against you. Neither companies nor governments are set up to care what's true, right, or fair. If they can harm you, they will.
"Popular car brands are collecting and sharing driver data from braking patterns and odometer readings to vehicle location and voice recognition information...
As car makers add microphones, sensors and other internet-connected features, cars are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines dubbed "smartphones on wheels".
Kia and Hyundai, which have the same parent company, collect voice recognition data from inside their cars and sell this to the artificial intelligence (AI) software training company Credence.
Tesla workers have been caught sharing among themselves highly invasive camera recordings of Tesla customers in the nude, as well as images of crashes and road-rage incidents."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-10-09/car-brands-are-tracking-and-sharing-your-data-with-third-parties/104440742
#Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Tech #AI #CivilRights

2024-10-08 18:24:41

TIL that on newer Samsung phones, you can't use the camera *at all* unless you give the app permission to scan your environment for other devices. There is no way to opt out of this. Little by little, inch by inch, the surveillance infrastructure that surrounds us is becoming total/complete/absolute. If you were trying to assemble a fascist dystopia, this is exactly the kind of equipment you'd make everyone carry around all the time.
I was one of the last hold-outs to finally give up my old-timey flip phone and hop on the smartphone bandwagon, and tbh I'm seriously considering going back.
#Privacy #Surveillance #Samsung #Tech

2024-10-06 17:42:33

If amidst this incredibly stressful and confusing historical and political moment, you're thinking "what do we do??", and some of the people in your IRL or online universe are like, "anarchism", and you're thinking, "but wait, isn't anarchy bad and full of mayhem and unchecked harm and murderous vigilantes?", I warmly recommend you check out the dispatches on post-hurricane anarchist mutual aid from @npub1p9t…mltx
Anarchism (in spite of the goofy nonsense you may have heard/read about it) is a political project/way of life based on the principle that people are actually pretty good at figuring out how to do things and solve problems and help each other without granting other people/institutions power to force them to do things, and that in fact granting others the power to force us to do things more often than not has the opposite effect. There are a lot of examples of this, but one of the most resounding is what folks do to help each other after natural disasters. 💗
#Anarchism #MutualAid #HurricaneHelene

2024-09-07 01:11:02

Now *that*, my friends, is a cookie.
#GlutenFree #Baking #Fall #Autumn
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2024-08-02 20:59:44

The past couple of weeks have been a LOT, I think we can all agree, and the next couple promise more of the same - please enjoy this cutie patootie as you slide into your weekend. 💛
#DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfPixelFed #Friday
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2024-07-22 19:06:45

First attempt at scones (cheddar leek) was a bit if a mixed bag. It tastes good, but the dough was way too dry to work with, so I just sort of smushed it into a blob so it could be baked. Making dough with cold butter takes some experimenting, apparently.
#GlutenFree #Baking
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2024-07-04 00:11:22

Experiment: left cookie dough was in the fridge overnight and still cold when it went in the oven, right cookie dough was made right before baking.
#GlutenFree #Baking #Chocolate
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2024-05-13 01:22:57

I wish Google would send us alerts each time they sell a piece of our personal data to another corporation with all the vigor and consistency with which they send me alerts every time I log into my own email. 🙃

2024-02-01 19:27:50

"UPS announced this week that they will be laying off 12,000 people, approximately 2.4 percent of their global workforce...
As you may recall, UPS drivers won a hard fought battle earlier this year for higher wages and less batshit working conditions so they don’t die of heat stroke.
Is the company truly suffering? Well, no. It still had an adjusted operating profit of $9.9 billion... they “returned $7.6 billion of cash to shareowners through dividends and share buybacks".
At the same time the company is laying off workers, the board of directors approved — for the 15th year in a row — an increase to the company’s quarterly dividend. This means that people are getting laid off, but shareholders are getting a raise."
https://www.wonkette.com/p/ups-laying-off-12000-people-because
#Labor #Union #Layoffs #Capitalism #ClassWar #Exploitation