The PETS is inviting nominations for the 2024 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies! 🗓️ The deadline for submissions is May 10th. 📩 Nominations & more info: petsymposium.org/award/cfn.php

The Ireland We Dreamed Of is a powerful performance, exploring what it was like to live with the unbearable weight of self-denial, how silence seeped into our homes, and the bravery it took to break out from this world of secrets.

2 - 4 May
🎟️ smockalley.com/the-ireland-we…

Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort (with an image from my computer-generated text “…and by islands I mean paragraphs” on the cover) The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549813/…

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… this is a must! Beautifully told Louise Brangan we should not ‘turn away’ from our past. We need to understand and learn more, always. Louise Brangan this is inspiring. Thank you

Book out now (lots of first day discounts) amazon.co.uk/Tor-Dark-Web-F… The Tor Project + the future of privacy online. Spies + journalists, underwater robots + satellites, and the role of a lot of people in Tor's history, from Chelsea E. Manning + isis osiris agora lovecruft (they/them) to Edward Snowden + (oddly) Vin Diesel

Join Ben Collier (Ben Collier) on Wednesday, April 24th from 3 - 5 pm GMT for the Edinburgh launch of 'Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy.' Link to register 👇🏻 bit.ly/3xoYctP

A thread of my books, and where to find them. Newest first, in #openaccess : Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries, co-edited by Vikki Jones, Nicola Osborne, chrisspeed. Available to download from routledge.com/Data-Driven-In…

A review of my new single 'One Myna' spotted in this month's SNACK mag

Listen here: fanlink.tv/OneMyna

#indianmusic #dancehall

Re-wilding the internet

'Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view'
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Beautiful, thoughtful and generative piece by Maria Farrell (Dr) & Robin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com
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noemamag.com/we-need-to-rew…

Coming April 2024 - a secret history of the The Tor Project with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social and preorder links here: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548182/… #tor #DarkWeb #privacy #Crypto #cybercrime #digitalfreedom

Nothing like New Lines Magazine exists, these exact words said to us by random folks repeatedly.

We aren’t done it yet — still big plans for the future, one of which is coming up soon.

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📘 Foundations of Computer Vision
✍ Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola & William Freeman

An accessible, authoritative textbook that offers a comprehensive intro to the foundations of the field and a next-generation view of computer vision.
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048972

Phillip Isola 📘 Gaia's Web
✍ Karen Bakker

A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048750/

Phillip Isola Erika Dyck 📘 Tor
✍ Ben Collier (@JohnnyHistone)

A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.
mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548182/

Written by @louise_brangan and directed by artist Sinead McCann 'The Ireland we Dreamed of' will take to the stage at Smock Alley Theatre May 2-4 ⭐️ via Hot Press
hotpress.com/culture/the-ir…

Book launches in an hour - US empire, crypto (the old kind), crypto (the new kind), privacy, politics, activism and maintenance, the dark web and the future of the Internet. Index includes everyone from Assange to ZCash, Allen Dulles of the CIA to GCHQ and the FBI. Orders in QT.

One for The Maintainers - book launch today with launch day discounts at various retailers inc. Amazon. Foregrounds perspectives of #maintenance and hidden work - inc a chapter devoted to the volunteers who run and maintain Tor's relay network. Links in QT.

One for The Maintainers - book launch today with launch day discounts at various retailers inc. Amazon. Foregrounds perspectives of #maintenance and hidden work - inc a chapter devoted to the volunteers who run and maintain Tor's relay network. Links in QT.